History YMMV / KerbalSpaceProgram

** Whenever the physics engine bugs out due to unforeseen circumstances. Kerbals on [=EVA=] can suffer from [[https://i.imgur.com/Ay9GDDz.png very disturbing]] BodyHorror when subjected to extreme forces, and messing with certain combinations of parts can confuse the game to the point where a disturbing MinusWorld is created. Fans have attributed these glitches to a "[[TheMissingno deep space kraken]]" [[spoiler:which became an AscendedMeme when the developers placed a dead squid-like corpse on Bop]]. For examples, watch ''any'' video by LetsPlay/Danny2462 on YouTube.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: With the release of 1.0, a lot of changes were made to the previously-unrealistic souposphere of 0.90 and earlier, making it simulate real world atmospheres better and thus requiring players to change their strategies[[note]]Before, the most efficient method was to launch straight up until about 10km or so, then pitch over fairly quickly; now it's better to pitch 5-10° just a couple of seconds after launch, then gradually start pitching down once you're out of the thickest part of the atmosphere.[[/note]]. Naturally, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings some players]] refused to change their strategies, and when they naturally got their ass handed to them in the new atmosphere, [[{{Scrub}} called the game out as broken]], considered 1.0 the worst update ever, and mostly lurk by the forums [[FanDumb not missing an opportunity to insult the playtesters or the developers]]. [[FanMyopia Even when seeing players sucessfully getting into orbit and exploring other planets with the new atmosphere]].

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The game is popular everywhere in the world: except in Mexico, i.e. the '''native''' country of the developers. In fact, Mexican videogame press barely, if ever, talked about the game and the few Mexican players who played the game thought it was another American or European game. It doesn't help the homepage is in English, without ''any'' Spanish-language version of the page and the game itself is in English. In fact, the game avoids including any kind of stuff linking the game with Mexico (except perhaps for the Dia de los Muertos trailer), due possibly to complicated [[CulturalCringe cultural reasons]].[[note]]There's also the topic Mexico has ''no space program to speak about'' (other than building homemade satellites) and the avoidance of showing any element from the Mexican culture is mostly to avoid InternetBackdraft from both players from countries with advanced space programs and the ''own'' Mexican ones.[[/note]] Subverted at 2017, when they finally included Spanish language on the game, along others.

* GoodBadBugs: You could destroy planets with [[https://youtu.be/NLscXyIP4c8?list=UU8DIKwGU8wFZfk3Xi3-zcrQ&t=109
struts!]] Though the glitch is long fixed, you can achieve the same effect by [[https://youtu.be/kTg3vB8x3TY?t=291 playing with claws]] [[MacGyvering meant to grab asteroids]].

* GoodBadBugs: You could destroy planets with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLscXyIP4c8&list=UU8DIKwGU8wFZfk3Xi3-zcrQ&index=9 struts!]] Though the glitch is long fixed, you can achieve the same effect by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTg3vB8x3TY playing with claws]] [[MacGyvering meant to grab asteroids]].

** Whenever the physics engine bugs out due to unforeseen circumstances. Kerbals on [=EVA=] can suffer from very disturbing BodyHorror when subjected to extreme forces, and messing with certain combinations of parts can confuse the game to the point where a disturbing MinusWorld is created. Fans have attributed these glitches to a "[[TheMissingno deep space kraken]]" [[spoiler:which became an AscendedMeme when the developers placed a dead squid-like corpse on Bop]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The "needs more struts" meme became a little less funny (or perhaps, [[BlackComedy depending on how dark your sense of humor is]], [[HilariousInHindsight even more funny]]) after a UsefulNotes/SpaceX rocket [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_CRS-7 disintegrated]] during launch in June 2015 due to a defective strut snapping under pressure.

** Moho is a large, airless rock in a noticeably eccentric orbit close to the local sun. All of this conspires to make it one of the more difficult planets to reach, land on, and return from. If you hit it at the lowest point in its orbit, you can easily zip right past it before you can lower your orbital speed enough to let it capture you. I also hope you brought radiators along; when you're that close to the Sun, it's going to get ''hot''.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The "needs more struts" meme became a little less funny ([[HilariousInHindsight or perhaps even more funny]]) after a UsefulNotes/SpaceX rocket [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_CRS-7 disintegrated]] during launch in June 2015 due to a defective strut snapping under pressure.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The game is popular everywhere in the world: except in Mexico, i.e. the '''native''' country of the developers. In fact, Mexican videogame press barely, if ever, talked about the game and the few Mexican players who played the game thought it was another American or European game. It doesn't help the homepage is in English, without ''any'' Spanish-language version of the page and the game itself is in English. In fact, the game avoids including any kind of stuff linking the game with Mexico (except perhaps for the Dia de los Muertos trailer), due possibly to complicated [[CulturalCringe cultural reasons]][[note]]There's also the topic Mexico has ''no space program to speak about'' (other than building homemade satellites) and the avoidance of showing any element from the Mexican culture is mostly to avoid InternetBackdraft from both players from countries with advanced space programs and the ''own'' Mexican ones.[[/note]]

* BrokenBase: The release of 1.0 caused a major split within the game's fanbase. The update was hyped considerably before its release, and introduced many new features and fixes, including a new aerodynamic system and the long-promised [[TheSmurfettePrinciple female Kerbal]]. Some people loved the update, but others were very vocally disappointed. They claimed that the update didn't fix enough, that it introduced new bugs, that it broke old bugs that players had come to rely on, that Valentina and the other female Kerbals were dumb, etc. Accusations of sexism flew back and forth, and things just went downhill with every patch released to fix things.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The game is popular everywhere in the world: except in Mexico, i.e. the '''native''' country of the developers. In fact, Mexican videogame press barely, if ever, talked about the game and the few Mexican players who played the game thought it was another American or European game. It doesn't help the homepage is in English, without ''any'' Spanish-language version of the page and the game itself is in English. In fact, the game avoids including any kind of stuff linking the game with Mexico (except perhaps for the Dia de los Muertos trailer), due possibly to complicated [[CulturalCringe cultural reasons]].

* InternetBackdraft: The community is generally a pretty laid-back bunch, but there are two particular topics that tend to be the subject of intense debate whenever they're brought up: Autopilot add-ons such as Mech Jeb (specifically whether they're helpful learning tools for new players, crutches that take away the fun of learning to pilot manually, or something that takes away the tedium of flying manually when you've done it so many times already; note that pointing out that it's closer to how real rockets are guided does ''not'' help), and Lagrange Points, along with proposals on how to implement them that's already been discussed and dismissed a hundred times.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The game is popular everywhere in the world: except in Mexico, i.e. the '''native''' country of the developers. In fact, Mexican videogame press barely, if ever, talked about the game and the few Mexican players who played the game thought it was another American or European game. It doesn't help the homepage is in English, without ''any'' Spanish-language version of the page and the game itself is in English. In fact, the game avoids including any kind of stuff linking the game with Mexico, due possibly to complicated [[CulturalCringe cultural reasons]].

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The game is popular everywhere in the world: except in Mexico, i.e. the '''native''' country of the developers. In fact, Mexican videogame press barely, if ever, talked about the game and the few Mexican players who played the game thought it was another American or European game. It doesn't help the homepage is in English, without ''any'' Spanish-language version of the page and the game itself is in English. In fact, the game avoids including any kind of stuff linking the game with Mexico, due possibly to complicated [[CulturalCringe cultural reasons]].* GoodBadBugs: You could destroy planets with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLscXyIP4c8&list=UU8DIKwGU8wFZfk3Xi3-zcrQ&index=9 struts!]] Though the glitch is long fixed, you can achieve the same effect by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTg3vB8x3TY playing with claws]] [[MacGyvering meant to grab asteroids]].

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The game is popular everywhere in the world: '''except''' in Mexico, the ''native'' country of the developers. In fact, Mexican videogame press barely, if ever, talked about the game and the few Mexican players who played the game thought it was another American or European game. It doesn't help the homepage is in English, without ''any'' Spanish-language version of the page and the game itself is in English. In fact, the game avoids including any kind of stuff linking the game with Mexico, due possibly to complicated [[CulturalCringe cultural reasons]].* GoodBadBugs: You could destroy planets with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLscXyIP4c8&list=UU8DIKwGU8wFZfk3Xi3-zcrQ&index=9 struts!]] Though the glitch is long fixed, you can achieve the same effect by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTg3vB8x3TY playing with claws]] [[MacGyvering meant to grab asteroids]].

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The game is popular everywhere in the world: '''expect''' in Mexico, the ''native'' country of the developers. In fact, Mexican videogame press barely, if ever, talked about the game and the few Mexican players who played the game thought it was another American or European game. It doesn't help the homepage is in English, without ''any'' Spanish-language version of the page and the game itself is in English. In fact, the game avoids including any kind of stuff linking the game with Mexico, due possibly to complicated [[CulturalCringe cultural reasons]].* GoodBadBugs: You could destroy planets with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLscXyIP4c8&list=UU8DIKwGU8wFZfk3Xi3-zcrQ&index=9 struts!]] Though the glitch is long fixed, you can achieve the same effect by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTg3vB8x3TY playing with claws]] [[MacGyvering meant to grab asteroids]].

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The game is popular everywhere, except in Mexico, the ''native'' land of the developers. In fact, Mexican videogame press barely, if ever, talked about the game and the few Mexican players who played the game thought it was another American or European game. It doesn't help the homepage is in English, without ''any'' Spanish-language version of the page and the game itself is in English. In fact, the game avoids including any kind of stuff linking the game with Mexico, due possibly to complicated [[CulturalCringe cultural reasons]].

* GoodBadBugs: You could destroy planets with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLscXyIP4c8&list=UU8DIKwGU8wFZfk3Xi3-zcrQ&index=9 struts!]] Though the glitch is long fixed, you can achieve the same effect by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTg3vB8x3TY playing with claws]] [[MacGyvering meant to grab asteroids]].

* AmericansHateTingle: The game is popular everywhere, except in Mexico, the ''native'' land of the developers. In fact, Mexican videogame press barely, if ever, talked about the game and the few Mexican players who played the game thought it was another American or European game. It doesn't help the homepage is in English, without ''any'' Spanish-language version of the page and the game itself is in English. In fact, the game avoids including any kind of stuff linking the game with Mexico, due possibly to complicated [[CulturalCringe cultural reasons]].

* AmericansHateTingle: The game is popular everywhere, except in Mexico, the ''native'' land of the programmers. In fact, Mexican videogame press barely, if even, talked about the game and the few Mexican players who played the game thought it was another American or European game. It doesn't help the homepage is in English, without ''any'' Spanish-language version of the page and the game itself is in English. In fact, the game avoids including any kind of stuff linking the game with Mexico, due possibly to complicated [[CulturalCringe cultural reasons]].

* AmericansHateTingle: The game is popular everywhere, except in Mexico, the ''native'' land of the programmers. In fact, Mexican videogame press barely, if even, talked about the game and the few Mexican players who played the game thought it was another American or European game. It doesn't help the homepage is in English, without ''any'' Spanish-language version of the page and the game itself is in English.

** Moho is a large, airless rock in a noticeably eccentric orbit close to the local sun. All of this conspires to make it one of the more difficult planets to reach, land on, and return from. If you hit it at the lowest point in its orbit, you can easily zip right past it before you can lower your orbital speed enough to let it capture you.

* GoodBadBugs: You could destroy planets with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLscXyIP4c8&list=UU8DIKwGU8wFZfk3Xi3-zcrQ&index=9 struts!]] Though the glitch is long fixed, you can achieve the same effect by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTg3vB8x3TY playing with claws]] [[MacGyvering meant to grab asteroids]].

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: With the release of 1.0, a lot of changes were made to the previously-unrealistic souposphere of 0.90 and earlier, making it simulate real world atmospheres better and thus requiring players to change their strategies[[note]]Previously, you'd have to burn straight up until 10km, then pitch 45° and keep firing the engines until your apoapsis is out of the atmosphere; now you have to pitch 5-10° a couple of seconds after launch, and ''gradually'', with low throttle, shift the Prograde marker to 45° until 30km, where you can go at 100% throttle and push the prograde marker 30° further[[/note]]. Naturally, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings some players]] refused to change their strategies, and when they naturally got their ass handed to them in the new atmosphere, [[{{Scrub}} called the game out as broken]], considered 1.0 the worst update ever, and mostly lurk by the forums [[FanDumb not missing an opportunity to insult the playtesters or the developers]]. [[FanMyopia Even when seeing players sucessfully getting into orbit and exploring other planets with the new atmosphere]].

* GoodBadBugs: You could destroy planets with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLscXyIP4c8&list=UU8DIKwGU8wFZfk3Xi3-zcrQ&index=9 with struts!]] Though the glitch is long fixed, you can achieve the same effect by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTg3vB8x3TY playing with claws]] [[MacGyvering meant to grab asteroids]].

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: With the release of 1.0, a lot of changes were made to the previously-unrealistic souposphere of 0.90 and earlier, making it simulate real world atmospheres better and thus requiring players to change their strategies[[note]]Previously, you'd have to burn straight up until 10km, then pitch 45° and keep firing the engines until your apoapsis is out of the atmosphere, now you have to pitch 5-10° a couple of seconds after launch, and ''gradually'', with low throttle, shift the Prograde marker to 45° until 30km, where you can go at 100% throttle and push the prograde marker 30° further[[/note]]. Naturally, [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings some players]] refused to change their strategies, and when they naturally got their ass handed to them in the new atmosphere, [[{{Scrub}} called the game out as broken]], considered 1.0 the worst update ever, and mostly lurk by the forums [[FanDumb not missing an opportunity to insult the playtesters or the developers]]. [[FanMyopia Even when seeing players sucessfully getting into orbit and exploring other planets with the new atmosphere]].

* InternetBackdraft: The community is generally a pretty laid-back bunch, but there are two particular topics that tend to be the subject of intense debate whenever they're brought up: Multiplayer (both how to implement it and whether it should be implemented at all) and autopilot add-ons such as Mech Jeb (specifically whether they're helpful learning tools for new players, crutches that take away the fun of learning to pilot manually, or something that takes away the tedium of flying manually when you've done it so many times already; note that pointing out that it's closer to how real rockets are guided does ''not'' help).
** A new classic is now "Hey, how about Lagrange points?" along with a proposal on how to implement them that's already been discussed and dismissed a hundred times.
** Never bring up the topic of "female Kerbals" in any context whatsoever. Just don't.
** Mentioning resources is also a great way to touch off epic forum conflicts.
** Multiplayer is now officially in development.
** As of v0.90, orientation autopilot (pro/retrograde, etc) and maneuver node hold are a part of vanilla game.

* GoodBadBugs: The aerodynamics are a bit primitive at this stage, allowing for some wonky airplanes. For example, you can make one that is powered solely by flapping control surfaces. You can also make single-engine, air-breathing planes that can achieve orbit by fitting them with enough intakes. Said intakes do not even have to have a logical connection to the engine. They just have to be on the plane.
** You can destroy planets with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLscXyIP4c8&list=UU8DIKwGU8wFZfk3Xi3-zcrQ&index=9 with struts!]] (Unfortunately fixed since that video's release.)

** Moho is a large, airless rock in a noticeably eccentric orbit close to the local sun. All of this conspires to make it one of the more difficult planets to reach, land on, and return from. If you hit it at the lowest point in its orbit, you can easily zip right past it before you can lower your orbital speed enough to let it capture you.

* InternetBackdraft: The community is generally a pretty laid-back bunch, but there are two particular topics that tend to be the subject of intense debate whenever they're brought up: Multiplayer (both how to implement it and whether it should be implemented at all) and autopilot add-ons such as "MechJeb" (specifically whether they're helpful learning tools for new players, crutches that take away the fun of learning to pilot manually, or something that takes away the tedium of flying manually when you've done it so many times already; note that pointing out that it's closer to how real rockets are guided does ''not'' help).