Kapy Rock!

[ManuxKerb]

Hi There,

After a long hiatus i returned to the For Science release. As the game seems to be playable now. And yes it is. It has some bugs and stuff (Even some bugs that are exactly the same as in KSP1) but now i really having fun! I started a play trough of the Exploration mode. Normaly i cant be bothered with a mission report. I just have fun on my own. But Kapy Rock mission was so challenging and it was fun to fail. Just like the devs hoped for. I think. 

So here it is: My fist mission report for the kapy Rock mission.

So i could have just build a plane an fly there. But i would waste most likely 30 real world minutes just flying.  Also i don't want to fly.

OK so i needed several tries to finish this, I would say 15-20 over all.

What i tried:

1.  Directly deorbit above it. -> Cant do it. Its not precise enough. Closes i got was 7km from it.

2. Directly deorbit with another 1.Stage to make the last km with a new rocket -> Rocket was not powerful enough. Problems with directions. Cant make manuver node when the game is paused (FeatureRequest!)

3. Deorbit with a plane and fly the rest. -> Problem here is: You need to be at Kappy rock. not moving für 10 sec to do the obersavtions.  Not so good in a plane. Otherwise it was ok. I could see it for the first time really close.

4. Like 3 but drive to Kapy Rock with the plane. -> Did not work, Plane design was crap and it kept tipping over.

5. Go for the classic: Rover mission. Deorbit rover, drive there. -> My first design was too top heavy and the wheels where not powerful enougjh for Kerbian Sand dunes. The rover could not go up the sand hills with just 2 wheels.

6. Drag Racing rover. Deorbit rover. Drive there. -> This time! Mission Success! The rover had 6 Wheels. and 12 Sepratrons as boosters so i could use those 6 times to help climb kerbin sand dunes.

This worked! I finally got there!

Some tips:

The best orbit is a 0 degree orbit (Polar orbit) to do this. You want to fly from top to bottom. Orbit at 150km.  Periaps to deorbit shoud be 23 km. Anything over 25 will land you in the ocean 20 will land you on the edge of the dessert.

The rover needs to have the heaviest part on the bottom. You need at least 3-5 pusches with sepatrons. Otherwise you cant climb the slopes.

An autobrake is mission and for no no mod exists so you need to be aware of your brake. Use it in seep slopes.

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I got pics but i cant seem to integrate them into the post. A diredct upload feature here in the forums would be much better. HDD are dirt cheap...

Will update this with pics when i figured it out.

Over and out

 

Edited December 30, 2023 by ManuxKerb

[Vanamonde]

To show pictures, upload them to a hosting service and then copy the links they provide into your posts here. 

[TechieV]

On 12/30/2023 at 7:27 PM, Vanamonde said:

To show pictures, upload them to a hosting service and then copy the links they provide into your posts here. 

Yeah. Imgur works pretty well for this. 

[Bobitec]

I properly succed to this mission too but i don't understand why, my mission can't be return... i have all crew report, and sample of the spot, i have launch a vessel with wheels and i have reech the spot after 19km of carefully drive my little [snip] and after all that, i can't return the mission 

if somebody know something about specifications that can help, thank by advance 

 

Edit: (note for moderation) this forum (more specifiquely the captcha) don't work properly on Brave browser (chromium)

[M3R4N]

Got the same problem like Bobitec. This mission seems buggy for me. I land directly at the spot, got the report while returning and the mission is still not finished.

[capran]

Ugh! This mission and the one after it are actually harder than the alien monument ones. I tried so many times to get it. One one save file, I was able to fly there and land safely. But on my current run, even after multiple attempts at flying, and suborbital hops, I couldn't do it without cheating. It doesn't help that I can't find the lat and long co-ordinates anywhere. Had to guess it.

Spoiler

Latitude -48.79, Longitude 58.73

 

[You3n]

I noticed today that if you save/load while attempting this mission, it doesn’t seem to be possible to complete it. Loading a previous save, and doing the whole mission in one go (from the launchpad to Kappy Rock) is working as intended though.

[Semicon]

I managed to fly a plane there.  Took a very long time.  Landed and got my crew report....only to find out that I had a copula and not a landing can.  SMH