1.5 reentry killed me?

[ROXunreal]

I have FAR. Re-entered with the three person pod, a very thin Fuel Tanks Plus tank underneath, a stock heatshield and two Twitch engines on the sides. And two RealChute radial chutes. Anyway every time before the pod would normally lose a great deal of speed under about 15,000m, the friction flames would cease and I would happily deploy chutes at around 5,000m which would open at 500m and I would land safely. This time the pod DID NOT lose any speed at all and slammed into the ground at 1500m/s. I think something is broken here. I was burning retro with the Twitch engines the entire time, but regardless of this the pod should have slowed down A LOT under 15,000m, but this time it just kept doing, with friction flames and everything, until it hit the ground.

Good thing I replaced Jeb with a random she-Kerbal I wanted to level up so Jeb still lives.

[sal_vager]

Moved to modded support, maybe someones run into the same thing, but if you could provide your save file (put it on dropbox) it'd help.

[vat21s]

What version of FAR are you using?

I'm having the same issue.

[Nansuchao]

It seems like a missed voxelization of the vessel. This bug was defeated in past patches of FAR. Check that you have the last version availbale of FAR and Modular Flight Integrator. Also, are you sure that actually Fuel Tank Plus support FAR?

[ROXunreal]

Fuel Tanks Plus worked with FAR.

I've now updated FAR to the 1.5 version but the problem persists. I now used only the pod with stock chutes for reentry. My camera loses focus of the rocket when it crosses 6000m on ascent, it's as if the camera lags behind the rocket. I reach 200,000m, decouple everything and reenter with only the pod, heatshield and chutes. The pod slows down to 300-ish m/s by the time it gets to 10,000m but then after 6000m again loses focus and just drops dead to the ground, despite deploying chutes. Weird.

Save file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1uc8bjz5ryjd7ne/persistent.sfs?dl=0

[Kevin Kyle]

Had the same thing happen to me and I dont use FAR. I was trying to decide what was going on. I was expecting it to start slowing down in the lower atmosphere but it never really did. I dont know what to think.

[ferram4]

If your camera is losing focus on the rocket during ascent at the 6 km mark, that indicates an issue with another mod. It is likely breaking lots of other things.

Remove all of your mods from pre-1.0.5 and only reinstall them once they have been updated to be compatible or confirmed compatible. NEVER assume that mods will be compatible between KSP updates.

[ROXunreal]

Will do that, however what is the impact on saved games if the mods are not running? I don't have anycritical missions underway but I do have have ten CommSats up there with Fuel Tanks Plus parts...

In any case I see this problem being reported elsewhere as well, definitively not FAR.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/139094-1-0-5-Reentry-drag-and-heat?p=2289060#post2289060