KSP CHALLENGE: How Far Can We REALLY Take the Kerbal X?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มี.ค. 2021
- This was a fun challenge idea I had: the stock vessel "Kerbal X" is advertised as being a Minmus lander, with potential for Mun too. But I think it's capable of far more impressive feats ;)
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• Stock Kerbal X to Pol ...
Craft file:
Just make a new sandbox save and you'll have it - เกม
After 33 years in space, Valentina freaks out in absolute joy at the sight of a tree.
thats what isaac newton will do after flying for 10 seconds
Challenge idea: land on the Sun.
And before some genius comes trolling me: yes _of course_ at night, duh.
danny did that
uH aCtUaLy ItS kErBoL
At night it’s called the moon
-Zapp Branigan 2013
@@noahb.9764 when you outsmart an smart person:
and if you come late for the night just por some whiskey on the sun to solidify it
Oh lol matt making kerbals sit in pods for years😂
No sir, they have a stasis pod!
@@mike14991498 a stasis pod is a pod
Matt? You mean everyone
'least they get pods; at Bradwhistance Space Program they only get lawn chairs!
I do that all the time
The mission might have taken 33 years, but hey. At least you saved 1000 m/s dV
Lmfao
Maybe the challenges should have in-game time limits.
known to some as 1 km/s dV
@@AdrianColley soooooooooo USI Life Support or Kerbalism?
This little maneuver is going to cost us 33 years
Seeing the old poodle engine is like seeing and old friend.
“Do you know the poodle?”
“Well of course I know him” “he’s me!”
agreed
You can still access it, as well as other old models like the old MK2 lander can or the old "twitch" engine, by clicking the "advanced options" tab near the top of the part select menu in the VAB.
I’m getting nostalgia tears :,(
And they should make the old textures variants.
"My family is starving"
poor Matt couldn't afford to help his family, lets give him a hand.
We know it's true by listening his dead voice. He is not excited at all
I will feed him. he will eat my hand
You know who else is starving?
Valentina, alone in a pod for decades.
Punny
A hand would indeed be useful given he broke his right hand
‘My family are starving’ *plays space game for 6 hours a day*
Yo it's the real boris johnson
don't see no problem
4 yrs and 0 subs
@@eviltender675 I’ve never posted anything
@@eviltender675 4 years and 2 subs now!
Matt: Velocity Lake, which nobody watched...
Me, with nothing to watch on Wednesdays now: Guess I'm Nobody, then
I know you're really Odysseus. I'm not dumb like that cyclops
I'm still lost. I never know when it's wednesday anymore.
@Randy Riggs metoo
@@tassadar7945 I love that reference.
in this episode! matt breaks his hand, the kerbal x gets pushed to its limits, and valentina takes a nap under a tree.
*Top Gear Theme Plays*
Challenge Idea: Park a Kerbal on one of the mun's mountains and hit it with an orbiting spacecraft, without hitting the mun?
Well, now I know what I'm doing today.
@@superscatboy How did it go
@@superscatboy how did it go
@@okalright3941 Unsuccessful
@@superscatboy sad
Oh no, there’s no space dolphins! You were mixing up the Solar Bears!
@@chubbycatbrian3918 Okay I’m going to fix that real quick
@@chubbycatbrian3918 ... How? And why?
@@chubbycatbrian3918 Fair enough
I hear they are only in the double digits there at neptune
@@olivememe8594 it’s quite sad, really
The lower stage will become the base for a space coral colony, don't worry.
This Is How Solar Leviathans Form. Oh No.
You land on two of jool's moons with a small minmus rocket and i get a tiny probe to duna and back with a gigantic rocket this just proves that im stoopid
NAHHH, he's just genius
Lol I'm still trying to get my starship to duna
I cant even leave Kerbal properly
I can’t even get to Duna at all lmao and I’ve been playing for years
@@MonzaniaStrike you are joking
Make a space station far away from any planet. This would be great.
Yes high sun orbit higher than eloo
I left rsc on while sleeping then it fell into sun
I was thinking of having a giant fuel depot further out or orbiting the sun inbetween duna and jool
Its pretty easy since you only need about 1,5km/s delta-v to escape kerbol from LKO
@@gioworno basically I think I would have a mining station on the surface of dres or duna’s moon or maybe even pol. A moon with low gravity and harvest hundreds of tons of fuel and bring it to the fuel depot and unload it all.
And I love leaving debris in deep space. It warms my heart to turn debris tracking on and see whole Kerbol system littered with junk.
Makes the whole place a bit more welcoming.
chaotic evil
Start putting relays and solar panels on your discarded junk. Just building a comm network.
Matt: Get an encounter with Tylo
TH-cam captions: Get an encounter with Tyler
gonna make a new friend today
@MOHAMAD FARDIN yeah :)
i wish
@@starfishif9103 same
waltuh
The space whales in ksp is real . Next time anyone goes into space just listen, and you will hear the space whales.
I play on console and whenever you get into orbit you can hear whale noises in the music
Lmao "In Thrust We Trust". I like that.
moar boosters
to a bad spaceplane pilot, SSTO means Straight Shot to Ocean
I felt that.
matt the space dolphins just told me they will see you in court. watch out!
I’m the space dolphins lawyer.
@@atc423 are you good?
@@atc423 I’m Matt’s defense lawyer, I’ll see you in court!
@@theunknownkerbal7957 no, but this is about the dolphins.
@@atc423 of course my mistake
Alright, next week Bradley whistance is going to do a grand tour with this
Facts
not wih this, but with a 0.001 ton rocket
@@josegamboa9691 In rss
@@anuartureshbayev1291 yeheheaaah boiii
Imagine if some dude does that for real, grand tour with 0.001 ton boom chair and on rss
Me with kerbal X: goes to moon
Matt with kerbal X: goes to jool
Stratzenblitz with kerbal X: to infinity
@Liam Harper What is beyond infinity?
Ah, the old skins for the poodle and mainsail engines making me really nostalgic. They remind me of the halcyon days when the closed cycle mode of the rapier had a semblance of efficiency. And does anyone else here remember the old sound effects for the rocket engines in KSP, or how you could land on Jool? Because I certainly do, and it really makes me realize how much KSP has evolved over they years since 2014 when I started playing.
I remember using the balloon mod to build floating bases on Jool, and having to use some special mod that let you save whenever for that to work.
Also was in VC with Majiir when he made the thing that blended kerbals into Kethane.
It feels like the main thing the game added was making all the mods everyone always had installed part of the vanilla game. With the exception of aerodynamics, you still need a mod to fix that.
God those engines make you nostalgic? You ever see the real og engines?
Great video as always! Hope your hand gets better!
What's with every KSP youtuber breaking/ hurting their arm?
Hem hem beardy penguin
There is another?
it's a thing now. 🙉🙈
They need to sacrifice a part of themselves for the all mighty Jeb.
@@MattLowne sacrifice for the sake of science.
Once, I had 0 m/s of delta v and just had the mono prop of the command pod and I just managed to get the periapsis to 65km or something and bled of the rest of the speed and my heat shield got dangerously close to being destroyed. Maybe like 20 ablator was left (I had set the heat shield to have like 200 ablator). It was a minmus mission btw
Matt: "is it fair to say I'm pretty good at KSP"
Me: "hah this guy's a journeyman at best, now bradley whistance and stratzenblitz, they're real ksp players"
Also me: Uses mechjeb and still needs 10k dv for a duna landing
Challenge idea: do not use the map view, you can use the manuever node menu in the corner to figure out your orbit
Imagine playing ksp the day before this happened and trying to see how far it goes because Matt still hasn’t made a video about it, hmm
Lemme guess, that happened to you?
I actually don't like most of the part redesigns. Especially with the fuel tanks and engines, I wish they'd just improved the designs they had instead of taking a completely different art direction that looks (to me at least) more realistic but less Kerbal.
Since they left the old textures in the game files, I really wish they made an option to bring these textures back whenever you want. Old textures had some charm, indeed.
Wow... Broken right hand.... Ouch!
Thanks for pushing through and getting the commentary done on this. It's a fascinating mission and really pushes the boundaries on utilizing gravity assists.
I tried to do a couple of missions in my career mode using assists, but then realized that it was just far more simpler to build for direct transfers.
Honestly, commentary quality is still consistent with other videos in terms of ramblyness and topic focus. :) Thank you for making ksp videos for our enjoyment.
i learnt to use gravity assists by just messing around with how mun flybys adjusted my orbit.
same
Well, I've been playing this game very wrong. I've been building giant rockets just to go to the mun...
So have I, but I keep putting 100 ton space stations or small towns on top, because mission creep is fun.
Hope you hands get better Matt, we all wish you get better quick🤩 The sun will never rise again if we miss a Kerbal video from you😉
30 mins of Matt let’s goooo after work chill time thanks dude
I’ve never even played Kerbal Space Program, I just keep watching these videos cuz I love listening to this guy talk and explain things.
Same
I have the game but my pc is too weak.
Petition for matt lowne screaming episode
Hype for matt lowne metal screaming episode!
Sorry to hear about your hand! A year ago I fractured 2 fingers and my right wrist after falling from my motorcycle on my route to work. After surgery I couldn’t use my hand either so I was very frustated because I couldn’t play anything to pass time during my medical leave from work. So after looking for “slow games” on Steam I bought KSP, started playing it only with my left hand and a few days later found your’s and Scott Manley’s channel after looking for tutorials, specially for docking!
I hope you can recover well! After talking with my doctor (and being an MD myself) what really really helped me after removing the needles from my fingers was physical therapy to regain strenght and dexterity. Now a year later my hand is almost back to 100% and I keep riding my motorcycle to work! 🤣
you make it fun and exiting, i love your content
Fun fact: you can still get some of the old textures by using the advanced grouping feature
Bruh, the two people that disliked this video need to check themselves.
you mean 3 right?
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@@StarKerb Unfortunately its 5 now. Like did they even watch the video? This was frankly impressive and good ksp content.
Maybe they just misclicked
They are just Australians
Almost 400k subs man! Keep it going!
I enjoyed this video with a nice spot of tea and some crumpets. Jolly well done Matt
Don't care about making videos, we will be ok without videos for even a month, but first look after your health, Matt. I realise how much you care for our needs of KSP videos, as you are even editing videos with your broken hand which others generally try to avoid and rather want to take a break. Get well soon. We will be waiting for some some good news. :-)
I mean, we definitely wouldn’t mind, but unfortunately The Algorithm probably would
Anyone else think Matt starting an interstellar series would be cool? He's already been every where in the Kerboler System, why not get a mod that adds more star systems?
There are mods that allow for both extra planets, planetoids, dwarf planets, large asteroids, etc, and extra orbiting moons, such as Kopernicus and Extra Planets Pack, not to mention certain packs that overhaul the Kerbol system or recreate the Solar System that Humanity calls home. And besides those 2 examples, there's also Interstellar bodies/systems packs, and it's not to say Matt hasn't used them before, although only sparingly.
Dude its my birthday and everyone is gone now, I'm just laying in my bed and chilling with a pizza and your videos. Its great and I really appreciate your work.
Thanks:)
i like how whenever i watch ur vids i pay basicly no attention to the screen, i just listen to you the whole time
People: No you can’t go far it not physically possible
Matt lowne: I am physics
spell is good
Who all want to see Matt do the classic 3 part challenge.
love the vid matt
Matt I LOVE this video!!! You should make this into a series!! I would love to see one about the stock Saturn V 😂
@Alex Morrison I meant seeing how far it could go 😜 The one he did only went to the Mun I think
I managed to bring the dove SSTO to minmus
And back or not?
@@PolarBear69o Yes, i put the ssto in minmus orbit and i landed with the EVA pack
How
@@kartofel24724 Just go up
In the description of the dove they say that it can go to space but not to orbit.
"My family are starving" geez i didnt know the nhs cuts were that bad
You're the best kerbal pilot/you tuber, by far. Thank you for existing.
Amazing video love the idea
i forgot about gilly and nearly had a heart attack when he mentioned needing a transfer window to eve
Matt could unironically get to LKO with the thrust of a kerbal's fart
no, to eeloo
10:42 i cant believe i have the exact stratzenblitz video in my playlist while watching this
3 years ago and im still impacted by the amount of times you have said thrust in this video
Here's an idea, try and go as far as possible using the first career parts you start with (not ON career mode though).
5 minutes ago wow....it’s 2:30am here what am I doing
Im watchin at 10 40 am in Germany so you just live in the wrong place of the world
West Coast USA gang rise up
Uk BRUVs rise and have a cuppa it’s a nice day out
It was 5:00 am where I am
Dude, I had put this game down a while ago because I just couldn't get transfers figured out. That was an incredibly concise explanation, I think I'll hop back on and make it to Eve!
Neat,
About a year ago a newer player on the KSP forums was asking about landing the Kerbal X on the Mun. My standard answer to that is to use a smaller engine and a wider lander, I made that suggestion, but I also looked at the Kerbal X, one thing I noticed was it was very over-engined. So I decided to re-work it. Nothing fancy, I just stretched the tanks and swapped the Swivels for Reliants, no point in sacrificing the thrust when the Mainsail steers just fine.
It ended up with about 8,500 m/s Delta/V. Not bad for some quick tinkering, You can find it over on KerbalX, just search for the Kerbal XL.
Me:you can't just take the kerbal X to minmus in 28 mins.
Matt:haha time wrap helps a lot.:))))))
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I am first, come claim your early award
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Nice one Matt, You got me so exited for KSP that I'm currently releaning how to play the Game properly. I have played it a couple of years ago for about 150h and was quite good at it. Seems a bit harder to play now since the Physics and everything got an overhaul.
I just landed it on the mun yesterday. I was so excited to not blow up and die. I just spent a month orbiting Kerbin for a mun encounter, and kept aerobraking for my return. It was beautiful. :’)
I am early
Ye me too
hi early i am the senate
@@jana31415 hi Senate I am saness
He is early
who's here from his discord
anyone here right now
Me
You may save even more delta-v in your gravity assists if you perform some corrections near periapsis of your gravity assist rather than in deep space. Oberth effect applies to gravity assists too. Especially in case you'd otherwise need to dip your periapsis below safe limit, this approach may help. But they're rather tricky to set up, and they have limits.
"Please like my family is starving." I love this guy he made my day by that one sentance. Earned a new subscriber
I could barely get this rocket out of the atmosphere 😂😂
holy muffin you are going so far with the kerbal x and i barely got to the mun xd
but then i made a rocket of my design and i got back to kerbin from the mun :D im making progress
I just landed the Kerbal X on both Mun and Minmus in one launch. Only modification was to drain the monopropellant. Version 1.0.5. Took about a half dozen tries and wound up with 8m/s to spare.
You know you're on the right track if you can get a Mun encounter prior to jettisoning the main booster.
I love how the commentary is just jumping between days xD
I never knew that the Kerbal X was such a good ship! I could only make it to Minmus and the Mun, also I have an idea for a ksp craft, can you a big hotel on Duna??? Like the one on Minmus? I want to see what you can do!
"I'm doing my best guys, and I do it do it for the money... I mean, I do it for you. He he. Should I cut that out? No, It's fine" (Quote from Matt Lown)
HYPE FOR SCREAMING EPISODE
ah yes, the good old talking about, talking about commentary, i so have craved :D
Woooooaaaaaaahh. That, and "I hope your hand gets better", are all I can say.
I haven't played this in years, really. I played it when it was fairly new. This game has become so beautiful.
Omg im so happy cuz im abig fan of you and my mom promised to buy me ksp by the end of the month this is like a dream come true!
2:51 "OH LOL MAT MAKING KERBALS SIT IN COMMAND PODS FOR YEARS"
first time I ever used a gravity assist was after a solar swandive rescue (17 kerbals in an encounter transfer!), burned for a straight in Kerbal re-entry, ran out of fuel... right on course for a Mun polar slingshot, which put me on a return trajectory around Minmus, aerobrake around Kerbin, another encounter with the Mun, which put me into a suicide re-entry and parachute landing on the KSC launchpad!
SCREAMING EPISODE!?! the hype is real my friends!
3:30 Planet: Noun, a convenient clump of spacejunk that is easy to find and predictable in its motion
game: this craft can land on minimus
Matt: P O L + B O P
“I’m doing it for the money.. I mean for you” - politicians and Matt
I mean he needs money, but his videos are quality videos
Wish you good and quick recovery on that hand.
I like how old crafts remain with the old engines
Bradley: Are ya winning, son?
Matt:
My first gravity assist was pretty much the same.
I built a rocket for the campaign's first mun landing and when i got there i realized i perhaps had enough fuel to go visit minmus as well. so i did.
I didn't have enough delta v to get back from minmus but i managed to get a grav assist off the mun to dip me into the atmosphere.
best mission i have flown.
I meant to say this on the SSTO video, how come this man doesn't have at least 2 Million subscribers, his Content is so good
Liking and commenting to help feed Matt's family
Screaming episode for KSP? Hype!
It's been 2 years Matt. I think it's finally time for a Kerbal X Jool 5.
Fun fact about the old textures: you can still use them in your new craft if you go into the advanced mode and sort by something other than function.
I love the way you say "booster"
I just now noticed that he has no ads in his video. What a mad lad