Setting the LAND SPEED RECORD in Kerbal Space Program 2! 

the car being surrounded in landing gear and just spinning made me laugh super hard

Disabling friction control on the front wheels would stop you from swerving on the runway Matt! Hopefully useful.

FYI, the land speed record (LSR) is standardized as "the speed over a course of fixed length, averaged over two runs. Two runs are required in opposite directions within one hour, and a new record mark must exceed the previous one by at least one percent to be validated." So, not only must your craft beat the *Thrust SCC* speed record, which was done over a 1-mile distance, it needs to turn around and do it again! You gotta play by the rules, engineer!

21:11 Landing Gear-nado! This is the best KSP2 content I’ve seen so far, as the game isn’t really in a state where serious missions are feasible

I don't know if anyone's noticed yet, I didn't until I was editing a capture of the game and played back at x48 speed, the CLOUDS move and change shape naturally! RCE, your videos got me in to KSP, so thank you, and I look forward to more KSP2 videos from you!

Amusingly and ironically, on one of your first unsuccessful land speed runs, at 6:32, you managed a whopping 365 m/s or over 816 mph, enough to beat the land speed record (note: to catch the moment you will have to go frame by frame - it happens for literally 1 frame)

If the aerodynamics in this one are similar to what they were in the version of the first game i played, the flipping is caused because as fuel gets used, the vehicle is heavier on the back than in the front, so the tip of the rod has less terminal velocity than the base. this makes the base faster than the tip, flipping the entire vehicle. Adding more weight to the front wold help reduce flipping.

This "record" is probably gonna be tripled in the next week.

This is awesome! Currently watching this as I drive past the Bonneville Speedway, where they attempt the land speed records! Awesome coincidence!

at the uk space agency we pride ourselves with breaking these records no matter the cost

Yay! Just had a video a few days ago about the start of this game, so I'm glad you're already jumping back into it! (Not to say I'm not uber-hyped to see how Timberborners go in the current map)

Some advices: use the snap funcion to make sure the weels are straight. Then disable the auto friction control on the steering wheels, this will make it much more stable

The fact that an actual engineer with a degree took that long to realize the belly of his vehicle was scraping the ground makes me smile.

Matt, as much as I love watching you fail at KSP I do have a few tips that might help. First, there are hotkeys to maximize and minimize throttle values in an instant (i.e. not sliding up then sliding down, but instead immediately jumping between 0% and 100%). You'll have to double check me because it's been a minute but I believe they're X for 0% and T for 100%? Worth noting that doesn't work super well for jet engines as they still need to spool up and down, but super useful for liquid-fueled rocket engines. Also, you can drain the fuel tanks which will definitely help you get up to speed faster (less weight to accelerate). For a run this short I doubt you need even one full tank, but they're still useful structurally. If you right-click on a tank in the VAB you can see a slider that allows you to remove all the fuel and oxidizer. You can do the same with the solid fuel boosters for both weight purposes and for shutoff purposes. Since you can't stop a solid fuel booster from burning once it has started, this is useful to time the shutoff. Also useful for building airplanes because you can use Fuel/LOX tanks (if they have a convenient shape, for instance) but remove the LOX so that you don't have unnecessary weight when using air-breathing engines.

If you turn off friction control on the front wheels it should go in a straight line

17:00 the fact those wheels worked to stop the jetcar from crashing, is a true testament to engineering XD

Isn't Bloodhound SSC, successor of Thrust SSC, the current record holder?

Matt's an aerospace architect.

Hey Matt, pro tip: if you turn off auto friction control on the right click menu on just the front wheels, your craft shouldn't swerve about so much on the runway!

„The body might be too low to the ground.“ Body: fully on the floor „It veers off to to the side…“ RCE: adds drag at the front, with horizontal wings Watching a civil engineer build vehicles is just hilarious

Matt has done it again . Back to back banger KSP 2 videos , just what we all love to see . Enjoyed this, Can't wait for what more goofiness Matt has planned for in future episodes

Your Kerbal videos always make me cry with laughter. It is the rock solid certainty combined with the total lack of understanding when it fails.

"OK I tried to turn left and it blew up. Cheers." - 😂😂🤣🤣 I don't know why but that is SO funny! Love it RCE!

Matt, down at the bottom next to where you change the VAB build orientation, there are center of mass, centre of lift and centre off thrust overlays. Turn them on for next time. I'm sure an engineer like yourself will be able to figure it out from there 😉 Edit: There's also a handy dandy 'blueprint view' button down there too which is great for making sure things are lined up.

RCE, your problem solving skills absolutely slay me lmao. You accommodate problems instead of solving them. It's actually amazing. Problem: land rocket rolling on the runway Normal logic: Figure out how to prevent rolling RCE logic: Add wheels around the whole thing

Me seeing another RU-vidr playing KSP 2 and realizing that there are actual goals and stuff in KSP 1/2 after only seeing RCE play it: 😮 “say what!!?!” Thank you RCE for not doing anything related to the game at all while playing it. I’ve spent 3 years not playing the game but now I’m going to have to spend money on it to get to the mun etc haha

Sweet god watching it spin was something I definitely wasn't expecting!

10:29 I love every time Matt is like "mmmhm 🤔" 14:06 oh it's not fair! Matt is so used to use struts that the fact that there is no autostruts doesn't bother him 😂 19:45 so... There is the MOAR BOOSTER the MOAR ENGINE and with Matt we have the MOAR PARACHUTE, MOAR WINGS and today the new MOAR WHEELS 😆

I just got the KSP2 trailer as an ad while 3 minutes into your video and honestly, they did a great job showcasing the possibilities. Multiplayer on KSP? Interstellar travel? That’s gonna be amazing.

16:38 has the same energy as "but what if I purchase fastfood and disguise it as my own cooking?" love it

Vehicle stability is easy to asses when it comes to the basic layout: draw a line thru front and rear left tires. Then draw a line from left rear to front right. The angle between the two lines gives you an idea of the basic stability of the vehicle. The narrower the angle, the more stable. And of course, if the angle exceeds 45 degrees, the vehicle will not stay straight at all without constant steering inputs.

It’s always nice to see Matt making such beautiful and ‘practical’ works of engineering

4:21 Jeb: "COOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

I think we need to focus a little on aerodynamic yaw stability :D Center of mass need to be at or slightly in front on the "center of pressure" (basically cross section area in this case). The engines are really heavy and right at the back, so center of mass is really far back. Need lots of stabilizing fins for basic designs like that.

Add surface area of the wheels.(wider/enough contact on the ground) Add a hinge/cable on the wheels core to the front axis of the fuselage.(to add strength to the wheels while moving fast cuz it csnt handle the acceleration) Add spoiler to add downward force so you stay on ground level.( Anti flying )

Thank you SO MUCH for the flashing warning. We folks who need it could really use it in everything, it is so very appreciated when it shows up.

That might have been the most hilarious ship I've seen in KSP. When it started rolling, I was tearing up. 🤣

I lost it at 15:00. Jeb in that giant goose rocket bouncing around. hahahahahahaha

I love how every video for KSP2 I get the ad for the game before hand it makes the video that much better 👏

Out there somewhere is a vehicle designer who's trying to figure out how to get 10 sets of wheels on the same vehicle to completely eliminate rollover damage.

Thanks rce, seeing the car just rotate on all those landing gear had me laughing harder than I have in days, comedy gold

2:20 just FYI you CAN have custom flags in KSP2

20:10 wow that was an awesome slideshow, love the vehicles and all, I wish someone made a game good like this slideshow is

Loved the video @Real Civil Engineer! Can't wait for the next video of Kerbal Space Program 2 man! I have a Challenge for you and Anyone else who plays KSP 2. The Challenge is to build an Actual Jet Aircraft from the Military Forces around the World, Be it the American F-15C Eagle, F-16C "Viper" Fighting Falcon, The British/German/Italian/Spanish Eurofighter Typhoon, the Russian Federation and CIS Soviet-Era Mig-25 Foxbat, The Su-24 Fencer or even Jets like the Gloster Meteor, Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star or even the Messerschmitt Me-262 Schwalbe (German: Swallow) from World War Two. Basically, as long as it's an Actual Jet Aircraft, Just have some fun Building it!

Can't believe you didn't notice that you needed a vertical stabilizer early on

Terrifying

Best KSP2 vid from anyone so far. Being swaddled in landing gear was a galaxy brain move.

try putting fins behind the engines (without blocking them) for higher stability

3:36 i love the "what the f... hell happened there"

I love how the rocket car literally just needed at vertical tail fin

Add a long tail with a rudder to stabilize the yaw. Lower friction on the front wheels as well. You technically shouldn’t need any downforce as long as there’s no vertical component to the thrust, and that’ll just slow you down anyway.

Ok so a couple of things I noticed: 1) You beat the land speed record with your first build 2) Decoupling on the ground is essentially the same as dropping bombs on yourself 3) You weren't really running out of fuel so making it have more and more fuel is kinda pointless 4) The boosters would probably be more stable if you used two decouplers instead of struts and finally 5) I prefer watching it when you ignore my observations I loved the video. you should add more wheels next time

the car looks like the front half of the airbus beluga planes ....and the final design with the wheels everywhere .. lol 😂

16:38 lmao, never been laugh that loud in ur video.

you are driving this thing like an architect

If its anything like ksp1 there's 2 types of chutes, one is a drogue chute that can be deployed at higher speed but doesn't slow you down as much as a standard chute.

14:29 I love how eventually every solution in KSP is “Launch straight away.”

"Maybe we can outrun the pain ... no we can't", sounds about how I deal with all my problems🤣

In addition to @crusher1080 comment about diabling friction control on the front wheels, I would say based on the part where it wanted to go backwards that too much of your mass is behind the center of lift/drag. I imagine those engines are heavy and therefore that end will actually want to lead.

if your planes (or craft) veers off runway, you have to disable auto friction control on the front wheel

3:28 you hit 88mph son 😎

Matt, there should be an option when you look at the wheels to disable friction control. Normally it seems to be the reason the wheels act like that!

Every time you span off the runway, it kept making me think of the top gear episode where Clarkson span off in a BMW while racing a VW

KSP2 has no autostruts, so unless you strut everything together manually, it will all be wobbly! Hope this helps. Edit: I see you know about struts, now you just have to use multiple of them on everything all of the time.

Matt asking which way the wings need to point to give down force made my brain buffer for a few seconds 😵 I think you're starting to turn into an architect, Matt 😨

You can fix the spinning by turning friction control off on the front landing gear

Think you did it already but friction on the wheels is a notorious issue in the original KSP and it seems to be similar in KSP2

That wheel design around the rocket is pure brilliance

I love how you praise the graphics while showing how pixelized they are!

Best application of spin stabilization I've ever seen.

i think you were on the right track with 2 boosters but it was still a lot of extra weight. can you shorten the boosters? A more blunted nosecone for them might also catch the air for a safer dethatch

3:42 Bro went back in time

I haven't laughed this much in ages. Cheers mate!

The rotating landing gear around the rocket was brilliant. Are you sure you weren’t an aerospace engineer?!?!

This made me laugh more than I have un a long while

"Form over functionality said the architect." "I want my rocket ship to look good."

12:34 to me that looks like the Herald from Star Citizen (which is literally just a rocket compared to all the other ships in that game)

This should be awarded by the Engineer's Prize 🏆 2023

You were on the right path with downforce. If your going to jettison your boosters perhaps it's worth having tiny wings on them and making them pull up and away from your craft as they jettison. I might also suggest looking at top fuel dragsters or land speed record vehicles for ideas on downforce.

I love how, when your small rocket car developed a wobble, you just ignored it and made it bigger. Right... Cause that'll be easier to diagnose! 😂

Finally some Kerbal engineering. Moar boosters and struts. That's the Kerbal way

Looking forward to more KSP2 from you!!

"fellow engineers" you really think i have the brain power to be a engineer

12:40 that looks like the Airbus Beluga XL

Literally got a KSP2 ad on this video lol

You can improve it by switching some methalox tanks for cargo bays to lower the mass that needs to be accelerated.

I think you were steering on all 4 wheels front and back at first? Correct me if im wrong but probably fixing that would help! Amazing vid

19:25 He tried to make a land-speed record setting vehicle, but he attracted the KRAKEN

Thanks RCE, helps a lot! ...and gives us something to aim for!!

@12:00 disable the steering on your rear wheels lol

The bit starting at 17:00 is the hardest I've laughed in a while

Omg when I saw an add on RU-vid for this I have been waiting for RCE to play this :))

Matt at 12:42 you have what looks to me to be the beginning of a kerbilified airbus beluga.

Thank you so much for all the great content you upload but i hope you don’t overwork yourself 😁🙏

Matt strutting the boosters on, then trying to jetisen them made my brain hurt

I dont know about the second one but in the first game you coudl set the amount of fuel in the solid booosters, then you would stop after some time

If you are looking to do a spoiler, the object on a car that makes down force, it is literally an upside-down wing, normally oriented wing create lift, upside-down makes down force.

This is what happens when the Civil Engineer takes over for the Aerospace Engineer.

that big middle part with all the wheels flying across the runway reminds me of bambi on the ice

I remember the Ksp 1 land speed record several times the speed of light.