Setting the LAND SPEED RECORD in Kerbal Space Program 2!

[@awvee]

the car being surrounded in landing gear and just spinning made me laugh super hard

[@nofacer04]

Yes.

[@rocketboysmc]

Its at a level of genius only an engineer can achieve.

[@monad_tcp]

That was the most kerbal way ever of engineering, finally matt learned it. And it did work !

[@juriaanromkes7558]

i saw your coment but i still wasnt prepared for the result

[@Slope_runner]

Yeah

[@NotDaender]

FYI, the land speed record (LSR) is standardized as "the speed over a course of fixed length, averaged over two runs. Two runs are required in opposite directions within one hour, and a new record mark must exceed the previous one by at least one percent to be validated." So, not only must your craft beat the *Thrust SCC* speed record, which was done over a 1-mile distance, it needs to turn around and do it again! You gotta play by the rules, engineer!

[@shufflecat3334]

He did though. The vehicle was doing 360s the whole time. Geez, did you even watch the video?? :P

[@AustinHampton594]

I was about to comment the same thing lol

[@arg8763]

Thrust SSC didn't didn't hit that speed in a mile. It was a total trip of 14 miles, on power for around 9, and the last mile on power was the measured mile. In Kerbal it's harder, because there isn't a 14 mile runway to play with.

[@WiseOwl_1408]

Nah

[@hyperfreeski3103]

Shut up

[@crusher1080]

Disabling friction control on the front wheels would stop you from swerving on the runway Matt! Hopefully useful.

[@beanman853]

Wobbling probs due to kraken

[@docteurtnt736]

I will test it thanks i have been struggling to take off

[@crusher1080]

@@beanman853 The friction control on the wheels tries to over compensate. And causes vehicles to swerve, planes or buggies.

[@h.w.6563]

Which one of them are the front wheels, though? :P

[@kdaviper]

​@@crusher1080I think it's simply a matter of the center of friction being in front of the center of mass. Turning the friction control up on the back wheels can fix it as well

[@droppedpasta]

21:11 Landing Gear-nado! This is the best KSP2 content I’ve seen so far, as the game isn’t really in a state where serious missions are feasible

[@CAMSLAYER13]

Feel like they dropped the ball with this release. It barely runs on most hardware and its missing a lot of basic features. I get its early access, but for 50 dollars? Its a long way from being even as functional as ks1

[@AnshPatel-x4p]

Is this game free?

[@kurobara9001]

I don't know if anyone's noticed yet, I didn't until I was editing a capture of the game and played back at x48 speed, the CLOUDS move and change shape naturally! RCE, your videos got me in to KSP, so thank you, and I look forward to more KSP2 videos from you!

[@CSpottsGaming]

KSP is an insane time sink but I'm so excited for KSP2. Mainly because I like to play vanilla for the simplicity of it and it looks like they added all the Dv calcs and a ton of other useful tools into the vanilla game. I'm stoked for the full release.

[@iCanOnlyHave30CharactersInMyNa]

This "record" is probably gonna be tripled in the next week.

[@kings2284]

By him*

[@MrGreen876]

Coming from a hog rider in the lands of no records ever. . .

[@JuJu_Johnson]

POV: you like boys

[@Blackhole-TON618]

​@@JuJu_Johnson boys 🥰

[@iCanOnlyHave30CharactersInMyNa]

@@MrGreen876 Oh yeah just trust the talking letter M.

[@musicforthepeople1548]

Amusingly and ironically, on one of your first unsuccessful land speed runs, at 6:32, you managed a whopping 365 m/s or over 816 mph, enough to beat the land speed record (note: to catch the moment you will have to go frame by frame - it happens for literally 1 frame)

[@Niyucuatro]

If the aerodynamics in this one are similar to what they were in the version of the first game i played, the flipping is caused because as fuel gets used, the vehicle is heavier on the back than in the front, so the tip of the rod has less terminal velocity than the base. this makes the base faster than the tip, flipping the entire vehicle. Adding more weight to the front wold help reduce flipping.

[@peperoni_pepino]

While that is a possible cause I think that here the wheels are just bugged. Matt Lowne mentioned that the wheels friction control thingy was not working correctly, and that is probably still true.

[@crusher1080]

No, in this game the reason the craft is swerving is because of the friction control function on the wheels, can disable it since it is bugged and all of your crafts will swerve due to that.

[@Niyucuatro]

@@crusher1080 Maybe it's even a combination of the two. Because it still seems that there's less attempt to keep roling once the vehicle was going engines at the front.

[@crusher1080]

@@Niyucuatro not viable because ksp has point physics instead of varying vector physics. The centre of mass of a part does not move

[@_Jitterbug]

17:00 the fact those wheels worked to stop the jetcar from crashing, is a true testament to engineering XD

[@RiptornRory]

Yay! Just had a video a few days ago about the start of this game, so I'm glad you're already jumping back into it! (Not to say I'm not uber-hyped to see how Timberborners go in the current map)

[@ThymeHere]

Yes

[@andreab6053]

Some advices: use the snap funcion to make sure the weels are straight. Then disable the auto friction control on the steering wheels, this will make it much more stable

[@shawngaetz8161]

Is that something in ksp 1 too? As I'm having a hell of a time keeping my space planes from drifting to either side for no reason.

[@technoquetz126]

@@shawngaetz8161 yes, if the wheels are angled, the plane is super unstable, and honestly I recommend just turning off steering altogether, and instead using rudder fins on the top of the plane to steer, because any friction at all sometimes just causes the wheels to start turning

[@Berrick189]

If you turn off friction control on the front wheels it should go in a straight line

[@RealKlausSchwab]

Yes!

[@plusRpm]

„The body might be too low to the ground.“ Body: fully on the floor „It veers off to to the side…“ RCE: adds drag at the front, with horizontal wings Watching a civil engineer build vehicles is just hilarious

[@thatguywholikesplanes4689]

at the uk space agency we pride ourselves with breaking these records no matter the cost

[@danielhoyte6291]

Wait the UK still has a space agency I thought they shut down after the black arrow Program.

[@thatguywholikesplanes4689]

@@danielhoyte6291 that’s the thing the uk space agency never shuts

[@donkoltz1]

The fact that an actual engineer with a degree took that long to realize the belly of his vehicle was scraping the ground makes me smile.

[@dogneely]

He definitely isn't a mechanical engineer, that's for sure

[@JackMTB_Ski]

This is awesome! Currently watching this as I drive past the Bonneville Speedway, where they attempt the land speed records! Awesome coincidence!

[@snodog00]

You're watching a KZbin video as you drive your car?

[@JackMTB_Ski]

A buddy and I are trading off driving shifts

[@davcrav]

@@JackMTB_Ski That's the story, or as it's often called, the defence.

[@Lysdexis]

​@@JackMTB_Ski can confirm. I am the buddy

[@captaindelta43]

Matt has done it again . Back to back banger KSP 2 videos , just what we all love to see . Enjoyed this, Can't wait for what more goofiness Matt has planned for in future episodes

[@Theotheskycreator]

You are at the wrong video

[@CSpottsGaming]

Matt, as much as I love watching you fail at KSP I do have a few tips that might help. First, there are hotkeys to maximize and minimize throttle values in an instant (i.e. not sliding up then sliding down, but instead immediately jumping between 0% and 100%). You'll have to double check me because it's been a minute but I believe they're X for 0% and T for 100%? Worth noting that doesn't work super well for jet engines as they still need to spool up and down, but super useful for liquid-fueled rocket engines. Also, you can drain the fuel tanks which will definitely help you get up to speed faster (less weight to accelerate). For a run this short I doubt you need even one full tank, but they're still useful structurally. If you right-click on a tank in the VAB you can see a slider that allows you to remove all the fuel and oxidizer. You can do the same with the solid fuel boosters for both weight purposes and for shutoff purposes. Since you can't stop a solid fuel booster from burning once it has started, this is useful to time the shutoff. Also useful for building airplanes because you can use Fuel/LOX tanks (if they have a convenient shape, for instance) but remove the LOX so that you don't have unnecessary weight when using air-breathing engines.

[@valecasini]

10:29 I love every time Matt is like "mmmhm 🤔" 14:06 oh it's not fair! Matt is so used to use struts that the fact that there is no autostruts doesn't bother him 😂 19:45 so... There is the MOAR BOOSTER the MOAR ENGINE and with Matt we have the MOAR PARACHUTE, MOAR WINGS and today the new MOAR WHEELS 😆

[@Blaster_Unity_UB]

Isn't Bloodhound SSC, successor of Thrust SSC, the current record holder?

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Don't think so, it got scrapped before it beat the record due to lack of funding. You can't just revert to launch like in ksp! 😅

[@captaindelta43]

​@@RealCivilEngineerGaming or simply because they didn't have a engineer like you 😉

[@Blaster_Unity_UB]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming oh, yup, then the 1997 king lives, and Thrust SSC looks cooler in my opinion.

[@stevengillmeister6062]

Me seeing another KZbinr playing KSP 2 and realizing that there are actual goals and stuff in KSP 1/2 after only seeing RCE play it: 😮 “say what!!?!” Thank you RCE for not doing anything related to the game at all while playing it. I’ve spent 3 years not playing the game but now I’m going to have to spend money on it to get to the mun etc haha

[@zohaibtariq7351]

A fellow drae viewer I see

[@Teh_Random_Canadian]

Buy KSP 1, not 2

[@phylum8975]

"OK I tried to turn left and it blew up. Cheers." - 😂😂🤣🤣 I don't know why but that is SO funny! Love it RCE!

[@lazilexi]

Hey Matt, pro tip: if you turn off auto friction control on the right click menu on just the front wheels, your craft shouldn't swerve about so much on the runway!

[@arti6okk]

16:38 has the same energy as "but what if I purchase fastfood and disguise it as my own cooking?" love it

[@Hannah_The_Heretic]

2:20 just FYI you CAN have custom flags in KSP2

[@philipangell8027]

Your Kerbal videos always make me cry with laughter. It is the rock solid certainty combined with the total lack of understanding when it fails.

[@squidcaps4308]

Vehicle stability is easy to asses when it comes to the basic layout: draw a line thru front and rear left tires. Then draw a line from left rear to front right. The angle between the two lines gives you an idea of the basic stability of the vehicle. The narrower the angle, the more stable. And of course, if the angle exceeds 45 degrees, the vehicle will not stay straight at all without constant steering inputs.

[@Nick-hi9gx]

Thank you SO MUCH for the flashing warning. We folks who need it could really use it in everything, it is so very appreciated when it shows up.

[@Spacccee]

There may not be any flags, but surely you can recreate the Union Jack using the new paint tool?

[@kylerkastner2808]

It’s always nice to see Matt making such beautiful and ‘practical’ works of engineering

[@monad_tcp]

This was the first time that Matt proper kerbal-engineered something. And it practically worked

[@sebbes333]

4:21 Jeb: "COOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

[@donnelly3968]

Matt, down at the bottom next to where you change the VAB build orientation, there are center of mass, centre of lift and centre off thrust overlays. Turn them on for next time. I'm sure an engineer like yourself will be able to figure it out from there 😉 Edit: There's also a handy dandy 'blueprint view' button down there too which is great for making sure things are lined up.

[@Astraeus..]

Out there somewhere is a vehicle designer who's trying to figure out how to get 10 sets of wheels on the same vehicle to completely eliminate rollover damage.

[@farshnuke]

He works for Elon Musk

[@dave_000]

20:10 wow that was an awesome slideshow, love the vehicles and all, I wish someone made a game good like this slideshow is

[@Shaun_Jones]

Honestly, with that many landing gear separating and exploding, I’d expect about the same framerate from the first game.

[@ADRdaniel]

Matt's an aerospace architect.

[@BornDepressed]

Sweet god watching it spin was something I definitely wasn't expecting!

[@jamesscalzo3033]

Loved the video @Real Civil Engineer! Can't wait for the next video of Kerbal Space Program 2 man! I have a Challenge for you and Anyone else who plays KSP 2. The Challenge is to build an Actual Jet Aircraft from the Military Forces around the World, Be it the American F-15C Eagle, F-16C "Viper" Fighting Falcon, The British/German/Italian/Spanish Eurofighter Typhoon, the Russian Federation and CIS Soviet-Era Mig-25 Foxbat, The Su-24 Fencer or even Jets like the Gloster Meteor, Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star or even the Messerschmitt Me-262 Schwalbe (German: Swallow) from World War Two. Basically, as long as it's an Actual Jet Aircraft, Just have some fun Building it!

[@SailingFrolic]

I just got the KSP2 trailer as an ad while 3 minutes into your video and honestly, they did a great job showcasing the possibilities. Multiplayer on KSP? Interstellar travel? That’s gonna be amazing.

[@oxcyde2717]

That might have been the most hilarious ship I've seen in KSP. When it started rolling, I was tearing up. 🤣

[@philipcaseyacalloway204]

14:29 I love how eventually every solution in KSP is “Launch straight away.”

[@neverfail9432]

The usual culprits for spinning around on the runway are your center of lift being in front of your center of mass (like throwing a lawn dart backwards) and friction of the back wheels not being greater than the front.

[@jacobcarrizales427]

“We’re about to turn into a boat or a submarine” Fun science fact, an object flying into a body of water at 340 m/s will in fact submerge, but not before turning into a pancake.

[@oskarelmgren]

I think we need to focus a little on aerodynamic yaw stability :D Center of mass need to be at or slightly in front on the "center of pressure" (basically cross section area in this case). The engines are really heavy and right at the back, so center of mass is really far back. Need lots of stabilizing fins for basic designs like that.

[@latchkeylegion]

Best KSP2 vid from anyone so far. Being swaddled in landing gear was a galaxy brain move.

[@lopaka76]

The UK Space Agency went bankrupt with an abundance of wheels.

[@mccards]

I lost it at 15:00. Jeb in that giant goose rocket bouncing around. hahahahahahaha

[@CptMaistro]

Matt asking which way the wings need to point to give down force made my brain buffer for a few seconds 😵 I think you're starting to turn into an architect, Matt 😨

[@makergaming2022]

The rotating landing gear around the rocket was brilliant. Are you sure you weren’t an aerospace engineer?!?!

[@raspberryjellydoughnut5727]

Can't believe you didn't notice that you needed a vertical stabilizer early on

[@charlesoutthere]

I love how you praise the graphics while showing how pixelized they are!

[@Gamer_Kot]

This should be awarded by the Engineer's Prize 🏆 2023

[@smileyvr4438]

We could have the pilot pod above the boosters, ready to jettison up and parachute once the world record is achieved. Kerbal survives, it counts!

[@Yokoto12343]

you are driving this thing like an architect

[@particle_wave7614]

Add a long tail with a rudder to stabilize the yaw. Lower friction on the front wheels as well. You technically shouldn’t need any downforce as long as there’s no vertical component to the thrust, and that’ll just slow you down anyway.

[@joshuamorin2123]

Ok so a couple of things I noticed: 1) You beat the land speed record with your first build 2) Decoupling on the ground is essentially the same as dropping bombs on yourself 3) You weren't really running out of fuel so making it have more and more fuel is kinda pointless 4) The boosters would probably be more stable if you used two decouplers instead of struts and finally 5) I prefer watching it when you ignore my observations I loved the video. you should add more wheels next time

[@creativecraving]

I love how, when your small rocket car developed a wobble, you just ignored it and made it bigger. Right... Cause that'll be easier to diagnose! 😂

[@FreezerBurn.]

3:28 you hit 88mph son 😎

[@charliegrpdixon5944]

Every time you span off the runway, it kept making me think of the top gear episode where Clarkson span off in a BMW while racing a VW

[@bartigasiatisch4674]

Add surface area of the wheels.(wider/enough contact on the ground) Add a hinge/cable on the wheels core to the front axis of the fuselage.(to add strength to the wheels while moving fast cuz it csnt handle the acceleration) Add spoiler to add downward force so you stay on ground level.( Anti flying )

[@FerociousPancake888]

I miss KSP 2 :(… I wish it wasn’t cancelled

[@UtopssAKAPJ]

Matt: "...oh that's a nice strut... ...oh yeah" Imaging Matt's girlfriend "oh he's playing Kerbal Space Program again" 🤣

[@h.w.6563]

KSP2 has no autostruts, so unless you strut everything together manually, it will all be wobbly! Hope this helps. Edit: I see you know about struts, now you just have to use multiple of them on everything all of the time.

[@emerald9947]

I remember the Ksp 1 land speed record several times the speed of light.

[@Xboxbreck]

This is what happens when the Civil Engineer takes over for the Aerospace Engineer.

[@_PS.]

I love how every video for KSP2 I get the ad for the game before hand it makes the video that much better 👏

[@joshd5722]

Thanks rce, seeing the car just rotate on all those landing gear had me laughing harder than I have in days, comedy gold

[@jok9342]

Finally some Kerbal engineering. Moar boosters and struts. That's the Kerbal way

[@chris993361]

In addition to @crusher1080 comment about diabling friction control on the front wheels, I would say based on the part where it wanted to go backwards that too much of your mass is behind the center of lift/drag. I imagine those engines are heavy and therefore that end will actually want to lead.

[@SaiakuNaSenshu]

I love how the rocket car literally just needed at vertical tail fin

[@StaffanNilsson1]

That wheel design around the rocket is pure brilliance

[@theanarchist9733]

try putting fins behind the engines (without blocking them) for higher stability

[@SumWelshLadInLondon]

3:36 i love the "what the f... hell happened there"

[@graeme.davidson]

Matt found KSP once the kraken had been tamed. KSP2 is a whole new beast.

[@timo4257]

12:40 that looks like the Airbus Beluga XL

[@tatecrossette2855]

Spiff you should make a rocket that's so fast that it can just take off and reach orbit in like the blink of an eye. Just add a butt ton of just the most powerful boosters like 100 or something if possible and add another several butt tons of fuel silos. Or just make one for endurance that again has a lot of super powerful boosters but not a butt ton so like maybe 20 and then so many freaking fuel tanks that the rocket can go for like 10 minutes straight. Just to see how far you can go. Or something else chaotic and massive. Also, you should grab Reid Captain and whoever else was in the poly bridge Olympics and see if they'd be down for a Kerbal space program Olympics with like 3 challenges for a spaceship takeoff, 3 for a land takeoff with planes and 3 for a boat takeoff.

[@l3mon748]

"fellow engineers" you really think i have the brain power to be a engineer

[@QuietWind01]

I don't know much about this game, however I noticed at 12:01 that the wheels are directional, and going different ways. The way that they are facing, leads me to believe that maybe the reason the craft kept pulling to the right is due to the directional wheels? (The left side wheels are facing the correct direction while the wheels on the right side look like they were made to go backward instead of forward.)

[@NateRange]

I think it's spinning because you had both pairs of wheels with steering on

[@DavidAnderson-ld9pu]

If you are looking to do a spoiler, the object on a car that makes down force, it is literally an upside-down wing, normally oriented wing create lift, upside-down makes down force.

[@pauldrice1996]

If its anything like ksp1 there's 2 types of chutes, one is a drogue chute that can be deployed at higher speed but doesn't slow you down as much as a standard chute.

[@softcrisps]

I've never thought about using so many wheels before. it's actually kind of brilliant for this game since it's still so buggy.

[@DukeOfEarle88]

"Form over functionality said the architect." "I want my rocket ship to look good."

[@lordpestilencetv]

Bosozoku isn’t about getting laid. they know their cars look ridiculous and that’s the point. i love them lol

[@darknessblades]

19:25 He tried to make a land-speed record setting vehicle, but he attracted the KRAKEN

[@KTo288]

Is the UK Space Agency worried about being sued? if not the perfect name for this vehicle would be the Supersonic Hedgehog.

[@shaunwallace9410]

Comodo gaming built one for a land speed record, you should challenge him!

[@soniccdx]

the car looks like the front half of the airbus beluga planes ....and the final design with the wheels everywhere .. lol 😂

[@aicragej]

Best application of spin stabilization I've ever seen.

[@TheSzamosza]

21:10 Wheelnado shirt coming soon?

[@VIP-ry6vv]

Ngl. I was two seconds from clicking off because I can only watch you fail so many times. But that wheel monstrosity actually working while rolling made me spit out my drink. Ridiculous.

[@mechtechpotato4249]

Matt at 12:42 you have what looks to me to be the beginning of a kerbilified airbus beluga.

[@tommyproductions891]

I like how he didnt once consider not putting jeb in such an exposed position, completely unprotected

[@camerondale6529]

to keep it from spinning out, you need to turn off *"Auto Friction Control"* on the front wheel.

[@YMandarin]

if your planes (or craft) veers off runway, you have to disable auto friction control on the front wheel

[@LegallyTrash]

There’s no heating/thermal influence in the game right now. You could set “interstellar level” speed records by doing a gravity turn around the sun and utilizing the Oberth effect to get you over 100km/s.

[@andreswanepoel4167]

"Maybe we can outrun the pain ... no we can't", sounds about how I deal with all my problems🤣

[@Power-md7li]

I noticed around one of his early attempts he reached 350m/s but didnt realise

[@colemadonna6284]

2:57 is why any objects in the Runway Safety Area need to be frangibly mounted

[@zat-1-fury]

i love how your solution to speed and stability is MORE WHEELS

[@KerbalSpaceProgramOfficial]

Terrifying

[@immortalstickman]

How does this have no comments?