2cm Beam System New blocks & A Giant Ion Cannon! - Space Engineers (Mod)

[@zerotwo6814]

I gotta say, of all the laser weapon mods, this is definitely the most fitting for Space Engineers.

[@victorfrankenstein8005]

Yeah its fits the aesthetics of the game

[@dumbfuk7701]

@@victorfrankenstein8005 fits the complexity as well

[@maxwellgraysen3451]

Pro tip : watch movies at flixzone. Been using them for watching lots of of movies recently.

[@TheInfamousNovaZ]

this could make a pretty decent deathstar type weapon

[@ggjade]

Or you can use it to make a reaper

[@angeltensey]

you actually can build a dish with some concentrators on the perimeter and one at the center and it will look like a death star cannon.

[@mothwingy]

Atlas Superlazer would fit more as it's more destructive.

[@friedrichhayek4862]

@@mothwingy Wrong, 2cm laser system can be more destructive, but must be gigantic.

[@mothwingy]

@@friedrichhayek4862 The comment was made 1 year ago thank you but yeah. You ARE right just that a beam of this size would need titanic contraptions and timings.

[@holyravioli5795]

Add an aiming laser so you can actually hit stuff with some resemblance of accuracy.

[@emtpayislow]

Semblance of accuracy

[@doomdave475]

there are turret scripts that are even more accurate than that

[@iammelon8839]

Or a laser cannon which accepts a laser through the bottom

[@fabianlaibin6956]

So we could just have a simple low power laser always on for aim then redirect the beam into it. Easy

[@TrueMohax]

The military uses tracer rounds for their bunker busters so as to know where the shot is going to land before using the single use weapon.

[@TheMNWolf]

Totally using this to build orbital ion canon platform.

[@TrueMohax]

This and ATLAS super laser

[@mesmerwolf0]

This would be perfect as a Spinal Weapon system.

[@Mike-mt4ln]

Dylan Prothero the spinal weapon mod is really broken right now. Half the weapons don’t even fire

[@SirAroace]

can we see how it does vs heavy armor and shields

[@revampedharpy09]

Ive tested both lasers and ions myself, and it depends how much power the shield has, a low power shield will get ripped right through, decent power will stop a laser pulse, but not much else (will reduce the damage from ion noticeably though ) and higher power can block an ion pulse entirely, and can if the power source is maintained, appears to be able to block a continuous laser indefinitely (i powered the shield with a 100x arc reactor for that test, and left a 100% efficient laser on it for 20 minutes without an issue )

[@thenthson]

@Dylan Prothero besides nobody would have shields like that (there probably is somebody but encountering them is extremely unlikely).

[@starlitstreet]

If a ship was small enough it would just stop being there after you fire.

[@killman369547]

pretty much, having installed one into a ship and i can safely say that's exactly what happens, small and mid-size large grid ships do not last long at all in front of it, it's basically the space engineers equivalent of the wave motion gun from space battleship yamato. just for shits n' giggles i made a heavy armor target about 75 layers thick and my ion cannon (with 16 capacitors) punched straight through.

[@trashman7332]

It's fitting that it takes such a long time because of how OP it is. It would be awesome to put it on a ship, and have it so when it's fully charged, you can move it out of the ship via a bay door, aim and fire, and then retract it back in before someone can get a clean shot at it.

[@sgtigram]

personally.. i think thats a really impractical design.. you should make a static chargeup system which redirects the beam to the actual "direction-giver-rotor-platform" which stays quite small... smaller target for the enemy and less problems with the gravity :D - btw.. did you tried the mod in multiplayer? because the shop-desc says something like "on your own risk"

[@generalscar1502]

few questions, how long did the last iteration of the big cannon take to charge, and how many beam generators did you use, because that could be perfect as an orbital cannon.

[@BulbaStorm]

Could you put this turret you made with the mod on the Workshop, please?

[@Raganui]

While I like the idea of gaining power via loops, I hate having to rely on tempting Klang to fire.

[@LoRdLoSs1337]

You can setup a rotor based firing mechanism fairly easily aswell. Seems considerably more stable than a piston based one. I would take a pic of my setup but I'm away from my main pc atm.

[@sigspearthumb3904]

@@LoRdLoSs1337 Actually I tried that and it kept destroying one of the combiners. I had a 4 combiner setup with one on the front corner rotate upward 90degrees in order to fire. But if you can find a way to fix that system let me know! :)

[@sigspearthumb3904]

@Raganui If you use the laser splitter as the firing mechanism, you can set it so that it receives a beam from the side and launches it backwards into the loop of combiners. In other words, make a square with the splitter as one of the corners with the front arrow pointing outward and the back-end pointing into the loop and receiving the laser from the left or right side. Set the ratio to 100% so it launches it backwards to charge up. Then when ready to fire, turn it off and the entire beam should come out without using rotors or pistons. Have fun! :) PS: Ion System doesn't have a splitter block yet. Cross your fingers the mod author makes it sooner.

[@Raganui]

@@sigspearthumb3904 That... is actually a really good idea. Kudos.

[@LoRdLoSs1337]

@@sigspearthumb3904 Damnit, now I have to make an entirely new design. Thanks though, would be better with no moving parts.

[@Nic-zr6ir]

there is another new block, with which you can release the laser without a piston by turning on the block

[@Assassincreed6398]

Whats the blocks name?

[@SpaceDave1337]

You should've used the thing and shot the borg cube, this way you could have called it " Photonic Cannon"

[@Blockinstaller12]

Finally I can build my very own Death Star, cannon and all :D

[@Cpu_negya]

You should see if it can dig through the planet.

[@haydenbarnes1665]

No damage to voxels, unfortunately.

[@mobiuscoreindustries]

Wrong, it does ALOT of damage to voxel. Laser holes can be from 1 to 4 blocks wide and go up to 4km down, a ION hole can be as wide as 20 blocks and if you are thorough you can dig a 30km path into a planet

[@haydenbarnes1665]

@@mobiuscoreindustries then I stand corrected. Thank you for the correction.

[@benjaminwilde6541]

I swear I keep thinking I'm watching Last Stand Gamers because of your voice.

[@adrianadrian2735]

imagine power transfer using lasers, it'd totally look cool in the game. Laser powerlines :)

[@FMHikari]

Loved the laser capacitor. I was having trouble building a large circuit to handle long loads, but i think it will solve all my problems

[@redneckswag616inhd6]

I wonder how a "laser fence" would do against the spiders and wolves? Could be more efficient than turrets.

[@endoflame3874]

well it's extremely dependent on power if you have a lot of power it is a good idea but if your subsisting off of wind and solar with hydrogen you probably won't have enough power to keep the fence up. at that point it would be better to just use turrets which are cheap on energy just not on ammo. but you can find the stuff to make ammo on planet but you can't find uranium.

[@philmaggiacomo]

I still prefer the Welder defense against wolves. Though, has been a while since I've used wolves as they kept glitching and just staying in one spot forever.

[@merendell]

who knew that turtles were that good at dodgeing giant death lasers.

[@LoRdLoSs1337]

New blocks? Damn, just got done using this to make my main weapon on my battlestation. Also, a charged Ion Beam lasts longer if the target is thick enough. My version of this can completely pierce through the Truman Class Dreadnought, end to end and halfway through a second ship behind it. It's also quite spectacular when the beam system malfunctions and shoots off in all directions.

[@gozzilla177]

It really seems to powerful to place in a server. Would be fun to mess around with though lol 😂

[@LoRdLoSs1337]

@@gozzilla177 It's pretty fun but yea may not be good for a server unless some limits are put in place. However, my Ion Beam setup is quite bulky and is as small as I can get it, so that could be limiting factor in a survival server. Since I'm still designing my Battlestation, I've only been in creative lately.

[@doomdave475]

Yeah 2 Ion capacitors are enought to blast a hole from bow to stern on the (ACI) Soreveign Titan and have about 0,5 sec charge remaining it’s so good

[@LoRdLoSs1337]

@@doomdave475 I have 4 currently, though I might want more. I already have 16 Ion Beam Generators going aswell. I may make a video when I finish the core of my battlestation.

[@doomdave475]

How many freaking reactors?

[@Assassincreed6398]

how would you make the laser last longer

[@Shinzon23]

Still not sure why there isn't an actual "end piece" that we can toggle to fire, rather than the silly assed need to use a rotor...

[@mobiuscoreindustries]

now there is one for both systems

[@carloswilfong4341]

I suggest making the giant murder Canon into a giant murder ship meant to snipe enemies from afar

[@terran046]

I ran some tests over the weekend and 5 Laser emitters takes 20 seconds per capacitor block to charge said block. i don't remember my numbers for the ion laser.

[@Janos9311]

I love this mod! Finally a weapon system that you can tinker with, beside missiles. But it needs balancing! You NEED shield's or it will evaporate everything in it's path. If you go for power ‎efficiency with the ion cannon build, the defender needs to invest a lot more energy to defend against it.

[@Crusader_Lite]

"The construction of the death star is almost fully complete"

[@padraigswiers2066]

you can make a deathstar with this, or maybe the planet version

[@2Potates]

Weaksauce compared to the one i built. I actually accidentaly gave it the ability to fire at max power forever due to the ammount of ion generators and capacitors. Downside is that it's not mobile at all.

[@yawnos]

perhaps try spawning it in space and mount it into the spine of a ship that you build around the laser system.

[@2Potates]

@@yawnos Firstly it's already in space. Secondly, you don't understand, it needs an insane ammount of thrusters in order to get anywhere. It's not suited to be a ship's spinal weapon, it's better suited to a battle station.

[@yawnos]

Fair enough, sounds like an a death star in the making then. lol

[@sporqist]

You could build a big ship with an additional combiner outside the loop which can be tilted by rotors so that an ion beam can be easily aimed by a turet script.

[@eldritchagent9625]

If there are any fans of borderlands among you, this could be perfect for a Helios Station.

[@Comicsluvr]

I'd like to see how this works against some of the popular Shield mods. It might be an effective arms race...shields versus laser system

[@harrisonsadventures1212]

I’m curious to try this out on console as I have a ship I made specifically for space battles that is very heavily armored

[@kanesnod6994]

so thanks for this video im going to make some obelisks of light nice to know

[@kavamaurinkavisen9530]

The small capacitor gives me the idea of building the cannons from Space Pirate Captain Harlock

[@adamka6963]

Its good to see a channel that gets well over double it subscribers in views

[@joshjenkins3815]

Makes secret underground base to make like 20 loops and fire them all

[@popcornmaster3172]

Please add a ton of laser capacitors in a line

[@wojtek-thepolishartillerybear]

Is the ASL on xbox?

[@potatoking5602]

I don't need the ion system, with two laser generators I've achieved a constant beam of max charged laser, it only needs 17% of a large reactor to use and needs 58sec to load, after that it fires until it's destroyed or you run out of power, or you turn off the generators

[@Memedog27]

This makes the atlas laser look like a water pistol

[@dukemcgregor8946]

Why not add a laser site?

[@joshcaskey9485]

3:41 This reminds me of the big gun from subnautica XD

[@StarKnight619]

This is great and I like the fence idea. But could you disable sun rotation so some us on mobile see the glory better?

[@JackRPG]

Sure, I'll do that from now on.

[@StarKnight619]

@@JackRPG SWEET! Thanks.

[@callumsutherland8750]

using this and another mod (for a rotor with a hollow centre) and the mouse controlled turret script it makes a nice laser beam turret

[@jasonberg1042]

You should do a side by side compare with spinal lasers the atlas laser and this mod to determine the most effective weapon

[@mobiuscoreindustries]

In term of ease of use? The atlas laser. As it is a glorified laser pointer that is very easy to instal on a ship. Most powerful? Well... let's day a decent 2cm ION can overload a station shield and then proceed to melt 1km of terrain and remove the station form existence

[@standalone5135]

Can you see if it works on the death star

[@kimmy_future4265]

thank you for the flashing warning!

[@Venomti422]

Can be used as a beam saber

[@historyb0i]

I wonder if this mod could also be used as a power transfer mod with those capaciters... allow for a distant station to power a base by redirecting a lazer through satilites or just a space to planet lazer to charge. Gotta be insainly accurate or kill yourbase

[@Janos9311]

Doesn't work. Laser gets destructive at 10 blocks, ion at 40 blocks if I remember it right. That means beyond that distance you can't redirect the beam, it will just destroy the block.

[@insanityl20]

I am going to add that laxer to my base as a ion laser for a last defense

[@Gravity0374]

You should use this in a space battle

[@kevinvandomselaar]

see if you can make a hole through the planet with that weapon

[@Drakes_lair]

sadly the laser systems are unable to do voxel damage

[@swedichboy1000]

7:20 really wish there were a better way of doing that, like if you could turn those combiner blocks off individually.

[@Nykidsnake3995]

Wow AWSOME

[@KaneyoriHK]

Now a death star is possible!

[@natalyawatson817]

So you made the alien gun from subnautica.

[@patroclusilliad233]

"You may fire when ready"

[@kre8or465]

this mod is awesome!

[@EvelynNdenial]

for some reason the ion beam does a whole lot more damage for me. it basically deletes redships and can blow half an asteroid away in one shot.

[@thenthson]

Alot of things can erase red ships

[@thecouncil4822]

I was hoping for this

[@Harley_ashtonn]

Harder to setup thantge atlas thus balancing the death laser sooo making it harder to make and cooler only thing is lag

[@fancy_sculls2799]

I have an idea for a guydinng Sistm use the small lazers I apologize for my bad spelling

[@galacticgaming3186]

He isnt using the splitter in the best way he could, you could put the spliter into a loop to make a continueous thick beam

[@kiwikid3848]

i wonder why people dislike these vids

[@jedirevan5892]

Mad scientist in me wants to make a series of lasers around the planet with thousands of capacitators, would first fire a shot through the moon and then try to hit a planet through space.

[@Helena-me6mp]

reminds me of star wars where they reflected lasers between asteroids to create an almost impenetrable forcefield

[@EngiesParadise]

Your profile pic is pulsating in my sub box I think it’s a glitch It’s really starting to freak me out Am I high right now? It’s starting to drive me nuts

[@patriciusvunkempen102]

awesome mod

[@ALVINTHELEAFEON]

SAVE THE TURTLES

[@kurntechdouglas233]

not getting new blocks

[@bubbab89]

Just imagine if you could Yeet away voxels with it...

[@kuzeysensoy8313]

I cant reach mode

[@jojofire12]

Great! Now I can totally ANIALATE any person who dares fly my moon base with their capital ship! Could you imagine being on multiplayer and raiding a base only to see this bad boy rise out of the ground and fire and extremely bright laser towards you main ship cutting a hole straight through the whole ship.

[@jusa3031]

Build a ship that uses the turret as its main weapon

[@edgardox.feliciano3127]

Turret? Nah, too dangerous temping Clang too much. Spinal cannon? Definitely

[@jusa3031]

@@edgardox.feliciano3127 I mean it can always be a fixed bow cannon

[@edgardox.feliciano3127]

@@jusa3031 yeah, if it's gonna be a turret, it's cause it's on a station, or a planetbase, it's too dangerous on a ship

[@jusa3031]

@@edgardox.feliciano3127 I mean it being dangerous on a ship could be its weak point every star ship has one (atleast that's what I think) it has too or it would too overpowered like slow speed, maneuverability or a planet, lightly armored, a powerful main weapon that could self destruct itself and the ship its on, and/or a ventilation shaft that leads straight to its power core everything has a trade off

[@edgardox.feliciano3127]

@@jusa3031 what I meant by too dangerous on a ship was Clang could claim your ship cause of too many rotors on a MOVING grid. A station, however, is stationary, and unlike a ship, isnt burdened by needing to go fast, so it can be armored, or even buried under a hundred meters of rock, and it can use its power source to power it's MASSIVE ion cannon, instead of thrusters

[@gammatech2888]

Make a death star with it

[@swiftbow2110]

Why are you calling it an Ion cannon, lol. That laser cuts a hole into whatever its pointed at. Ion technology disables systems with out damage to the hull.

[@mobiuscoreindustries]

It's what the mod author calls them. And it also is at least partially one Since it melts any shields it comes to contact with

[@abrahampowell6792]

I'm going to build the Death Star

[@lemon7933]

now i just have to figure out how strong i can make this

[@golgonova3196]

it looks great but the system to shoot does not convince me, it's too inefficient

[@brarrab4876]

wow

[@NarutoMagicCyclops]

Anyone else getting space battleship yamato vibes? just me? OK...

[@doomdave475]

I get Yamato vibes from SC2

[@SgtAwesome97]

This...... Hmmmhahahaha I could work with this >:)

[@agoddamnferret]

anyone else's game crash when they installed this monstrosity?

[@masourisama9698]

This is illegal now

[@SteamLance]

First comment!!!!

[@popcornmaster3172]

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@schvanger]

2cm... what is with these made up units? It's like an inch or so, eh?