Highest Gs capable?

[nascarlaser1]

Hi guys!

I would like to know at what g level does your Kerbal turn into green goo on the seat, and die? The highest gs I've ever recorded was 10.5gs, but then my shuttle promptly burnt up in Kerbin atmosphere, so I have no idea how much more my Kerbal could've taken before dying.

Thanks!

[DD_bwest]

while not 100 percent sure,  but i think its unlimited, as i have never killed one that way, and have had some crazy rockets trying to break things lol

 

edit:  just for fun right now, i got it up to 60 lol

Edited August 22, 2016 by DD_bwest

[LN400]

If I'm not mistaking, Scott Manley did a ridiculous 500 G launch in one of his vids. The ship exploded 1000 meters up but the Kerbal survived the launch itself.

Edited August 22, 2016 by LN400

[fourfa]

Stock KSP - there is no G limit.

Of course, there's a mod for that

[Snark]

Yup, no limit.  A kerbal in a pod is completely invulnerable to anything that doesn't actually destroy the pod.

[foamyesque]

I once modded a pod and some RCS thrusters to have the minimum mass KSP would recognise, and sent a Kerbal up to well past 100c in the span of a few seconds. There's no g-limit.

[magnemoe]

I managed 50.000 g once back in 0.20 ramming an spaceship down into Eve atmosphere while going at 3-400 km/s.  
Ship survived fine however anything radial was ripped off including the rcs trusters. 
And going fast straight down in the atmosphere is the easiest way to get high g loads also today, yes you would need the inflatable heatshield and going much over 6 km/s will overheat you

[Sharpy]

12 hours ago, LN400 said:

If I'm not mistaking, Scott Manley did a ridiculous 500 G launch in one of his vids. The ship exploded 1000 meters up but the Kerbal survived the launch itself.

Afterwards, he switched air friction off (or heating or something) and performed a "gun shot" at the Mun.

[Snark]

If you'd like to hit several dozen G's easily in stock KSP today, just take a reasonably lightweight (i.e. under 20 tons) ship out into space with the inflatable heat shield on it, aim it at Kerbin, and hit atmosphere going straight down at 3500 m/s or so.

It's a wild ride .... but both ship and kerbals will be fine, as long as the ship's CoM is arranged so it doesn't flip during reentry.

[nascarlaser1]

oh. so sadly there is no way to turn my Kerbals to goo on the windshield? :(. Well, time to use the cheat menu to slam my Kerbals into the atmosphere at fast as possible with indestructible ships!! yay!!

Edit: the wiki says that if you enter the red zone of the g force thingy, the Kerbal can infact die. Time to find out if its true or not yay!!!!

Edited August 23, 2016 by nascarlaser1

[AlexanderB]

In the really old versions of KSP it was possible to K.I.A. your Kerbals without actually destroying the pod itself. They took that out of the game though, I think.

[nascarlaser1]

7 minutes ago, AlexanderB said:

In the really old versions of KSP it was possible to K.I.A. your Kerbals without actually destroying the pod itself. They took that out of the game though, I think.

oh ok. Should I update the wiki so its correct? or is there a special group of people who do it? (I have little experience editing a wiki from a popular game)

[AlexanderB]

Just looked it up, the code is still in the game, but there is no real easy way to trigger it, you have to somehow kill the crew without breaking the command pod first.

Edited August 23, 2016 by AlexanderB

[nascarlaser1]

1 hour ago, AlexanderB said:

Just looked it up, the code is still in the game, but there is no real easy way to trigger it, you have to somehow kill the crew without breaking the command pod first.

By, say, making the craft indestructible with cheat menu and then making it do extreme G's?

[foamyesque]

2 hours ago, AlexanderB said:

In the really old versions of KSP it was possible to K.I.A. your Kerbals without actually destroying the pod itself. They took that out of the game though, I think.

It was, but as I recall it wasn't something you could reliably do and was considered a glitch at the time.

[AlexanderB]

3 hours ago, nascarlaser1 said:

By, say, making the craft indestructible with cheat menu and then making it do extreme G's?

That might work, I don't know.

2 hours ago, foamyesque said:

It was, but as I recall it wasn't something you could reliably do and was considered a glitch at the time.

True, usually the command pod blew up too, but it was possible if you smacked it into the ground just right, not hard enough to break it, but hard enough to kill one or more of the kerbals inside.

[nascarlaser1]

I'm doing g-force tests, and I have a question. Which is more accurate, the seismic reader or the one that says "max gs endured" at the flight results screen?

[Snark]

3 hours ago, nascarlaser1 said:

I'm doing g-force tests, and I have a question. Which is more accurate, the seismic reader or the one that says "max gs endured" at the flight results screen?

They'd be the same, I expect.  Why, are they giving you different answers?

(And if one of them shows more decimal places than the other... then use that one.)

I would imagine the "max g's endured" one would be more convenient, since it catches precisely the highest value, whereas with the accelerometer you'd need to watch it and catch a screenshot right at peak or something, which would be tricky.