The Parachutes, they do nothing.

[Requia]

Well not nothing, but i still hit the ground at 30 m/s with nothing but a flea and a mk1 command pod, and the entry level chute. I had a ton of horizontal velocity too, which I've never seen with chutes.

An unmodded check was fine.

Mod list is:

- ActsEW 1.5

- CapCom 1.1

- CommunityResourcePack 0.4.2

- CommunityTechTree 2.1

- ConnectedLivingSpace 1.1.3.1

- ContractConfigurator 1.5.0

- ContractConfigurator-AnomalySurveyor 1.2.2

- ContractConfigurator-ContractPack-SCANsat v0.5.2.1

- ContractConfigurator-UsefulSpaceStations 1.0.1

- ContractsWindowPlus 5.2

- CrewManifest 0.6.0

- CrossFeedEnabler v3.3

- CrowdSourcedScience v3.0

- DangIt 0.6.1

X DMagicOrbitalScience 1.0.4

- ExtraPlanetaryLaunchpads 5.2.0

- FieldExperience 1.0.1

- FilterExtensions 2.3.0

- FilterExtensionsDefaultConfig 2.3.0

- FinalFrontier 0.8.6-1370

- FirespitterCore v7.1.4

- GCMonitor 1.2.6

- HyperEdit 1.4.1

- InfernalRobotics 0.21.3

- InterstellarFuelSwitch-Core 1.14

- Karbonite 0.6.2

- KarbonitePlus 0.4.1

- KAS 0.5.2

- KerbalAlarmClock v3.4.0.0

- KerbalConstructionTime 1.1.8.0

- KerbalEngineerRedux 1.0.17.0

- KerbalJointReinforcement v3.1.4

- KerbalStats 2.0.0

- KIS 1.1.5

- kOS 0.17.3

- MechJebForAll 1.2.0.0

- ModuleAnimateEmissive v1.4

- ModuleManager 2.6.6

- ModuleRCSFX v4.1

- NavballDockingIndicator 7

- NearFutureConstruction 0.5.4

- PreciseNode 1.1.3

- ProceduralParts v1.1.6

- RealFuels rf-v10.4.1

- RemoteTech 1.6.7

- RFStockalike v2.1.7

- SCANsat v12.1

X ScienceAlert 1.8.7

- SolverEngines v1.4

- StageRecovery 1.5.6

X StationScience 1.5

- StockBugFixModules v1.0.2e.3

- StockFairingTweaker 1.0.1

- Toolbar 1.7.9

- TransferWindowPlanner v1.3.0.1

- UKS 0.31.4

- USI-FTT 0.4.1

- USI-LS 0.1.0

- USITools 0.4.1

[etopsirhc]

well your chutes are doing more than mine then. spent the last 2 hrs trying to figure out why a flea, 3 goo's, 4 tiny fins, the starter command pod, and a KER circuit board would land between 400-600 mps when i deployed the chute way up in the lowest upper atmosphere. the chute isnt breaking off, but isn't slowing anything down in lower atmosphere, in fact i keep gaining speed until impact. though mine is on windows.

Edited July 4, 2015 by etopsirhc

[ZentroCatson]

Strange. There is a Realchute easter egg that you can enable, wich makes your parachutes do the opposite. They let you fall faster and faster if its active. But as I'm seeing, you don't have Realchute installed.