Can You Use The Smallest Engine to Get to Dres in Kerbal Space Program?

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
  • And with that, we likely have the end of KSP 1 videos. There is an extremely small chance I post another, but I think that's a wrap.
    The video I alluded to: • Building a Ring Around...
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    KSP playlist: • Kerbal Space Program

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  • @ReidCaptain
    @ReidCaptain  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Hey guys! I'm working on making a portable synth, if that sounds interesting to you, check out my Kickstarter!: www.kickstarter.com/projects/reidcaptain/mixisynth

  • @David_Phantom
    @David_Phantom ปีที่แล้ว +810

    At this point, how many multi-hundred year old kerbals do you have stranded throughout the system?

    • @brightax7502
      @brightax7502 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Trillions

    • @vinixd3692
      @vinixd3692 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@brightax7502 of quadrillions.

    • @vikkimcdonough6153
      @vikkimcdonough6153 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ALL OF THEM.

    • @w花b
      @w花b ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@vinixd3692 of quintillions

    • @DupyLoopy
      @DupyLoopy ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@w花b of *UNLIMITED*

  • @lithuanianguy1799
    @lithuanianguy1799 ปีที่แล้ว +366

    As always reaching the peak of engineering

    • @RADIS370
      @RADIS370 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      FOR SCIENCE!

    • @MarkLin77
      @MarkLin77 ปีที่แล้ว

      by neilred standards

  • @ReidCaptain
    @ReidCaptain  ปีที่แล้ว +617

    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.

  • @noneedtogetagressive5875
    @noneedtogetagressive5875 ปีที่แล้ว +248

    All KSP videos by Reid always ends up like a nile green video

    • @ReidCaptain
      @ReidCaptain  ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Basically

    • @w花b
      @w花b ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Same speech pattern

    • @beckhamoneill1894
      @beckhamoneill1894 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Fr I was so confused when I first heard Nile green I though they were the same person

  • @versinussyrin577
    @versinussyrin577 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    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!

  • @Totally_Bonkers
    @Totally_Bonkers ปีที่แล้ว +165

    "when in doubt, get out and push" -me in my early days of kerbal space program

    • @jesuschrist711
      @jesuschrist711 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      me trying to stop my massive rover after i found out i didnt engage the parking brake💀😂

    • @two67gh
      @two67gh ปีที่แล้ว

      @buffalo wt same

  • @thespacepeacock
    @thespacepeacock ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Woah, i think you just discovered an entirely new way to lithobrake! Impressive!

    • @hexlart8481
      @hexlart8481 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The trick is to survive the initial impact with the lithosphere, who would have thought!

    • @jlco
      @jlco ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Lithobraking: the best way to assert dominance upon arrival to a planet.

  • @frawzch.048
    @frawzch.048 ปีที่แล้ว +34

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

  • @ReassuredPrimrose
    @ReassuredPrimrose ปีที่แล้ว +118

    Knew you'd use the infinite Eva propellant "exploit" for something.

    • @birkbuscher6571
      @birkbuscher6571 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exploit?

    • @ReassuredPrimrose
      @ReassuredPrimrose ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@birkbuscher6571 if you enter a command pod of any kind (external seats don't work)
      your EVA propellant replenishes.
      you can replenish this infinitely. basically infinite fuel

    • @Guardrailkid
      @Guardrailkid ปีที่แล้ว +10

      kerbal sisyphus program

  • @СаняСанианов
    @СаняСанианов ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "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

  • @ducoschollmeijer4841
    @ducoschollmeijer4841 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

  • @Singulut
    @Singulut ปีที่แล้ว +22

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

  • @sankang9425
    @sankang9425 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

  • @martinmnagell2894
    @martinmnagell2894 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

  • @KinneKitsune
    @KinneKitsune ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Next challenge, rescue EVERY stranded kerbal in a single launch. No restrictions on what you can use

    • @sapphicjade6375
      @sapphicjade6375 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The kraken drive:

    • @wafflefalafel530
      @wafflefalafel530 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      dang bro its unfair the thurst to weight will be crazy dude

  • @nutella1021
    @nutella1021 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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!

  • @itstime9023
    @itstime9023 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @ajuntapall8860
    @ajuntapall8860 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @Roaxial
    @Roaxial ปีที่แล้ว +11

    now you gotta get somewhere using just the backpack
    😃👍

  • @stuchly1
    @stuchly1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @Bacon17855
    @Bacon17855 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @dsd6873
    @dsd6873 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Nice vid 👍, you can set the thrust of the engines lower to minimize the drag

    • @ReidCaptain
      @ReidCaptain  ปีที่แล้ว +7

      True, I should have messed with that a little more

    • @EpicMiniMeatwad
      @EpicMiniMeatwad ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ReidCaptain And waited even longer.

  • @Swagmaster07
    @Swagmaster07 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @JumpMasterJef
    @JumpMasterJef 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @kaiperdaens7670
    @kaiperdaens7670 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

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

  • @battleshipbeast964
    @battleshipbeast964 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    We love your videos

  • @larrywhitney
    @larrywhitney ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Separations are just stronger Escape Pods. Change my mind

    • @ReidCaptain
      @ReidCaptain  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The escape pod at home

  • @mikemallon1065
    @mikemallon1065 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @caesar_cider2777
    @caesar_cider2777 หลายเดือนก่อน

    as a ksp veteran the clip of the spider spam made me physically recoil. thanks

  • @threesixtydegreeorbits2047
    @threesixtydegreeorbits2047 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    what modpack adds this moon? 0:11

    • @mogpop4970
      @mogpop4970 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      This is already in the stock game

  • @Chevsilverado
    @Chevsilverado ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @EpicMiniMeatwad
    @EpicMiniMeatwad ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @Phoenix2.5D
    @Phoenix2.5D 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @chugetnuget6230
    @chugetnuget6230 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @proatplanes
    @proatplanes ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can imagine this wont go well

    • @ReidCaptain
      @ReidCaptain  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Kinda

    • @proatplanes
      @proatplanes ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ReidCaptain Next vid: saving the kerbal stuck on dres with only rcs (rcs ports not engines)

  • @shizumeru_
    @shizumeru_ ปีที่แล้ว

    His mannerisms and chaotic experimenting remind me of Nile Red

  • @catwithajetpack5135
    @catwithajetpack5135 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    bro is gonna go interstellar on only srbs next

    • @ReidCaptain
      @ReidCaptain  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There will be some shenanigans

  • @lelegoguemraoui772
    @lelegoguemraoui772 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @MuffinTM
    @MuffinTM ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @WatchmakerErik
    @WatchmakerErik 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @SurgutPictures
    @SurgutPictures ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @passiveagrsivesmeerschwein2320
    @passiveagrsivesmeerschwein2320 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @WatchmakerErik
    @WatchmakerErik 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @arfb01
    @arfb01 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well now you need to rescue the kerbal

  • @spudthespudgungamer7112
    @spudthespudgungamer7112 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @soul-candy-music
    @soul-candy-music ปีที่แล้ว +1

    homie has the exact same inflection as NileRed lol

  • @YMandarin
    @YMandarin ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @morganshifflett4994
    @morganshifflett4994 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @andreslosada559
    @andreslosada559 ปีที่แล้ว

    This may be the most cursed ksp video I’ve ever seen, and it is purely beautiful

  • @letqin1
    @letqin1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:05 get stickbugged

  • @Miliradian
    @Miliradian ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Penguin5z
    @Penguin5z ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @Zanthron
    @Zanthron 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @LucasGleason
    @LucasGleason ปีที่แล้ว

    8:57 never heard that tone of voice before dayum

  • @jambothejoyful2966
    @jambothejoyful2966 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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

  • @knownas2017
    @knownas2017 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @Supern0v4_23
    @Supern0v4_23 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Maybe you could try firing the sepratrons on your kerbal in the opposite direction of thrust to cancel some velocity.

    • @1mariomaniac
      @1mariomaniac ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @Supern0v4_23 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@1mariomaniac You would switch vessel to the ship, check out stratenblitzs 3part mission

  • @adriangunnarlauterer4254
    @adriangunnarlauterer4254 ปีที่แล้ว

    Next challenge, landing on a astroid with only turbofans.

  • @jlco
    @jlco ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @TerraLyte47
    @TerraLyte47 ปีที่แล้ว

    world's biggest launch escape system

  • @RAFMnBgaming
    @RAFMnBgaming ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @robertdelatorre7252
    @robertdelatorre7252 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @selensewar
    @selensewar ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @JoacoG11
    @JoacoG11 ปีที่แล้ว

    My man got to Dres with the smallest engine, but I can't even get to orbit around Kerbin 😭

  • @gunceler7535
    @gunceler7535 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Have you seen Stratzenblitz75’s Minmus on Decouplers video? His similarly extreme thrust and structure limitations were interesting but I appreciate your more difficult destination.

  • @asoftraiden
    @asoftraiden ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @lolermosskoss1834
      @lolermosskoss1834 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @paxlash
    @paxlash ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Do a rescue with the biggest engine

  • @Killer-44
    @Killer-44 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am very simple:
    I see Reid Captain, I click

  • @thatGUYbehindthemask
    @thatGUYbehindthemask ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @murilo7794
    @murilo7794 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @b2048_
      @b2048_ ปีที่แล้ว

      i mean it's technically possible

  • @TheMcHunter
    @TheMcHunter ปีที่แล้ว

    that big head fits really well

  • @exel1783
    @exel1783 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i like how the mission time was 239 years

  • @thatdirtymichiganmusician1038
    @thatdirtymichiganmusician1038 ปีที่แล้ว

    Truely the Nile Red of KSP

  • @cheeswedge
    @cheeswedge ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Rest In Peace KSP1, you will be remembered

  • @tyazze6390
    @tyazze6390 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Top-Code
    @Top-Code ปีที่แล้ว

    Casually getting frame perfect timing

  • @Picklarc
    @Picklarc ปีที่แล้ว

    Reid Captain murdering pcs, one at a time

  • @deadgoat2738
    @deadgoat2738 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is my favorite type of comedy

  • @WatchmakerErik
    @WatchmakerErik 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @FaeraOthronus
    @FaeraOthronus ปีที่แล้ว

    Well now you have to save them

  • @chrisboyer2195
    @chrisboyer2195 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @HappyBeezerStudios
    @HappyBeezerStudios ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @SpaceSim1
    @SpaceSim1 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Luke-we9gj
    @Luke-we9gj ปีที่แล้ว +2

    anyone else happy he actually got to stand on that cool rock?

  • @Cona-vh7vi
    @Cona-vh7vi ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @sfsvoid9616
    @sfsvoid9616 ปีที่แล้ว

    Meanwhile me: Oooh dang I timewarped too much!

  • @trolly4233
    @trolly4233 ปีที่แล้ว

    Challenge for KSP2 Interstellar; land on the moon with only crucibles

  • @noomrm73
    @noomrm73 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @CrisBy1
    @CrisBy1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man has the most patience I've ever seen

  • @CaptainAwsome
    @CaptainAwsome ปีที่แล้ว

    are you gonna rescue the Kerbals stranded from these lauches?

  • @Mr_Turab
    @Mr_Turab ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @IMakeStuff140
    @IMakeStuff140 ปีที่แล้ว

    how many times has he said “p r e t t y much”

  • @rustyshackleford234
    @rustyshackleford234 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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
      @Damian-cilr2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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
    @disgustingapple5216 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @kunatics1767
    @kunatics1767 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I thought its a mod didn't know dres existed!

  • @kerb525
    @kerb525 ปีที่แล้ว

    W for choosing dres , it keeps getting hate just because of how the ksp developers made it

  • @a64738
    @a64738 ปีที่แล้ว

    KSP 2 has wings that can be streched in any direction and size, no need to make it out of large number of small wings...

  • @Yellow_bud
    @Yellow_bud ปีที่แล้ว

    Get to the moon with the smallest engine you can find

  • @allesarfint
    @allesarfint ปีที่แล้ว

    Video Idea: Finding every cool rock in Kerbal Space Program