Quick Look: Kerbal Space Program

@larmer: awesome, am going to try this as soon as I can.

Caravella Space Program is one of my favorite things!

Into the cleansing fire!

12 minutes in and they're talking at length about "liquid-engine buttplugs". I love GBEAST.

UPDATE: 4 minutes later they've moved on to dildos. This is the best haha.

UPDATE 2: I'm at 45 minutes and it's gravity all over again. I CAN'T TAKE THIS.

The original quick look is the video that brought me here from Reddit in 2012!

Love the notes feature btw.

I've been playing this for 8 hours straight. Send help.

Epic Ending.

oh my god yes kerbal space program and vinny always means one thing.

IM HAPPY!

Vinny knew a lot more in this than I expected him too, he did a great job! There were a lot of weird things he did totally wrong, but that is ok it takes a while to learn this stuff. Super awesome game, there is just so much to do and the mods are amazing. Even without mods you can go to the planets [which are all VASTLY different, with huge ranges of different difficulties], and most if not all of the planets have their own moons you can land on as well. you can divert asteroids from kerbin, make sick space planes [one of my favorite parts of the game!] and so much more. Then add the mods and it just becomes crazy.

Even if you use the Mechjeb mod to make some things easier [which I think is fine if you want to] just be prepared to have to learn a bit to play this game. I highly recommend Scott Manley's youtube channel for tutorials. He has tons of video series and recently just started a great new series for beginners and career mode for 1.0. Just search Scott Manley on youtube, he is one of the best resources out there for learning how to play.

Now that this has some sort of progression, I'm definitely going to get back into this. Building crazy rockets and experimenting is fun as hell, but I like that they actually added missions and things to accomplish.

That was a great Quick Look from top to bottom.

Informative? Check.

Funny? Check.

Blood curdling scream at the end? CHECK!

MULTIPLAYER NOW! MULTIPLAYER CAMPAIGN MUST HAPPEN!

Vinny's EVA with Raygard was amazing. Seeing him running into the ship, sending it into a spin, and then managing to grab back onto the ship with less than 10% propellant remaining was great.

Raygard is is a fucking space cowboy. No parachute, no problem. I'll just jump out Bugs Bunny style and survive!

Then the next launch happened...

Ground control to Major Raygard... come in please...

Requesting a rescue mission video, please.

This game is something else. No other game has eaten up as much of my time as this one. I used to struggle with getting into orbit. Now I struggle with getting into orbit while building the Kerbin Space Station 1.

Also, a helpful hint for re-entry Vinny, whatever action you perform at one end of your orbit will have the most efficient effect on the opposite end. So, you want to cut your velocity at the apoapsis so the periapsis gets shrunk even further, saving fuel in the process.

@vinny@alex Great quick look guys!!!

Someone certainly already mentioned this, but with the maneuver nodes you want the time you're burning to be divided equally before and after the node encounter. For example, if the estimated burn time is 1 minute, you want to start burning full-throttle 30 seconds before you encounter the maneuver node.

I'd love a Vinny and Alex KSP series. As a long time player, watching this was both hilarious and frustrating.

This QL might be some of the best content I've ever seen on the site, from bespoke buttplugs and artisanal dildos to the terrifying, awe-inspiring end.

A few things to add to this video from an instructional point of view.

When Vinny was saying 'split the difference' he should have been (for example) starting a 10 second burn at 5 seconds till the node, then finishing at 5 seconds past the node. He had this backwards, and caused some of the inaccuracies in his flight to the Mun.

Second, if you want to make your orbit smaller (to land for example), you burn retrograde at your apoapsis - the highest point in orbit - and if you want to go deeper into space, you burn prograde at your periapsis - the lowest. Vinny had this switched and was wasting a significant amount of fuel to get into a 1.0 eccentricity orbit. You can tell you are in a near perfect orbit when your apoapsis and periapsis flip very quickly during a maneuver.

Finally, the center of thrust and center of gravity are very important to consider during launch. Having the struts or connecting points not be in the middle of a rocket will cause bending due to the thrust. This makes atmospheric flying very unstable.

Great video, glad to see this game getting some love.

I think this is the premium series we all deserve

Vinny is the QL master.

One of my favorite QLs ever right here!

The original Kerbal video was actually what got me into Giant Bomb in the first place. Love to see how far we've come with both Kerbal and Giantbomb.

one near death eXPerience

This is one of the best Quicklooks on this site.

The EVA portion of this was STRESSING ME OUT! I really need to get this game someday.

@johnnymcginley: Seconding, because this sounds wonderful.

Alex, god bless you for that Busta Rhymes "yaw" reference. I nearly choked on my fried catfish. Which is definitely not a euphemism.

Teach me how to Kerbal

Papa Vinny's Weekly Kerbal Update would be awesome.

This game looks so great now! I have a copy from way back when; will have to dig it up.

Amazing video guys. I was taken aback by how much Vinny knew about orbital mechanics. This game is actually a good tool for understanding how real orbits work. Cool stuff.

hahaha. Alex is so scared of space

KSP has been my game of the year the last three years running, I never stop coming back to it.

If you guys ever revisit this, you need to invest some time into space planes; the new aerodynamics model of 1.0 changes them pretty drastically. Nothing like going so fast that your space-plane breaks against the atmosphere.

Quick Look: Alex Relives The Movie 'Gravity.'

Vinny flying in space was one of the most intense moments in a quick look I can remember.

Just bought the game, man it's confusing as hell as times.

Welcome to the Icarus 2.

I really, really, really want to see them play more of this - like a Premium content style thing with them attempting to get to more and more planets. Awesome! Best QL in a while!

Perfect ending. A lone Kerbal staring listlessly into the sun, cast into the cosmic void by a capricious god...

@sirdesmond: agreed! This would be awesome premium content! And just imagine the amazingly dumb name they'd give it.

GBEAST in SPAAAAAAACE

Kerballin'

Vinco Space Program

Papa Vinny and the Wolf: Howlin' at the Moon

The possibilities are endless!

We definitely need a KSP Premium feature with Vinny at the helm. Make this happen

With the new GB Cross Continental video link, I really want to see a Brad and Vinny team up for this. Once a Month or every so often would make me very happy.

someday the sun will get to us

This came a really long way it seems. Might have to check it out after all.

Anyway Vinny playing this is always great, so yes to more Kerbal content!

THEY TOLD ME NOT TO DO THIS. I DIDN'T LISTEN.

Fantastic QL! Alex and Vinny are a perfect tag team. Would love to see more deeper dives like this, and more Kerbal content in general.

"All right, here we go, let's launch this motherfucker."

- Vinny Caravella

If you don't want to watch after reading that, I really don't know what more to say.

I was hoping for a Mun crash, but still:

Excellent rocket sciencing Vinny!

(the opaque / transparent business in the construction building was hard to watch)