What causes the Hell Kraken? IT ATE MY JEB!

[Starwhip]

What does cause it upon an EVA'd Kerbal hitting the ground? I jumped out of a ship that was landed, touched the ground, and then the ship and Jeb were deleted. Jeb now shows up as MIA. (I'm a gonna fix that in the .cfg)

[Cmdr. Arn1e]

Basically, it's a devide by 0 error - it's to do with some of the fancy programming they've done to shoehorn the physics into Unity, and unfortunately is more of a Unity error than a KSP one!

Until they start using a newer version of Unity (and they haven't switched yet for the same reason they haven't migrated the forums to the newer vesion ov Vbulletin; some new features, but old ones missing, which could cause more problems than it fixes...) we are stuck with it... did your ship by any chance have a Claw on it? That's known Kraken bait at the mo!

Edited October 17, 2014 by Cmdr. Arn1e

[KasperVld]

It has something to do with ragdoll physics, but other than that I have no details..

[Cannon]

Shouldn't have problems in 0.25

[Norpo]

Yeah, this happened too in my game, I EVA'd jeb out of a stationary capsule on the launch pad, he fell out, hit the ground, then, BAM. Hell kraken shows up, screen goes black, the whole show. I need to restart the game, in the tracking station the capsule on the launch pad and jeb are gone, and he's missing in action.

Seems like a common-ish error, though certainly not routine.

I'll probably bring him back by messing with the persistent file, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

Best I can figure jeb clipped through the ground or something, and the game freaked out. I haven't seen it happen in space yet.

[Claw]

did your ship by any chance have a Claw on it? That's known Kraken bait at the mo!

I don't recall being on Starwhip's ship, but I do love me some Kraken!

Kerbals have all sorts of subtle breaks at the moment. They can also ragdoll in command seats leaving them unable to get out, and turn into debris when crashing a rover.

I haven't had this one too much myself but with the reports I've seen, it seems more common that they land on their helmets when this happens. Although a helmet landing certainly isn't required.

Cheers,

-Kraken bait

[Starwhip]

I don't recall being on Starwhip's ship, but I do love me some Kraken!

Oi, I didn't say you could come on my ship! All it was supposed to be was a landing-leg roller!

Ah, he's... was fine. I fixed his .cfg file. Then accidentally killed him and Bill in a spaceplane crash.

[S1gmoid]

I hope that now KSP goes scope complete for 1.0, the developers will spend some time stabilizing.

[Taki117]

I hope that now KSP goes scope complete for 1.0, the developers will spend some time stabilizing.

That's the plan. With scope completion development shifts from adding new features to fixing/improving the ones already in the game.

[StrandedonEarth]

I had one hellkraken where I'd exit the ship after landing on (Gilly? Ike? can't recall), the kerbal would drift up the ladder, and as soon as he reached the top everything went black....

[LordFerret]

I've not seen the Kraken in .25 yet... thankfully!

I am however having issues with MK-1 pilot EVA ejections, still.

Thanks for the heads-up on using the Claw. I was just about to venture into some ideas for it.