Nice list, defo recognize a lot of them xD A few other ones are: - Too little wingarea - Too few engines - Too many engines - Forgot to pull Jeb out of the cockpit - No control surfaces on that plane you spent hours on Or my personal nemesis: Forgetting that once you bring kerbals somewhere you also need enough fuel to GET THEM BACK.
My rescue mission failed because I had even less fuel left in the rescue vehicle than the vehicle I was rescuing. Jebediah and Valentina are now both stuck on the Mun together… At least Valentina will be able to tell Jeb about her like 8 or 9 Minmus landings.
@@lyly_lei_lei That isn't that uncommon. Your first mission probably landed at whatever spot happened to be convenient, and the rescue came in on a different trajectory and had to spend extra fuel to get where it needed to be.
SpaceKraken woah woah how does that work I keep having the same problem I get into space but when I speed up time then try to start my engine it never starts
OK, maybe ladders are not _necessary_ on most of bodies, but they are very _convenient._ Especially if kerbal runs out of EVA propellant :-) Also, if player _decide_ not use ladders - OK, but if he/she _forgot_ them - it's mistake anyway. (Sorry if my English not good; hopefully you understand me).
When I fist played KSP I couldn't figure out how to throttle liquid fuel engines and I figured that they just didn't work (this was before they were auto-throttled to 50%). So, I just used solid rocket boosters for everything! I actually got surprisingly far.
My most frequent electricity problem: Launch probe. Set trajectory. Return to KSC. Do 3 other missions while waiting. Later realize that I forgot to extend the solar panels on the probe. Is now dead...
New best: Ferry 6 tourists to Mun and back. Return to KSC. Realize I did not load a single tourist and even forgot to add a radio so no one could call Jeb on the launch pad to stop him either.
So here's a numb nut thing I do; I launch my rocket only to realize I forgot to put on a battery, return to assembly for that purpose. get side tracked adding a different booster configuration, launch and realize I forgot the battery, return to assembly, get sidetracked adding a little more fuel and restricting the booster thrust, launch and realize I forgot the battery, return to assembly, re-organize my staging, launch and realize I forgot the battery, return to assem.... you get the idea.
I'm new to KSP and last night while trying to get a station into orbit around kerbin for the 3rd day in a row I decided my design just wasn't working because of poor aerodynamics so I scrapped the whole thing and built a new station and rocket, turns out I needed more thrust to get up there so I added boosters, they wobbled off mid-flight, so I added struts like crazy, so next time I launched I got about 0.2 m/s thrust at full blast that maybe doubled every 5 seconds as the launch went on, but finally it got up there. I'm confident that if I had added one more strut I would have had +-0 m/s thrust.
Struts are physicsless, they don'tt add weight. There are other physicsless parts as well, I think Scott Manley did a video on what happens if you build a vehicle only using them. It is possible that they fixed this, though.
A few of my own: 1. Start your fuel cells. Actually, set start fuel cell to an action group such as, I dunno, STAGE. 2. Disable steering on landing gears that aren't for steering. 3. Set stiffness on landing gears. For the love of god. 4. Design your cargo planes around the cargo bay. If you fail to do this, it doesn't matter how capable your SSTO is, it will have miniscule cargo capabilities.
Mr Me I've "done" it by entering Jool's atmosphere in manned capsule, then getting as low as I can, and then getting out of it by burning tons of fuel. But... It was worth it. I entered Jool's atmosphere when there the sunset was... It was beautiful.
Mr Me it is possible tho, you can see it somewhere in the games code that you'll get around 7,000 science points for collecting a surface sample from jool
@@silentious320 Mainly the controls, lack of updates and the fact that some features are removed like duplicate in the VAB/hangar. I only bought it because my laptop wouldn't be able to handle it.
Ah ksp and mistakes, intertwined af. Also, not including pressing shift in map view when you're engine are on (aren't they always). God i hate having to tab through all objects just to avoid shift.
#9: I personally forget to put up the throttle when I launch using liquid engines... *Launch* *Stability towers released* *Falling* *Engines have been destroyed*
The best part about mistakes is that they often lead to rescue missions, which give you a unique, unplanned problem to solve. I think rescues may be the most satisfying part of the game.
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I once landed on the Mun, decided to test out the drill. It seemed to be going slowly so I time warped a few years, realised I had no solar panels and had wasted all of my electricity. Great job me...
While you are descending, don’t use too much time warp and keep your velocity below 100m/s at the very minimum. Then gradually get slower as you get closer to the surface. When you are landing, keep your speed below 5m/s otherwise you may break the landing gear. Hope this helps ^_^
I had one rocket work perfectly the first, second and third time i launched it only to realize that I had forgotten the docking ports when I had finally gotten to my space station. Left it in orbit and called it a night. The next day I couldn't even get it off the launch pad as it kept blowing up.
Always remember when you are about to install a life support mod onto an existing save, land you danm kerbals. They will starve/suffocate before any re-supply can be launched (lko and mun maybe but outside of that your losing a crew
My most common mistake is when KSP randomly decides to remove the crew from my ship.... Though I think this is more of a bug in the game. I'm pretty sure it just happens when you detach and reattach a part with kerbals in it, but I swear it's happened at other times, too.
Sending a Kerbal to a forever hell because you unknowingly built a deep space capable ship, but also have no clue how to steer the thing and he's just never going to die or come back.
In the early days you generally over engineer things, the tanks on my kerbin station, for example, they have RCS, batteries, solar panels and their own mono propellant thrusters, I don’t know why
My current save is going mostly fantastic. Only a few actually failed missions, such as Muna 2 (first attempt), Muna 6, Duna Observation Probe, Advantage 1 (first attempt), and Muna 2 Rescue Mission. I’ve had a few close call missions such as Minma III and Advantage 1 (2nd Attempt), but they succeeded in the end. No Kerbals have died at all, and I’ve only had one rapid unplanned disassembly, which was Advantage 1. My stupidest failure (other than Muna 2 Rescue Mission) was my second attempt at a Duna mission, Advantage 1 (1), where I forgot parachutes, and the engine didn’t have enough fuel to land the craft, so I watched as it smacked the lowlands at 500 m/s. Advantage 1 (2) made it to the surface safely after a bit of a close call with parachutes and some damage to its solar panels, but still has some solar panels left. I need to send a rescue mission for Muna 2 and its rescue mission. My main source of income is planting flags on Minmus.
i use hotkeys for this. just added any part which is needed to operate the vehicle to the hotkey 1. So as soon i leave atmosphere i press 1 to extend solar panels antenna and anything else needed for this mission.
I love that docking port mod, could barely figure out how to dock without it. What's interesting though is I no longer use it because I don't need it anymore. Using the docking port alignment indicator taught me how to control docking maneuvers by giving me an instrument which clearly showed the results of each maneuver, down to the smallest thruster burst. Once I got practiced it became intuitive, and now I understand docking maneuvers well enough to eyeball just about all of them. And I gotta say, it feels good.
Summery of my common mishaps: -Not enough electric charge/batteries (ie, send a probe mothership to Jool, has 5 electricity and dies as soon as it’s staged) -Forget probe cores on anything that has a command pod but no kerbals (alternatively, putting probe cores on spent stages for recovery, but then forget to turn the core on) -Launch a vehicle that’s supposed to dock with station, then only after I can’t revert flight realize it has no RCS control (has happened SO MANY TIMES) -Putting anything *near* a hatch so it prevents kerbals from ever leaving the craft (unless docked where you can transfer crew) -build an ore miner, balance the RCS, work the electricity situation, Launch it, land it on your target, THEN realize when its fully loaded it can’t take off again because the TWR is now shifted below 1 And Rest In Peace many a space station where orbital rendezvous quickly ended after the vessel time warped into the station. Many kerbals lost in the line of duty lmao
Every god damn time I try to even make anything whatsoever when I speed up time it will not let me turn the engine back on and fly just for that flight it’s a real piss off
"Pressing the wrong button at a critical moment" should count too. Particularly relevant during certain parts of take-off and landing, but generally applicable to any sensitive situation.
Forgetting Sepatron below heatshield ... Happened to me to realize that when I just landed the first time on Mun and knew I wouldn't make it safe to Kerbin Surface with the vessel... :D
This is one I find my self doing a lot: timewarping to a planet or moon and under estimating the time warp and going past my nose past the moon or planet ir worse crashing straight into it after not doing a quick save
My big one is forgetting to deploy antennae. It's especially a problem because most of my ships are robotic. I fit multiple "umbrellas," but sometimes forget to deploy them and lose control if the ship is out of range of my Minmus and Mun relays. I haven't deployed more relays in the Kerbin system because I always fit big antennae... :) In many areas of life, I remember everything when I'm new to something and struggling with it, but start forgetting things later. There's a saying which sort-of fits: "Familiarity breeds contempt." To get around this, I make a to-do list while building, but sometimes I forget to add something to the to-do list. Once or twice, it's even been the ore canister, which is strange because I build so many mining ships. Familiarity breeds contempt. Contributing to the contempt is the fact that large empty ore tanks weigh so much, I find it better to fit a fuel factory to every ship, industrial or not. I'm usually dilligent with setting up staging, but in spaceplanes, I mess up the order to see how much delta-V and TWR my nuclear engines will have when the jets or RAPIERs are done. :) Sometimes I mess up the order in rockets too, but can't remember why. It's probably for lander TWR. There's all that and forgetting to like videos...
No. 9: Playing the game for the first time and forgetting about *Physics* and making a long tube of Mk4 Fuel Tanks with the mammoth engine and a shuttle cockpit
Im early in the carrer and sent a module with solar panels and batteries only to find a clamp-o-tron JUNIOR docking port!!!! I needed to send a mission only to atach an adaptor...
I've been playing KSP for about a week now, I've had some beginner mistakes that were pretty funny: The most common one was pressing space again to retire my engines instead of pressing z or shift, I had to hit f9 many times before I learned my lesson. Using solar panels that can't retract and not realising until it's too late. For my first lunar mission, my lunar landing module was wayy too tall and my landing zone was not flat. Tipped over on almost every attempt. Sending a probe to mars without realising the antenna was too weak to reach kerbin Sending a manned mission to mars without tracking solar panels and finind the ship dead halfway there. And lastly, not knowing how to do some things which are so simple for the ksp community. For a while I couldn't figure out how to use bob as a pilot and still have SAS in career mode. Seems everyone will get angry and tell you to use Jeb instead, but it's totally possible to have SAS if you use a probe core, the hard part is finding the information while dodging the people who don't even read the question properly.
Today i managed to land on the Mun, but while I was on approach for reentry into Kerbin, I couldn't line up my Capsule because it ran out of power so I couldn't use the reaction wheels. I had to use Valentina kerman's rcs to steer my capsule.
I once had a contract that required putting a satellite in orbit around the Mun. Everything was perfect, everything... But I had forgotten a decoupler, so I couldn't get rid of the fuel tanks and engine... The game didn't count that as a probe :(
Veteran KSPer here... and there are a couple you missed out... when rendezvousing with another vehicle you don’t look at the RELATIVE velocity and spend ages zooming past your target repeatedly. That seems to be the one major hurdle with docking too. Oh and the other one.... but related to the sturdy rocket point... STRUTS!!!
Me being a young (literally young) KSP player I haven't got a single accident, and yes some of my rockets are prone to kraken attacks like my long rocket which wobbles and calms down after I detatch 6 boosters, I recomend the tutorial, it helps me ALOT and prevents me from doing random stuffs
I always forget to check the staging specially when trying to beat the landspeed record it end up deploying the chute and activating the engine at the same time and it ruined my attempt to beat the record and sometimes I use SRBs to try if I can beat the record and you know that the SRBs when you activate you cannot shut it down
interestingly for some of these I am the exact opposite like adding so many panels that my batteries are redundant or putting so many antennas that the aformentioned solar panels cannot gain power.
I sent a probe to Jool, assuming that the second largest antenna would be powerful enough.... Apparently not, since I can only control it when the planets are perfectly aligned, and I should've just used the tiny foldable Communotron 88-88 which somehow has a longer range...
I once was on career mode and had a major early game contract to send a probe to interplanetary space to collect science. In career mode, i like to multitask, so i did several smaller contracts during the 3-day wait time. When i went back to the ship, i realized i forgot an antenna, so i couldnt send any science. furthermore, i forgot to save a backup, so i needlessly poured 100k money down the drain. that was a bad day.
Also, for whatever reason, (possibly a glitch), everytime i warped with a probe, it would instantly drain all of its power at an insane rate (>1000 per second) and never recover, making many probe missions essentially impossible. a re-install and remaking of my personal modpack fixed this problem anyway.
I am strongly of the opinion that any attempt to get a 5-kT payload into orbit is better done through two or three missions, the first to put an empty tank up, the next one or two to refuel it. Alternatively, if you've been collecting ore, you can always refuel it with that.
Hey gang! I hope you enjoyed this little list. Do you agree with it? What are your most common mistakes in KSP?
Batteries, I always forget the batteries.
Nice list, defo recognize a lot of them xD
A few other ones are:
- Too little wingarea
- Too few engines
- Too many engines
- Forgot to pull Jeb out of the cockpit
- No control surfaces on that plane you spent hours on
Or my personal nemesis: Forgetting that once you bring kerbals somewhere you also need enough fuel to GET THEM BACK.
Forgetting ICS is a nightmare for me. And also the batteries.
Quicksave instead of quickload.
Struts...
9 Forgeting to deploy the solar panels before time warping
Aaaah i see im not the only one...
How do you forget that?! Don't you have checklists?
@@bluto212 We forgot that too.
@@averagehuman522 Dog ate mine.
ouch
One I always seem to make is: When sending a rescue mission, make sure you actually have an empty seat for the Kerbal you are rescuing.
So then a Rescue mission for a Rescue mission.
@@LEON-xy6xu
Golden moments...
@@LEON-xy6xu no, rescue mission still can go back safely, if everything exept missing seat is ok.
My rescue mission failed because I had even less fuel left in the rescue vehicle than the vehicle I was rescuing. Jebediah and Valentina are now both stuck on the Mun together… At least Valentina will be able to tell Jeb about her like 8 or 9 Minmus landings.
@@lyly_lei_lei That isn't that uncommon. Your first mission probably landed at whatever spot happened to be convenient, and the rescue came in on a different trajectory and had to spend extra fuel to get where it needed to be.
9: Not sacrificing enough kerbals to the kraken
My number 1 rule in KSP: If it doesn't work, attach more rockets to it.
Mr Gamerman007 moar boosters*
@@klirtek MOAR BOOSTERS*
@@dysonlewis6990 kk x)
You mean:
"If its supposed to move, but doesnt, add more boosters. If its moving but isnt supposed to, add more struts."
A ring of those kickback sfb really helps and is dirt cheap.
My mistake:
Wow, i built another good plane! Time to test it!
*space*
"engine flameout - no air"
oh. of course.
Intakes.
SpaceKraken woah woah how does that work I keep having the same problem I get into space but when I speed up time then try to start my engine it never starts
Lukes Modz I just can’t start a engine in space at all?
Lukes Modz ok but I play on xbox :/
Lukes Modz ok well thanks for answering my questions.
It's like covering the door with a parachute
I dont know if anybody else did this but the first time ı tried to land on the mun I tried to land using parachutes which ended rather spectacularly.
Just...why?
How though? You can’t deploy a parachute in space.
Did you not see that it has no atmosphere? 😂 The fireworks must've been nice...
HazmatHarry Gaming activated it waited for it to deploy and never did?
what?
Ladders! Very common mistake is forget them.
Only a problem if you're going to Kerbin, Eve, Tylo, or Laythe(though I would still recommend ladders for Duna)
OK, maybe ladders are not _necessary_ on most of bodies, but they are very _convenient._ Especially if kerbal runs out of EVA propellant :-) Also, if player _decide_ not use ladders - OK, but if he/she _forgot_ them - it's mistake anyway. (Sorry if my English not good; hopefully you understand me).
Or put them on the DOORS
[S]-Riley Dunn You overestimate my spaceplane.
@[S]-Riley Dunn you overestimate my spaceplane if you think it can even take off....
You forgot one mistake everyone makes a lot: Forgetting to pull Jeb out of the cockpit before launch. ;)
Jognt yeahhh.
I purposely stranded jeb... lmao
I put jeb on the north pole and left him there.
Jognt hahaha
xD
When I fist played KSP I couldn't figure out how to throttle liquid fuel engines and I figured that they just didn't work (this was before they were auto-throttled to 50%). So, I just used solid rocket boosters for everything!
I actually got surprisingly far.
How far!!!
PhylisophicalPlebian he probably is stuck in space with no fuel
Been there. Said the game was broken. Only ever got one full orbit because I was such a noob.
Wow....... You are me?
Cajer 1618 same!
My most frequent electricity problem: Launch probe. Set trajectory. Return to KSC. Do 3 other missions while waiting. Later realize that I forgot to extend the solar panels on the probe. Is now dead...
Nazamroth Industries Operation Logs lol
That's why I always have some of those panels that don't extend as well. Only enough that at least one one is always facing the sun
Happened to me a couple of times ^^ now i also add the small panels on every vessel like Kaleb to workaround my lack of attention xD.
New best: Ferry 6 tourists to Mun and back. Return to KSC. Realize I did not load a single tourist and even forgot to add a radio so no one could call Jeb on the launch pad to stop him either.
liek if u cri evrytim
Timewarping into the mun. Classic.
So here's a numb nut thing I do; I launch my rocket only to realize I forgot to put on a battery, return to assembly for that purpose. get side tracked adding a different booster configuration, launch and realize I forgot the battery, return to assembly, get sidetracked adding a little more fuel and restricting the booster thrust, launch and realize I forgot the battery, return to assembly, re-organize my staging, launch and realize I forgot the battery, return to assem.... you get the idea.
*Smoker alert* Pass me the J
3dpdk ha yeah me too
I've done this
One of the mistakes I made when I first started was that I thought the staging stack went from top to bottom instead of bottom to top
Oooh I remember, that confused the hell out of me as well. I also started building rockets from the bottom up. Quickly realized that was stupid ;)
I noticed that as well but I just adapted it
I always forget parachutes...Kerbals are starting to think im not an space engineer
the only thing you need to be a space engineer is SCIENCE!
the funny thing is that a small cockpit with the big heat shield wont need a parachute
U see I don't forget parachutes but the kerbals opinion doesn't matter cuz they don't get out
You missed something else - forgetting to put enough struts
ikr...
Arif Kramer I just overstrut, do 3 tests and add escape systems with some flaps
The kraken keeps knocking on my door
That's a trial and error thing, not alwats something you simply forgot
I'm new to KSP and last night while trying to get a station into orbit around kerbin for the 3rd day in a row I decided my design just wasn't working because of poor aerodynamics so I scrapped the whole thing and built a new station and rocket, turns out I needed more thrust to get up there so I added boosters, they wobbled off mid-flight, so I added struts like crazy, so next time I launched I got about 0.2 m/s thrust at full blast that maybe doubled every 5 seconds as the launch went on, but finally it got up there. I'm confident that if I had added one more strut I would have had +-0 m/s thrust.
Struts are physicsless, they don'tt add weight. There are other physicsless parts as well, I think Scott Manley did a video on what happens if you build a vehicle only using them.
It is possible that they fixed this, though.
A few of my own:
1. Start your fuel cells. Actually, set start fuel cell to an action group such as, I dunno, STAGE.
2. Disable steering on landing gears that aren't for steering.
3. Set stiffness on landing gears. For the love of god.
4. Design your cargo planes around the cargo bay. If you fail to do this, it doesn't matter how capable your SSTO is, it will have miniscule cargo capabilities.
You forgot: adding the wrong docking port (size, construction or normal) or forgetting them completely.
Or adding them the wrong way around (applies for the 'senior' one). I had that as #9 but thought 8 would be a nicer number ;)
I honestly don't get how people mix up the Sr. Port... I mean it's hard to miss... one side looks like a docking port, the other doesn't...
Or having a strut on the docking port making it impossible for you to dock
ShadowZone or you put the docking port in upside down. Get to orbit and it’s ... “docking...docking... bump... no docking achieved... ARRRGGGH”.
another one: having your giant space station, on wich you worked days, wobble itself to death.. good times, good times.
Using phys warp and seeing how 12 different ships died is glorious
ye beware of the kraken
AND you forgot to quicksave.
struts save lives!
@@plainaviation But you can’t add more struts after so king in space, right? (I’m not mentioning 1.12 update)
Hm... So am I the only one who tried to land on the "big green"? (jool)
Mr Me I've "done" it by entering Jool's atmosphere in manned capsule, then getting as low as I can, and then getting out of it by burning tons of fuel. But... It was worth it. I entered Jool's atmosphere when there the sunset was... It was beautiful.
Mr Me it is possible tho, you can see it somewhere in the games code that you'll get around 7,000 science points for collecting a surface sample from jool
when i "landed" on jool i just glitched trough the surface and exploded after about -5km with a speed of 1m/s (parachutes)
Ano Nymous you cant just land anywhere, theres a secret sweet spot where you can land
really? where would that be?
Ah yes the classic mistake of putting parachutes on the same stage as the rockets. We've all done it before.
I didn't do that because I ain't dumb
i wanna try that tho lol
though*
Even you forgot the unused monopropellant in capsules XD
Another mistake (i hope) people make:
Waiting for a planetary transfer with SAS on, runs out of electric charge and has to restart
Don’t forget electricity. I’m sure most people forgot at least once to have enough solar panels or electricity before their reaction wheels die.
#1 buying it on a console.
I enjoy it on console, why would that be a mistake?
@@silentious320 Mainly the controls, lack of updates and the fact that some features are removed like duplicate in the VAB/hangar.
I only bought it because my laptop wouldn't be able to handle it.
@@jbritain yeah you can only compare it like that if you have it both on pc and console. Ive only played on Xbox. And i like what i got🤗
Joshua Britain you can duplicate in he VAB on console just hold X and click A on the object you're trying to duplicate
@@u_got_sarged1006 I'll have to try that out then.
Ah ksp and mistakes, intertwined af. Also, not including pressing shift in map view when you're engine are on (aren't they always). God i hate having to tab through all objects just to avoid shift.
spincr Why would you need to use shift in map view in the first place? And what does that have to do with tabbing through objects?
If you press . (period) on your numpad to hide the navball then it won't throttle up anymore. I had to learn this habit after a few mishaps...
You can use right-shift and tab
Steam chat had also killed my missions. You press shift+tab to open the overlay
#9: I personally forget to put up the throttle when I launch using liquid engines...
*Launch*
*Stability towers released*
*Falling*
*Engines have been destroyed*
>Put RCS thruster
>forgot mono propellant tank
>didn't aligned stages correctly, first spacebar = parachute deploy
The best part about mistakes is that they often lead to rescue missions, which give you a unique, unplanned problem to solve. I think rescues may be the most satisfying part of the game.
RCS docking is for the weak !!!
Docking itself is for the weak. If you wanna get to the bathroom in my Kerbal Space See you gotta go on a spacewalk
Lowne lazy method rules
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ShadowZone absolutely... Done.
Awesome, thanks! :D
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It did :)
9: forgetting to sacrifice Kerbals to the Kraken before each mission.
I once landed on the Mun, decided to test out the drill. It seemed to be going slowly so I time warped a few years, realised I had no solar panels and had wasted all of my electricity.
Great job me...
HazmatHarry Gaming I’ve tried to land on nun 20+ times most of the time I miss it or slam into it.
While you are descending, don’t use too much time warp and keep your velocity below 100m/s at the very minimum. Then gradually get slower as you get closer to the surface.
When you are landing, keep your speed below 5m/s otherwise you may break the landing gear.
Hope this helps ^_^
HazmatHarry Gaming yea after I speed up time at all it will not let me start my engine :/
Forget that eve has high g's and not being able to return home
You always realize your missing rcs or electricity when you have played for like 2 hours and you have to restart
All of these can be fixed with MOAR STRUTS
homosapienssapiens19 Or better yet: MORE CAREFUL ENGINEERING.
more engines
I had one rocket work perfectly the first, second and third time i launched it only to realize that I had forgotten the docking ports when I had finally gotten to my space station. Left it in orbit and called it a night. The next day I couldn't even get it off the launch pad as it kept blowing up.
Maybe an update was launched?
Always remember when you are about to install a life support mod onto an existing save, land you danm kerbals. They will starve/suffocate before any re-supply can be launched (lko and mun maybe but outside of that your losing a crew
My most common mistake is when KSP randomly decides to remove the crew from my ship.... Though I think this is more of a bug in the game. I'm pretty sure it just happens when you detach and reattach a part with kerbals in it, but I swear it's happened at other times, too.
Biggest mistake: Forgetting the F5 and F9 keys.
I usually press F9 to load quicksave but i want press F5 to create new quicksave.
In the other way...I just missed up something and I want to reload but I press F5 and I have to do a rescue mission
Okay can I add maybe 30 more things to the list? lemme get my pencil out
1: Fuel
2: Power
3: KRAAAKENNNNN
4: Staging....ITS ALWAYS THE FKING STAGING
Ladder, fckin ladder, I forgot one (rather four) and thats how my mission to Eve ended LOL.
FORGETTING YOUR HEAT SHIELDDDDDDDD, ERGGGGGGGGG
I felt that.
Ain't that the truth of it...lol...I've made all of those mistakes & more :)
Great vid...love your ship designs too.
Have a good'n & be safe.
My mistake: Forgetting the function of each of the custom action commands, and instead of deploying the solar panels, self-destructing the ship.
Have a good enough PC in order to run the KSP with parts more than 200
Sending a Kerbal to a forever hell because you unknowingly built a deep space capable ship, but also have no clue how to steer the thing and he's just never going to die or come back.
4:08
Look, that's not an explosion, that's just...
that's a fart cloud
rapidly expanding fire?
In the early days you generally over engineer things, the tanks on my kerbin station, for example, they have RCS, batteries, solar panels and their own mono propellant thrusters, I don’t know why
9 - forgetting the autostruts.
"*unintentional* crew fatalities"? :D
Mistake 0:
Fitting your space station with a self-destruct system, only for something to trigger it and wreck the space station lol
When you cover the control pod with a parachute so you can't Eva 😭
The worst thing is forgot to transfer crew from LM to CSM during your apollo simulation
My current save is going mostly fantastic. Only a few actually failed missions, such as Muna 2 (first attempt), Muna 6, Duna Observation Probe, Advantage 1 (first attempt), and Muna 2 Rescue Mission. I’ve had a few close call missions such as Minma III and Advantage 1 (2nd Attempt), but they succeeded in the end. No Kerbals have died at all, and I’ve only had one rapid unplanned disassembly, which was Advantage 1. My stupidest failure (other than Muna 2 Rescue Mission) was my second attempt at a Duna mission, Advantage 1 (1), where I forgot parachutes, and the engine didn’t have enough fuel to land the craft, so I watched as it smacked the lowlands at 500 m/s. Advantage 1 (2) made it to the surface safely after a bit of a close call with parachutes and some damage to its solar panels, but still has some solar panels left. I need to send a rescue mission for Muna 2 and its rescue mission.
My main source of income is planting flags on Minmus.
My new main source of income is mining exotic minerals (I have multiple mods on).
That moment when you're using your engines to charge your batteries but you shut them off and hit time warp. Goodbye dead craft
You forgot: "Random kraken attack"
Having an antenna but forgets to extend them
That little non extendable antenna is my best friend now
i use hotkeys for this. just added any part which is needed to operate the vehicle to the hotkey 1. So as soon i leave atmosphere i press 1 to extend solar panels antenna and anything else needed for this mission.
I used ox stat panels on that one probe lmao
I've made all of these mistakes
I think we all did... (except maybe Ore Tanks for me... didnt "check" that one... not drilling much either)
The reason you forget solar power of batteries more now than you used to is simple...... You are actually a Kerbal, having evolved over time ;)
Wait, I'm NOT supposed to kill the kerbles?
Guess i'm going to hell, then.
awww... i love killing the kerbals
@@arandomuserofdeath2753 Everybody loves it dude :D
"Kerbles" 😂
Shift + Tab to talk with a friend on steam without pausing the game before...
(Shift is the engin throttle up)
I love that docking port mod, could barely figure out how to dock without it. What's interesting though is I no longer use it because I don't need it anymore. Using the docking port alignment indicator taught me how to control docking maneuvers by giving me an instrument which clearly showed the results of each maneuver, down to the smallest thruster burst. Once I got practiced it became intuitive, and now I understand docking maneuvers well enough to eyeball just about all of them. And I gotta say, it feels good.
Summery of my common mishaps:
-Not enough electric charge/batteries (ie, send a probe mothership to Jool, has 5 electricity and dies as soon as it’s staged)
-Forget probe cores on anything that has a command pod but no kerbals (alternatively, putting probe cores on spent stages for recovery, but then forget to turn the core on)
-Launch a vehicle that’s supposed to dock with station, then only after I can’t revert flight realize it has no RCS control (has happened SO MANY TIMES)
-Putting anything *near* a hatch so it prevents kerbals from ever leaving the craft (unless docked where you can transfer crew)
-build an ore miner, balance the RCS, work the electricity situation, Launch it, land it on your target, THEN realize when its fully loaded it can’t take off again because the TWR is now shifted below 1
And Rest In Peace many a space station where orbital rendezvous quickly ended after the vessel time warped into the station. Many kerbals lost in the line of duty lmao
9: Forgetting about the fact that the Kraken still exists
AKA Forgetting to add sturdiness to your vehicle
Every god damn time I try to even make anything whatsoever when I speed up time it will not let me turn the engine back on and fly just for that flight it’s a real piss off
"Pressing the wrong button at a critical moment" should count too. Particularly relevant during certain parts of take-off and landing, but generally applicable to any sensitive situation.
That feeling when you are about to get into duna's orbit and your panels aren't pointing to the sun
9. Installing a part failure mod without CKAN
Fast forwarding before extending your probes solar panels
This voice is penetrating my soul
Dude I loved all of your rockets! Nice job man, I’m always doing “classic” style rockets but after watching this video I’m inspired!!
Forgetting Sepatron below heatshield ... Happened to me to realize that when I just landed the first time on Mun and knew I wouldn't make it safe to Kerbin Surface with the vessel... :D
This is one I find my self doing a lot: timewarping to a planet or moon and under estimating the time warp and going past my nose past the moon or planet ir worse crashing straight into it after not doing a quick save
One of my mistakes: Forgetting about the SAS button and helplessly tumbling through the void.
My big one is forgetting to deploy antennae. It's especially a problem because most of my ships are robotic. I fit multiple "umbrellas," but sometimes forget to deploy them and lose control if the ship is out of range of my Minmus and Mun relays. I haven't deployed more relays in the Kerbin system because I always fit big antennae... :)
In many areas of life, I remember everything when I'm new to something and struggling with it, but start forgetting things later. There's a saying which sort-of fits: "Familiarity breeds contempt." To get around this, I make a to-do list while building, but sometimes I forget to add something to the to-do list. Once or twice, it's even been the ore canister, which is strange because I build so many mining ships. Familiarity breeds contempt. Contributing to the contempt is the fact that large empty ore tanks weigh so much, I find it better to fit a fuel factory to every ship, industrial or not.
I'm usually dilligent with setting up staging, but in spaceplanes, I mess up the order to see how much delta-V and TWR my nuclear engines will have when the jets or RAPIERs are done. :) Sometimes I mess up the order in rockets too, but can't remember why. It's probably for lander TWR.
There's all that and forgetting to like videos...
No. 9: Playing the game for the first time and forgetting about *Physics* and making a long tube of Mk4 Fuel Tanks with the mammoth engine and a shuttle cockpit
I have another stupid thing to do in KSP
10. Landing on the moon with NO LANDING LEGS
Im early in the carrer and sent a module with solar panels and batteries only to find a clamp-o-tron JUNIOR docking port!!!! I needed to send a mission only to atach an adaptor...
I've been playing KSP for about a week now, I've had some beginner mistakes that were pretty funny:
The most common one was pressing space again to retire my engines instead of pressing z or shift, I had to hit f9 many times before I learned my lesson.
Using solar panels that can't retract and not realising until it's too late.
For my first lunar mission, my lunar landing module was wayy too tall and my landing zone was not flat. Tipped over on almost every attempt.
Sending a probe to mars without realising the antenna was too weak to reach kerbin
Sending a manned mission to mars without tracking solar panels and finind the ship dead halfway there.
And lastly, not knowing how to do some things which are so simple for the ksp community. For a while I couldn't figure out how to use bob as a pilot and still have SAS in career mode. Seems everyone will get angry and tell you to use Jeb instead, but it's totally possible to have SAS if you use a probe core, the hard part is finding the information while dodging the people who don't even read the question properly.
Today i managed to land on the Mun, but while I was on approach for reentry into Kerbin, I couldn't line up my Capsule because it ran out of power so I couldn't use the reaction wheels.
I had to use Valentina kerman's rcs to steer my capsule.
I once had a contract that required putting a satellite in orbit around the Mun. Everything was perfect, everything... But I had forgotten a decoupler, so I couldn't get rid of the fuel tanks and engine... The game didn't count that as a probe :(
Before they fixed the initial orientation in an update I had a recurring issue with putting the landing gear on upside down.
Veteran KSPer here... and there are a couple you missed out... when rendezvousing with another vehicle you don’t look at the RELATIVE velocity and spend ages zooming past your target repeatedly. That seems to be the one major hurdle with docking too. Oh and the other one.... but related to the sturdy rocket point... STRUTS!!!
My most common mistake: running out of fuel. Also sending a rescue mission... and also running out of fuel
Me being a young (literally young) KSP player I haven't got a single accident, and yes some of my rockets are prone to kraken attacks like my long rocket which wobbles and calms down after I detatch 6 boosters, I recomend the tutorial, it helps me ALOT and prevents me from doing random stuffs
I launched a rover to Eve once, I didn't realise I forgot to add a heat shield until my landing module exploded during reentry. I lost the rover.
My problem is that I don’t have anything to build with, literally, they don’t give me anything to build with
the first few times i played ksp , i accidently press spacebar and decoupled the engine that was supposed to get jeb outmof orbit
I successfully landed Kerbals on Duna for the first time to realize that I blocked the exit with a parachute...
Ohhh that's tough man
1. Play it on a laptop with 5 fps.
Even when building.
Fmgl (Fuck my gaming life)
I always forget to check the staging specially when trying to beat the landspeed record it end up deploying the chute and activating the engine at the same time and it ruined my attempt to beat the record and sometimes I use SRBs to try if I can beat the record and you know that the SRBs when you activate you cannot shut it down
interestingly for some of these I am the exact opposite like adding so many panels that my batteries are redundant or putting so many antennas that the aformentioned solar panels cannot gain power.
I sent a probe to Jool, assuming that the second largest antenna would be powerful enough.... Apparently not, since I can only control it when the planets are perfectly aligned, and I should've just used the tiny foldable Communotron 88-88 which somehow has a longer range...
I once was on career mode and had a major early game contract to send a probe to interplanetary space to collect science. In career mode, i like to multitask, so i did several smaller contracts during the 3-day wait time. When i went back to the ship, i realized i forgot an antenna, so i couldnt send any science. furthermore, i forgot to save a backup, so i needlessly poured 100k money down the drain. that was a bad day.
Also, for whatever reason, (possibly a glitch), everytime i warped with a probe, it would instantly drain all of its power at an insane rate (>1000 per second) and never recover, making many probe missions essentially impossible. a re-install and remaking of my personal modpack fixed this problem anyway.
Launching a probe, forgeting to deploy thee solar panels and warping to the next maneuver node. Every fucking time...
I am strongly of the opinion that any attempt to get a 5-kT payload into orbit is better done through two or three missions, the first to put an empty tank up, the next one or two to refuel it. Alternatively, if you've been collecting ore, you can always refuel it with that.
5:00 that is the awesomest idea for a mineing base. thanks xD