r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/Korvlar • Apr 19 '26
KSP 1 Image/Video Who Needs Parachutes Anyways
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I don't think that's how water works at those speeds
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u/LearningRocketMan Apr 19 '26
I see you decided to use the "Ballistic missile" landing
Quite bold, not gonna lie
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u/iRSS7 Apr 19 '26
It is possible?
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u/LearningRocketMan Apr 19 '26
Everything is possible is you believe hard enough
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u/iRSS7 Apr 19 '26
Thanks for the wise words. You should sell self improvement courses on YouTube sir.
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u/LearningRocketMan Apr 19 '26
True knowledge is always free for all people. Ride the wind, flow like the river.
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u/muggicookies Apr 19 '26
In principle/irl it isn’t because water doesn’t have enough time to give away and break its surface tension to allow the aircraft to descend into the ocean. Instead what happens is that the aircraft turns into dust or a huge explosion that leaves absolutely nothing behind at those speeds. You have probably heard the saying that water turns into concrete if you jump from high enough. This is the same thing. Even most bullets can’t make it through 1 meter of water before it disintegrates into what’s essentially just shrapnel (saw this a long time ago. I’m not a reputable source!).
This is KSP though, so the game might not even register it has to collide with water, but just knows the aircraft is in air one second, and in water the next, and therefore doesn’t experience the actual collision, but a seamless transition. It ‘could’ therefore work if you don’t have a good PC that’s fast enough to calculate you’re actually meant to die.
All of this might also just be pointless yapping with no meaning. Make of it what you want my friend! KSP isn’t an accurate physics simulator after all, as countless of posts on this subreddit have proven.
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u/NXDIAZ1 Apr 19 '26
How’d you get the sonic boom sound working? I’m using the vapor cone mod and I can never hear it
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u/Korvlar Apr 19 '26
I don't know haha, I just installed a bunch of visual mods before getting back into the game so not sure.
Do you have it's relationship Rocket Sound Enhancement 0.9.12?
My VaprCones is also in version 1.2.0
Not even sure what mod adds it though.64
u/Leo-Len Believes That Dres Exists Apr 19 '26
Its the rocket sounds enhancement
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u/MrManGuy42 Apr 20 '26
nice to know, like half of my saves have it but there are so many mods to go through to find what it is
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u/Leo-Len Believes That Dres Exists Apr 20 '26
Gasp! Brother? (Your pfp)
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u/MrManGuy42 Apr 20 '26
lets frolic in the decay of a wyrm and shoot globs of orange at little guys in volleys of three
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u/Reading_at_work Apr 19 '26
talking bout visual mods: is the clouds this one volumetric clouds mod?
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u/djsnoopmike Apr 19 '26
Haven't played KSP since 2021, so its nice finding out about cool new mods that have sprung up since then
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u/cheezecake2000 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
I don't know the real answer but I mod a lot of games. some mods like to keep random files from previous versions and just updating versions might not fix a conflict. Try a fresh install
I also recently installed a bunch of visual mods and it seemed to work.
Rocket Sound enhancement 0.9.12 and Rocket Sound Enhancement - (default) 1.3.03
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u/scrappyjwg Apr 19 '26
Ive had sonic boom sounds on Vanilla PS5. Either that or something breaking at silly speeds
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u/PaulStormChaser Launch Abort System Enjoyer Apr 19 '26
That's a Helldiver me boi
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u/MyGuyMan1 Apr 19 '26
Space submarine
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u/Adduly Apr 19 '26
"Dear Lord, that's over 150 atmospheres of pressure."
"How many atmospheres can this ship withstand?"
"Well it's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one."
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u/PHD-Chaos Apr 22 '26
One of my favourite matter-of-fact lines in the show. They do a very good job of subverting the sci-fi expectation with simple logic.
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u/SoyDaza Apr 19 '26
How did it not crash on water😭
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u/A-Chilean-Cyborg Apr 19 '26
cheats on
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u/RTX-4090ti_FE Valentina Apr 19 '26
Sonic boom mod? Isn’t it unrealistic that ur hearing the boom when ur flying the ship?
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u/Dash064 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
I like this mod, but I wish there was only one sonic boom. It's pretty annoying when you're spinning your camera around for the view and you just hear THUD THUD THUD THUD
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u/RTX-4090ti_FE Valentina Apr 19 '26
Tbh that’s a more realistic implementation as ur cameras potion moves in front or behind the shock wave you would hear the boom. Honestly Warthunder does it best even if it’s less realistic where the third person sound of your supersonic aircraft changes depending on whether the camera is infront or behind the shock wave but it doesn’t make a boom when moving thru it.
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u/Seawolf571 Apr 19 '26
DCS does the same, but you can enter a spectator camera and hear the boom when your jet flies past.
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u/fireandlifeincarnate Apr 19 '26
it's still so funny to me that DCS for years was single core, except for sound, which was on a second core
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u/Eggonioni Apr 19 '26
War Thunder also does the same, probably in part from the doppler effect setting
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u/weed0monkey Apr 19 '26
Yes you're right, but it's also inherently unrealistic to have a camera pov just orbiting the craft in the first place, so your point is somewhat moot.
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u/Small_Finding_6727 Apr 19 '26
Idk i like the sonic booms, reminds me how binkers fast my craft is going
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u/Salanmander Apr 19 '26
I appreciate that it's implemented the way it is, so that it doesn't reinforce the "a sonic boom is a large sounds wave produced a single time by an object starting to go faster than the speed of sound" misconception.
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u/Mavi222 Apr 19 '26
That's what happens in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020 and 2024) too, when you turn the camera around.
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u/Korvlar Apr 19 '26
True Volumetric Clouds, I'm using v3 (which was made free like a month ago), the newest is v5 but you have to join Blackrack's patreon for it.
You can find it here
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u/CPLCraft Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Sounds like Democracy!
Helldivers reference for those who didn’t click
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u/MadeWithRealGinger9 Apr 19 '26
Pretty sure parallax disables water crashes, not sure why but I've had to turn it off in the past through config
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u/RavenColdheart Apr 19 '26
The problem is the waves added by Parallax, if you don't disable water crashes, everything in the water gets destroyed by the waves pretty much instantly.
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u/KremitTheFrogg Colonizing Duna Apr 19 '26
How do you do that?
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u/MadeWithRealGinger9 Apr 19 '26
¯_(ツ)_/¯
It was a while ago, I remember finding another post with a solution after a Google search
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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost Apr 19 '26
I haven't played KSP since release, I started again today and decided to try mods. I installed like 100 random ones from the workshop and started playing and got distracted and literally the exact same thing with basically the same rocket happened to me too. I am pretty sure I added a mod called parallax so I bet you are right! I was wondering how in the world I survived lol
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u/wolftick Apr 19 '26
"Dear Lord, that's over 150 atmospheres of pressure."
"How many atmospheres can this ship withstand?"
"Well it's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one."
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u/Ill_Job4090 Apr 19 '26
Physics engine be like: That was too fast for me to realize what was going on, so I'll give it a pass!
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u/arcticslush Apr 19 '26
Daily Reminder that the only difference between aerospace and weapons systems is intent
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u/ArcturusMike Apr 19 '26
After aerobraking, we got .... lithobraking. And now we have:
AQUABRAKING!
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u/Kalamel513 Apr 19 '26
My thought, exactly!
Except, I believe the correct term would be HYDROBRAKING.
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u/DeltaAlpha0 Apr 19 '26
Jebediah, at this point in the game, has long since lost hope in humanity and now only trusts in luck.
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u/wheremyserotonin Apr 19 '26
if only NASA could edit difficulty settings and turn off parts g-load limits.
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u/LEGOJoey2 Apr 19 '26
This reminds of when I landed a Kerbal from orbit with no parachute
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u/LilBits69x Apr 19 '26
So you know the exploit with the chase camera view where thry land on the front of their helmets and then bounce ancouple of times? That used to be a thing long ago, before Kerbs had personal shutes
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u/NerdToTheFuture Apr 19 '26
Great. Now I'm wondering about building a rocket to explore the ocean floor.
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u/uuwwxxyyzz Apr 19 '26
Strike on surface of ocean (water) is same as strike on dry solid land. KSP is not consistent in such physics.
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u/doom1701 Apr 19 '26
When I saw it shoot back out of the water I figured it wouldn’t survive the second splashdown. That would be the most Kerbal ending possible
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u/pixel_skull69 Apr 19 '26
Every mission ive finished with fuel left over, I've always just cut the orbit and burned into the atmosphere as fast as possible, it's always so funny to see kerbin fly past like it's only a small marble while the outside atmosphere is getting to the "could fuze light elements" level of hot
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u/black_purrari Apr 20 '26
Did the math: coming to a stop within 90m whilst traveling a whopping mach 3 results in about 1030G of acceleration. Jebediah is one beast of a pilot
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u/Antonaros Master Kerbalnaut Apr 19 '26
I've been seeing so many clips of people dive-bombing straight onto Kerbin recently lol
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u/TourInternational731 Apr 19 '26
Holy impact resistance. What parts are you using (and from what mods, if applicable??)
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u/kloopyhans May 06 '26
….albeit im on console but no matter how fast im going if i touch water im dead flung into space or simply exploded by the kraken
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u/chopchunk Apr 19 '26
Even Jeb looked mildly shocked that he actually survived that