1.0/ja

バージョン1.0は2015年4月27日に公開された。このアップデートの名称は「We have Liftoff!」であり、1.0が公式リリースであることを表している。

新要素

エディター

• ツールバーにエンジニア・リポートのアプリを追加。建造中、その宇宙船のデザインで予想される問題をプレイヤーに警告・アドバイスしてくれる。
• パーツリストに「Cross-Section　Profile」フィルターを追加。
• Launchダイアログ、Craftブラウザー画面にCraft fileのサムネイル画像を追加。
• Loadダイアログに「Merge」ボタン追加。現在の機体と入れ替えずに、機体をロードできるようになった。
• セーブの上書き時や、セーブしないで発射したり、エディタを閉じるとき確認ダイアログがでるようになった。

エアロダイナミクス

• フライトモデルの完全オーバーホール。
• 揚力が適切に計算されるようになった。また、すべての揚力パーツに揚力が適用されるようになった。
• パーツの形状にしたがって、空気抵抗が自動的にプリ計算されるようになった。　
• 揚力と空気抵抗は空気密度と音速にもとづく。すなわち、温度と気圧から適切に計算される。
• 積み重ねられたパーツは、空気抵抗の計算において、相手をふさぐ。
• 誘導抗力が適切にシミュレートされるようになった。
• 失速が適切にシミュレートされるようになった。
• 新たなボディ・リフト・システムをもつパーツによって、たとえそのようにデザインされていなくても、揚力が発生する。

熱シミュレーション

• パーツの熱モデルが完全に再構築され、温度だけでなくエネルギー流束も考慮されるようになった。
• ゲーム内温度はすべて「Kervin」から「Kelvin」に修正された。
• 熱の放射、伝導、対流がシミュレートされるようになった。
• パーツはそれぞれ、放射・伝導・対流のプロパティを持つようになった。
• すべてのパーツは、十分高熱になれば、黒体放射光を出すようになった。
• 接続されているパーツ間の伝導が、より正確なモデルになった。
• パーツどうしで日射や天体のアルベドと放射、超音速流をさえぎるようになった。
• 再突入や極音速飛行時の熱がシミュレートされるようになった。
• 空力熱の程度の難易度設定を追加した。
• 大気温度と密度は、緯度と太陽の位置が考慮されるようになった。
• 天体は正確に熱放射し、近くにある機体は温められる。
• サービスモジュール、フェアリング、カーゴベイは内部のパーツを熱から守る使い方ができる。
• 熱シールドによって背後にあるパーツはアブレーション保護される（限界あり）。

パーツ

• New procedural Fairings added, in 3 sizes.
• New Heat Shields added, in 3 sizes.
• Service Bay parts added in 1.25m and 2.5m sizes.
• Several new Landing Gear parts added, in many sizes.
• Many New large airliner and shuttle style wing sections added.
• Large wing sections have internal fuel tanks.
• All old spaceplane parts overhauled with a more up-to-date style.
• Old Avionics Nose Cone overhauled and repurposed as a standalone, non-autonomous SAS module.
• New atmosphere scanner part added.
• New Inline Xenon Tank part added.
• New RT-5 'Flea' Solid Rocket Booster added.
• New Fuel Cell parts added (small and large), convert LiquidFuel and Oxidizer into Electricity when turned on.
• New models for Circular and Ram air intake parts.
• New models for Engine Nacelle parts.
• Several new nose cones and tail sections.
• New Airbrake part.
• New module for Airbrake parts, responds to Brakes input and can also be used as pitch/yaw actuator.

Internal Spaces

• Added new IVA space for the Mk1 Inline cockpit.
• Added new IVA space for the Science Lab.
• Added new IVA space for Mk3 Shuttle Cockpit.
• Added new IVA space for Mk3 Passenger Cabin.
• Added new IVA space for Mk2 Passenger Cabin.

Resources

• Added 'Ore' resource, which can be mined across the Solar System.
• New drill part added.
• Ore container tanks added.
• ISRU Ore processor unit added, converts Ore into Liquid Fuel, Oxidizer or MonoProp.
• Three new Ore scanner parts added.
• Added new MapView overlays displaying Ore density for all Celestial Bodies.
• Support for moddability of resources added (including atmospheric and oceanic).
• New Difficulty Setting to scale resource abundance (both stock and modded).
• Asteroids can also be mined for Ore.
• Engineer Kerbals are able to 'overdrive' drilling equipment for increased yield (and less safety).

Kerbals

• Female Kerbals added, with new randomly-generated female names.
• Valentina Kerman (Pilot) added to initial Crew Roster.
• Kerbals are now able to clamber onto ledges within reach, because their jobs weren't dangerous enough already.
• Kerbals can now climb out of ladders onto ledges.
• Tourist Kerbals added. They have zero skills, are unable to control vessels, and are required to keep their heads inside the vessel at all times.
• Kerbals now cost increasingly larger amounts of Funds to hire in Career Games.

R&D

• R&D Tech Tree completely revised. Several new nodes added; many, many parts reassigned for a better progression.
• Kerbal Scientists are now able to restore inoperable experiment modules.
• The Science Lab has been retooled to run long-term research on experiment data, providing much higher amounts of science over time.

Graphics

• New Smoke effects added to Launchpads.
• New Surface Effects added whenever rocket engines fire near terrain.
• New Water Effect added whenever rocket engine fire near water.
• Revised all part shaders for improved rendering of lighting effects and shadows.
• Main Flight UI can now be made transparent.

Career

• Added new Tourism contracts and tourist Kerbals.
• Added ISRU resource extraction contracts.
• Added Grand Tour contracts.
• Replaced Rescue contracts with Recovery contracts, which can ask the player to recover a part, a Kerbal, or both, and can spawn on the surface of planets, with "props" nearby.
• Added two 'immediate' Strategies to convert existing Reputation and Science into Funds.
• World First contract line now extends all the way out to Eeloo, and is dependent on player progression.
• Record contracts are now always active, and will complete in order even over the course of a single mission.

Tutorials

• All tutorials revised and rewritten to explain most game features.
• Expanded Flight Basics Tutorial to cover the essentials of launching into orbit.
• Added new Return from Mun tutorial.
• Added new Science and R&D Tutorial.
• Added new Docking tutorial.

Flight

• 'Warp To' action added to orbit context menu. Allows warping to a specific spot along your trajectory.
• 'Warp to next morning' button added to KSC toolbar.
• Asteroids can now be found orbiting near Dres.
• Engine thrust now varies according to Isp and throttle setting, instead of the other way around.

Controls

• Completely revised Input Mapping system.
• Flight input bindings is now much more straightforward and more flexible as well.
• Duplicate control bindings for Docking/Staging modes now replaced by a much more robust system based on secondary key bindings.
• Joystick Axes are now consistently enumerated and persist across sessions.
• Up to 10 joysticks with 20 axes each now supported.
• Added secondary channels for Axis Bindings.

Cameras

• New 'Chase' Camera mode added, old mode now called 'Locked'.
• Added Camera wobble/vibration effects during flight (engine vibration, explosions, ground roll, G-force, and many more).
• TrackIR support added to all game views (toggleable independently in game settings). (FreeTrack also reported to work).
• Added FOV control to main flight camera. (Hold ModKey and zoom).

Bug Fixes and Tweaks

Editor

• Fixed several issues with editor attachments, attachment node orientation and symmetry.
• Shift+Clicking a 'frozen' part in the editor will detach it from its parent.
• Fixed several bugs with cloned parts and persistence.
• The editor no longer requires a full scene reload to load new craft files.

UI

• The KnowledgeBase panel for Vessels now shows 'Max Accel' and 'Estimated burn time to 0m/s' (as shown on navball) fields.
• Several part context menu actions now properly apply to symmetry counterparts automatically.
• Added new custom cursors.

Simulation

• Fixed 'infiniglide' bug.
• Switching SOIs no longer causes the next orbit to change at high time warp rates.
• Added a warp speed limit when approaching an SOI transition.
• Kerbal EVAs should no longer fly off when disembarking in space.
• SAS now disengages autopilot modes automatically (and falls back to stability assist) in cases where the target vectors would change very rapidly.
• Parachute deployment should no longer cause vessel disassembly at high physics warp rates.
• Deployed parachute sway now actually has an effect on the vessel.

Parts

• LV-N "Nerv" Engine now runs solely on Liquid Fuel and has no gimbal.
• OSCAR-B tank can now be surface attached.
• Air-breathing engines now drain fuel evenly from all tanks in a vessel.
• Fixed radial decouplers not applying ejection forces correctly.
• Parachutes no longer cause massive G spikes when opening.
• Control Surfaces can now be deployed as flaps, controllable via context menus and Action Groups.
• Stats of Antennas revised for a proper progression with the more advanced models.
• Added nicknames to all engine parts.
• Revised and balanced part costs.
• Balanced fuel amounts for Mk2 and Mk3 tanks.
• Balanced engines (Isp/thrust/mass) in line with the new aerodynamics.
• Added fuel gauge to LV-1 "Ant" engine.
• Materials Bay now faces away from the part it's radially attached to.
• RoveMate rover body is now a probe body as well.
• The unshrouded solar panels are now non-retractable.
• Balanced probes electric charge usage, mass and crash tolerance.
• Lowered crash tolerance of the Structural Pylon to 70 from 999!
• All parts given 'bulkhead profile' tags in cfg files. Profile tags inferred automatically for parts missing this field.
• Cargo bays now properly detect enclosed parts, and can be grouped to make larger bays.
• Experiment Modules, Solar Panels, Antennas and such will not deploy while stowed inside a fairing or cargo bay.
• RCS thrusters will not function if stowed inside a closed cargo area (or fairing).
• Lifting surfaces will not generate lift if stowed inside a closed cargo area (or fairing).

Audio

• Much improved flight ambience sounds for Kerbin and other bodies with atmospheres.
• Added new sound effect when pulling high G forces.
• Eliminated audible gaps on several looping clips.

Effects

• Improved sound/particle effects for all Air-Breathing engines.
• Splashdown effects no longer spawn underwater.

General

• All part textures converted to DDS format, load times are now 3x faster.
• Fixed a serious persistence bug which prevented Scenario/Training saves from updating scenario modules properly.
• Fixed persistence bugs which caused state data from Upgradeable Facilities to carry over to other saves.
• Fixed an issue which caused Kerbals to not be generated randomly enough, which led to slowdowns with larger Crew Rosters.
• Fixed issues with the terrain during scene switching making scene load times faster.
• Fixed terrain scatter generation which was causing memory leaks.
• 'Elon Kerman' added to name pool.
• Crew name generator can now output 10,000+ female names.
• Fixed an issue with markers in the KSC scene potentially causing the game to lock up.
• Restructured GameData folder, integrated the NASA folder into the Squad one.
• Valentina Kerman added to Main Menu's Space scene.

Gameplay

• All contracts other than World Firsts or Records are halted until the player reaches space.
• Prevent "stacking" of various contract types.
• Resource parts added into satellite, station, and outpost contracts.
• Prose of contracts involving Kerbals re-evaluated with gender appropriate text.
• All contracts in career given balanced income for all three currencies.
• Science and reputation no longer scale with the celestial body of a contract, and are handed out more conservatively in general.
• All strategies in career given equivalent exchange rates.
• Aggressive Negotiations strategy given a discount on building repair/upgrade.
• Recovery Transponder strategy now lowers maximum recovery rate, while raising minimum recovery rate.
• Facility upgrade costs re-evaluated, lowered by about a quarter overall.
• Kerbals now properly receive experience for suborbital flights.
• Part Test contracts now request much saner flight parameters.
• Survey contracts choose much saner locations to survey.
• Sensor Experiment Modules are now able to perform experiments in all situations.

Debugging/Modding

• The R&D Tech tree is now defined in a cfg-file.
• The cfg file for the Tech Tree is defined separately for each save.
• GameVariables methods are now all virtual and can be overwritten by mods.
• Added a new set of debug tools to tweak Physics parameters.
• Added a new set of debug tools to tweak R&D tech tree nodes and part assignments.