Dude, where's my road-train?

Episode 12 of Wrong Way Up starts in mid air with Splitsie, W4stedspace, and DE flying the Edward Scissorplane back to the Jalopy. They establish if DE builds a plane full of Warfare 2 cannons, the Bots will be allowed the same. After Splitsie texts him funny "wake up!" gifs, Capac joins late and is immediately blamed. Capac spawns back on the Jalopy and reports seeing "a sideways triangle". DE suggests *flying* to the north pole instead of driving, and Splitsie wishes for an overlay that looks like he is glaring at DE through slitted eyes. The Bots' airbase meanwhile broadcasts "Secret Valley Path LCD" as a reminder. The Scissorplane flies over the Bots' airbase and spots a tank on its way to the Jalopy. They compare each other to the actors of Top Gear/The Grand Tour and DE and Capac tease Splitsie to show his Elmo head-sized ego on webcam so people "like and subscribe"; Splitsie shoots at DE while they are still standing on the plane's wings. W4sted lands smoothly next to the Jalopy and they realise that the "LL Coolray" in the hangar indeed looks like "a sideways triangle".

(0:30) Splitsie shows off funny LCD cartoons drawn by Shadow when an explosion reminds them of the incoming tank. W4sted lifts off and scores some hits, Splitsie shouts and drives, and DE and Capac man the turrets. Captain Shack in chat confirms to the viewers that the Warfare 2 cannons were part of the free update. 5km from the airbase in a sandstorm, DE readies his Joyous Riposte (missile). Capac builds searchlights that look like Number5/WallE/a turtle, which is very popular until he accidentally detaches them. The storm dissipating around the airbase looks like a huge explosion, but the Bots have intercepted DE's missile.

They battle until suddenly "everything" explodes, giving the episode title a second meaning! The front rover is gutted and detached and the two trailers roll downhill without steering. DE blames Splitsie for his obviously unsafe hydrogen storage and Splitsie blames DE for not moving the hydrogen to obvious safety!--Now DE knows how Capac feels getting blamed. Warfare 2 has made Explosive Hydrogen a vanilla feature, but they still have the mod active, so their hydrogen exploded *twice*.

(1:00) After Splitsie takes out some hard-hitting airbase turrets by controlling the turrets on the trailers, he and DE engage the airbase on foot, eliminating Gruzzob Bot. Capac in his plane stops chasing tanks, lands to refuel, and joins them. In the airbase, Splitsie finds the secret path GPS and a missile blueprint. Capac, DE, and Splitsie get shot by interior turrets a lot. After w4sted suddenly crashes, he finds debris of his plane 7km in the opposite direction and assumes he must have experienced maximum desync.

(1:30) Capac loots ammo from the Airbase while Splitsie drives the two surviving trailers uphill to flatter ground, steamrolling over a small vehicle. By now, they can rebuild the Jalopy in their sleep, but the missing front rover also contained their Assembler. Warfare 2 has changed the damage mechanics so they must armor their hydrogen tanks and ammunition cargo from now on. W4sted cannot find a current Jalopy blueprint so they weld up an old one and reactivate a Basic Assembler on Texfire's trailer. Splitsie claims to have established ground level cargo access, but it's not even piped up. Splitsie answers Chat's question "Is DE Naburine's Capac?" with yes.

(2:00) They wonder whether the Bots' valley path GPS is a trap. They realise they don't know when they've last seen Steve and chat about his artificial intelligence. DE congratulates the Bots for hitting the hydrogen tanks because he got to tell Splitsie "told you so". Splitsie has mostly rebuilt the front rover from wreck salvage and Capac and DE start building a Mad Max Fury Road-like hydrogen storage on a fourth trailer (dubbed the Kaboom Caboose) that will double as mining extension. Capac finds "free warheads" but it's actually DE's crashed Joyous Riposte. Splitsie explains why a Sorter system to distribute ammunition safely would be harder to set up than a script. DE and Splitsie are inches away from a paint war.

(2:30) They chat while rebuilding and Capac recommends live-fire exercises to determine the quality of their hydrogen tank armor, which reminds them w4sted still needs to scout a path to an ice lake. W4sted ursurps Capac's ground-level cargo access while hacking a stolen Nicolas Rollcage vehicle. Splitsie randomly opens an Unknown Signal in mid air and gets a rare "ugly sweater". While DE and Capac have repainted the new last trailer purple and gold, Splitsie finishes the armoring of the front rover. Splitsie disagrees with Capac about the usefulness of solar panels, but W4sted points out that modded planes can use them as lightweight wings. The back trailers wheels are set up and Splitsie almost blocks the catwalk hitch path he just built. They chat about a cryptical upcoming SE project and salty food.

(3:00) Splitsie adds a subgrid bumper to protect the front from trees, and challenges Capac to find new SE glitches to annoy him. When Splitsie says he likes DE's thinking, Splitsie is suspected to be a bot infiltrator. About to drive on, they notice that the hitch heights of both the Kaboom Caboose and the rebuilt Jalopy are wrong, and each has it wrong differently... Splitsie overengineers a hitch reattachment mechanism that is like getting a square peg into a round hole, but the peg is an n-dimensional hypercube and the hole is so small he can know only either its speed or its position at the same time. To everyone's surprise, Splitsie's plan works flawlessly and the hitch is corrected.

A Danger's Own approaches and Splitsie jumps into the LL Cool Ray to intercept it. W4sted teaches Splitsie the new hilarious VTOL method of lifting off: Hold and release the X key.

(3:30) Splitsie attacks and downs the Danger's Own by a full frontal collision. Splitsie presumed that the LL Cool Ray was cheaply mass-produced, and W4sted just responds that he himself will be flying the next one. W4sted's upcoming *drones* were the ones to be cheaply mass-produced, not the planes, and Splitsie apologises. Capac's parked plane is out of power so he "fixes" it by adding a solar panel, so he can taxi to a looted battery on the ground. W4sted's absence while scouting means Splitsie will have to configure the new wheels himself. The Bots notice their scout plane is missing so they withdraw to a *rendezvous* point to ready their new weapon, and DE mocks Kanajashi Bot for being *French* Canadian. Splitsie explains to Chat why playing on a public server is suboptimal for a content creator.

W4sted reports a reachable ice lake to the east just as Capac spots an incoming tank and a Penelope Cruise Missile and plays the airraid siren. The roadtrain has no defensive turrets and is getting into gear too slowly, so Capac lifts off instead of parking. Luckily, the Bots' missile locks onto the wrong target, so Capac returns and lands on DE on the runway. Splitsie needs to restart his SE client and hurries to build turrets. Meanwhile W4sted overshoots the runway but they are too scared to use Texfire's crane to pick W4sted's plane up.

(4:00) At sunset in the fog, they drive east towards the ice lake, with w4sted taxiing behind, recommending wheel settings. They enjoy the last bit of flat terrain and notice an artillery bunker on their way that takes ranging shots at them. W4sted regrets lifting off again because he can't see the ground. Splitsie and Capac argue about whether to avoid hitting trees or aim for them. In in-game chat, everyone is teasing each other to go back to "tactical school", and Splitsie accidentally ruins Capac robot basket weaving joke. Right before reaching the lake, Splitsie's reckless driving succeeds in jackknifing the trailers in new and exciting ways. Capac asks whether everyone has their mankinis ready for the lake and Splitsie groans "You know *I* do". W4sted is out on the lake admiring Splitsie's custom skybox. In the last seconds after the outro, DE quickly adds his "everybody like and subscribe...!" and Capac interjects "...to Texfire!"

## References

1. ↑ The Warfare 2 Update (Version 1.200) of Space Engineers has been released three days before this episode; it added new weapons and ammunition and changed damage mechanics.
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Grand\_Tour
3. ↑ They are referring to an unwieldy funny costume that Splitsie wore during a charity stream.
4. ↑ A similar desync happened to Capac in the middle of episode Elon Thrust takes flight.
5. ↑ Texfire is on call as a firefighter in Texas and cannot join every episode.
6. ↑ Alluding to the expression "underwater basket weaving" which humorously refers to a useless college degree.
7. ↑ They are referring to a cartoon drawn by Shadow where a grey astronaut lies seductively on a couch wearing the male version of a bikini.