I remember my first Mün landing. I had to use winglets as lander legs, and they weren't long enough to reach over the thruster (no lander thruster back then), so I had to put them on the edge of radial decouplers, and even then, they would JUST BARELY clear the engine. And if I landed faster than 0.3 m/s, the winglets, and in turn, the engine snapped off. Ah, those were the days! :|
This video is still a precious one to me, because the rover in the background going "hey there, just lookin around" was the moment I realized that I like this guy's humor ^_^
He still does, he's probably up there with hazardish, turbo pumped, and Scott Manley in terms of His skill at the game, he just happens to like making us laugh more Than playing the game properly
Hm. You know, its a surprise that Danny actually bothered to save a kerbals life so long ago. Now its all about using them as a landing gears and launching them into planets at nine-hundred-million-miles-per-second. (*exaggeration*) I wonder If he would ever try something like this again in the future? . . . I wouldn't bet on it. (*Bursts out laughing*) -I'll Be Watching.
This video was one of the reasons I got the full version of the game. Brilliant stuff! So many things have changed, it's weird to see this old footage.
Why Danny wasn't trying to throw those kerbals at max speed possible and crash them into Kerbin: Short answer, he wasn't a Kraken's best friend. Long answer: It was a few years ago that Danny decided to start a youtube channel. So he did it and he recorded, edited and uploaded videos. After that he played KSP. It was okay when he started, but then... He was working on something to summon the legendary "Kraken". It was this day, that there was a storm, and his machine stopped working. He tried to repair it... But as soon as he touched it, Kraken posessed his soul and Danny started working for Kraken, killing kerbals.
I recently had my first Mun landing... I watched in awe as many explosions of my 42 lander legs (yes, there were actually 42 legs) were annihilated. and it stood on the engine. Yesterday, I watched this video many many times to make my replication of this to bring it home. IT WORKED!!! Thanks Danny2462 (I tried going home but the engine and a fuel tank exploded, and with no docking bays, I remembered this vid and set it up for this.)
Damn. Tied for the best lunar rescue I've seen - my other favourite is this guy who flung the command pod into a waiting set of lander legs, BASKETBALL style. Really amazing stuff.
Danny invented the claw for rescues, then he was corrupted by the Kraken, and by the time that Squad added klawz, he had already turned, and instead of using them for rescue, he used them for torture and planet annihilation.
it also makes VTOL work on the mun and to a lesser extent on Kerbin but I've only done it on Kerbin with a cockpit and an RCS tank since the thrust is basically nil.
It's Kerbal Space Program. There is a free demo, but the full version has many more features and is very fun (I'm playing it right now, waiting for my ship to turn around so that I can burn for the mun).
Don't think you're safe even after you've landed. My first successful Mün landing happened on somewhat of a slope, and while I was jumping around and celebrating on EVA, my ship started sliding down the hill and toppled over :
Basically I went in the opposite direction the Mün was going, with about the speed the Mün is orbiting. When I got out from it's spehere of influence, I (kind-of) wasn't moving in relation to Kerbin.
I had similar problems on one of my own rescue attempts. My claw was slightly different, it was using 8 1x1m panels, with lander legs facing at a 90 degree angle to the ship, so lowering the legs would snugly fit the pod. Turns out that it was TOO snug a fit when not perfectly aligned... I did grab it, but when into a horrendous spin and lost 5 of 8 legs.. while still somehow keeping a deathgrip on that pod. Only managed to kill the spin by releasing the pod..
I can't even land on the Mun and return, and here's this guy making spacecraft designed JUST to return a lost pod from the moon's surface! I'm just gonna gomasturbate quietly in the corner...
Based on the date the video came out on, I would say this is version 0.14, so if you're on 0.13, the free version, then you would not have seen the lander legs he uses. Bill, Bob, and Jeb now have a dozen cousins who may be the crew members too.
With my first Mun landing I didn't have enough fuel for the return trip. After two "Operation Rescue Some Donkus" missions I still haven't been able to save that poor Kerbal from the Mun. I think I even have 2 Kerbals stranded on Minmus. It was 3 until I got a little crazy with the jet pack.
Have you done docking in other places like this? I could imagine using landing legs to grab onto grab points (like structural fuselage or mini half-fuel tanks), then switching to the other ship and grabbing with the other ship to secure the connection further. Add ladders to the connection points and you can travel along the new ship with ease and no worry for jetpack fuel. Make it circular around the ladders and you have an interior! (sort of). Awesome video man!
my first landing was in 0.15 at something stupid like 500 ms-1 because i didn't actually intend to go to the mun but apparently you can use to many SRBs
Just today, in career mode I landed on the Mün in the East Crater. Had Jeb out taking samples of space rocks, when behind me, I see my ship suddenly fall on it's side. Landed on an extended solar panel too. Good thing I had RCS. :
A reminder that for all his messing about, Danny2462 is one of the most talented KSP players out there. And he's been that good for a decade and counting.
That poor robot lifeguard, now destined to float for eternity, or until he's hit by something, his mission now complete. A solitary, oil drop trickles down his RCS thruster, down into his cold metal heart.
Nope, everything is vanilla. The rover is moving because it resumed on a slope, and started to roll down. I have never switched to it during the mission.
There are many ways to do it - but the "proper" way, and probably also the safest/easiest is to get into a proper orbit (ie. aiming to the side of the planet rather than straight into it) and then slowly circling in towards a lower altitude before you retroburn to cut your surface speed and do the final descent stage straight down. Go watch one of the many videos about how to do a Mun landing for more details.
No... you can clearly see that kerbals are in that pod that picked up the other pod, mate. There is nothing here that suggests unmanned pods are in use.
Landing on the Mün is easy, the tricky part is to make sure it is a soft landing so that no one dies/the lander stays in one peace instead of pieces...
this would have taken ages to rescue a pod, if you non physics warp it would clip through right? also if you physics warp then explosions would probably occur :D now all we need is this physics warp technology in real life and we have free energy for everyone!
As long as you don't thrust or rotate anything, it wouldn't clip through, because the objects are moving at the same speed in the same direction. Theoretically, at least.
+Alceris actually no, it would only work if the center of mass of each object is in the same place. this is because each objects orbit is actually slightly different due to their displacement. even if they are moving at the same speed in the same direction.
We all remember our first Mun landing, mine wasn't really a landing as much as a super Crash, I had my Decouple/lander legs out, and I was going to use RCS to get home, I hadn't realized that the yellow markers indicated which way I was going, so I crashed on the moon at 235 m/s, only thing that survive was the pod, everything else broke :(.
Oooh I miss those days :) KSP was alot harder! Now rescuing crew members is so much more easy, but I totaly love how you did it back then Danny :D I think I watched this video.. 5 times already :) Its amazing keep on the weird/funny work :D
Past Danny: rescue kerbals with an intricate system that will return them safely.
Present Danny: Use a Cannon.
as long as they land on their head, no major organs will be damaged
The correct term is mass relay
No now is like the more kerbals killed Better..
I prefer present Danny
Present Danny:Just leave them there,they`ll be fine.
"Mission control, the universe just went apeshit."
That was gold
Danny, using klaws before there were klaws.
Also, Danny saving kerbals?! What madness is this?!
Inigo Ligones I'm surprised he didn't cause the universe to implode.
Inigo Ligones no. THİS İS KER-PARTAAAAAAA!
Inigo Ligones I just got you to 69 likes you’re welcome
I remember my first Mün landing. I had to use winglets as lander legs, and they weren't long enough to reach over the thruster (no lander thruster back then), so I had to put them on the edge of radial decouplers, and even then, they would JUST BARELY clear the engine. And if I landed faster than 0.3 m/s, the winglets, and in turn, the engine snapped off.
Ah, those were the days! :|
It's easy to forget that Danny once made normal KSP videos.
This video is still a precious one to me, because the rover in the background going "hey there, just lookin around" was the moment I realized that I like this guy's humor ^_^
Wow danny used to do serious stuff!!?
He still does, he's probably up there with hazardish, turbo pumped, and Scott Manley in terms of
His skill at the game, he just happens to like making us laugh more
Than playing the game properly
You don't get good without getting good
Until he met the kraken
Umm... Danny just saved kerbals???
He did it with his return cannon(kinda). So I'm not too surprised.
6:07
Oh
He stopped when he met the kraken
That's incredible. Well done, Sir.
That grabber really, REALLY looks like a bacteriophage.
Yonkage honestly
Hm. You know, its a surprise that Danny actually bothered to save a kerbals life so long ago. Now its all about using them as a landing gears and launching them into planets at nine-hundred-million-miles-per-second. (*exaggeration*) I wonder If he would ever try something like this again in the future? . . .
I wouldn't bet on it. (*Bursts out laughing*)
-I'll Be Watching.
Keil Gilby
True. . . I suppose you came to see his old stuff too? Hm. xD
Lol. You actually weren't kidding. Remember the episode in which he summoned the All-Mighty Kraken? 9999999-0000000 then back repeatedly.
Ethan Page
Indeed.
Keil Gilby
lol
I love how you came up with something so strange and actually made it possible, you got another subscriber
before the kraken corrupted his soul
He went insane
Danny made a serious video
*Universe ends*
no explosions or music? thats not the danny i know
look @ the end, itsa blooper reel
uh....thx for reminder :D
Until he met the kraken things got interesting 😀
hidden frame was amazing
RCS thrusters in old times...
SHOW ME THA POWER!
*****
2
Bill Kerman poatoe
1.
*Watching his old videos*
*Getting terrified*
*Watching all the videos in chronological order to find out when did Danny become Danny*
Aed When did it happen?
I love how the one in the middle seems to be having the time of his life about 75% of the time, even while the other two are freaking out. xD
Back when the lander legs actually made sound, good times...
Probably one of the coolest, and most ingenius, things I've seen built in KSP. Congratulations.
Isn't this so much easier now with docking and all the ridiculous features we now have, Danny? Makes me feel so nostalgic, looking back...
This is WAY to seriousness for it to be Danny.
IMPOSTER!!!
If you look at the rescue ship's crew you'll notice "Fredin" and "FredVin" kerman I THINK THEY'RE BROTHERS :O
It's only a coincidence.
+Univeяsal Pяoductions™ Says the person with the Illuminati avatar.
This video was one of the reasons I got the full version of the game. Brilliant stuff! So many things have changed, it's weird to see this old footage.
Why Danny wasn't trying to throw those kerbals at max speed possible and crash them into Kerbin: Short answer, he wasn't a Kraken's best friend. Long answer: It was a few years ago that Danny decided to start a youtube channel. So he did it and he recorded, edited and uploaded videos. After that he played KSP. It was okay when he started, but then... He was working on something to summon the legendary "Kraken". It was this day, that there was a storm, and his machine stopped working. He tried to repair it... But as soon as he touched it, Kraken posessed his soul and Danny started working for Kraken, killing kerbals.
Wow a mission/contraption that doesn't involve murdering vict- I mean _kerbals_.
This is an ingenious solution to a problem that should never have arisen in the first place. Bravo.
I recently had my first Mun landing... I watched in awe as many explosions of my 42 lander legs (yes, there were actually 42 legs) were annihilated. and it stood on the engine. Yesterday, I watched this video many many times to make my replication of this to bring it home. IT WORKED!!! Thanks Danny2462 (I tried going home but the engine and a fuel tank exploded, and with no docking bays, I remembered this vid and set it up for this.)
Damn. Tied for the best lunar rescue I've seen - my other favourite is this guy who flung the command pod into a waiting set of lander legs, BASKETBALL style. Really amazing stuff.
When he said "pod rescue" I wasn't expecting him to save the entire pod. . . I just thought the crew.
LanceTech- Cayenne Minor so he isn't saving kerbals, but pods?
Very well done
to think that now they have a grabbing arm for this purpose
Actually to get asteroids.
ian justiz
for danny any item is repurposed to kill kerbal and summon kraken
kao chat I meant that the MAIN purpose was to gather asteroids.
well it can be used for all three now
Danny invented the claw for rescues, then he was corrupted by the Kraken, and by the time that Squad added klawz, he had already turned, and instead of using them for rescue, he used them for torture and planet annihilation.
it also makes VTOL work on the mun and to a lesser extent on Kerbin but I've only done it on Kerbin with a cockpit and an RCS tank since the thrust is basically nil.
Now that there is EVA, the kerbals can walk to another ship, but this is AMAZING! You, my sir, are AWESOME!
1.2 and they finally brought back the gear sounds
"Low life mercenaries! Only you would be so cowardly as to shoot down a plane that's out of commision!"
im scared he...HE SAVED KERBALS MAN IM REALLY SCARED!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH DANNNY WHT ARE THERE NO EXPLOSIONS AND TORTURE
Well, there are explosions...though I'll admit, he wasn't trying to cause those. It is unsettling.
this may be his first Video...we should be asking, what has the kraken done to old danny
It's Kerbal Space Program. There is a free demo, but the full version has many more features and is very fun (I'm playing it right now, waiting for my ship to turn around so that I can burn for the mun).
Don't think you're safe even after you've landed.
My first successful Mün landing happened on somewhat of a slope, and while I was jumping around and celebrating on EVA, my ship started sliding down the hill and toppled over :
I think you splattered them with that 15+ G re-entery...
Basically I went in the opposite direction the Mün was going, with about the speed the Mün is orbiting. When I got out from it's spehere of influence, I (kind-of) wasn't moving in relation to Kerbin.
really well done for that!! and amid all the precision that random cart rolling by just tops it.
So much easier now with the grabber claw
I had similar problems on one of my own rescue attempts. My claw was slightly different, it was using 8 1x1m panels, with lander legs facing at a 90 degree angle to the ship, so lowering the legs would snugly fit the pod.
Turns out that it was TOO snug a fit when not perfectly aligned... I did grab it, but when into a horrendous spin and lost 5 of 8 legs.. while still somehow keeping a deathgrip on that pod. Only managed to kill the spin by releasing the pod..
Love KSP. Watch a lot of Scott Manley stuff and he's good! This is the best thing I've ever seen in Kerbal Land though. Effing Brilliant!
You just hit a fotball over the atlantic and made the goal you were looking for. That was sick. gj!
Omg I was 6 when this came out...
I was 4
Love how you can see prototype remains all around it.
What ever happened to the mod that had the huge rocket engine with ridiculous thrust? A "Mods that never made it" video could be interesting.
He wanted to make sure that it will work.
I can't even land on the Mun and return, and here's this guy making spacecraft designed JUST to return a lost pod from the moon's surface!
I'm just gonna gomasturbate quietly in the corner...
Raw material was an afternoon, editing and rendering took about a day each.
3 Kerbals saved - and only about 57 Kerbals lost during development of the new grabber. By Kerbal standards a wild success!! :)
I must say, that was a very well-hidden cut.
Lardcaf, it IS stock parts. This is before 0.16, when there was no new command pods, just that one.
I never would've thought you could pick stuff up with landing struts.
“HIDDEN CUT”
bruh moment
That's some insane piloting right there! Nicely done
Based on the date the video came out on, I would say this is version 0.14, so if you're on 0.13, the free version, then you would not have seen the lander legs he uses. Bill, Bob, and Jeb now have a dozen cousins who may be the crew members too.
I like his new behaviour, this feels like a tutorial. Still an amazing build, as usual, gj :)
With my first Mun landing I didn't have enough fuel for the return trip. After two "Operation Rescue Some Donkus" missions I still haven't been able to save that poor Kerbal from the Mun. I think I even have 2 Kerbals stranded on Minmus. It was 3 until I got a little crazy with the jet pack.
They would crash, but on Kerbin. At home! Mission accomplished.
i was super proud for just getting off earth. your amazing.
Have you done docking in other places like this? I could imagine using landing legs to grab onto grab points (like structural fuselage or mini half-fuel tanks), then switching to the other ship and grabbing with the other ship to secure the connection further. Add ladders to the connection points and you can travel along the new ship with ease and no worry for jetpack fuel. Make it circular around the ladders and you have an interior! (sort of). Awesome video man!
So he used to.... Try?
The old Landing Legs sounds was better than the new one.
30 centimeters a second... You are my hero man.
This is friggin insane. Thank you for doing this.
Tosh's Cart plugin, It's awesome!
Search for "kerbal space program cart plugin" on google, first hit is the plugin's forum page.
I think the return cannon is easier...
return cannon used cheats for cannon delivery, this one doesnt need that.
In fact, its even easier with the klaw
auregamer5
You appear to assume that Danny CAN'T get the return cannon to the Moon.
I take this as an insult and challenge to Danny.
I was able to carry a slightly modified model (for symmetry) to the Mun, and it worked fine.
Kraken: Don‘t you wanna spaghettify kerbals? Destroy the ships? Wreck your PC?
Danny: nah mate i do that shit later mate
This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen.
I've been watching you ever since this video came out. time flies :o
my first landing was in 0.15 at something stupid like 500 ms-1 because i didn't actually intend to go to the mun but apparently you can use to many SRBs
That is insanely skillful piloting, I can barely dock- Also, you must be very good at those crane games.
Just today, in career mode I landed on the Mün in the East Crater. Had Jeb out taking samples of space rocks, when behind me, I see my ship suddenly fall on it's side. Landed on an extended solar panel too. Good thing I had RCS. :
A reminder that for all his messing about, Danny2462 is one of the most talented KSP players out there. And he's been that good for a decade and counting.
That poor robot lifeguard, now destined to float for eternity, or until he's hit by something, his mission now complete. A solitary, oil drop trickles down his RCS thruster, down into his cold metal heart.
Crazzzzy how ksp pods improved so fast
I remember those old winglet "landing legs" I also broke at least 1 landing on mun. Never did successfully land and return from mun pre landers :p
The pre-docking port era, such a dark and complicated time.
Nope, everything is vanilla.
The rover is moving because it resumed on a slope, and started to roll down. I have never switched to it during the mission.
There are many ways to do it - but the "proper" way, and probably also the safest/easiest is to get into a proper orbit (ie. aiming to the side of the planet rather than straight into it) and then slowly circling in towards a lower altitude before you retroburn to cut your surface speed and do the final descent stage straight down. Go watch one of the many videos about how to do a Mun landing for more details.
So wish I had this game! NEEEEEED MONEY!
sometimes you just don't have that docking port on your crashed pod, or it broke. This is still useful
Uh they are oriented vertically so he used the forward and backward RCS thrust key-bindings found in settings menu.
Wow. Its ancient ksp. Memories:3
+HappyRage 'End Flight' was still a thing back then
It's like a multi-billion space version of those fairground games!
No... you can clearly see that kerbals are in that pod that picked up the other pod, mate. There is nothing here that suggests unmanned pods are in use.
You, sir, are a freaking genius.
Great, now do this in the latest version! :D
Landing on the Mün is easy, the tricky part is to make sure it is a soft landing so that no one dies/the lander stays in one peace instead of pieces...
Danny, you were supposed to mess around with kerbals, not saving them!
this would have taken ages to rescue a pod, if you non physics warp it would clip through right?
also if you physics warp then explosions would probably occur :D
now all we need is this physics warp technology in real life and we have free energy for everyone!
As long as you don't thrust or rotate anything, it wouldn't clip through, because the objects are moving at the same speed in the same direction. Theoretically, at least.
+Alceris actually no, it would only work if the center of mass of each object is in the same place. this is because each objects orbit is actually slightly different due to their displacement. even if they are moving at the same speed in the same direction.
We all remember our first Mun landing, mine wasn't really a landing as much as a super Crash, I had my Decouple/lander legs out, and I was going to use RCS to get home, I hadn't realized that the yellow markers indicated which way I was going, so I crashed on the moon at 235 m/s, only thing that survive was the pod, everything else broke :(.
Oooh I miss those days :) KSP was alot harder! Now rescuing crew members is so much more easy, but I totaly love how you did it back then Danny :D I think I watched this video.. 5 times already :) Its amazing keep on the weird/funny work :D
5 months since that message
game has changed so much since then, too :D
"The claw is our master.
The claw chooses who will go and who will stay."
So nostalgic when the game looked like this~
Updated description. My bad, I forgot to add this.