Wrong Way Down - Part 5

Episode 5 of Wrong Way Down starts exactly where the previous one ended, just with W4stedspace disguised as dancing Capac. They are now 50 km from the North Pole.

Capac, meanwhile, is still sleeping in his cryopod, so Splitsie jetpacks to "Fort Capac - Capac's Sweet Bachelor Pad" and back, scouting how to steal its batterie's without using thrusters. Splitsie also explores a Space Pirate Outpost whose drones are stuck in mid air. Since W4sted is too laggy to jetpack safely, he stays at the rover and makes new offroad truck designs with cambered (angled) wheel suspensions. They reminisce about w4sted's failed constructions in other series while Splitsie builds a battery retrieval vehicle.

(0:30) They chat about the Escape From Mars scenario and how to mod Custom Games to be interesting. Suddenly a Cat Spur attacks! Splitsie and W4sted barely manage to activate the turrets and keep the offline Capac alive. They repair the damage the drone caused just as Capac wakes up and they reassure him he did not almost die. Capac still sounds like he has a cold when he is informed of the plans to raid the renamed "Fort Capac" and a drone Outpost. W4sted is still suffering from lag. While they're chatting about playing Rimworld, two more drones attack. Splitsie admits he followed the "Lucas Guide to Villainy" and built the drones with warheads inside so they would explode more dramatically. He explains how war and peace modes work in his NPC mod.

(1:00) Capac has already forgotten why they are going to Fort Capac as they fend off the next few drones. Splitsie worries they'll get nothing done on stream today and uses the admin tools to delete one Outpost nearby to lower the time spent rewelding the same blocks. Chat is demanding capacapults. Splitsie explains that cheeky banter is a sign of friendship.

(1:30) Splitsie's stork-legged gantry crane on wheels is ready to pick up the Large-Grid Battery from Fort Capac. Capac recommends keeping the center of balance lower. They plan to leave with the "convoy" at dawn. While it's still dark they help w4sted weld up his prototype. Capac mentions that Optimus Prime is called Convoy in Japanese dubbed Transformers movies and Splitsie is confused. Splitsie fixes the ejector and realises that the hydrogen engine is dry because recently, when they were overloaded, they dumped ice when they could have dumped gravel. At dawn, they finalise W4sted's vehicle's rotors and wheels.

(2:00) The convoy starts driving towards Fort Capac. They skirt around the (now half shot up) bridge and make impressive progress across steep and uneven terrain. Drones attack and they need to act as decoys to not endanger the convoy. A drone falls onto Splitsie's vehicle causing some damage, and another drone is lured into the defences of the big blue rover. Since W4sted can't help fight due to his lag, Splitsie admin-deletes the Outpost after a few battles so they can make any progress today. When they reach Fort Capac they decide to keep W4sted's Spider prototype because it performed so well crossing the steep terrain. When w4sted later builds the large-grid variant, he should include a catapult so the large Spider can shoot out small Spiders, Capac suggests.

(2:30) They grind down Fort Capac and keep the charged battery blocks. W4sted has old war stories to tell how he used to build whole battle ships underground while besieged by hostile drones! W4sted and Capac wonder whether, using an aerodynamics mod, the Spider vehicle could fly like an ornithopter. Splitsie reminisces about an experiment where he built a piston-parachute construction that could fly upwards until the game physics blew up, but nobody's listening. W4sted's Spider wheels are draining its batteries so they build a temporary factory and hydrogen engine in Fort Capac. They pun with chat about turning buildings into rovers while discussing neologisms and names. Capac accidentally saws Fort Capac in half as they compare Capac to Wedgehog.

(3:00) While they refuel using hydrogen from ice, an OP hostile installation headquarters spawns. As Capac returns from a crash, they fight a modified Drifting Persuant, and not even the moat around the Fort can help them. W4sted's Spider (a.k.a. The Lobstrosity) is turned into scrap metal and the battery carrier has also taken damage, so Splitsie reloads a save from a few mins ago. He admin-deletes the OP drone and headquarters and is startled by Capac shooting a block right next to him because Capac "wants to look at cool bullet holes". Texfire joins Chat and gets an update -- the big blue rover is safely parked further away. Splitsie explains he'll be on vacation the next three weeks while W4sted logs in again after a game crash. Chat demands Capac solo streams! W4sted announces his plans to meet with Captain Shack and Texfire at Gamescom 2020. After W4sted has loaded back in, Splitsie resets the lost time to give them more daylight. On their drive by to the blue rover, they chat about VR games.

(3:30) Since they spent so much time transporting batteries, the rover has by now half recharged itself through its wind turbines... W4sted sums up the findings from his Spider prototype. While they keep chatting about VR, Splitsie builds a piston-merge-block crane to lift and place the large-grid batteries. W4sted helps push, and Chat gives helpful advice. When Splitsie thinks the crane can't reach, it's Capac who immediately sees a solution, even though it's not in his job description.

(4:00) They chat about accents and travel on, Splitsie in the blue rover, W4sted in the spider, and Capac in the wheeled gantry crane. Several Fleeting Rivals and Stinging Adversaries attack and damage the blue rover's wind turbines and drills. Capac casually asks which way they are heading. W4sted mentions how his Spider has maximum grip and turning radius, and that he wants to expand the concept. Capac wants to check the map. They are climbing the (hopefully?) last steep mountain. W4sted is close to running out of power, Capac has to "pause for maintenance", and Splitsie gets stuck in every crag... Splitsie cheats by changing the time of day.

(4:30) W4sted threatens to build an overpriced waffle chalet before Splitsie makes it up there. In the meanwhile, Capac has built an orange and gray flag on the mountaintop! W4sted demos his vehicle to Splitsie. In the end, they meet "inside" the flag and take selfies. W4sted tells Chat how he is recreating Kerbal Space Program in SE.

## References

1. ↑ The planned SE meeting at Gamescon 2020 was later cancelled due to the pandemic.