FYI, the land speed record (LSR) is standardized as "the speed over a course of fixed length, averaged over two runs. Two runs are required in opposite directions within one hour, and a new record mark must exceed the previous one by at least one percent to be validated." So, not only must your craft beat the *Thrust SCC* speed record, which was done over a 1-mile distance, it needs to turn around and do it again! You gotta play by the rules, engineer!
Thrust SSC didn't didn't hit that speed in a mile. It was a total trip of 14 miles, on power for around 9, and the last mile on power was the measured mile. In Kerbal it's harder, because there isn't a 14 mile runway to play with.
@@crusher1080I think it's simply a matter of the center of friction being in front of the center of mass. Turning the friction control up on the back wheels can fix it as well
Feel like they dropped the ball with this release. It barely runs on most hardware and its missing a lot of basic features. I get its early access, but for 50 dollars? Its a long way from being even as functional as ks1
I don't know if anyone's noticed yet, I didn't until I was editing a capture of the game and played back at x48 speed, the CLOUDS move and change shape naturally! RCE, your videos got me in to KSP, so thank you, and I look forward to more KSP2 videos from you!
KSP is an insane time sink but I'm so excited for KSP2. Mainly because I like to play vanilla for the simplicity of it and it looks like they added all the Dv calcs and a ton of other useful tools into the vanilla game. I'm stoked for the full release.
If the aerodynamics in this one are similar to what they were in the version of the first game i played, the flipping is caused because as fuel gets used, the vehicle is heavier on the back than in the front, so the tip of the rod has less terminal velocity than the base. this makes the base faster than the tip, flipping the entire vehicle. Adding more weight to the front wold help reduce flipping.
While that is a possible cause I think that here the wheels are just bugged. Matt Lowne mentioned that the wheels friction control thingy was not working correctly, and that is probably still true.
No, in this game the reason the craft is swerving is because of the friction control function on the wheels, can disable it since it is bugged and all of your crafts will swerve due to that.
@@crusher1080 Maybe it's even a combination of the two. Because it still seems that there's less attempt to keep roling once the vehicle was going engines at the front.
Amusingly and ironically, on one of your first unsuccessful land speed runs, at 6:32, you managed a whopping 365 m/s or over 816 mph, enough to beat the land speed record (note: to catch the moment you will have to go frame by frame - it happens for literally 1 frame)
Yay! Just had a video a few days ago about the start of this game, so I'm glad you're already jumping back into it! (Not to say I'm not uber-hyped to see how Timberborners go in the current map)
Matt has done it again . Back to back banger KSP 2 videos , just what we all love to see . Enjoyed this, Can't wait for what more goofiness Matt has planned for in future episodes
„The body might be too low to the ground.“ Body: fully on the floor „It veers off to to the side…“ RCE: adds drag at the front, with horizontal wings Watching a civil engineer build vehicles is just hilarious
Some advices: use the snap funcion to make sure the weels are straight. Then disable the auto friction control on the steering wheels, this will make it much more stable
@@shawngaetz8161 yes, if the wheels are angled, the plane is super unstable, and honestly I recommend just turning off steering altogether, and instead using rudder fins on the top of the plane to steer, because any friction at all sometimes just causes the wheels to start turning
Matt, as much as I love watching you fail at KSP I do have a few tips that might help. First, there are hotkeys to maximize and minimize throttle values in an instant (i.e. not sliding up then sliding down, but instead immediately jumping between 0% and 100%). You'll have to double check me because it's been a minute but I believe they're X for 0% and T for 100%? Worth noting that doesn't work super well for jet engines as they still need to spool up and down, but super useful for liquid-fueled rocket engines. Also, you can drain the fuel tanks which will definitely help you get up to speed faster (less weight to accelerate). For a run this short I doubt you need even one full tank, but they're still useful structurally. If you right-click on a tank in the VAB you can see a slider that allows you to remove all the fuel and oxidizer. You can do the same with the solid fuel boosters for both weight purposes and for shutoff purposes. Since you can't stop a solid fuel booster from burning once it has started, this is useful to time the shutoff. Also useful for building airplanes because you can use Fuel/LOX tanks (if they have a convenient shape, for instance) but remove the LOX so that you don't have unnecessary weight when using air-breathing engines.
10:29 I love every time Matt is like "mmmhm 🤔" 14:06 oh it's not fair! Matt is so used to use struts that the fact that there is no autostruts doesn't bother him 😂 19:45 so... There is the MOAR BOOSTER the MOAR ENGINE and with Matt we have the MOAR PARACHUTE, MOAR WINGS and today the new MOAR WHEELS 😆
Hey Matt, pro tip: if you turn off auto friction control on the right click menu on just the front wheels, your craft shouldn't swerve about so much on the runway!
Matt, down at the bottom next to where you change the VAB build orientation, there are center of mass, centre of lift and centre off thrust overlays. Turn them on for next time. I'm sure an engineer like yourself will be able to figure it out from there 😉 Edit: There's also a handy dandy 'blueprint view' button down there too which is great for making sure things are lined up.
Me seeing another TH-camr playing KSP 2 and realizing that there are actual goals and stuff in KSP 1/2 after only seeing RCE play it: 😮 “say what!!?!” Thank you RCE for not doing anything related to the game at all while playing it. I’ve spent 3 years not playing the game but now I’m going to have to spend money on it to get to the mun etc haha
Out there somewhere is a vehicle designer who's trying to figure out how to get 10 sets of wheels on the same vehicle to completely eliminate rollover damage.
Vehicle stability is easy to asses when it comes to the basic layout: draw a line thru front and rear left tires. Then draw a line from left rear to front right. The angle between the two lines gives you an idea of the basic stability of the vehicle. The narrower the angle, the more stable. And of course, if the angle exceeds 45 degrees, the vehicle will not stay straight at all without constant steering inputs.
I just got the KSP2 trailer as an ad while 3 minutes into your video and honestly, they did a great job showcasing the possibilities. Multiplayer on KSP? Interstellar travel? That’s gonna be amazing.
Matt asking which way the wings need to point to give down force made my brain buffer for a few seconds 😵 I think you're starting to turn into an architect, Matt 😨
I think we need to focus a little on aerodynamic yaw stability :D Center of mass need to be at or slightly in front on the "center of pressure" (basically cross section area in this case). The engines are really heavy and right at the back, so center of mass is really far back. Need lots of stabilizing fins for basic designs like that.
The usual culprits for spinning around on the runway are your center of lift being in front of your center of mass (like throwing a lawn dart backwards) and friction of the back wheels not being greater than the front.
Loved the video @Real Civil Engineer! Can't wait for the next video of Kerbal Space Program 2 man! I have a Challenge for you and Anyone else who plays KSP 2. The Challenge is to build an Actual Jet Aircraft from the Military Forces around the World, Be it the American F-15C Eagle, F-16C "Viper" Fighting Falcon, The British/German/Italian/Spanish Eurofighter Typhoon, the Russian Federation and CIS Soviet-Era Mig-25 Foxbat, The Su-24 Fencer or even Jets like the Gloster Meteor, Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star or even the Messerschmitt Me-262 Schwalbe (German: Swallow) from World War Two. Basically, as long as it's an Actual Jet Aircraft, Just have some fun Building it!
“We’re about to turn into a boat or a submarine” Fun science fact, an object flying into a body of water at 340 m/s will in fact submerge, but not before turning into a pancake.
Add a long tail with a rudder to stabilize the yaw. Lower friction on the front wheels as well. You technically shouldn’t need any downforce as long as there’s no vertical component to the thrust, and that’ll just slow you down anyway.
If its anything like ksp1 there's 2 types of chutes, one is a drogue chute that can be deployed at higher speed but doesn't slow you down as much as a standard chute.
Add surface area of the wheels.(wider/enough contact on the ground) Add a hinge/cable on the wheels core to the front axis of the fuselage.(to add strength to the wheels while moving fast cuz it csnt handle the acceleration) Add spoiler to add downward force so you stay on ground level.( Anti flying )
KSP2 has no autostruts, so unless you strut everything together manually, it will all be wobbly! Hope this helps. Edit: I see you know about struts, now you just have to use multiple of them on everything all of the time.
Ok so a couple of things I noticed: 1) You beat the land speed record with your first build 2) Decoupling on the ground is essentially the same as dropping bombs on yourself 3) You weren't really running out of fuel so making it have more and more fuel is kinda pointless 4) The boosters would probably be more stable if you used two decouplers instead of struts and finally 5) I prefer watching it when you ignore my observations I loved the video. you should add more wheels next time
Matt you need to try the bridge challenge with an airplane. There's a bridge you can fly under in a plane which is a fun little challenge. Also go for the airplane speed record. So far my record (probably not #1) is 1400 m/s. Slightly above Mach 4. EDIT: I am now up to 1650 m/s
In addition to @crusher1080 comment about diabling friction control on the front wheels, I would say based on the part where it wanted to go backwards that too much of your mass is behind the center of lift/drag. I imagine those engines are heavy and therefore that end will actually want to lead.
Mate I'd love to see the day when the land speed record car is effectively a rocket powered rifled bullet with a person inside it just trying to not die
Ngl. I was two seconds from clicking off because I can only watch you fail so many times. But that wheel monstrosity actually working while rolling made me spit out my drink. Ridiculous.
@@GremlinSciences I think they have more specific impulse but less thrust per weight, as you get a lot of weight from the tires that doesn't seem like a thing i would 100% recommend for the land speed record. But of course if you have available oxygen why not use it.
If you are looking to do a spoiler, the object on a car that makes down force, it is literally an upside-down wing, normally oriented wing create lift, upside-down makes down force.
You were on the right path with downforce. If your going to jettison your boosters perhaps it's worth having tiny wings on them and making them pull up and away from your craft as they jettison. I might also suggest looking at top fuel dragsters or land speed record vehicles for ideas on downforce.
the car being surrounded in landing gear and just spinning made me laugh super hard
Yes.
Its at a level of genius only an engineer can achieve.
That was the most kerbal way ever of engineering, finally matt learned it.
And it did work !
i saw your coment but i still wasnt prepared for the result
Yeah
FYI, the land speed record (LSR) is standardized as "the speed over a course of fixed length, averaged over two runs. Two runs are required in opposite directions within one hour, and a new record mark must exceed the previous one by at least one percent to be validated." So, not only must your craft beat the *Thrust SCC* speed record, which was done over a 1-mile distance, it needs to turn around and do it again! You gotta play by the rules, engineer!
He did though. The vehicle was doing 360s the whole time. Geez, did you even watch the video?? :P
I was about to comment the same thing lol
Thrust SSC didn't didn't hit that speed in a mile. It was a total trip of 14 miles, on power for around 9, and the last mile on power was the measured mile. In Kerbal it's harder, because there isn't a 14 mile runway to play with.
Nah
Shut up
Disabling friction control on the front wheels would stop you from swerving on the runway Matt! Hopefully useful.
Wobbling probs due to kraken
I will test it thanks i have been struggling to take off
@@beanman853 The friction control on the wheels tries to over compensate. And causes vehicles to swerve, planes or buggies.
Which one of them are the front wheels, though? :P
@@crusher1080I think it's simply a matter of the center of friction being in front of the center of mass. Turning the friction control up on the back wheels can fix it as well
21:11 Landing Gear-nado!
This is the best KSP2 content I’ve seen so far, as the game isn’t really in a state where serious missions are feasible
Feel like they dropped the ball with this release. It barely runs on most hardware and its missing a lot of basic features. I get its early access, but for 50 dollars? Its a long way from being even as functional as ks1
Is this game free?
I don't know if anyone's noticed yet, I didn't until I was editing a capture of the game and played back at x48 speed, the CLOUDS move and change shape naturally! RCE, your videos got me in to KSP, so thank you, and I look forward to more KSP2 videos from you!
KSP is an insane time sink but I'm so excited for KSP2. Mainly because I like to play vanilla for the simplicity of it and it looks like they added all the Dv calcs and a ton of other useful tools into the vanilla game. I'm stoked for the full release.
If the aerodynamics in this one are similar to what they were in the version of the first game i played, the flipping is caused because as fuel gets used, the vehicle is heavier on the back than in the front, so the tip of the rod has less terminal velocity than the base. this makes the base faster than the tip, flipping the entire vehicle. Adding more weight to the front wold help reduce flipping.
While that is a possible cause I think that here the wheels are just bugged. Matt Lowne mentioned that the wheels friction control thingy was not working correctly, and that is probably still true.
No, in this game the reason the craft is swerving is because of the friction control function on the wheels, can disable it since it is bugged and all of your crafts will swerve due to that.
@@crusher1080 Maybe it's even a combination of the two. Because it still seems that there's less attempt to keep roling once the vehicle was going engines at the front.
@@Niyucuatro not viable because ksp has point physics instead of varying vector physics. The centre of mass of a part does not move
Amusingly and ironically, on one of your first unsuccessful land speed runs, at 6:32, you managed a whopping 365 m/s or over 816 mph, enough to beat the land speed record (note: to catch the moment you will have to go frame by frame - it happens for literally 1 frame)
This "record" is probably gonna be tripled in the next week.
By him*
Coming from a hog rider in the lands of no records ever. . .
POV: you like boys
@@JuJu_Johnson boys 🥰
@@MrGreen876 Oh yeah just trust the talking letter M.
Yay! Just had a video a few days ago about the start of this game, so I'm glad you're already jumping back into it! (Not to say I'm not uber-hyped to see how Timberborners go in the current map)
Yes
This is awesome! Currently watching this as I drive past the Bonneville Speedway, where they attempt the land speed records! Awesome coincidence!
You're watching a TH-cam video as you drive your car?
A buddy and I are trading off driving shifts
@@JackMTB_Ski That's the story, or as it's often called, the defence.
@@JackMTB_Ski can confirm. I am the buddy
17:00 the fact those wheels worked to stop the jetcar from crashing, is a true testament to engineering XD
The fact that an actual engineer with a degree took that long to realize the belly of his vehicle was scraping the ground makes me smile.
He definitely isn't a mechanical engineer, that's for sure
Matt has done it again . Back to back banger KSP 2 videos , just what we all love to see . Enjoyed this, Can't wait for what more goofiness Matt has planned for in future episodes
You are at the wrong video
„The body might be too low to the ground.“
Body: fully on the floor
„It veers off to to the side…“
RCE: adds drag at the front, with horizontal wings
Watching a civil engineer build vehicles is just hilarious
Your Kerbal videos always make me cry with laughter. It is the rock solid certainty combined with the total lack of understanding when it fails.
Some advices: use the snap funcion to make sure the weels are straight. Then disable the auto friction control on the steering wheels, this will make it much more stable
Is that something in ksp 1 too? As I'm having a hell of a time keeping my space planes from drifting to either side for no reason.
@@shawngaetz8161 yes, if the wheels are angled, the plane is super unstable, and honestly I recommend just turning off steering altogether, and instead using rudder fins on the top of the plane to steer, because any friction at all sometimes just causes the wheels to start turning
at the uk space agency we pride ourselves with breaking these records no matter the cost
Wait the UK still has a space agency I thought they shut down after the black arrow Program.
@@danielhoyte6291 that’s the thing the uk space agency never shuts
"OK I tried to turn left and it blew up. Cheers." - 😂😂🤣🤣 I don't know why but that is SO funny! Love it RCE!
If you turn off friction control on the front wheels it should go in a straight line
Yes!
Matt, as much as I love watching you fail at KSP I do have a few tips that might help.
First, there are hotkeys to maximize and minimize throttle values in an instant (i.e. not sliding up then sliding down, but instead immediately jumping between 0% and 100%). You'll have to double check me because it's been a minute but I believe they're X for 0% and T for 100%?
Worth noting that doesn't work super well for jet engines as they still need to spool up and down, but super useful for liquid-fueled rocket engines.
Also, you can drain the fuel tanks which will definitely help you get up to speed faster (less weight to accelerate). For a run this short I doubt you need even one full tank, but they're still useful structurally. If you right-click on a tank in the VAB you can see a slider that allows you to remove all the fuel and oxidizer. You can do the same with the solid fuel boosters for both weight purposes and for shutoff purposes. Since you can't stop a solid fuel booster from burning once it has started, this is useful to time the shutoff.
Also useful for building airplanes because you can use Fuel/LOX tanks (if they have a convenient shape, for instance) but remove the LOX so that you don't have unnecessary weight when using air-breathing engines.
10:29 I love every time Matt is like "mmmhm 🤔"
14:06 oh it's not fair! Matt is so used to use struts that the fact that there is no autostruts doesn't bother him 😂
19:45 so... There is the MOAR BOOSTER the MOAR ENGINE and with Matt we have the MOAR PARACHUTE, MOAR WINGS and today the new MOAR WHEELS 😆
Thank you SO MUCH for the flashing warning. We folks who need it could really use it in everything, it is so very appreciated when it shows up.
Sweet god watching it spin was something I definitely wasn't expecting!
Hey Matt, pro tip: if you turn off auto friction control on the right click menu on just the front wheels, your craft shouldn't swerve about so much on the runway!
Matt, down at the bottom next to where you change the VAB build orientation, there are center of mass, centre of lift and centre off thrust overlays. Turn them on for next time. I'm sure an engineer like yourself will be able to figure it out from there 😉
Edit: There's also a handy dandy 'blueprint view' button down there too which is great for making sure things are lined up.
16:38 has the same energy as "but what if I purchase fastfood and disguise it as my own cooking?"
love it
It’s always nice to see Matt making such beautiful and ‘practical’ works of engineering
This was the first time that Matt proper kerbal-engineered something.
And it practically worked
Me seeing another TH-camr playing KSP 2 and realizing that there are actual goals and stuff in KSP 1/2 after only seeing RCE play it: 😮 “say what!!?!”
Thank you RCE for not doing anything related to the game at all while playing it. I’ve spent 3 years not playing the game but now I’m going to have to spend money on it to get to the mun etc haha
A fellow drae viewer I see
Buy KSP 1, not 2
4:21 Jeb: "COOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
That might have been the most hilarious ship I've seen in KSP. When it started rolling, I was tearing up. 🤣
Out there somewhere is a vehicle designer who's trying to figure out how to get 10 sets of wheels on the same vehicle to completely eliminate rollover damage.
He works for Elon Musk
Best KSP2 vid from anyone so far. Being swaddled in landing gear was a galaxy brain move.
Vehicle stability is easy to asses when it comes to the basic layout: draw a line thru front and rear left tires. Then draw a line from left rear to front right. The angle between the two lines gives you an idea of the basic stability of the vehicle. The narrower the angle, the more stable. And of course, if the angle exceeds 45 degrees, the vehicle will not stay straight at all without constant steering inputs.
I just got the KSP2 trailer as an ad while 3 minutes into your video and honestly, they did a great job showcasing the possibilities. Multiplayer on KSP? Interstellar travel? That’s gonna be amazing.
14:29 I love how eventually every solution in KSP is “Launch straight away.”
I love how every video for KSP2 I get the ad for the game before hand it makes the video that much better 👏
Thanks rce, seeing the car just rotate on all those landing gear had me laughing harder than I have in days, comedy gold
Matt's an aerospace architect.
Isn't Bloodhound SSC, successor of Thrust SSC, the current record holder?
Don't think so, it got scrapped before it beat the record due to lack of funding. You can't just revert to launch like in ksp! 😅
@@RealCivilEngineerGaming or simply because they didn't have a engineer like you 😉
@@RealCivilEngineerGaming oh, yup, then the 1997 king lives, and Thrust SSC looks cooler in my opinion.
2:20 just FYI you CAN have custom flags in KSP2
Matt asking which way the wings need to point to give down force made my brain buffer for a few seconds 😵 I think you're starting to turn into an architect, Matt 😨
There may not be any flags, but surely you can recreate the Union Jack using the new paint tool?
I think we need to focus a little on aerodynamic yaw stability :D
Center of mass need to be at or slightly in front on the "center of pressure" (basically cross section area in this case). The engines are really heavy and right at the back, so center of mass is really far back. Need lots of stabilizing fins for basic designs like that.
I love how, when your small rocket car developed a wobble, you just ignored it and made it bigger. Right... Cause that'll be easier to diagnose! 😂
20:10 wow that was an awesome slideshow, love the vehicles and all, I wish someone made a game good like this slideshow is
Honestly, with that many landing gear separating and exploding, I’d expect about the same framerate from the first game.
The usual culprits for spinning around on the runway are your center of lift being in front of your center of mass (like throwing a lawn dart backwards) and friction of the back wheels not being greater than the front.
Loved the video @Real Civil Engineer! Can't wait for the next video of Kerbal Space Program 2 man! I have a Challenge for you and Anyone else who plays KSP 2.
The Challenge is to build an Actual Jet Aircraft from the Military Forces around the World, Be it the American F-15C Eagle, F-16C "Viper" Fighting Falcon, The British/German/Italian/Spanish Eurofighter Typhoon, the Russian Federation and CIS Soviet-Era Mig-25 Foxbat, The Su-24 Fencer or even Jets like the Gloster Meteor, Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star or even the Messerschmitt Me-262 Schwalbe (German: Swallow) from World War Two. Basically, as long as it's an Actual Jet Aircraft, Just have some fun Building it!
I love how the rocket car literally just needed at vertical tail fin
you are driving this thing like an architect
I lost it at 15:00. Jeb in that giant goose rocket bouncing around. hahahahahahaha
I remember the Ksp 1 land speed record several times the speed of light.
Every time you span off the runway, it kept making me think of the top gear episode where Clarkson span off in a BMW while racing a VW
“We’re about to turn into a boat or a submarine”
Fun science fact, an object flying into a body of water at 340 m/s will in fact submerge, but not before turning into a pancake.
This should be awarded by the Engineer's Prize 🏆 2023
We could have the pilot pod above the boosters, ready to jettison up and parachute once the world record is achieved. Kerbal survives, it counts!
Can't believe you didn't notice that you needed a vertical stabilizer early on
try putting fins behind the engines (without blocking them) for higher stability
Add a long tail with a rudder to stabilize the yaw. Lower friction on the front wheels as well. You technically shouldn’t need any downforce as long as there’s no vertical component to the thrust, and that’ll just slow you down anyway.
the car looks like the front half of the airbus beluga planes ....and the final design with the wheels everywhere .. lol 😂
The rotating landing gear around the rocket was brilliant. Are you sure you weren’t an aerospace engineer?!?!
I love how you praise the graphics while showing how pixelized they are!
If its anything like ksp1 there's 2 types of chutes, one is a drogue chute that can be deployed at higher speed but doesn't slow you down as much as a standard chute.
if your planes (or craft) veers off runway, you have to disable auto friction control on the front wheel
Add surface area of the wheels.(wider/enough contact on the ground)
Add a hinge/cable on the wheels core to the front axis of the fuselage.(to add strength to the wheels while moving fast cuz it csnt handle the acceleration)
Add spoiler to add downward force so you stay on ground level.( Anti flying )
Matt: "...oh that's a nice strut... ...oh yeah"
Imaging Matt's girlfriend "oh he's playing Kerbal Space Program again"
🤣
Matt at 12:42 you have what looks to me to be the beginning of a kerbilified airbus beluga.
You can fix the spinning by turning friction control off on the front landing gear
Finally some Kerbal engineering. Moar boosters and struts. That's the Kerbal way
Best application of spin stabilization I've ever seen.
That wheel design around the rocket is pure brilliance
"Maybe we can outrun the pain ... no we can't", sounds about how I deal with all my problems🤣
I noticed around one of his early attempts he reached 350m/s but didnt realise
This is what happens when the Civil Engineer takes over for the Aerospace Engineer.
KSP2 has no autostruts, so unless you strut everything together manually, it will all be wobbly! Hope this helps.
Edit: I see you know about struts, now you just have to use multiple of them on everything all of the time.
3:28 you hit 88mph son 😎
19:25
He tried to make a land-speed record setting vehicle, but he attracted the KRAKEN
Ok so a couple of things I noticed:
1) You beat the land speed record with your first build
2) Decoupling on the ground is essentially the same as dropping bombs on yourself
3) You weren't really running out of fuel so making it have more and more fuel is kinda pointless
4) The boosters would probably be more stable if you used two decouplers instead of struts
and finally
5) I prefer watching it when you ignore my observations
I loved the video. you should add more wheels next time
Matt you need to try the bridge challenge with an airplane. There's a bridge you can fly under in a plane which is a fun little challenge. Also go for the airplane speed record. So far my record (probably not #1) is 1400 m/s. Slightly above Mach 4.
EDIT: I am now up to 1650 m/s
I got to 1341m/s with a single whiplash engine. I don't really know how to get any more from the engine though
In addition to @crusher1080 comment about diabling friction control on the front wheels, I would say based on the part where it wanted to go backwards that too much of your mass is behind the center of lift/drag. I imagine those engines are heavy and therefore that end will actually want to lead.
Mate I'd love to see the day when the land speed record car is effectively a rocket powered rifled bullet with a person inside it just trying to not die
"Form over functionality said the architect." "I want my rocket ship to look good."
Terrifying
How does this have no comments?
I can't remember if this video was posted before camodogamings vid or after otherwise the speed record might be different o: still best shape wins
Awesome pfp.
The bit starting at 17:00 is the hardest I've laughed in a while
Matt found KSP once the kraken had been tamed. KSP2 is a whole new beast.
Matt strutting the boosters on, then trying to jetisen them made my brain hurt
Jeb: Waits 97 days for the sun to come up.
RCE: Sorry!
Ngl. I was two seconds from clicking off because I can only watch you fail so many times. But that wheel monstrosity actually working while rolling made me spit out my drink. Ridiculous.
You can improve it by switching some methalox tanks for cargo bays to lower the mass that needs to be accelerated.
Swapping to air-breathing engines should also help. Stick a ramjet on there and you can trim all the oxidizer for a ton of weight savings.
@@GremlinSciences I think they have more specific impulse but less thrust per weight, as you get a lot of weight from the tires that doesn't seem like a thing i would 100% recommend for the land speed record. But of course if you have available oxygen why not use it.
3:36 i love the "what the f... hell happened there"
"fellow engineers" you really think i have the brain power to be a engineer
to keep it from spinning out, you need to turn off *"Auto Friction Control"* on the front wheel.
I really appreciate the flash warning, thank you, Editor
Matt, there should be an option when you look at the wheels to disable friction control. Normally it seems to be the reason the wheels act like that!
I've never thought about using so many wheels before. it's actually kind of brilliant for this game since it's still so buggy.
If you are looking to do a spoiler, the object on a car that makes down force, it is literally an upside-down wing, normally oriented wing create lift, upside-down makes down force.
I got to 721m/s with a much smaller craft and landing gear, but this was still fun to watch.
You mean to say you don't need wheels all around for this to work?
Madness...
I'm at minute 11, please turn off rear wheel steering for some stability😂😂😂😂😂😂
And the music fits so perfect😂
The UK Space Agency went bankrupt with an abundance of wheels.
You were on the right path with downforce. If your going to jettison your boosters perhaps it's worth having tiny wings on them and making them pull up and away from your craft as they jettison.
I might also suggest looking at top fuel dragsters or land speed record vehicles for ideas on downforce.
Nah it's a setting. He needs to turn off friction on the front wheels.