Decouplers not.. Doing their thing.

[Stelith61]

Self explanatory.

hen Staged or manually activated, Decouplers don't decouple. This only effects One-sided decouplers, and is totally random. It renders entire missions inert, ruining hardwork and is probably the most annoying bug in the game at the moment.

Has anyone else experienced this? It happens Stock, With Mechjeb only, With Kerbal engineer only, 0.19 and 0.19.1 for me.

[Spanier]

I also encountered this issue. I think it either depends on the direction or the sequence you mount the decouplers. So it can definetely be solved by leaving the decoupler attached to your craft and just jettisoning the redundant parts. Might look ugly

[Tw1]

Something similar happened to me the other day. I was making a massive stack or SRBs, using the alt + click and drag thing to copy large sections. Neither my SRBs or my decouplers would work, apart from manually activating them. No space today for that one.

[Stelith61]

My only problem is the unpredictability of the bug and the extra weight of stack separators.

Edited May 13, 2013 by Stelith61

[SunJumper]

My only problem is the unpredictability of the bug and the extra weight of stack separators.

You can always edit the separators to mirror the decouplers in mass.

If the game breaks you, you get to break the game.

[Stelith61]

I also encountered this issue. I think it either depends on the direction or the sequence you mount the decouplers. So it can definetely be solved by leaving the decoupler attached to your craft and just jettisoning the redundant parts. Might look ugly

The thrust pushes against the decoupler, making the engine useless. You can Burn a mainsail at full power with no reaction.

[magnemoe]

I also encountered this issue. I think it either depends on the direction or the sequence you mount the decouplers. So it can definetely be solved by leaving the decoupler attached to your craft and just jettisoning the redundant parts. Might look ugly

Yes, decoplers has two sides, the smaller ones has triangles who show who direction is up and down, the point is up. The bottom is left behind.

Then you pick them they are the right way up, however if you put them on sides of crafts or even below for dropping landers or probes and the bottom of the triangle is toward the probe they will follow the probe, if they are atatched to an engine this will not work.

Has messed up with this two times. first was an mission to Eve and Gilly, nuclear powered trasfer stage with mapping and four probes. Released one probe for Eve landing, decopler the wrong way so engine did not work, well I used my transfeer stage to get an landing intercept on Eve released probe 2 and went back in orbit, probe landed successfully. Off to Gilly with the last probe who was mounted on top so decopler should work. transfer stage went out of fuel so I put it on impact corse with Gilly, released last probe, [ to switch to probe, then pressing space and separate probe and parachute from engine, as probe could also be used on Eve. All three parts impacted Gilly.

Later I send an 6 transfer stage with 6 probes to the Jool system, all seperators was the wrong way.

[Tw1]

At least it wasn't much of a problem here.