I was killed by the devil...

[Triple H3lix]

I just got the new update and after realizing I can get research fro landing at different areas I figured I'd go to the north pole. Now everything was going fine, I landed perfectly and my little Kerbal stepped out to greet the white ice with a smile on his face. When he hit the ground though things got weird, the screen went black and the altitude went racing up until all the numbers were six! I had to relog onto the game, and on my return my Kerbal was dead and my lander was out past Minmus...in pieces...going 21,000 m/s away from the planet. I know this is likely a bug, but I just couldn't resist posting it on the forum.

[GamerMitch]

Holy -snip- thats creepy

Edited October 18, 2013 by KasperVld

[KD3]

Thats happened before for me and many other people

[Galacticruler]

I do believe you landed on top of a Kraken tentacle.

[Astronaut]

The Wiki called it the Hell Kraken.

[Junafani]

This happened to me when I put my nearly out of fuel Mun lander to rise and EVAed Jebediah so he can trudge his way to rescue craft while original lander gets destroyed impacting surface after going up liitle bit.

Jeb hit landing leg when he came out of pod and then fell into ground uncontrollable. When Jeb hit ground that 666666 thing happened. After that I just exited out of KSP via X in the upper right and when I restarted Jeb was safetly back in the surface of Mun with his lander. Good thing there is no autosave when that bug happens.

[paleorob]

Happened to me for the first time the other week. Spooky!

[Requiem762]

The kracken has returned! Sound the alarm and someone find jeb

[OneEyedShark]

i think it was the Golden Kracken Of Goldiness from the .22 trailer

[Aragosnat]

Question. What is your terran / planet side detail setting? As it might need to be set higher (perferablely at max) inorder to work properly. As one of these threards mentioned that at lower settings. The game starts to take short cuts at lower settings.

[ZedNova]

I got the kraken in .22 as well, i've only had it once in .21, and that was with 11 mods installed.

[Andersenman]

Try walking to either pole. The camera is somehow tied to the cardinal directions, don't know exactly how. Anyhow, as you walk your kerbal, the camera will constantly realign with N-S, causing the kerbal (who always walks away from the camera) to circle the pole ever tighter, striding across ever increasing amounts of degrees latitude per step. Once it reaches the pole exactly, the camera will go nuts, even perpendicular to the surface, with the kerbal dividing by zero trying to go "more northern than north" (or south, respectively) until the Kraken slays it, remarked laconically in the Flight Log with "Redshirt Kerman crashed into Kerbin".

Vanilla .22, true story. Except for the kerbal's name.

Edited October 18, 2013 by Andersenman

[possum]

It's the kraken, kill it, kill it with fire.

[legodragonxp]

Yeah I've been hit by it a lot with almost all of my Kerbol (solar) orbital ships when I go back to them via the tracking station. When it hits me I lose the craft (delete from the list).

[Triple H3lix]

After seeing what would happen to my lander's empty capsule and the remaining debris, I have witnessed they have begun a straight shot past...well...everything. Barely missing a couple planets, but non the less shooting out into the cold cold void of SPACE.