The Kraken, alive and well...

[D0SBoots]

Anyone else have run-ins with the Kraken in 0.17? I had heard it was fixed, but it looks like there are a few edge cases still:

The breakup occured going from 5x down to 1x warp in an almost perfectly circular orbit at 1.5Gm around the sun.

[Richy teh space man]

The kraken was slightly different, it would spin your ship around uncontrollably when you got to high speeds

[TalonX273]

That's not the Kraken. The Kraken has been found dead on the Joolian moon Bop. That's the Space Cthulu! =S

[iamaphazael]

Yeah. This is the space Cthulhu.

(damnit, ninja'd)

[bsalis]

Well IMO, Son of Kraken is out there.

Weak it is, but it is there.

[smarky55]

Well IMO, Son of Kraken is out there.

Weak it is, but it is there.

Perhaps it learnt of the kraken's death and is now angry, weaker, but not content to just mess with us.

[Justin8Ball]

Just come out of warp slowly... It happens when we are in warp 4-6 for a while then dropping out of warp suddenly. The son of the kraken is a small but quick to anger.

[Dusty926]

Space Cthullhu!

[Letum]

The kraken was slightly different, it would spin your ship around uncontrollably when you got to high speeds

Yeah, I have had that as well, but only twice so far.

[Werwolf]

Same thing happened to me last night on my first trip to duna... i am now unable to land on Duna due to the Cthulu eating one of my lander's engines, giving me assymetrical thrust. I have parachutes so I should be able to land, but I won't be able to get back off again. Therefore my intrepid Kerbalnaut explorers are simply the first (in my game) to reach Duna.... but they can't frikkin land on it. How irritating

[Znath]

They found one kraken, that only proves there must be more out there.

I've had it hit me before too. Just randomly floating along then suddenly "wow what's that debris so close to me"... oh it's my engine.

[Brofessional]

I was on my way to Moho yesterday when one of my engines was ripped off. Soon after that I encountered the uncontrollable spinning.

[Ted]

I was on my way to Moho yesterday when one of my engines was ripped off. Soon after that I encountered the uncontrollable spinning.

That could be due to your engine falling off.

Strangely enough though, I have never encountered this bug without trying to induce it via purposefully erratic time-warping. I think this issue could be prevalent on slower or lower-speced computers as there is more lag coming out of time-warp.

Edited September 27, 2012 by Ted

[Brofessional]

That could be due to your engine falling of.

Nah, it came off during the warp/de-warp. It's happened on several occasions.

I'm running an i5 2500k @ 4.5GHz and two 6950's in crossfirex, so it's not that my hardware is lacking.

This just happened on the way to Jool

[DigitalApollo]

trying to land on anything other than Kerbal and it's moons are super challenging, if I thrust anything past 75% (tolerable wobble) I spin like Gemini 8, not even mechJeb knows what to do :C

I've also had problems with the space "Kraken Jr." eating my service module but not my main landing engines.

[Tommy521]

I dunno about everyone else but I still get slung around in interplanetary space like Jeb is DUI.

[spikeyhat09]

I really have no idea what you guys are talking about... been playing for multiple versions and have never been attacked by the kraken or cthulhu

[Killerblonde]

I too have been attacked by the Cthulhu. Squad released the Cthulhu to kill the Kraken.....

[Guest themakut]

The Cthulhu is a new addition, but the Kraken, the original Kraken, still exists.

It can occur at any point in time when you are not in the SOI of a planet or moon (only the sun's SOI).

Your ship will randomly start spinning, and doing the opposite of what you command it to do. You will soon lose control and enter a crazy spin. Time warping has nothing to do with the original Kraken.

Long live the Kraken.

[bitbucket]

I am inclined to disagree.

[bsalis]

I suspect Warp Cthulhu arrived in 0.16 due to all the vessel and parts changes to allow EVA. It's just that no one noticed since you only really see it going crazy with the highest warp level.

[MaverickSawyer]

Nah, the Bop anomaly is the Baby Kraken. Momma is now unhappy and is causing all heck to break loose when you displease her.

[Omega500]

it happens to me when go from full warp to normal speed when i click on the warp bar things while not in a planet SOI.Ship just breaks up

[Ziff]

The Cthulhu is a new addition, but the Kraken, the original Kraken, still exists.

It can occur at any point in time when you are not in the SOI of a planet or moon (only the sun's SOI).

Your ship will randomly start spinning, and doing the opposite of what you command it to do. You will soon lose control and enter a crazy spin. Time warping has nothing to do with the original Kraken.

Long live the Kraken.

The original Kraken was specific to losing control at high velocity. This new bug has nothing to do with high velocity, therefore by your own argument, is not the original Kraken. So stop confusing people by saying it is.

[-YLLogicaL-]

Kraken is alive?

That's cute.

EDIT: Nope, not Kraken. THIS is the Kraken:

Edited September 26, 2012 by -YLLogicaL-