I'm impressed with your dedication to KSP2, I'm definitely waiting a year or two to purchase. Good video!

Matt, your dedication to getting this game to "work" is very commendable. I wouldnt be able to do it.

ksp 2 makes me appreciate ksp 1 so much more now, there are so many things I just took for granted

Nice to see you making use of a Kraken drive again

Well you know what they say Matt. "A good landing is any one you can walk away from. A great landing is one where they can reuse the plane." - First Officer Douglas Richardson, Cabin Pressure

im continually shocked with the things they made worse or left out from KSP1. Thanks for being a voice/advocate for essentials like trajectory lines!

Doing some quick math. During the segment of the trans-Jool injection lasting from the first frame of 6:53 to the first frame of 6:59, the craft's speed increased by 1764 m/s while the listed Dv dropped by 17 m/s. This means that each m/s of listed Dv is worth about 103.8 m/s of real Dv, and so at the time the vessel left Kerbin's atmosphere, it's true Dv was 1445x103.8 = almost exactly 150 km/s. Side-note, during the aforementioned burn the acceleration was 294 m/s^2, or about 30 g.

You have a lot more patience with this game than I do! Kudos

Here in America, I've seen rocky road flavored ice cream that has pretty much everything you described. Although I have not seen a rocky road in the form of a biscuit/cookie

As an American, I can confirm that rocky road is not just a UK thing

One quick tip. When you are in Time Warp, you can use the / key to automatically drop out of Time Warp and go back to x1 speed. I don't know if this feature was in KSP1 but I don't remember it being there.

They really nailed the visuals and sound in KSP 2, no doubt about that

I don't have KSP2 so I've not been able to check this, but I read a post about the parts randomly falling off bug, and apparently in save files all parts have an ID number and a bug occasionally reverts the number to 0000-0000-0000 or something. If you can find the original numbers from an old unbugged save you can copy them across to your new save and it fixes the problem! Keep up the good work, I really love your videos!

matt, did you know that jool has a surface? (you cant return from there since no engines work at the pressure but you can land, but be aware that parachutes also dont seem to work). and also that Vall has a subsurface ocean you can enter by going to the ravine on the Jool facing side?

To limit the wings flapping, i found that reducing the depth of the control surfaces helps. I think that it's repeatedly overshooting the target, so making is thiner allows smoother control.

As rough as the Kraken is.. you handle it like a champ. All the while causing me to belly laugh out loud at the craziness. Thank you Matt top notch entertainment as always!

I love how you played the ksp 1 VAB soundtrack during the build.

I’d like to see more ksp 1 videos just as a breath of fresh air from all the ksp 2

17:55 Just like I had with my recent Duna mission, you *did* have a periaps show up in Tylo's SoI! I've only ever seen it happen a couple times now.

High thrust, high efficiency engine, you say? I see the devs added Fusion torch drives into the game earlier then expected. Great success!

I feel like they have added lots of cool things and visual enhancements and I understand that it’s buggy and laggy because it is early access but also they have changed things that didn’t need changing, like the map screen or the camera controls in the VAB, and things like building fairings - these are all things that didn’t need “fixing” but I look forward to the future for what this game could become! 😊

Note: you can actually see what your periapsis will be when encountering a planet or moon in KSP2. Just not when focusing the body itself. Instead, look at your orbital line and you'll notice you have 2 PE marks, one of which will be your PE around the body you're going to encounter. You can also keep your mouse over it while thrusting to optimize your encounter (just not using the maneuver plan). There is also a mod already out that will fix it in place like in KSP1 so you don't need to keep your mouse over it. Speaking of mods, there is also a maneuver node editor mod out already, which should make your life a lot easier.

I love how the kerbals in the top right are just having a stroke at 21:52

My personal theory for what causes the SAS flapping is that they are using closed-loop PID control but either set the derivative gain too low or just didn't set it at all. Closed-loop control responds to differences between the demanded value and the real value. For instance, if the craft isn't pointing to the marker set on the nav ball, the control system sees this and tunes the control surface angles in response so the craft moves closer to the desired heading. A PID system does this using 3 'gains' - Proportional which affects how aggressively the system responds to a difference, Derivative which sees how quickly the system response is occurring and slows it down if it's too fast, and Integral which reduces settling errors based on where the system has settled before. For best response, you want a high proportional gain so the system responds quickly, but if it's too high this causes instability as the system over-corrects and has to correct its own correction, and you get some wobbling before it is brought under control at best, or exponential growth of the error followed by an explosion at worst. A derivative gain can be used to reduce this by checking if the system is responding too fast, but if it's too high it can slow down the response, so balancing this with the proportional gain is important (and hard). If they are correctly balanced you can get a speedy response without the overshoot problems, but this often takes some time to make work, time the devs probably weren't given. Integral gains are useful but not really as relevant in this situation. I wouldn't be surprised if the way the devs were rushed to produce something releasable, they just whacked up the proportional gain so that SAS actually had some control over a craft, and ignored the derivative and integral gains (or just made them small) as implementing them is a pain and can be dealt with later after they have the rest of the critical physics architecture in place. This is almost certainly a crack theory based on me trying to fit a single module in mechanical engineering control theory (which I didn't even do that well in) into a real situation, so anyone who actually knows how to implement control theory in video games you are welcome to contest this.

Awesome video Matt 😁 those Kraken attacks are a nightmare - hopefully it's all fixed soon . The Jool system is just majestic ❤️

"I used the Kraken to slay the Kraken" -Matt Lowne

That amount of thrust is pure insanity!

It seems like the part detaches from the craft, but is still considered part of the craft. That causes the camera glitch because the camera focuses on the center of your vehicle. They really need to fix this and the VAB bug.

Thanks for the video, glad that it sounds like you had fun making it.

Something that helped me with the flappiness of the wings was lowering the control authority a bit. It made my plane turn *very* slowly but I could actually control where I wanted it to go

Matt, lovely video as always. I wonder since there's no atomspheric heating in KSP 2 at the moment. We could get a kerbal out on eva just above the karman line and de orbit the kerbal? The challenge being trying to land him back safely on kerbin with the kerbal's parachute. An even more difficult challenge, would be to land the kerbal back at the KSC.

Just create a maneuver node that results in a collision with the body, then adjust it slowly until it just barely doesn't result in a collision. Then you are going to have a fairly close encounter.

Are you ever gonna recreate your first vid, the Eve submarine in KSP2?

you can actually see your periapsis of another SOI in the map view, it's just on your orbit in the current SOI. (you see a PE icon near the encounter location)

thsi video came up in my recommendations and oh god the nostalgia hit the second the first note of Approaching Nirvana started playing. I used to use it for background music so much back in the day while working.

Yessss, harness the Kraken! :D Oh hey, the Mk2 bays open wider. I like that. SAS is a servo system. Getting a servo system right is tricky. Big flat areas? WOOHOO! Fun to fly is always good. :) Oh, KSP2 does copy/paste right! That's pretty rare, and it's great! :) That was really fun to watch! :)

we have rocky road in America but almost exclusively as an ice cream flavor. great video Matt!

I am really glad the devs are as hyped about the resource collection and base building as I am. As soon as that gets implemented I'm totally getting this game. Rocky road ice cream is where its at!

Haha this is perfect! I am just visiting laythe for the first time in ksp 1 before I go back to ksp 2 to visit and see the difference

Matt and SSTOs, name a more Iconic duo, I'll wait! Mhmm maybe Matt and the Kraken xd Nice video as always dude!

"if it's not a bug they need to fix it" Perfect description of the current state of the game

The non-existent SOI trajectory thing is definitely a bug because it did appear for me when I first got a Jool encounter. I could even get a Tylo encounter while still in Kerbin's SOI. However, it did not work when I tried to go to Minmus.

It's so weird and also beautiful to see this game run at a normal framerate. Gets me excited to play when the time comes.

British "biscuits": dry dull cookie. 'Murican biscuit: delicious, buttery, soft, heaven in your mouth. 😋

Here in the states we have *all the ice cream* so yes we do have rocky road lol. Also biscuits are like a dense but soft bread that one serves with soup or in a meat stew (usually turkey). Our word for what you in the U.K. call biscuits is cookies.

When the kraken makes all your ships lemons, don't make lemonade! Make the kraken take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! Matt's gonna get his engineers to invent a combustible lemon that'll burn your house down!

So the Kracken has taken on the form of the late, great Alan Rickman? "You dare use my own spells against me Lowne?"

I found using 'control surface' wings instead of regular 'wings' or 'stabilizer' in the rear helps with pitching issue. Seems the size of the control surface actually affects it.

"ghost riding the whip" got a good laugh out of me. Thanks for that

Hey Matt, I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to make Kerbal Space Program 2 enjoyable for those of us that still really want to enjoy the game, but just haven't got the time or willpower to deal with the bugs at the moment. I appreciate your approach and attitude, and I really do think that your content is important in the KSP community. I hope in some way you find it as fulfilling as I find it enjoyable to watch!

Rocky Road definitely exists across the pond, at least in the midwest. Great video

Laythe is my favourite celestial body ever in any game and it looks so good in this one! I remember youre first laythe video can you like remake that in ksp 2?

* Lands on Tylo and destroys the engine * * pause * * Blunderbirds intro *

Kraken Drive!!! :D awesome video.

Rocky road ice cream definitely exists in the US. Very delicious, also awesome ksp video loved it until the end

at 18:32 it actually shows the orbital line for your tylo intersect! I think it only works when you're NOT focused on the plant lol.

Good to learn about a way to make spaceplanes, i cant wait to try it out

Yes, Rocky Road is a thing in the US, and it's amazing. IIRC, "Digestive Biscuits" are like round Graham Crackers (but not as good). An American biscuit is a bread, and apparently close to a *savo[u]ry* scone? It is not sweet; it's just bread.

Thank you for all the content

It took me a while to realize, that you put in the KSP1 Soundtrack. 😅 Until that moment I had this „there is something wrong“ feeling in my guts. 🙈

Time to call in the blunderbirds & save the crew stuck on Tylo?

been having a blast with this glitch engine getting insane constructions into orbit, or getting to 1/100th speed of light

The classic KSP1 music still gives me the chill, I loved it so much... I hope someone can mod that in eventually. At least the space part of it. Maybe KSP2 music will grow more on me as I spend more time in it. Sudden and rapid disassembly ? Weren't they supposed to vanquish the Kraken =p Also the ship fighting with itself and not keeping straight is super annoying. Just flying to the north pole of Kerbin in KSP2 was trying my patience >< I hope they fix that soon. Awesome video, thanks.

LOL the rocky road ice cream ramble in the middle was great! XD can confirm that its a thing is the US im from missouri and Rocky road is actually my favorite ice cream.

11:29 Look at the kerbals! They be jamming to some music🤣

Day 3 of asking mat to make an interplanetary flying wing SSTO.

Matt, I'd highly recommend getting into mods. I know it's still early but there are already some great mods that fix some of the flaws. The one mod that I feel is basically just a bug fix that should just be copied into the stock files of the game is Sticky Orbit Markers. What is does is it basically just enables you to pin your Ap/Pe values while editing your Maneuver Plan. But there are also some other mods that are basically just Kerbal Engineer for KSP2 and a bunch of other ones that just make the whole experience more enjoyable. I initially said that I wasn't gonna use mods until official mod support came out but they are really helpful so I changed my mind.

It's nice to see the base SSTO model of the mat as KSP2.

I dig the use of KSP1 music overlayed onto the sped up footage

Here is another way to share craft files 1.) Open Run and type %appdata% 2.) Back out of Roaming by clicking AppData in the hard drive location 3.) Open up the LocalLow folder 4.) Open up Intercept Games folder 5.) Open up Kerbal Space Program 2 folder 6.) Open Up Saves folder 7.) Open up SinglePlayer folder 8.) Now select what save you want the craft from 9.) Open up the Workspaces folder in that save folder 10.) There should be 3 files a jpg, json, and a meta file copy those three files and paste them in another workspace in another save folder 11.) Success

Gotta love a video that's 5% mission to 95% working around the bugs. 🙂

I'd love to see you do a grand tour with this craft! I'd do one myself, but my pc can barely run KSP2

15:30; "I won't lie to you" 14:24; "pretty much all of my thumbnails are fake" 4:14; "I didn't accidentally deploy the parachutes"

Entirely unrelated to the video, but looking at the landing site on your Laythe departure, I could swear it looked like the old Macey Dean colony site

matt you absolute legend i had been looking for the intro song forever!

for the first time today, I cried over the Mk 3 SSTO as it disintegrated on the runway as soon as it spawned lol

All I could think of at 11:30 is Rammstein’s Du Hast, because I could see the Kerbals head banging away in the upper right of the screen!! 😂😂😂

This hack rocks. I wouldn't mind a whole host of vehicles that take advantage of the game's current issues instead of trying to making things work as is. Great video.

honestly i wouldn’t mind another laythe ssto so soon

I'm Japanese so I have no idea what they're talking about, but the video itself is a lot of fun to watch!

Hearing approaching nirvana in videos again does put a smile on my face

Yooooo this is sick

KSP2 players are true engineers, when the game is too unstable because of bugs to play normally what do they do? Adapt. They have mastered the bugs as a new form of space flight. Outstanding.

I’ve been getting around the missing orbit line by clicking out of the maneuver node and checking my periapsis around the target body. Then adjust at the end of the burn until I get the periapsis I want, Also, there is a way to deal with a different glitch where your orbit line never shows up in the flight preventing you from doing a maneuver node. The game in that case thinks you are still on the launch pad. You can go into the save file and change the vessel status from landed to orbiting. I google searched for that solution.

11:29 Jeb and Valentina look like their headbanging to some tunes and I can't stop laughing

This so so efficient, your deltaV whent up when you used fuel XD.

hey matt you actually can see your periapsis in another body's SOI, it's just connected to your orbit line instead of being visible around the body. they should add an indicator of where the body will be when you enter it tho cause it's not super clear. if they did that it feels like it'd a step up over how ksp 1 did it imo

14:52 "Hey did anyone chock the wheels...?"

The quickest way to copy the craft file is to press "duplicate" so that you get a new window to right-click code and select "select all" then you can copy and paste it into your KSP 2 VAB

You must have seen my video from last time about the music. Thank you for fixing that! Can’t wait for multiplayer and space colonies in this game!

This shall b known as the R.E.S.P.E.C.T. drive. Because if you beckon the kraken, the kraken will answer. And the kraken demands respect!

Very cool vid bro

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These videos always remind of that "the front fell off" video. You know, the blokes from Australia making fun of politicians playing down a ship sinking off the coast of Australia...with a bunch of crude oil. This reminds me of that.

Matt's already pumping out KSP 2 content!

17:20 We have rocky road ice cream here in the US. I'm quite a fan of it as well.

another matt lowne ksp 2 masterpiece

amazing video!

I ran into this bug as well while trying to make a F22, I pressed space and it just took off backwards. Saved it as “bug” for future use