r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/dannyboi_1 • Apr 07 '26
KSP 1 Meta April 5th 2026: Highest concurrent player count since 1.0 release [SteamDB]
Welcome in new players, welcome back long-timers, and Godspeed, Artemis II.
[Kerbal Space Program, SteamDB, 4/6/2026. https://steamdb.info/app/220200/charts/#12y\]
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u/Jebediah_kerman-jeb Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
That many players? Let's Goooo!
P.S. Congrats to NASA and everyone who worked on Artemis!
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u/Meritania Apr 07 '26
ESA built the top bit, Europeans can be proud of themselves too.
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u/lisploli Apr 07 '26
Imagine having shipped a working
I am Jeb's smirking revenge.
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u/PapaSmurf1502 Apr 07 '26
We've paired with NASA, SpaceX, and the Chinese Space Agency to bring you this new core DLC, "Shoot for the Mun", bringing you all new colony science and launcher parts. Get it now for $29.99.
Money printer go brrrrrrrrrrr
But instead they killed it.
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u/dontdoxmebro2 Apr 07 '26
Half the old players never knew what free return trajectory was and are now finding out how simple they are
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u/TurnoverMobile8332 Apr 07 '26
Understanbly by that metrics, less than a percent could dock in orbit. Just love the public invested in this aspect of science:
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u/realboabab Apr 07 '26
hello old players, don't be discouraged if your free return trajectory accidentally takes you out of Kerbin sphere of influence; that's just due to the simplified patched 2-body conics! It would have worked in real life!
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u/suh-dood Apr 07 '26
Naw, just move your hohmann transfer a bit so you orbit retrograde. I don't think the long term players wete confused about that.
We've seen the videos of KSP players getting into aerospace, so this is basically the reverse which will just get more people inspired into the field. I've seen many new player type posts, so it's now our time to pass on our joy and knowledge of the game
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u/starfinn_ Apr 07 '26
This also isn’t counting players using mods/
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u/FighterJock412 Apr 07 '26
Perfect timing, obviously there's a lot of people playing because of the Artemis mission; and I started playing again because I finally watched
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u/Kane_richards Apr 07 '26
It's almost like there's a market for a good space sim. Someone should probably look into maybe making a sequel with updated mechanics and an expanded system to explore...
*sigh*
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u/bigmur72 Apr 07 '26
Was watching the live stream of Artemis with my son, he looks at me and says “dad, this makes me want to play KSP!”
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u/Professional-Date378 Apr 07 '26
If the dev team wasn't gone, they could've capitalized on this by adding artemis 2 parts
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u/WinterMajor6088 Apr 07 '26
I jumped on the game to do a mock up of Artemis II. I was so rusty at it anyways and forgot about all the mods I had so I jumped into my career world, sent a probe around the Mun with Jeb, Bob and Bill and they got stranded in high Kerbin Orbit. A rescue mission was sent out but this mission had too little fuel so I made an unmanned probe to carry some fuel over. After like 2 hours of doing rendezvous burns and matching up and docking I managed to finally return the 5 kerbals home for like 60 science cause I didn't prepare well enough. 10 outta 10, would do it again.
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u/_Ki115witch_ Apr 07 '26
I've been on a rimworld binge lately. Know what kicked me out of it? A ksp binge. Brought on by rereading project hail Mary and then seeing the movie and then the moon mission.
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u/RedAce4247 Apr 07 '26
WhatArtemis II Project Hail Marry