Every KSP game I do is improv flight and I play on modified hard mode to make everything hate me. Best feeling in the world is forgetting to put enough power and just barely saving your pod after it shoots through the upper atmosphere in the wrong direction like a ballistic missile. Stopping at the perfect time with just one Drogue chute and a parachute while 2000m off the ground moving between 500m/s and 650m/s over a mountain range. Landed that thing like it was a feather the last second and nearly had a heart attack but it felt great and Jeb was saved.
You look exactly like someone that would speedrun ksp i dont know if thats an insult or a compliment but when i saw your face it was exactly what i expected somehow
I don't understand a couple of things. How is he using SAS with a scientist, instead of a pilot. And he isn't upgrading any buildings. everything is unlocked already?
This was the 'Science mode' of the game, where the buildings are already unlocked, and every Kerbonaut has full XP. You just need to collect science to unlock the Tech Tree. But I also have the world record in the Career-mode speedrun. ( Video here: th-cam.com/video/ssfUyxlfLDA/w-d-xo.html ) That run involves a lot of "money laundering," to upgrade all the buildings.
Fyi you can view your current science balance in the right side menu. Its one of the buttons next to the one you click to see your fuel/electric charge etc.
He modded his game to do it. He even said so in the description. Just play sandbox mode if you want to do it like this. There is also an option "cheats" the devs put in the game to give yourself all the science you want (ctrl+alt+f12). Try this playthrough with a fully stock, non modded or cheat option. You can go into the parts file and add all the science to the mk-1 pod. you can also just go to game options and turn the science rewards to full. At the end if he enjoyed his game that's what really counts so, Go for it dude.
I'm in the middle of my first serious carrier and now after watching this you made the game look too easy and I don't want to play it anymore. Remind me please not to watch your speed runs. Good job.
You are 1000 times the Kerbal player than I am... respect... but the run time here is reduced by having max level Kerbals and max level buildings which helped by having action commands available without paying for them, Kerbals able to do experiments and the bonus they get by being max level. Still fantastic, but this is a science only run... it absolutely crushes the science tab. Leveling those Kerbals and paying for the upgrades would have required several contract runs which would have probably doubled the time, but that would have been more accurately "beating the game". Still incredible. I land one craft on another planet and all I can think of is "I hope I make it back..." and you're like "what else can I go check out?" Mad skills. And timelapsing with those bare min rockets... all that wooble... the kraken waiting... mad balls too.
I feel like you could save a small amount of time by clicking on the search bar in the VAB and have all parts shown at once so you can breeze through building rockets.
I followed everything up until the end. What’s happening when he cycles through multiple days on Minmus and then seems to be able to farm science again? Is it a particular science module that lets you repeat experiments over time?
Yea, it's the science lab, arguably the most OP part in the game. You add scientists, dump experiments in it, and give it enough electricity to research. Over a very long period of time, the data from the experiments will convert to science that you can transmit back to the KSC, and the amount of science you get is many orders of magnitude higher than just flying your experiments back and recovering them on Kerbin. As you can see, just one flight to Minimus with it is enough to unlock pretty much the entire tech tree.
I'm a bit confused at how you had all the pointing autopilots next to the nav ball with a scientist on board that early in the tech tree. What am I missing?
This speedrun was for the Science-mode category. When you make a new game in Science mode, all Kerbals are fully leveled, the facilities are all unlocked, and even a Scientist counts as a full pilot. I've done the Career-mode version of this run also, which involves some trickier flying and corporate embezzlement. That run is here: th-cam.com/video/ssfUyxlfLDA/w-d-xo.html
What settings do you play? Because in Standard Science Mode i thought taking Ground Samples and do EVAs while mid air is only possible after huge Astronaut Building and Research Facility updates?
How did You start with every building / runway / launch pad fully maxed out and the science tech tree empty? I have only played in career mode where you start with a dirt airstrip and launch pad along with extreme limitations on the number of parts and launch weight that you have to get upgraded.
You spend so much time waiting for line of sight. Would it not save time if you made a 4th travel just to set up coms network? Or if you could leave a coms satellite in orbit?
Hey, Ronin. You could probably shave off a bit of time by collecting the Minmus science twice in the same mission, then leaving a storage unit behind for a lab to come collect later
Right clicking the pod gives you the option to 'Take Data.' So by exiting the ship, removing the crew report, from the pod and then re-boarding, it takes out the crew report and puts it back. But when it puts it back its stored as a piece of generic science, instead of specifically 'this ship's crew report.' Which means there's room for another crew report to be taken. Only catch to it is, you have to be able to exit the craft to 'Take Data.' So in an early career-mode game, when you don't have the ability to EVA in flight yet, the option is limited to when you're landed. (Not a problem in 'Science' career mode.) You can also accomplish this by using the 'Experiment Storage Unit.' Which can 'Collect Data' from everything on the ship through it's right-click menu. That also empties the crew report slot, freeing it up to take another.
This just blows my mind... you did in 8 minutes what took me 8 days. Awesome stuff, keep it coming!
What him 8 minutes took you 8 days what took me 8 weeks
@@danibogo You guys were able to finish? D:
@@danibogo completed tech tree in 8 hours. get real
@@Fireblats not whith out help from friends
I’ve been at it for 3 years. 😢
9:17 😅 when Bob Kerman hears mission control say "boy am I improvising this shit" in a so done voice
I'm watching a man speedrun an astrophysics degree in 47 minutes
DUDE!!!! 900 hours in KSP and I'm like just wow
This guy accomplished more in 4 minutes then I have in 2 days
My guess is you are having a lot more fun.
Every KSP game I do is improv flight and I play on modified hard mode to make everything hate me.
Best feeling in the world is forgetting to put enough power and just barely saving your pod after it shoots through the upper atmosphere in the wrong direction like a ballistic missile. Stopping at the perfect time with just one Drogue chute and a parachute while 2000m off the ground moving between 500m/s and 650m/s over a mountain range.
Landed that thing like it was a feather the last second and nearly had a heart attack but it felt great and Jeb was saved.
I don't know how I managed to save some of my screw ups but I did
Thanks to you I got sub one hour... I feel this record is heavily hardware dependant. Which means new records every year or two wooo
The most relaxed speedrun I've ever seen. Love it. Enjoy these early times
this is great stuff, also impressed by how you speedrun and commentate at the same time
This is the singular best way to get better. Watch and learn from this man
I never thought of binding the science gathering to action groups. That saves a lot of tedium!
Great watch good stuff Pawn. Excited to give this a shot in a while cheers.
You should submit this to a GDQ, would love to watch that.
AS one of the many that enjoy watching speedrun, this one was a breath of fresh air, well done
You look exactly like someone that would speedrun ksp i dont know if thats an insult or a compliment but when i saw your face it was exactly what i expected somehow
This video unlocked a new portion of my brain tree. Well done.
When I saw the title I thought “ha I could probably do that”… nope, I am very impressed
“Learning to count is fun kids.” - roninpawn
wise words of a wise man
nice work! I think the most impressive thing is how fast this is when there's clearly still time to shave.
I just saw when this was actually posted, i'm sure you've gotten faster by now haha
Is this what Steve Oedekerk has been doing since Kung Pow?
OMG HAHAHAHAHAHA
this shows how op the lab is lol
Wow excellent speed run this is damn impressive. I’m 300 hours in and haven’t figured out gravity assists yet.
The trick is if you want more speed go around the back of the planet. If you want less than go around the front. Saves a lot of delta v.
Speedrun to jool without timewarp
That's probably can be done in one day, or less. You'll just need enough delta, and acceleration.
I don't understand a couple of things. How is he using SAS with a scientist, instead of a pilot. And he isn't upgrading any buildings. everything is unlocked already?
This was the 'Science mode' of the game, where the buildings are already unlocked, and every Kerbonaut has full XP. You just need to collect science to unlock the Tech Tree. But I also have the world record in the Career-mode speedrun. ( Video here: th-cam.com/video/ssfUyxlfLDA/w-d-xo.html ) That run involves a lot of "money laundering," to upgrade all the buildings.
imagine in his first flight he would´ve launched head first into the VAB destroying the building and the rocket
1000+ hours here, since v0.13, and I just realized I've been playing KSP wrong all these years.
Really interesting! I wonder how much this can be improved.
Fyi you can view your current science balance in the right side menu. Its one of the buttons next to the one you click to see your fuel/electric charge etc.
I haven't seen your channel since the ksp release stream way back when. Time really flies
how is he running all his science without painfully trying to click each one, feel like that should be in its own speedrunning category
Look into using action groups they are very helpful for a lot of tasks
You did in the first minute what took me hours to figure out. I am ashamed of myself 😂
He modded his game to do it. He even said so in the description. Just play sandbox mode if you want to do it like this. There is also an option "cheats" the devs put in the game to give yourself all the science you want (ctrl+alt+f12). Try this playthrough with a fully stock, non modded or cheat option. You can go into the parts file and add all the science to the mk-1 pod. you can also just go to game options and turn the science rewards to full. At the end if he enjoyed his game that's what really counts so, Go for it dude.
Good work! Fun to watch
Excellent learning experience.
Thank you
This was awesome!
Oh shit I didn't realize you did another one
Pretty sure this is the Artemis III flight plan at 16:00
I'm in the middle of my first serious carrier and now after watching this you made the game look too easy and I don't want to play it anymore.
Remind me please not to watch your speed runs.
Good job.
0:35 Even those playing at the highest competitive level still trip up on the jank UI, it's poetry
What a legend
Lol I learnt new feature that was under my nose this whole time.....
I'm completely lost. I love simulators and really in depth games but this shit is crazy lol. Very impressive man
40 minutes more like 64846383538252a 7 years
130 Hours and bro got further than I ever did in 19 mins just damm
You are 1000 times the Kerbal player than I am... respect... but the run time here is reduced by having max level Kerbals and max level buildings which helped by having action commands available without paying for them, Kerbals able to do experiments and the bonus they get by being max level. Still fantastic, but this is a science only run... it absolutely crushes the science tab. Leveling those Kerbals and paying for the upgrades would have required several contract runs which would have probably doubled the time, but that would have been more accurately "beating the game". Still incredible. I land one craft on another planet and all I can think of is "I hope I make it back..." and you're like "what else can I go check out?" Mad skills. And timelapsing with those bare min rockets... all that wooble... the kraken waiting... mad balls too.
Shoot, I missed the stream! I'm still really busy with school, sorry...
But I'm glad you got this record!
cant even remeber how long it took to get me to minmus back then... but i´m sure it was more than 18 minutes... (a lot more 😄)
Is it just me or does he look like Sam Rockwell?
This was CRAZY
oh so _that's_ how interstage nodes work
WTF just happend, you are nuts, in a good way!
This was insane
I feel like you could save a small amount of time by clicking on the search bar in the VAB and have all parts shown at once so you can breeze through building rockets.
I thought that was Michael Angelo Batio in the thumbnail.
how did you get all that options/icons (like prograde) left from Navball?
3:36 Why does he need the ESU? Can't he just store everything in the pod?
Purely for the action-group ability to press a key and collect all science.
@@roninpawn I see, thanks.
USA if there would be oil on other planets
I followed everything up until the end. What’s happening when he cycles through multiple days on Minmus and then seems to be able to farm science again? Is it a particular science module that lets you repeat experiments over time?
He is using the science lab
Yea, it's the science lab, arguably the most OP part in the game. You add scientists, dump experiments in it, and give it enough electricity to research. Over a very long period of time, the data from the experiments will convert to science that you can transmit back to the KSC, and the amount of science you get is many orders of magnitude higher than just flying your experiments back and recovering them on Kerbin.
As you can see, just one flight to Minimus with it is enough to unlock pretty much the entire tech tree.
Wonder what a game-time version of this would look like
Years
So great beginning 🙌
But so bad minimus trajectory:/
WTF this is amazing
how did a science Kerbin get lvl5 piloting skills from one mission he was not on?
O u used CTRL+ALT+F12
Science mode
well done
I'm a bit confused at how you had all the pointing autopilots next to the nav ball with a scientist on board that early in the tech tree. What am I missing?
This speedrun was for the Science-mode category. When you make a new game in Science mode, all Kerbals are fully leveled, the facilities are all unlocked, and even a Scientist counts as a full pilot. I've done the Career-mode version of this run also, which involves some trickier flying and corporate embezzlement. That run is here: th-cam.com/video/ssfUyxlfLDA/w-d-xo.html
700 hours in ksp, i think you have that times ten
What settings do you play? Because in Standard Science Mode i thought taking Ground Samples and do EVAs while mid air is only possible after huge Astronaut Building and Research Facility updates?
dmn!! ggs bro amaizing
How did You start with every building / runway / launch pad fully maxed out and the science tech tree empty? I have only played in career mode where you start with a dirt airstrip and launch pad along with extreme limitations on the number of parts and launch weight that you have to get upgraded.
Just wow
Can someone explain what he was doing after landing on minmus?
Mf does a speed run while dr suessing. What a legend
I can't even get to the mun in 47 minutes
I don't even know how to land
Speedrun the career mode….
You spend so much time waiting for line of sight.
Would it not save time if you made a 4th travel just to set up coms network?
Or if you could leave a coms satellite in orbit?
This is why I play on 50% science rewards... :P
Same I nerf it loads every time
Awesome
Space X should really think about hiring you when they want to reach Mars in Elons life time lmao
great vid :)
I bett you could beat the 100% career record
*That wig though*
My burns with ion trusters last longer than hour sometimes :D:D:D
idea: now do it in career mode
I have a challenge for you. Unlock the entire tech tree without leaving the gravitational field of Kerbin. IE only land on Kerbins satalite(s).
He didn't leave kerbin's soi in this speedrun
FASTER MAN, i am impressive. LOL 47min
Hey, Ronin. You could probably shave off a bit of time by collecting the Minmus science twice in the same mission, then leaving a storage unit behind for a lab to come collect later
Why do you look like an Emo Tom Cruise?
good work :)
You're a pilot.
47 minutes!? My game takes 47 minutes to load in with all its mods ... just kidding, I think it is 17 Minutes loading.
How is he storing multiple experiments in one mission in the beginning?
Right clicking the pod gives you the option to 'Take Data.' So by exiting the ship, removing the crew report, from the pod and then re-boarding, it takes out the crew report and puts it back. But when it puts it back its stored as a piece of generic science, instead of specifically 'this ship's crew report.' Which means there's room for another crew report to be taken. Only catch to it is, you have to be able to exit the craft to 'Take Data.' So in an early career-mode game, when you don't have the ability to EVA in flight yet, the option is limited to when you're landed. (Not a problem in 'Science' career mode.)
You can also accomplish this by using the 'Experiment Storage Unit.' Which can 'Collect Data' from everything on the ship through it's right-click menu. That also empties the crew report slot, freeing it up to take another.
@@roninpawn thank you!
holy sh...
Ive literally no idea what im watching. Keep thinking ill understand in a minute when he says something but it just makes it weirder.
You look like Luis Piedrahita
Excuse me what the fuck
I wanna see least in-game time, waiting for lab is just lame
Do same in career mode :P
14min for minus. For me First Time, i need 2month 😅
Nice wig
I wouldnt say KSP is "beaten" with the science tree fully unlocked....
IMHO Landing on every celestal body in a single mission is.
Try to make a speedrun with least ingame time