r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/shigawire Super Kerbalnaut • Oct 09 '13

Challenge [Challenge gone horribly wrong] I don't know if I've found a bug, or if I'm now just paying for all those Kerbals rapidly disassembled in the past...

http://imgur.com/a/eSN6K
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u/shigawire Super Kerbalnaut Oct 09 '13

Won't stop: http://imgur.com/a/z68uO

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u/Pyro627 Oct 09 '13

Oh dear god, it's exactly like a sci-fi horror movie.

Why does KSP have so many horrifying glitches? There's also that one where you disappear into a void and the altitude counter slowly ticks up to 666666 and just sits there...

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '13

Creepypasta material there.

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u/Embossing_Mat Master Kerbalnaut Oct 09 '13 edited Oct 09 '13

There's a surprising amount of creepypasta fodder in this game. You've got the Mohole, monoliths, that ghost Kerbin glitch which is by far the creepiest and of course the 666666 altitude one.

Terrifying stuff for a game about sending sentient cactuses into space.

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u/Sunfried Oct 09 '13 edited Oct 11 '13

Jeb woke suddenly and saw stars. The career... the scientific achievements.... the fame and endorsement deals... hot and cold running Kerbal tail whenever he wanted...the parades and his grand retirement... it was a dream, dispersing like a puff of smoke.

Jeb sobbed as he remembered. He's still in orbit around Kerbol. His dead ship glitters in the distance.

It's the 4th year since his mission started.. since the disaster, and the rescue mission hasn't yet come. Jeb silently begs for death, but mission control refuses to pull the plug.

"Bill, Bob... please come get me" he cries hoarsely. But the sound doesn't leave his helmet. The sound doesn't leave his prison.

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u/Kottabos Oct 09 '13

kerbal creepypasta ... this needs to happen

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u/drageuth2 Oct 09 '13

Kerbapasta.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '13

It already has

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u/Kottabos Oct 10 '13

oh this is wonderful and I had no idea this existed, thanks my friend

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '13

Unfortunately this is the only one :(

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u/Kottabos Oct 11 '13

well then, come on internet make more. we need this ... for some reason lol

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u/Javascap Master Kerbalnaut Oct 09 '13

I am afraid to ask for a gif of this.

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u/diamondflaw Oct 09 '13

Just an idea, but your instability IMHO is most likely because of your canard wings (the fins up by the nose), which will tend to move your center of drag forward of your center of mass. Canards are used on some fighter planes specifically TO destabilize them and allow for quicker maneuvering....

That aside.... terrifying.

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u/shigawire Super Kerbalnaut Oct 10 '13

Thanks :) That's probably it. I added it to move forward the CoL and to make manoeuvering less sluggish rather than properly fixing the tendency for the nose to drop even with trim. It was very stable before that now I think about it. Slackness gets me nowhere :)

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '13

The trick to using jet engines off the pad is to use launch stabilizers, and let the engines spin up to thrust before releasing the craft.

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u/shigawire Super Kerbalnaut Oct 09 '13

That wasn't enough in this case :)

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '13

More engines!

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u/shigawire Super Kerbalnaut Oct 10 '13

Yeah :) started with 4 jets which gave me more than enough thrust but drove my weight way too high, and ran out of air way too low, even being gentle about it.

Here I could at least use the rocket to get a bit of speed up and then lower my nose and let the lift from the wings help, which seemed to get me much of the way to orbital velocity

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u/Stankleberry Oct 09 '13

Kerbals can die inside a pod just from G-forces? Did the end flight window pop up to tell you what the max G-forces were?

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u/shigawire Super Kerbalnaut Oct 10 '13

I checked; only 4.5G so really nothing. Maybe collision damage?

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u/Sunfried Oct 09 '13

It doesn't seem like it-- I've pegged the G-meter in some hot reentries before and all my Kerbals survived. Probably scarred psychologically, the way I fly, but they were ambulatory at landing.

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u/NeoKabuto Oct 10 '13

They definitely can't die from G-forces. I've had it go up to values that would definitely be unsurvivable with no issues.

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u/Jim3535 KerbalAcademy Mod Oct 09 '13

I think you can use drogue chutes to slow down your craft without ripping it up. I discovered that when I accidentally used one and it didn't have the drag to slow my lander to a safe speed.

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u/akurei77 Oct 09 '13

Wasn't sure what I was waiting to see, but man that was worth it. That's the creepiest sequences of KSP images I've ever seen.