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Hi Folks: New Kerbonaut, and first time poster. Did something change or get patched on 27 Sept especially with regard to the Mk16 parachute? I ask because I've been playing the game for about a week in career mode, normal difficulty. I've gotten semi-advanced rocket designs going right to the edge of 30 parts. I've gotten into orbit, successfully changed apogee and paragee, etc. Sure I've crashed a few times, but when that's happened it made sense. One of the things I never, never, ever, EVER had problems with was re-entry and chute deployment. I'd re-enter, get heated up, not explode, slow down, pop the chute and land. Water. Land. Didn't matter. In three days it got so I could do this phase of the mission with my eyes closed. In fact, it got to a point where I said, "Yea, this game is pretty accurate, but I'm surprised re-entry is that easy." Now, please remember, all of this was re-entry from low Kerbin orbit of, say, 70km when I didn't reach orbit, and 120km when I did. Now, as of 27 September, suddenly, I can't successfully land at all. Whenever I try it, when I press the space bar to pop the chute, it either says that the chute has been destroyed due to heat and aero forces, or it pops up and sort of explodes with the module. I've always manually deployed the chute (I say this because I'm getting the impression it can be automatically deployed based on ACL and altitude, but I've never tried that). I've checked my staging. This is unmodified Kerbal. The only settings I've played around with were tweaking the audio settings and changing the screen to full screen. I've re-built rockets from the ground up (thinking there was an issue with that particular rocket), and I can't even do this now with a simple, single stage, SRB rocket. My issue is that 2-3 days ago I could do this with my eyes closed. Suddenly I can't do it at all. The "destroyed due to heat and aero forces" had never come up. Something has changed and for the life of me (or, in this case for the life of Jebediah) I can't figure out what. Has anyone else experienced a sudden change in parachute deployment behavior? What can I check or change? THANKS! --- Doc Kinne
