Can You Use The Smallest Engine to Get to Dres in Kerbal Space Program?

[@ReidCaptain]

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[@ReidCaptain]

Why did I choose Dres to land on? It's the only place I hadn't visited yet! With this video I have achieved my goal of landing everywhere.

[@CindyDijkema]

yay

[@disgustingapple5216]

Land on a random metero

[@gautamu.9708]

Congratulations!

[@kcale3875]

next challenge: try to land on a asteroid with only thud engines

[@Anti-Furry-Soldier-1291]

Now explore another universe

[@David_Phantom]

At this point, how many multi-hundred year old kerbals do you have stranded throughout the system?

[@brightax7502]

Trillions

[@vinixd3692]

@@brightax7502 of quadrillions.

[@vikkimcdonough6153]

ALL OF THEM.

[@w花b]

@@vinixd3692 of quintillions

[@DupyLoopy]

@@w花b of *UNLIMITED*

[@lithuanianguy1799]

As always reaching the peak of engineering

[@RADIS370]

FOR SCIENCE!

[@MarkLin77]

by neilred standards

[@noneedtogetagressive5875]

All KSP videos by Reid always ends up like a nile green video

[@ReidCaptain]

Basically

[@w花b]

Same speech pattern

[@beckhamoneill1894]

Fr I was so confused when I first heard Nile green I though they were the same person

[@drunkenpenguinA]

@@w花b kinda annoying tbh....

[@versinussyrin577]

I just landed on Dres with a big lander with a modded nuclear engine and 12500-ish m/s dv, and now you just did it with separatrons... just unbelieveable and crazy :D Good job!

[@Totally_Bonkers]

"when in doubt, get out and push" -me in my early days of kerbal space program

[@jesuschrist711]

me trying to stop my massive rover after i found out i didnt engage the parking brake💀😂

[@two67gh]

@buffalo wt same

[@KinneKitsune]

Next challenge, rescue EVERY stranded kerbal in a single launch. No restrictions on what you can use

[@sapphicjade6375]

The kraken drive:

[@wafflefalafel530]

dang bro its unfair the thurst to weight will be crazy dude

[@JubioHDX]

@@wafflefalafel530 itd probably just have alot of mining equipment to refuel id guess

[@frawzch.048]

"The game started to disagree with that filosophy" That line was too good.

[@thespacepeacock]

Woah, i think you just discovered an entirely new way to lithobrake! Impressive!

[@hexlart8481]

The trick is to survive the initial impact with the lithosphere, who would have thought!

[@jlco]

Lithobraking: the best way to assert dominance upon arrival to a planet.

[@СаняСанианов]

"And it is! But it worked!.." That line was delivered so perfectly, I've never heard you saying anything using this tone, use it more:DD

[@icyartillery9027]

Man, I only ever use separations for boosting tiny missiles and microjets, so when I saw that clip early on or forcefully separating boosters I legitimately got taken aback for a moment

[@sankang9425]

This is probably the best video you ever made. Wow. Didn't think you would actually... land there. crazy.

[@Singulut]

I'm excited to see you make these Videos for Ksp2

[@martinmnagell2894]

Props to this man for sacrificing his computer and sanity for our entertainment.

[@ducoschollmeijer4841]

Mod recommendation: waterfall mod, it turns engine plumes into meshes instead of particles which optimizes the game and it just looks good

[@nutella1021]

Awesome video! I love playing Kerbal Space Program and it's always a challenge to try and use the smallest engines possible to reach different planets. Great job on accomplishing this feat with Dres, can't wait to see where your next mission takes you in the game!

[@LakotaLp]

i love how you try to fully bruteforce whatever idea you get in your videos without using even 5% of the game mechanics XD Im glad youre at least using decouplers...

[@stuchly1]

That massive grin on that Kerbal near the end was amazing 😂

[@itstime9023]

man defines the phrase "if your rocket doesnt work add more rockets"

[@Miliradian]

this guy sends rockets with the smallest engine to planets i didnt know existed while im struggling with mun

[@EpicMiniMeatwad]

18:00 What happened is likely a failure to inherit during initialization (or object creation). Your kerbal did not inherit the velocity from the vessel since it spawned after the vessel got destroyed, meaning it tried to look for a velocity that no longer existed. It probably also defaulted to putting you at 0 velocity relative to the planet. This is possible because you are going so fast that the tick rate of the game causes you to essentially just teleport into the planet from the view point of someone watching the game per tick. Because the game was already in the process of deleting the craft on the same tick as you spawning your kerbal, when the kerbal went to check for the craft's velocity, it couldn't find the craft or its velocity. A way to fix this would probably be soft deleting the vessel with a few ticks of immunity from being deleted, saving its variables like velocity before it's hard deleted. A vessel should not get deleted unless it goes out of range or smashes into something and has to be deleted from the perspective of the physics world/environment. So you mark the object as being soft deleted until it is time to be hard deleted, and even from that information you could just not let a kerbal spawn from a soft deleted vessel. So why is this still in the game? Because shitcode, don't worry about it, we are getting a KSP 2 with less technical debt. There are many ways this could have gone wrong that are fundamentally broken so it's understandable that it hasn't been fixed. It's also fun lol.

[@erzhaider]

Yeah so about that KSP 2 you were talking about...

[@letqin1]

4:05 get stickbugged

[@ajuntapall8860]

Ah yes, finally someone else who uses my patented "get out and push" method!

[@guntruckfella653]

KSP veteran here, I think that weird crash landing at the end was a bug thats existed in the game for ages. Basically, if the ladder a kerbal is climbing on gets destroyed while they’re close enough to the ground with a low enough speed, when the game goes to calculate the kerbal’s independent physics, it thinks “well, this looks close enough like a kerbal standing still” and just sets the kerbal on the ground. Sometimes, if a kerbal is climbing on a capsule ladder as it crash lands, the explosion shockwave will perfectly counteract the kerbal’s landing speed immediately before the simulation calculates the kerbal’s physics, causing the standing bug to trigger

[@dsd6873]

Nice vid 👍, you can set the thrust of the engines lower to minimize the drag

[@ReidCaptain]

True, I should have messed with that a little more

[@EpicMiniMeatwad]

@@ReidCaptain And waited even longer.

[@Roaxial]

now you gotta get somewhere using just the backpack 😃👍

[@ReidCaptain]

I hope that there is a more powerful jetpack in the second game so that we can avoid ladders altogether

[@Theuncoolpuenguin]

yes

[@niggacockball7995]

The ladders😶

[@SoleCone123]

I did that lol

[@mariofeds1101]

​@@ReidCaptain:(

[@kaiperdaens7670]

You should try to recover every kerbal that is stranded in the least amount of launches and landers.

[@mikemallon1065]

*Sees video* “That’s a remarkably stupid idea…” I still much watch, my interest has been piqued. Great videos.

[@Bacon17855]

One time, I got the mk1 command pod and made a ring of 16 separations and turned on infinite fuel. My pod went straight up like a dart and now I have a century old kerbin orbiting the sun

[@Chevsilverado]

If you wait a little bit before staging the next set of boosters in the atmosphere the rocket will be higher and have less drag which puts your fuel to better use, since drag increases exponentially with speed you want to be pretty slow in the thick air. You have enough thrust with the solid fuel motors to do most of your acceleration in space to circularize your orbit, so no need to rush to gain speed when it’s less efficient in atmosphere.

[@Swagmaster07]

This honestly gives me hope that maybe getting to space, other planets aint so hard. I have a delta V map so I should be fine.

[@Geuelthefool]

This is some crazy good space move action scene worthy content!!!😎

[@andreslosada559]

This may be the most cursed ksp video I’ve ever seen, and it is purely beautiful

[@caesar_cider2777]

as a ksp veteran the clip of the spider spam made me physically recoil. thanks

[@battleshipbeast964]

We love your videos

[@susowscysusowscy21]

True

[@soul-candy-music]

homie has the exact same inflection as NileRed lol

[@WatchmakerErik]

On your second launch you watch the boosters burn each other, and apparently learned nothing from that. When I build a stage that has a lot of separatrons and more than one row, I angled a separate turns on the upper stage out a little bit. It isn't a super efficient use of them, but it keeps them from overheating and exploding each other which is nice.

[@spudthespudgungamer7112]

The orbit visibly changing like that caused me to spit my soda out.

[@JumpMasterJef]

4:06 Did we just get stickbugged by your Apoapsis?

[@YMandarin]

Bradly Whistance would be proud about your lithobraking and the cheesy usage of the backpack

[@morganshifflett4994]

The cheesiness just made it more impressive how he did this. Bros goated to that this game.

[@selensewar]

If it looks stupid, but works, then it's not stupid! Well done.

[@threesixtydegreeorbits2047]

what modpack adds this moon? 0:11

[@mogpop4970]

This is already in the stock game

[@Spaceflight_nerd]

@@mogpop4970it’s sarcasm

[@Brody-og6zt]

6:50 “usually”

[@robertdelatorre7252]

my idea for a challenge is that you rescue all of your left behind kerbals in this one engine series, with one megacraft, the challenge is that the landers that collect them has to use the same propulsion method as how they arrived at the planet

[@RAFMnBgaming]

I don't think I've ever seen anyone do that with a kerbal before. I take my hat off to you.

[@WatchmakerErik]

*multiplies number of engines by four* "Three times the power"

[@thatGUYbehindthemask]

watching your rocket building process generally infuriates me. im just screaming "NO NO NO YOU DUMMY!" in my head while watching this.

[@catwithajetpack5135]

bro is gonna go interstellar on only srbs next

[@ReidCaptain]

There will be some shenanigans

[@thebread9186]

this dude can do this and i still can’t land on the moon with a rocket built to go to mars

[@lelegoguemraoui772]

kerbal be like: going on a space mission: panik its a youtuber: kalm its reid captain: PANIKKKK

[@SpaceSim1]

you used the manley maneuver! I'm proud of you! :D

[@larrywhitney]

Separations are just stronger Escape Pods. Change my mind

[@ReidCaptain]

The escape pod at home

[@jambothejoyful2966]

Every time this guy makes a plane it never has a vertical stabilizer and everything is in the wrong place relative to the center of mass

[@Phoenix2.5D]

Modred Kerman will never see her family again but at least she made it to Dres

[@shizumeru_]

His mannerisms and chaotic experimenting remind me of Nile Red

[@deadgoat2738]

This is my favorite type of comedy

[@Known_as_The_Ghost]

Personally, I like using decouples themselves as the 'structure' for the separatrons. Basically a ton of decouplers attached to each other, with these little SRBs on each one, each decoupler its own stage. Also the decouplers themselves give you a slight boost to dv from the separation.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

my thought would be to have the bottom stages bigger than the top. the first stage has to push the weight of the entire thing, while the last one only has to move the capsule. that would also help with hypersonic disassembly of the top. and now I have to continue with my 1700 t space shuttle

[@tyazze6390]

the craft is on the ground, the pilot is alive, a successful landing !

[@MuffinTM]

damn. i thought that i had invented that technique of pushing the ship with the jetpack.

[@TheMcHunter]

that big head fits really well

[@murilo7794]

That's like making a car that runs solely on brake fluid

[@b2048_]

i mean it's technically possible

[@SurgutPictures]

my brain at the start of the video: Dres? bro, you can't even orbit this thin...wa..wai...WAIT HOW...BRO, WHY? HOW? WH... ok. Understandable.

[@paxlash]

Do a rescue with the biggest engine

[@CrisBy1]

Man has the most patience I've ever seen

[@Auriacularia]

8:57 never heard that tone of voice before dayum

[@proatplanes]

I can imagine this wont go well

[@ReidCaptain]

Kinda

[@proatplanes]

@@ReidCaptain Next vid: saving the kerbal stuck on dres with only rcs (rcs ports not engines)

[@Ethanol-o4r]

I haven't seen the video yet but I know Reid will end KSP 1 off with something amazing

[@allesarfint]

Video Idea: Finding every cool rock in Kerbal Space Program

[@IndyGibb]

That was scuffed. For one final video, you should do a plane challenge, I dunno what challenge, but you should send the plane to save every Kerbal that has been stranded and hasn't been saved. That way they will all be ready for KSP2.

[@Cona-vh7vi]

90% of the video i was just thinking “Yeah what’d you *think* was gonna happen”

[@PinappleCoinGaming]

See you at KSP2! also noice video.

[@arfb01]

Well now you need to rescue the kerbal

[@Penguin5z]

You should keep the theme of making weapons like in your previous few videos and make an ICBM in this game.

[@Mr_Turab]

14:45 When you use kerbal rcs to reduce your velocity looks so funny XD!

[@TerraLyte47]

world's biggest launch escape system

[@Zanthron]

nice planet pack to add this "Dres" into the game

[@gunalx]

Next challenge, landing on a astroid with only turbofans.

[@Supern0v4_23]

Maybe you could try firing the sepratrons on your kerbal in the opposite direction of thrust to cancel some velocity.

[@1mariomaniac]

If you mean like positioning the Kerbal behind the rocket boosters and firing them, that wouldn't work because 1. It'd probably kill them, and 2. You can't stage stuff while on EVA.

[@Supern0v4_23]

@@1mariomaniac You would switch vessel to the ship, check out stratenblitzs 3part mission

[@noomrm73]

Wait, what are you landing on? Oh, the Mun.

[@chrisboyer2195]

This is actually broken, the crazy’s now have a way to land on moons without decelerating

[@JoacoG11]

My man got to Dres with the smallest engine, but I can't even get to orbit around Kerbin 😭

[@Killer-44]

I am very simple: I see Reid Captain, I click

[@mumblety]

Kerbal technology at it's finest!

[@Luke-we9gj]

anyone else happy he actually got to stand on that cool rock?

[@Theuncoolpuenguin]

best youtuber EVER

[@jokersize]

This is how my pc exploded. Now im living without pc for a year already.

[@thatdirtymichiganmusician1038]

Truely the Nile Red of KSP

[@CharlesPkp2]

Hey, just a tip, if you need to launch a plane with almost no added weight, try building your plane on a car with engines on it, you just separate them at the end of the road.

[@josephblomstrand2129]

Big brain

[@MrBrick-vb3xh]

and here i am struggling to land on the Mun

[@cheeswedge]

Rest In Peace KSP1, you will be remembered

[@Top-Code]

Casually getting frame perfect timing

[@darkduckpl9620]

This guy one day will go to some planet without engines at all

[@apyr1439]

Kraken drive

[@CaptainAwsome]

are you gonna rescue the Kerbals stranded from these lauches?

[@gunceler7535]

Have you seen Stratzenblitz75’s Minmus on Decouplers video? His similarly extreme thrust and structure limitations were interesting but I appreciate your more difficult destination.

[@crazydave1]

4:54 did he seriously just say 1x3 = 4?

[@flamingpotato8906]

a fitting end to the legacy of ksp.

[@passiveagrsivesmeerschwein2320]

me cant do it with all parts: " he cant keep geting away with this