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

[@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!

[@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....

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@ducoschollmeijer4841]

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

[@Singulut]

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

[@frawzch.048]

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

[@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

[@sankang9425]

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

[@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...

[@martinmnagell2894]

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

[@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.

[@stuchly1]

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

[@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.

[@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:(

[@Miliradian]

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

[@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.

[@mikemallon1065]

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

[@ajuntapall8860]

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

[@battleshipbeast964]

We love your videos

[@susowscysusowscy21]

True

[@itstime9023]

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

[@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

[@kaiperdaens7670]

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

[@Geuelthefool]

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

[@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.

[@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...

[@soul-candy-music]

homie has the exact same inflection as NileRed lol

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@larrywhitney]

Separations are just stronger Escape Pods. Change my mind

[@ReidCaptain]

The escape pod at home

[@morganshifflett4994]

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

[@JumpMasterJef]

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

[@paxlash]

Do a rescue with the biggest engine

[@selensewar]

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

[@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

[@Mr_Turab]

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

[@catwithajetpack5135]

bro is gonna go interstellar on only srbs next

[@ReidCaptain]

There will be some shenanigans

[@Auriacularia]

8:57 never heard that tone of voice before dayum

[@Penguin5z]

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

[@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.

[@YMandarin]

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

[@Ethanol-o4r]

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

[@RAFMnBgaming]

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

[@lelegoguemraoui772]

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

[@thatGUYbehindthemask]

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

[@spudthespudgungamer7112]

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

[@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.

[@SpaceSim1]

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

[@WatchmakerErik]

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

[@deadgoat2738]

This is my favorite type of comedy

[@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)

[@letqin1]

4:05 get stickbugged

[@MuffinTM]

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

[@threesixtydegreeorbits2047]

what modpack adds this moon? 0:11

[@mogpop4970]

This is already in the stock game

[@Spaceflight_nerd]

@@mogpop4970it’s sarcasm

[@PinappleCoinGaming]

See you at KSP2! also noice video.

[@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

[@Theuncoolpuenguin]

best youtuber EVER

[@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

[@nocrega]

This is gonna be cool for sure

[@tyazze6390]

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

[@TheMcHunter]

that big head fits really well

[@allesarfint]

Video Idea: Finding every cool rock in Kerbal Space Program

[@SEB9630_pl]

there is a cool way to go highter with less engines that is to make fuel tanks and other big things attached to bottom of engine plate, that makes them have no drag so you can make supermanueverable planes etc. soo ye thats usefull iinda for challanges such as this

[@shizumeru_]

His mannerisms and chaotic experimenting remind me of Nile Red

[@Elimino_P]

Thrust limiting. It's a really nice feature in the VAB.

[@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

[@mumblety]

Kerbal technology at it's finest!

[@asoftraiden]

But how did he land on something that doesn't exist????

[@lolermosskoss1834]

Wdym? It exists! Just like Tyler or p-Chan!

[@murilo7794]

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

[@b2048_]

i mean it's technically possible

[@Phoenix2.5D]

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

[@GuyFromCanada]

16:55 Poor modred, he tapped his foot on the planet and became a small paint splot on Dres. o7

[@staoutlawx1007]

I was wondering, have you ever heard of a game called From The Depths?

[@ThomasB-G]

6000 km/h to zero in one sec. ^^

[@huiyuniris1853]

RC you mad lad

[@CrisBy1]

Man has the most patience I've ever seen

[@gunalx]

Next challenge, landing on a astroid with only turbofans.

[@noomrm73]

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

[@squishybrick]

That is truly the pinnacle of KSP.. Achieving the impossible.. By very, very stupid means.

[@rustyshackleford234]

Dres is AWFULLY boring in KSP1, but in KSP2 it’s getting rings, and an equatorial mountain range, definitely one of the first places I’m visiting 😁

[@Damian-cilr2]

If you want a less boring dres in ksp if you like mods i'd reccomend techo's planet revamp,its pretty cool Makes dres similar to ksp2's version and makes some of the other places in ksp1 slightly more interesting,though kerbin has way too many mountains And i mean WAYYY TOO MANY Also you might wanna go into the files and fix the descriptions being empty for a few of the bodies (duna,ike,and dres)

[@disgustingapple5216]

Now, make a working mech in ksp (mech should have a atleast a single amongus reference to annoy people)

[@jlco]

1. I wonder how a helical placement would have affected the number of engines you could attach without that symmetry trick. 2. Wouldn't delays between decoupling one stage and firing the next reduce the total amount of drag experienced on the way out of the atmosphere? 3. Ah, yes, lithobraking. The correct way to assert dominance just in case there are any lifeforms on the destination planet: wield the Kraken.

[@crazydave1]

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

[@Zanthron]

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

[@Cona-vh7vi]

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

[@passiveagrsivesmeerschwein2320]

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

[@WatchmakerErik]

I think you need to watch more Scott Manley videos, from the days when he did KSP. You really need to learn to use the components that are the lightest for the job, and those fuel tanks are not the lightest components you can use for this. One of the structural beams would be a lot better. This is just one tiny optimization among hundreds that you could make to make this work better.

[@carpvindra165]

Rescue mission for the little fella?

[@ReidCaptain]

Nah they chillin

[@chrisboyer2195]

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

[@fipo2227]

Do a first person and map only challenge, no part restrictions and you choose the location

[@thatdirtymichiganmusician1038]

Truely the Nile Red of KSP