KSP | Eve And Gilly Crewed Exploration | JNSQ + Kerbalism

[@cxg2827]

Landing and returning from Eve has been the hardest mission I have ran so far. What is everyone's else's most difficult KSP mission to date?

[@TheStoneAxe23Animation]

Duna landing and return, have only done it once successfully.

[@Darkherring]

Crewed visit to Jool's moons was my most ambitious one.

[@Lyksok]

Getting science 💀

[@cxg2827]

@@Lyksok 🤣

[@cxg2827]

@@Darkherring I enjoyed your JNSQ series. I might be following a similar path and going to RSS/RO soon after I finish with JNSQ

[@ccib00]

Hot damn nuclear aerospike! A worthy challenger to eve gravity hold and air pressure!

[@cxg2827]

I gotta say, without that, i might have taken another month trying to figure out a design. The other option was one that used "Eve optimized engines" but tipped the scales at over 300 tons. A gargantuan that would almost bankrupt my career playthrough were I to try and launch it.

[@ccib00]

Nuclear aerospike using hydrogen helps a lot here. Way Less mass.

[@encr123]

I feel like your videos are the canon Kerbal timeline. They’re so well executed and look great. I hope you get lots more subs!

[@cxg2827]

Thanks!

[@cmdrodimir7742]

That was an awesome mission! Also, excellent job again with the filming and editing of it. Some of the best KSP stuff I've seen on KZbin!

[@cxg2827]

Thanks! Editing has been a fun new process to learn.

[@BrunoTrecenti]

the production in these films are incredible, nice work

[@cxg2827]

Thanks, I appreciate it.

[@matthewstorr7544]

I have to make it back from Eve in stock. This was pretty inspiring. Great work with the camera angles and editing. The mission was as impressive as the production value.

[@cxg2827]

Appreciate the feedback. what makes the mission tricky is also lining up camera shots as I am keeping myself from using revert flight or quicksaves. Quicksaves typically only for kraken attacks

[@rhodesopalinsky8754]

I have no idea how you only have 274 subs. This is such amazing content.

[@cxg2827]

Thanks. I just started in april with content so youtube algorithm hasnt picked up for me yet is my guess.

[@NiceMikeFG]

well this man did it the first difficult mission ever and also back to kerbin without fail

[@NiceMikeFG]

mod information here

[@cxg2827]

@@NiceMikeFG here you go: 000_ClickThroughBlocker 000_Harmony 001_ToolbarControl AntennaHelper B9PartSwitch Benjee10_MMSEV Benjee10_sharedAssets BonVoyage CameraTools CommunityResourcePack CommunityTechTree ContractConfigurator ContractPacks CrewRandR CryoEngines CryoEnginesRestock CryoTanks Custom CustomBarnKit CustomPreLaunchChecks CxAerospace DecayingRTGs DeployableEngines DistantObject DynamicBatteryStorage EarnYourStripes EnvironmentalVisualEnhancements EveEngines FlightTracker Fox's Profiles HabTechProps HeatControl JavelinEngine JNSQ JX2Antenna KerbalAtomics KerbalConstructionTime Kerbalism KerbalismConfig KerbalKonstructs KerBalloons KerbalReusabilityExpansion Kopernicus KRASH Kronometer KSPCommunityFixes KSPRescueContractFix MagiCore MandatoryRCS MechJeb2 ModularFlightIntegrator NearFutureConstruction NearFutureElectrical NearFutureExploration NearFutureLaunchVehicles NearFutureProps NearFuturePropulsion NearFutureSolar NearFutureSpacecraft Nereid NRAP OSSNTR PhotonCorp PlanetShine PreciseNode ProbesBeforeCrew RationalResources RationalResourcesKerbalism ReStock ReStockPlus RestockRigidLegs SCANsat scatterer ScienceParamModifier SpaceTuxLibrary Squad SquadExpansion StationPartsExpansionRedux StationPartsExpansionReduxIVAs Strategia SystemHeat SystemHeatConverters SystemHeatFissionEngines SystemHeatFissionReactors SystemHeatHarvesters SystemHeatIonEngines TrackingStationEvolved TriggerTech TUFX Waterfall WaterfallRestock

[@victor_silva6142]

Superb! And also in Kerbalism? Man you just won the game! For real! I love the vessel design. Specially the Eve return vehicles. So stylish and somehow minimalistic. I simply love it!

[@cxg2827]

Appreciate it!

[@kaigdoa893rhkpp]

THE LEGEND RETURNS!

[@kaigdoa893rhkpp]

(also wondering what scatter version you are using (also also your music choices just get better and better) (also also also that ladder deployment was satisfying af))

[@cxg2827]

@@kaigdoa893rhkpp I'm using scatterer-0.0772. And thanks! The soundtrack is honestly a very tricky part of making the videos.

[@kaigdoa893rhkpp]

@@cxg2827 Thank you for the fast response! Your hard work on the soundtrack definitely paid off.

[@nikospapageorgiou57]

Grear video! The only comment I would make is the crew entering the lander via EVA, other than that, nice job!

[@cxg2827]

Thanks! I had trouble designing the lander for Eve, so the EVA was a bit of a compromise.

[@quickloris3050]

Such an underrated vid, you just earned a sub.

[@cxg2827]

appreciate it!

[@antoniomaffei670]

Incredible stuff, Eve landing was epic

[@cxg2827]

Thanks!

[@uhb0t]

10/10 I love this keep it up, I’m mind blown by your video

[@cxg2827]

Appreciate it!!

[@CoBALT23]

Great cinematics and editing i loved the eve departure shot with the thunderstorms

[@cxg2827]

Thanks. The thunderstorms were something I specifically wanted captured in the video, a nice feature added in JNSQ

[@Redsnoopie1918]

Dude quality content you earn another subscriber and you now my friend are motivated

[@cxg2827]

Thanks!

[@sonicblackhole3559]

Wow that is a lot of mods I’m impressed you got them all working together

[@riccardodipietro4362]

This is absolutely stunning. Love your channel!

[@cxg2827]

Thank you!

[@StressKind]

Well executed, reminds me great KSP times :) Here's to great things in KSP2

[@cxg2827]

Indeed!

[@gamingwhileotherssleep4650]

Excellent job....earned a sub

[@cxg2827]

Thanks

[@odiseezall]

Absolutely beautiful cinematics...

[@cxg2827]

Thank you

[@Opusss]

Awesome video! I can't believe I am still finding new KSP content creators. How excited is everyone for KSP2? How does JNSQ compare to RSS, RO, RP-1, RSS really breathed new life in to the game for me but I do find myself missing a few small things from stock. Mainly parts like robotics.

[@cxg2827]

I really enjoy JNSQ as the solar system scale seems more balanced to the stock parts. rockets look more realistic in proportion and adds a bit of extra challenge to going places. I havent tried RSS yet but after I finish JNSQ I want to go into RSS/RO. I am considering another video series but will include voiceovers in lieu of text on the screen

[@jgus6]

If you do end up trying out RSS I would recommend using Less Real Than Realism, as it re-scales and tweaks the stock parts to fit the real solar system, which I like a lot better than RO/RP1, as it’s much more intuitive to use and you don’t need to mess around with all the procedural parts and hyper-realism.

[@wastedtalent1625]

Looks awesome

[@cxg2827]

Thank you.

[@clippedwings225]

so cool!

[@Matthew_ksp]

Very nice!

[@cxg2827]

Thanks!

[@Alex-bv1vv]

this is insane, the look of eve is so much cooler, what mods make it look like this, i thought JNSQ just does the scale?

[@cxg2827]

JNSQ changed the appearance of Eve, and possibly Duna

[@luodaniel8576]

Is that a nuclear aerospike on the lander? BTW, VERY impressive cinematics!!!

[@cxg2827]

Thanks! Yes its a nuclear aerospike. Without that, i might have taken another month trying to figure out a design. The other option was one that used "Eve optimized engines" but tipped the scales at over 300 tons. A gargantuan that would almost bankrupt my career playthrough were I to try and launch it.

[@chocoha4981]

@@cxg2827 What mod gives you the nuclear aerospike? thx

[@cxg2827]

Kerbal Atomics by Nertea

[@ioxynotreal]

You definitely know how to pick out mods. What parts mod are the eve and gilly lander/cockpits from?

[@cxg2827]

The Gilly lander is from planetside exploration, the eve lander cockpit is from near future spacecraft.

[@wolfie3657]

Hi dude, the mission looks epic, but I've got one question, what graphic preset do you use (spectra/AVP etc.), because I didn't see anything in the description, and I won't belive it's just the scatterer

[@cxg2827]

Suprise, just scatter and tufx!

[@chocoha4981]

Hey ! You did an awesome and hard work, and the video eddit was very nice and not too much. I hope you'll post more videos ! I was wondering if you would kindly share your gamedata folder with us? I'm sure you had to tweak some config files and deal with conflicts with that many mods... I'm not patient enough to deal with all of them. I've checked your mods and they are quite usefull. I was wondering if you could help us getting the same mod list. Thanks !

[@chocoha4981]

Maybe with Github or We transfer?

[@cxg2827]

Unfortunately with several mods having "All rights reserved" licensing it is not allowed to redistribute in this manner. I will say that all the mods work well with one another. The only manual CFG tweaks I did were adding decoupler staging to some of the docking ports included with "Near Future Construction". Probes before Crew I removed content so it was only the science point modifiers and tech tree that remained.

[@Dying2play12]

AWESOME videos man... Question though: What version of KSP are you running here? I have v1.12.5 installed w/JNSQ, Environmental Visual Enhancements as well but EVE doesn't look like this at ALL. It's VERY dark, even in direct sunlight, there's no atmospheric effects like it shows here. I fly by close and there's lightning effects, but you can see the entire surface, but around the edges a dark purple. Just ugly, lol. I want to see the atmospheric effects like shown here.

[@rustyshackleford234]

What did they do to my favorite purple jewel, eve?

[@cxg2827]

They massacred your boy. Probably tried to make it more of a Venus analog

[@Lubo735]

The pink oceans still exists

[@lb2791]

Did the Eve ascent vehicle only have a single engine? And what did the final stage use to rendezvous with tha transfer stage, just rcs thrusters?

[@cxg2827]

Correct, it was the nuclear aerospike running off liquid hydrogen. I put myself into a sliglt elliptical orbit with ~ 50m/s delta-v and waited a few orbits until the rendezvous. The final stage had about 150m/s Delta V with the monopropellant.

[@polishkerbal6920]

Me: ahh yes a ksp video let me ch- *sees jnsq in the title* uhh sorry man but i aint going to spoil the planets for my self,ill watch this in 5 months 👴

[@cxg2827]

Enjoy your playthrough!

[@victor_silva6142]

Enjoy your playthrough! [2]

[@ShoeNerd]

A stock eve mission is the stuff of nightmares, how did you do it in jnsq?

[@cxg2827]

took me quite a while and lots of simulation runs in KRASH

[@ShoeNerd]

@@cxg2827 I respect the time and effort this must have taken! Congrats!

[@-d65-93]

What graphics mods do you use?

[@cxg2827]

check the video description. primarily scatter and EnvironmentalVisualEnhancements

[@-d65-93]

@@cxg2827 Thanks, how did you made Eve atmosphere looks like how Venus atmosphere?

[@cxg2827]

That is a result of the JNSQ install, it changes EVE from purple to more Venus- like

[@-d65-93]

@@cxg2827 I have JNSQ installed, but I haven't this feature.

[@uhb0t]

The Pegasus hlv is Orion but with a big payload attached to it, I just realized that

[@cxg2827]

Yes, the design takes heavy inspiration from SLS

[@luodaniel8576]

Real designs do feel a bit overpowered when you take them to JNSQ; I had an Apollo-style Minmus landing assembly but after the first mission I figured out I could have swapped the ENTIRE service module with a station segment and still having a valid Minmus landing-and-return

[@cxg2827]

@@luodaniel8576 Minmus is super easy, I think a 3-kerbal capsule with a baguette fuel tank is enough to do the mission, even in JNSQ. I'm looking forward to trying RSS/RO after I finish with this system. Though I'm considering a stock grand tour with the new scatter first for a change in pace, something a bit easier.

[@luodaniel8576]

@@cxg2827 The thing in RSS/RO is, at least for me, that you're always tempted to use historical parts. Not to say it's bad though, but I feel like attempting an Apollo replica less original than doing stuff in Stock/JNSQ. In fact I understand the stock grand tour being harder than an RSS/RO Lunar landing :p

[@QueenParity]

that eve lander uses the deliverance aerospike right? how did that manage to lift all that LH2 up to orbit? even with 1000kN of thrust that's a lot to put to orbit!

[@cxg2827]

With the asparagus staging of the radial tanks, it was able to keep the craft size a bit more manageable, but the lander with the methalox Eve capture stage needed a 175 ton rated heavy lifter. Then again, that same lifter was needed for just the Kerbin departure stage. This was much smaller than my original LFO design, which was 284 tons for the lander alone

[@whoe_whate8487]

What mod at 1:08 gives you that habitation(?) capsule below the Mk1 command pod? Im looking for mods that offer more command pods and/or habitation modules.

[@cxg2827]

It is from nertea's space station expansion mod. I believe it's the 3.75m science module stacked with another part from the same pack. The tapered ends are individual adapters from the same pack.

[@TheStoneAxe23Animation]

What mod is the gilly lander can from?

[@cxg2827]

Planetside Exploration Technologies

[@warcrimeswilly]

Do you have ad astra installed? It seems that this mod causes my craft to glitch out when approaching the surface of eve in JNSQ.

[@cxg2827]

No Ad Astra, just scatterer-0.0772

[@Dying2play12]

I'm running v1.12.5 KSP, and have JNSQ, Scatterer and EVE installed, but EVE doesn't have this atmospheric effect. It's just a dark shade, even the direct sunlight side. Trying to figure out what versions of KSP to run to have everything look correct.

[@warcrimeswilly]

@@Dying2play12 you need scatterer v0.0772 since jnsq wasnt built on the new version of scatterer

[@XdyLsd12]

​@@Dying2play12 needs old scatterer version. If I remebrer 0.7222 or sth like that

[@calebadkins2218]

can you please add downloads to the vehicles.

[@cxg2827]

I'll work on uploading to KerbalX in the coming weeks.

[@calebadkins2218]

@@cxg2827 thank you!

[@SteelRider]

what's your ksp version

[@cxg2827]

1.12.2

[@SteelRider]

thanks

[@Dying2play12]

Ah, there it is. Gonna try a clean install and match your modlist. v1.12.5 is possibly the reason EVE doesn't look like this, or EVE even. Lol.@@cxg2827

[@Dying2play12]

Switched my game to v1.12.2, clean install of my ckan mod list, almost all the same as yours and Eve looks PERFECT now. Thanks for uploading man.

[@cxg2827]

@@Dying2play12 glad you got it working!