Have YOU ever had a Kraken attack?

[CrazedGunman502]

I personally NEVER had one, I was playing since .18

I guess you can consider myself lucky, but I've always wanted to see what it is like..

[ferram4]

I'm a plugin developer. Summoning the Kraken is a daily event.

I've seen rocket randomly explode, collapse in on themselves, wibble-wobble into the sky and break, and on one occasion, caused a Mun lander to do a perfect backflip after loading on the Munar surface.

[Whackjob]

Had a kraken attack? Hah. I got one on FILM.

[I_Killed_Jeb]

I've had a couple Mun landers disintegrate on loads while on a flight trajectory.. dunno if that's the Kraken's doing, never had a Hell Kraken

[RocketPilot573]

Many times, though, the original Kraken was slain in .17. But I have dealt with that one too. Seriously, solar orbits were ridiculously hard.

Edited November 13, 2013 by RocketPilot573

[Codey737]

I've had a few launches where the rocket would go inside of itself and explode moments later,RIP the crew of those ships.

[Madrias]

I've had decouplers get stuck, engines turn sideways, planets disappearing, Hell Kraken, and disintegrating spaceplanes full of struts. I'd say the Kraken and I have become one at times.

[tygoo7]

I've had decouplers get stuck, engines turn sideways, planets disappearing, Hell Kraken, and disintegrating spaceplanes full of struts. I'd say the Kraken and I have become one at times.

Same thing with me

[Dave Kerbin]

I've come back to find my Apollo style lander was a field of debris. I also have a vessel tip over and explode, but that was because I engaged 2x warp to help a kerbal walk faster and apparently the lander didn't like that.

Here though is the best one. My sample return system was able to return my science stuff safely after orbit. My kerbal had gotten out of his pod and was recovered after collecting a soil sample. I then used the observatory to go back to the remaining inert vessels at the landing site (I wasn't sure at that time if clicking recover from the observatory would get you the science). And this happened.

[Lazro]

Not only have I had a visit from the Grim Kraken, I have had the entire atmospheric system turn sideways. It was a weird day.

[JazzXP]

Most frustrating one for me, going in for a Mün landing (one of my very early ones), figure "Oh, I'd better quick save just in case", ship rolls over on landing, reload quicksave, and the landing legs fall off, EVERY SINGLE RELOAD.... argh!

[zekes]

Weirdly, i had one very minor one in 14.0 and then never again. And i launch 1800 part Dreadnaughts...

[Merinsan]

I was building a station in orbit around the Mun. As I was approaching with the second part, for no reason it started wobbling.

The wobbling got worse and worse until it broke apart.

I think I looked at it the wrong way.

[Superfluous J]

I've had the occasional lifter just lift itself up through my payload and then decide, about halfway up through it, that collision detection would be a good thing to do right about now.

I've also had Kerbal Attachment System just explode things at random when I connect them. Lay down pylon, attach pipe, KABOOM.

Most frustrating one for me, going in for a Mün landing (one of my very early ones), figure "Oh, I'd better quick save just in case", ship rolls over on landing, reload quicksave, and the landing legs fall off, EVERY SINGLE RELOAD.... argh!

I've had that so much that I - as a rule - retract EVERYTHING before hitting quicksave.

[magnemoe]

Had the hell kraken once in 0.22, eva on Gilly of all places. Had an couple of times where the old medium landing legs popped off in 0.21.

One ship back in 0.19 exploded then switching between crafts before docking.

[SunJumper]

I once had a kraken attack in this version. I launched a small probe designed to finish Allmhuran's tech tree, got it to Jool fine. Got it to Laythe fine. Got it to Vall, and this happened:

Even this image does not do the event justice. The probe was wobbling at a frequency of about 10Hz, and the solar panel fragments weren't gently floating away, they were stuck some 10 to 20m out, and vibrating with the craft.

[Guest]

Hooked up a KAS pipe to a lander on the Mun and summoned a Hell Kraken. Thank the maker I compulsively save before messing around with anything KAS related...

[I_Killed_Jeb]

Most frustrating one for me, going in for a Mün landing (one of my very early ones), figure "Oh, I'd better quick save just in case", ship rolls over on landing, reload quicksave, and the landing legs fall off, EVERY SINGLE RELOAD.... argh!

I've had this EXACT same thing happen. I think it was .20, ended up just having to land the thing on the engine =P

[Superfluous J]

One of my KAS Kraken explosions got 2 things marked in the tracking station as on the surface of the Sun. I so wish I'd had the sense to take a picture. Instead, I tried to go to the pieces and they exploded as soon as they loaded.

[Geschosskopf]

In 0.22 career mode, I sent Jeb to flyby Duna and Bill to flyby Eve. As the windows and travel times worked out, both were homeward bound with Jeb due to arrive several days before Bill. The whole time, I'd been switching back and forth between the 2 ships as needed. Anyway, Jeb arrived at Kerbin so I brought him down and recovered him safely. Then I switched back to Bill. As soon as I did, the Kraken grabbed his ship and carried off into intergalactic space in the blink of an eye. I figure (and sincerely hope) that Bill's speed and altitude records will stand for all time, because I don't want to have this happen again .

[JazzXP]

I've had this EXACT same thing happen. I think it was .20, ended up just having to land the thing on the engine =P

yep, it was .20 for me too. And not experienced enough to land on the engine.

[Merinsan]

I once had a kraken attack in this version. I launched a small probe designed to finish Allmhuran's tech tree, got it to Jool fine. Got it to Laythe fine. Got it to Vall, and this happened:

Even this image does not do the event justice. The probe was wobbling at a frequency of about 10Hz, and the solar panel fragments weren't gently floating away, they were stuck some 10 to 20m out, and vibrating with the craft.

Sounds just like mine, although it was the structural part of a station. And it happened recently, like a week ago. My particular craft seems inherently unstable - I've managed to do the same thing with physical time acceleration a few times. Maybe I need to be sending smaller pieces up.

In 0.22 career mode, I sent Jeb to flyby Duna and Bill to flyby Eve. As the windows and travel times worked out, both were homeward bound with Jeb due to arrive several days before Bill. The whole time, I'd been switching back and forth between the 2 ships as needed. Anyway, Jeb arrived at Kerbin so I brought him down and recovered him safely. Then I switched back to Bill. As soon as I did, the Kraken grabbed his ship and carried off into intergalactic space in the blink of an eye. I figure (and sincerely hope) that Bill's speed and altitude records will stand for all time, because I don't want to have this happen again .

I dread this happening to me. So far I've not lost a single Kerbal. I do have a few guys "manning" the depot around Moho, waiting for a fuel shipment, and a colony on eve, but no one dead/unreturnable.

[Zuni]

Now we just have to find the real life kraken to travel 882 240 469 820 times the speed of light.

[Zuni]

they exploded as soon as they loaded.

There's a reason the word "Load" is inside "Explode" (sort of).

[Geschosskopf]

I dread this happening to me. So far I've not lost a single Kerbal. I do have a few guys "manning" the depot around Moho, waiting for a fuel shipment, and a colony on eve, but no one dead/unreturnable.

But you've got black "dead Kerbal" stripes in your sig ribbons for Kerbin, Mun, and Tylo .