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

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  • čas přidán 28. 01. 2023
  • And with that, we likely have the end of KSP 1 videos. There is an extremely small chance I post another, but I think that's a wrap.
    The video I alluded to: • Building a Ring Around...
    My Discord: / discord
    KSP playlist: • Kerbal Space Program
  • Hry

Komentáře • 365

  • @ReidCaptain
    @ReidCaptain  Před rokem +545

    Why did I choose Dres to land on? It's the only place I hadn't visited yet! With this video I have achieved my goal of landing everywhere.

  • @David_Phantom
    @David_Phantom Před rokem +569

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

  • @lithuanianguy1799
    @lithuanianguy1799 Před rokem +305

    As always reaching the peak of engineering

  • @noneedtogetagressive5875
    @noneedtogetagressive5875 Před rokem +172

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

    • @ReidCaptain
      @ReidCaptain  Před rokem +41

      Basically

    • @whannabi
      @whannabi Před rokem +15

      Same speech pattern

    • @beckhamoneill1894
      @beckhamoneill1894 Před rokem +7

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

  • @versinussyrin577
    @versinussyrin577 Před rokem +119

    I just landed on Dres with a big lander with a modded nuclear engine and 12500-ish m/s dv, and now you just did it with separatrons... just unbelieveable and crazy :D
    Good job!

  • @Totally_Bonkers
    @Totally_Bonkers Před rokem +138

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

    • @jesuschrist711
      @jesuschrist711 Před rokem +8

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

    • @two67gh
      @two67gh Před rokem

      @buffalo wt same

  • @KinneKitsune
    @KinneKitsune Před rokem +11

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

  • @superasli2174
    @superasli2174 Před rokem +39

    You got massive patience man, big respect

  • @mission2858
    @mission2858 Před rokem +97

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

    • @birkbuscher6571
      @birkbuscher6571 Před rokem +2

      Exploit?

    • @mission2858
      @mission2858 Před rokem +15

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

    • @Guardrailkid
      @Guardrailkid Před 8 měsíci +7

      kerbal sisyphus program

  • @thespacepeacock
    @thespacepeacock Před rokem +38

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

    • @hexlart8481
      @hexlart8481 Před rokem +8

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

    • @jlco
      @jlco Před rokem +6

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

  • @frawzch.048
    @frawzch.048 Před rokem +26

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

  • @icyartillery9027
    @icyartillery9027 Před rokem +13

    Man, I only ever use separations for boosting tiny missiles and microjets, so when I saw that clip early on or forcefully separating boosters I legitimately got taken aback for a moment

  • @Singulut
    @Singulut Před rokem +22

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

  • @sankang9425
    @sankang9425 Před rokem +18

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

  • @user-zs1dj8kc4z
    @user-zs1dj8kc4z Před rokem +4

    "And it is! But it worked!.."
    That line was delivered so perfectly, I've never heard you saying anything using this tone, use it more:DD

  • @asoftraiden
    @asoftraiden Před rokem +4

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

  • @martinmnagell2894
    @martinmnagell2894 Před rokem +10

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

  • @stuchly1
    @stuchly1 Před rokem +2

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

  • @ducoschollmeijer4841
    @ducoschollmeijer4841 Před rokem +7

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

  • @nutella1021
    @nutella1021 Před rokem +2

    Awesome video! I love playing Kerbal Space Program and it's always a challenge to try and use the smallest engines possible to reach different planets. Great job on accomplishing this feat with Dres, can't wait to see where your next mission takes you in the game!

  • @dsd6873
    @dsd6873 Před rokem +13

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

    • @ReidCaptain
      @ReidCaptain  Před rokem +7

      True, I should have messed with that a little more

    • @EpicMiniMeatwad
      @EpicMiniMeatwad Před rokem

      @@ReidCaptain And waited even longer.

  • @battleshipbeast964
    @battleshipbeast964 Před rokem +5

    We love your videos

  • @Roaxial
    @Roaxial Před rokem +8

    now you gotta get somewhere using just the backpack
    😃👍

  • @ajuntapall8860
    @ajuntapall8860 Před 6 měsíci +2

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

  • @chugetnuget6230
    @chugetnuget6230 Před rokem +3

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

  • @itstime9023
    @itstime9023 Před rokem +1

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

  • @spudthespudgungamer7112

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

  • @proatplanes
    @proatplanes Před rokem +2

    I can imagine this wont go well

    • @ReidCaptain
      @ReidCaptain  Před rokem +1

      Kinda

    • @proatplanes
      @proatplanes Před rokem

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

  • @morganshifflett4994
    @morganshifflett4994 Před rokem

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

  • @deadgoat2738
    @deadgoat2738 Před rokem

    This is my favorite type of comedy

  • @SpaceSim1
    @SpaceSim1 Před rokem

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

  • @selensewar
    @selensewar Před rokem

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

  • @PinappleCoinGaming
    @PinappleCoinGaming Před rokem

    See you at KSP2! also noice video.

  • @TheMcHunter
    @TheMcHunter Před rokem

    that big head fits really well

  • @andreslosada559
    @andreslosada559 Před rokem

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

  • @Chevsilverado
    @Chevsilverado Před rokem

    If you wait a little bit before staging the next set of boosters in the atmosphere the rocket will be higher and have less drag which puts your fuel to better use, since drag increases exponentially with speed you want to be pretty slow in the thick air.
    You have enough thrust with the solid fuel motors to do most of your acceleration in space to circularize your orbit, so no need to rush to gain speed when it’s less efficient in atmosphere.

  • @catwithajetpack5135
    @catwithajetpack5135 Před rokem +2

    bro is gonna go interstellar on only srbs next

  • @HappyBeezerStudios
    @HappyBeezerStudios Před rokem

    my thought would be to have the bottom stages bigger than the top. the first stage has to push the weight of the entire thing, while the last one only has to move the capsule. that would also help with hypersonic disassembly of the top.
    and now I have to continue with my 1700 t space shuttle

  • @knownas2017
    @knownas2017 Před rokem

    Personally,
    I like using decouples themselves as the 'structure' for the separatrons.
    Basically a ton of decouplers attached to each other, with these little SRBs on each one, each decoupler its own stage.
    Also the decouplers themselves give you a slight boost to dv from the separation.

  • @EpicMiniMeatwad
    @EpicMiniMeatwad Před rokem

    18:00 What happened is likely a failure to inherit during initialization (or object creation). Your kerbal did not inherit the velocity from the vessel since it spawned after the vessel got destroyed, meaning it tried to look for a velocity that no longer existed. It probably also defaulted to putting you at 0 velocity relative to the planet.
    This is possible because you are going so fast that the tick rate of the game causes you to essentially just teleport into the planet from the view point of someone watching the game per tick. Because the game was already in the process of deleting the craft on the same tick as you spawning your kerbal, when the kerbal went to check for the craft's velocity, it couldn't find the craft or its velocity.
    A way to fix this would probably be soft deleting the vessel with a few ticks of immunity from being deleted, saving its variables like velocity before it's hard deleted. A vessel should not get deleted unless it goes out of range or smashes into something and has to be deleted from the perspective of the physics world/environment.
    So you mark the object as being soft deleted until it is time to be hard deleted, and even from that information you could just not let a kerbal spawn from a soft deleted vessel.
    So why is this still in the game? Because shitcode, don't worry about it, we are getting a KSP 2 with less technical debt. There are many ways this could have gone wrong that are fundamentally broken so it's understandable that it hasn't been fixed. It's also fun lol.

  • @murilo7794
    @murilo7794 Před rokem +1

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

    • @b2048_
      @b2048_ Před rokem

      i mean it's technically possible

  • @Mr_Turab
    @Mr_Turab Před rokem

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

  • @thatGUYbehindthemask
    @thatGUYbehindthemask Před rokem

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

  • @larrywhitney
    @larrywhitney Před rokem +2

    Separations are just stronger Escape Pods. Change my mind

  • @nocrega
    @nocrega Před rokem

    This is gonna be cool for sure

  • @MuffinTM
    @MuffinTM Před rokem +1

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

  • @robertdelatorre7252
    @robertdelatorre7252 Před rokem

    my idea for a challenge is that you rescue all of your left behind kerbals in this one engine series, with one megacraft, the challenge is that the landers that collect them has to use the same propulsion method as how they arrived at the planet

  • @RAFMnBgaming
    @RAFMnBgaming Před rokem

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

  • @shizumeru_
    @shizumeru_ Před rokem

    His mannerisms and chaotic experimenting remind me of Nile Red

  • @lelegoguemraoui772
    @lelegoguemraoui772 Před rokem

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

  • @MemeGrenades
    @MemeGrenades Před rokem

    I haven't seen the video yet but I know Reid will end KSP 1 off with something amazing

  • @CrisBy1
    @CrisBy1 Před rokem

    Man has the most patience I've ever seen

  • @LucasGleason
    @LucasGleason Před rokem

    8:57 never heard that tone of voice before dayum

  • @Penguin5z
    @Penguin5z Před rokem +2

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

  • @gunceler7535
    @gunceler7535 Před rokem +1

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

  • @YMandarin
    @YMandarin Před rokem

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

  • @passiveagrsivesmeerschwein2320

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

  • @soul-candy-music
    @soul-candy-music Před rokem +1

    homie has the exact same inflection as NileRed lol

  • @Supern0v4_23
    @Supern0v4_23 Před rokem +2

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

    • @1mariomaniac
      @1mariomaniac Před rokem

      If you mean like positioning the Kerbal behind the rocket boosters and firing them, that wouldn't work because 1. It'd probably kill them, and 2. You can't stage stuff while on EVA.

    • @Supern0v4_23
      @Supern0v4_23 Před rokem

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

  • @SEB9630_pl
    @SEB9630_pl Před rokem

    there is a cool way to go highter with less engines that is to make fuel tanks and other big things attached to bottom of engine plate, that makes them have no drag so you can make supermanueverable planes etc. soo ye thats usefull iinda for challanges such as this

  • @arfb01
    @arfb01 Před rokem

    Well now you need to rescue the kerbal

  • @Elimino_P
    @Elimino_P Před rokem

    Thrust limiting. It's a really nice feature in the VAB.

  • @Zanthron
    @Zanthron Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @tyazze6390
    @tyazze6390 Před rokem

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

  • @allesarfint
    @allesarfint Před rokem

    Video Idea: Finding every cool rock in Kerbal Space Program

  • @mumblety
    @mumblety Před rokem

    Kerbal technology at it's finest!

  • @mikemallon1065
    @mikemallon1065 Před rokem

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

  • @SurgutPictures
    @SurgutPictures Před rokem +1

    my brain at the start of the video: Dres? bro, you can't even orbit this thin...wa..wai...WAIT HOW...BRO, WHY? HOW? WH... ok. Understandable.

  • @noomrm3701
    @noomrm3701 Před rokem

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

  • @MrBrick-vb3xh
    @MrBrick-vb3xh Před rokem

    and here i am struggling to land on the Mun

  • @thatdirtymichiganmusician1038

    Truely the Nile Red of KSP

  • @paxlash
    @paxlash Před rokem +1

    Do a rescue with the biggest engine

  • @Theuncoolpuenguin
    @Theuncoolpuenguin Před rokem +1

    best youtuber EVER

  • @Top-Code
    @Top-Code Před rokem

    Casually getting frame perfect timing

  • @IndyGibb
    @IndyGibb Před rokem

    That was scuffed. For one final video, you should do a plane challenge, I dunno what challenge, but you should send the plane to save every Kerbal that has been stranded and hasn't been saved. That way they will all be ready for KSP2.

  • @Miliradian
    @Miliradian Před rokem

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

  • @alpkangul655
    @alpkangul655 Před rokem

    His humour is quite good today🤣

  • @fipo2227
    @fipo2227 Před rokem

    Do a first person and map only challenge, no part restrictions and you choose the location

  • @FaeraOthronus
    @FaeraOthronus Před rokem

    Well now you have to save them

  • @Luke-we9gj
    @Luke-we9gj Před rokem +2

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

  • @huiyuniris1853
    @huiyuniris1853 Před rokem

    RC you mad lad

  • @jlco
    @jlco Před rokem

    1. I wonder how a helical placement would have affected the number of engines you could attach without that symmetry trick.
    2. Wouldn't delays between decoupling one stage and firing the next reduce the total amount of drag experienced on the way out of the atmosphere?
    3. Ah, yes, lithobraking. The correct way to assert dominance just in case there are any lifeforms on the destination planet: wield the Kraken.

  • @adriangunnarlauterer4254

    Next challenge, landing on a astroid with only turbofans.

  • @exel1783
    @exel1783 Před 5 měsíci

    i like how the mission time was 239 years

  • @TerraLyte47
    @TerraLyte47 Před rokem

    world's biggest launch escape system

  • @shoking9825
    @shoking9825 Před rokem

    i wonder what this guy will make in the future

  • @Cona-vh7vi
    @Cona-vh7vi Před rokem

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

  • @jovankrstic3137
    @jovankrstic3137 Před rokem

    Video idea: landing on minimus with really cheap rocket

  • @user-og7tm4me2n
    @user-og7tm4me2n Před 7 hodinami

    9:39 final launch

  • @Killer-44
    @Killer-44 Před rokem

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

  • @kunatics1767
    @kunatics1767 Před rokem +1

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

  • @jokersize
    @jokersize Před rokem

    This is how my pc exploded. Now im living without pc for a year already.

  • @darkduckpl9620
    @darkduckpl9620 Před rokem

    This guy one day will go to some planet without engines at all

  • @nightskyreal
    @nightskyreal Před rokem

    Also really good idea maybe next time try no fuel tanks only solid fuel rockets to get to every moon or something like that. Just an idea

  • @mission2858
    @mission2858 Před rokem +1

    I'd like to see you make a Rubik's cube In plasma or another game.

  • @trolly4233
    @trolly4233 Před rokem

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

  • @Picklarc
    @Picklarc Před rokem

    Reid Captain murdering pcs, one at a time

  • @freevbucks8019
    @freevbucks8019 Před rokem

    5:02 - You can use Better Timewarp to make it slowmo and reduce lag overall

  • @artigames1105
    @artigames1105 Před rokem

    Hello mate, awesome video!! could I use this idea of only separators to make a video? I would add the link of your video in the description :D

  • @sfsvoid9616
    @sfsvoid9616 Před rokem

    Meanwhile me: Oooh dang I timewarped too much!