Kerbal: Project B.E.A.S.T: Part 11

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Highlight of my week! Keep it up GBeast!

The voices clip and distort quite badly when raised. I hope GBeast sorts out these audio issues someday.

It seems like the BEAST crew have got the space jitters. There's too much riding on this!

EDIT: jettisoning all of your engines and fuel while travelling at almost 3km/s in a wonky orbit, without a second thought - that's the BEAST way.

Alright! Now it's time to bring them home

YES!!!! Thank you B.E.A.S.T.

this is unexpected I was looking forward to stardew valley but guess I get to watch this first :D thank you

Aww yeah more kerbal zaniness

Bring them home.

we copy you down

Listening to them talking about orbital mechanics and approaching Kerbin feels like listening to cavemen trying to figure out what fire is. No wonder people made up religion.

I love it.

Oh man that teaser for the next episode!

@almostswedish: God is real, and he streams his ride to work on Mixlr every morning.

@vinny

On your first reentry, the stage you jettisoned didn't bounce out of the atmosphere or anything, the game just stops rendering re-entry visual effects on other objects once they get 50-100m away from the ship you're flying.

@gerrid: Also: Doing so while in atmosphere, at risk of bumping into them as opposed to doing it well off into space.

I gotta say, I only played about 4 hours of KSP ever (and in career mode and only achieved orbit once with the basic rocket parts they start you with) and the fact that these guys are still struggling with some fundamental things about orbit is pretty entertaining. They still somehow think that jettisoning out in space will mess up their trajectory in any significant way, when they have to burn their engines for 10-15 seconds at a time to make any decent changes to their own orbit.

If Vinny would have started in career mode or had played the tutorials before doing these, the guys would be a lot better off... but on the flipside it wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. Looking forward to the next episode.

THAT PREVIEW MAN. My heart can't take it.

That preview....

Can't wait for the next episode.

Got a new audio interface and therefore have to ask: Does the audio distort a bit when they speak (or yell) bit louder than normally?

Well wtf how did they crash the pod?! Chute couldn't open in time?

Guys

Fuel is the best way to slow down your craft, aerobraking is cool, but please stop jettisoning all of your fuel and relying entirely on it!

This. They abandon so much fuel! It's there to be used, just use it!

Things get tricky when it looks like you're about to smash into the side of a mountain.

Fuck. Fuck. FUCK. I need to time warp to next Monday. I NEED TO KNOW.

Always look at your speed! You guys are going hella fast for a safe de-orbit! Also, you guys are super keen on just ejecting all that usable rocket fuel right when you could use it! Also, don't be afraid of that IVA button you looked right at! And yes, more stages will definitely equal more weight, no bones about that! Also, you've gone for big fuel tanks feeding that tiny engine, that's bad math in the rocket equation!

Nice jump cut lol.

That preview! *dying*

I think you fellas may have gone a bit too far with the next episode preview...

Seriously, you can use fuel to slow down. You don't have to come in at the highest possible speed and dump a ton of fuel right before you do it.

Man I don't wanna wait another week!

They're so afraid at coming in at too steep of an angle that they don't want to slow down any more for re-entry.

Can't wait for the next episode :D

That teaser...

Next time on Project Beast bit always gets me.

the fuel tank didn't skip off the atmosphere when you saw it. I'm guessing the game just wasn't rendering the heating effects. Skipping out of the atmosphere means your periapsis was not low enough to prevent you from leaving the atmosphere again. So technically the fuel tank (and you) skipped off the atmosphere, you just weren't witnessing it at that time.

NASA was so concerned about the Apollo missions skipping off the atmosphere because, coming from the Moon, it would be days until the craft circled around the Earth for another re-entry, and the astronauts didn't have enough life support to last that long. But in KSP, where there is no life support, and Kerbin is 1/10 the size of Earth (so no orbits lasting days), skipping off the atmosphere isn't really a big deal.

The 'magic number' you want your periapsis to be for reentry is 35km. You could be coming in from the far reaches of the solar system going insane speeds, and the atmosphere will still catch you at 35km.

Also, please read this part for the sake of better quality videos: On the top right of the screen, there is a square button with a blue circle with the letters 'PS' under it. This is the Planet Shine mod. Click that button and look around the options and find all the stuff that deals with ambient light. Increasing those will raise the ambient light levels, making the night side of objects look so much better in the videos.

@grimluck343: they still have not figured out drouge chutes to stop the death fall before popping the big boy parachute.

@alex That is in fact a french horn.

"His bone density is just nothing" - Austin

"Yeah, he's basically just tissue paper" - Vinny

Still laughing. A human just landed after a year in space btw, and was't a liquid when he came out of the ship.

They should have burned fuel to de-orbit instead of separating.

I was jumping out of my seat with laughter watching that preview.

Classic Vinny.

Holy shit that preview for the next episode!

@sear: A compressor can flatten a signal by itself, same as human riding a fader. I would try to compress each voice individually as well as the master. Mics cause various problems too though.

Holy shit, that preview though!

I don't think I've ever been this excited to watch something.

@blanemasterz: Yes, Scott Kelly just came back after a year, but he was still exercising in space to maintain that muscle mass. Just sitting in space for a year drinking your own urine, not sure how far you'll get, lol.

So if real astronauts have to drink their own urine, is it shared or do you get a choice. I wouldn't want to drink my own, I don't know where I've been...

why oh why did they jettison the tanks again so high up? you really want to be on a collision course with earth before you lose your last possible propulsion method. they could have safely jettisoned the tanks much, much later.

I'm so glad they didn't mess that up re-entry.

Oh sweet Jesus!!!! What could have possibly happened that lead to that preview?!

Holy shit the next episode is going to be a good one.

Oh god that preview is a nightmare.