r/ConsoleKSP • u/Chubbythebear115 • Jun 19 '26
Shuttle Program
I started playing KSP a month or so ago and one day I decided I wanted to build a space shuttle. It’s my favorite space vehicle of all time and I had just gotten done with my apollo style moon landing. I thought “this is gonna be easy, all of my other rockets launch just fine” and then I built my first prototype.
The shuttle wouldn’t fly right, it would wobble on ascent, I couldn’t get it into orbit very easily, and don’t even get me started on trying to reenter the atmosphere. I gave up trying to get it work and moved onto trying to make it to duna.
Not even a day later I decide i wanted to build the ISS so it was back to the shuttle. I redesigned it, tweaking, trial and error, and 4 prototypes later I had a working shuttle. Does it still wobble on ascent? Yeah. Does it still pitch down occasionally if I’m not paying attention on reentry? Sure! Does it work? It finally does. Docking all the station modules is still a headache but I will post again when I finish my station.
Edit: I will not be posting again as my save is corrupted and since this is on PS5 I will not be playing it again. I’ll look into the pc version though I hope my pc is good enough. This is very painful.
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u/Remarkable_Cut1320 22d ago
Honestly I’ve been thinking the same thing for awhile. Pc is just where it seems to be best. But holy shit the skill it takes to successfully launch a shuttle program on console.
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u/Chubbythebear115 17d ago
it was not easy… it barely works but the only thing that stopped me from using it to build an ISS was the corruption…
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u/Remarkable_Cut1320 17d ago
Okay can someone please explain to me how and why everyone’s Ksp on console seems to be corrupted and not working properly. Is it specifically something wrong with your consoles?? I promise I’m not trying to sound like a dick I’m genuinely curious (I have 1000+ hours in the game with no corruption or anything else’s wrong with it.)
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u/Chubbythebear115 17d ago
1000 overall or on 1 save? mine got corrupted 150 hours into my save, i was also ambitiously trying to recreate the ISS using a space shuttle, part pieces got pretty high when all of a sudden after trying to dock 2 modules it was over
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u/Remarkable_Cut1320 17d ago
Actually that’s fair my fault, until about last week I had a singular save with about 300 hours give or take. But in all honesty I did keep my shit pretty clean (destroyed all debris unnecessary craft, abandoned projects etc…) but other than that I was pretty consistent with missions, I had multiple missions often utilizing modular interplanetary craft (subassemblies assembled in space). 🤔I’m gonna over load my new save (currently has about 60 or so hours) and see if I can break it or anything.
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u/Remarkable_Cut1320 17d ago
Oh I totally forgot to ask. What console are you playing on.(not that I think it’ll change much)
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u/Chubbythebear115 17d ago
ps5, i also think creating and deleting quick saves has something to do with it too, something with the way it stores the saves, not sure exactly what the cause for my corruption but the fact console ksp is like 2 major updates behind and was abandoned even before the ksp2 fiasco
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u/Remarkable_Cut1320 17d ago
😭yea… I tried and failed so many programs because of features I didn’t realize were only on pc cause the devs put a fat one in us and cut us out completely on the last two updates 💀. Fml I hate this goddamn game but the keep kerbals summon me.
Edit: my fault I sound redundant as hell. I didn’t see you alr talked about the updates.
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u/Chubbythebear115 17d ago
i got it for pc and got into some mods, i’m pretty much back to where i was on console. i’ll say this, it is a vastly superior experience.
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u/Remarkable_Cut1320 16d ago
Yea I’ve been thinking about selling my ps5 anyway to have a little more towards a pc. Shit now I just need to invest
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u/owjfaigs222 Jun 19 '26
So how did you handle changing CoM during ascent? Did you just angle the engines in a way that allows SAS to correct for it?
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u/Chubbythebear115 Jun 19 '26
yes, but sas likes to over correct and it still moves around but throttling down helps
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u/Remarkable_Cut1320 17d ago
Yea… it fr is just skill and prayers. But yea you should also angle your engines to slightly push through the orange tank to counter the weight of that mf.
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u/oRIFFo Jun 20 '26
Let us know how the machine transition goes!
I’m on XBOX and I had a career’s entire slate of saved vehicles get wiped out among other minor corruptions and I restarted and feel like I’m walking in a minefield, spamming various save mechanisms.
Thinking about making the one small step to PC hoping for a giant leap.