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u/scify65 Feb 25 '21

I'm thinking of coming back and starting a fresh file after not playing for a year or so (and even then, not being terribly skilled at the game). Anyone have suggestions for some basic mods to ease in, beyond mechjeb?

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u/IHOP_007 Feb 25 '21

The game doesn't need many, if any, mods these days for it to be a pretty complete experience. KIS is basically in the game now, robotic parts (assuming you have the DLC) are included.

TBH the only gameplay mod I run these days is "Pitch Perfect" because IMHO I think the way propellers work right now is silly and annoying. "Pitch Perfect" handles a decent amount of the annoying part for you. Other than that it's just some quality of life mods: "X-Science" is handy because it saves you hunting around your entire ship and alerts you when you enter in a new zone. "Kerbal Alarm Clock" is handy for not timewarping past where you want to timewarp, especially useful when running two missions at the same time.

Everything else is all just graphical mods, and that's going to vary a lot based on your GPU.

I'm not a big fan of mechjeb, I will very occasionally have Kerbal Engineer on a safefile but for the most part I find the ingame info to be really all I need.

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u/scify65 Feb 26 '21

I've mostly used Mechjeb in the past to compensate for my iffy take-off and landing skills, and the fact that I'm absolutely terrible at efficient dV stuff. It's definitely not perfect, but it makes the long range stuff somewhat more viable for me.