It may be a glitch where the program has the measurement wrong. Or it could be that those G forces are only for the briefest of moments. Say - during lift-off during a staging change? Or some combination. Or maybe it's adding in lateral G forces to acceleration?
What irks me sometimes - everything will go perfectly in terms of opening parachute. And when the capsule touches the ground, the Meters per second is under 12.5. But STILL the capsule explodes and kills the crew! This seems to happen more frequently when landing in remote places. Once, I apparently touched down at one of the poles and landed on ice and exploded. I mean - what the hell? Capsule lands on the ground on the spaceport with no problems. But landing at sea level on ice is lethal? WTF? (Yes I know landing on an ice pack with an Apollo style capsule would be a bad idea IRL. But this is game logic. And I'm still trying to figure out the way this game thinks.)
What irks me sometimes - everything will go perfectly in terms of opening parachute. And when the capsule touches the ground, the Meters per second is under 12.5. But STILL the capsule explodes and kills the crew! This seems to happen more frequently when landing in remote places. Once, I apparently touched down at one of the poles and landed on ice and exploded. I mean - what the hell? Capsule lands on the ground on the spaceport with no problems. But landing at sea level on ice is lethal? WTF? (Yes I know landing on an ice pack with an Apollo style capsule would be a bad idea IRL. But this is game logic. And I'm still trying to figure out the way this game thinks.)