Wow, CRAMs Do Work! The Singularity, Most Wanted, Part 3, From the Depths

[@lane9668]

The reason the lasers don't fire after a while is they're set to hold fire below a specific percentage, since they share the system with the LAMS. If you're straining the LAMS enough, the lasers won't fire at all so the LAMS gets more power. When we made it, it was basically unhittable with the old 200 m/s CRAMS, like, maybe 1/100 would actually connect. The accuracy was so bad on crams back then that it's just set up to ignore all crams with its active defenses. Crams are very hard to detect anyway, so you have to really rely on evasion to avoid them. As for no evasion? It just wasn't necessary. On introduction it was pretty easily the strongest thing in the campaign with no real competition. It beat a majority of player frontsiders at the time, and a lot of player frontsiders following it copied a lot of its design elements. We had some evasion, but ultimately we decided it was hard enough already and didn't need to fly like a crack addict because honestly? Hyper evasive frontsiders aren't that fun to deal with and strafing super fast while remaining perfectly stable looks cool as hell, so we just did that instead. Unfortunately, the game has changed a lot in the year and some change since it got its big update, and it's been left behind in a lot of areas (still lacks a dedicated anti EMP setup and relies heavily on spamming surge protectors and prayers) tl;dr New Singularity update is going to be basically the same thing minus the warps (because warps were nerfed into uselessness), minus the underslung pacs (I've never seen them do anything useful other than look cool), with mathematically optimized APS (the current guns predate the APS shell optimizer that's been floating around) and twice as much LAMS (I just want to make it bigger, there's no real reason.) Probably will also swap a lot of the small interceptors over to mediums, mostly for lag reasons, and remove the goofy cluster interceptors at the rear since they can occasionally create a lot of lag. Also Borderwise, please look at the Alphatest Event Horizon! It's nearly 1800 firepower of rail shotgun with a chain reacting turret that instantly kills it (this is on purpose) Not a godly, but I figured you might get a kick out of it.

[@BorderWise12]

Cheers! I somehow forgot that CRAMs got a speed-boost upgrade. That was dumb. 😅

[@lane9668]

@@BorderWise12 Honestly it was a really good change, it just made a long term cram hater (me, though I'm changing my ways) take a bit to realize that "Wait, crams are actually a threat now?" There was a moment in the SD discord when we all realized that all the new godlies are weak to cram because we never put evasion on them, since none of us really considered it lol. Bit of an awkward moment, praying nobody noticed that despite being incredibly tough to kill with APS/missiles/lasers, crams just go right through the active defenses and slap them out of the air. Evasion will be coming to every SD Hard/Godly (at least most of them) eventually, we're just waiting on a good standardized breadboard evasion pattern to stick onto everything.

[@coffeezombie244]

@@lane9668 did you intentionally make it look like a heart?

[@lane9668]

@@coffeezombie244 Better question for Lyons/Neekap the people who did the actual hullshaping, I mostly did internals/decorations.

[@kahlzun]

there's an APS shell optimiser?

[@Oneye.]

The Singularity is getting major updates very soon iirc, including evasion. Acording to SMNK (one of the KOTL-help): "50% bigger LAMS, active evasion, more armor, APS that ignores LAMS." You might want to do a most wanted on the most recent SD updates such as the Laniakea as well. They're on the alpha branch at the moment.

[@DSIREX_]

Hey you're that meta brick maker This is indeed a bruh moment I'm hearing

[@lane9668]

The new LAMS is actually twice as big, unless something I've worked on changed (30k DPS to 60k DPS). Breadboard active evasion should be coming eventually, probably. It just wasn't necessary when the Singularity was made, Cram changes in the last year or so have made it to it's actually a threat to it. Current version doesn't even engage crams with its interceptors or CIWS because it was better at the time to not even bother lol.

[@IainDoherty51]

Yeah, having been building for a Battleship Tourney that was only allowing APS and CRAM... 'DOOM' Frag CRAMs are pretty close to being the meta option. So much damage output for their cost, and HA cannot reliably stop them penning either directly of via frags. Edit: I should mention that there is also a defensive system that people have started using in the tourneys for defending against DOOM CRAM... Pure HE CRAMWIS. It started as a Meme, and yet has become known to be one of the single most effective options for stopping heavy CRAMs or volleys of shells 😂 A 6K turret can deny a 60K health shell entirely, and a group of them synced up correctly can just clear the sky every 20s

[@rogaldorn4759]

Do you think CRAMS are going to reach the point of being too meta? Concerning optimized builds, in general. Or was it primarily caused by the setting of the tourney?

[@el_buro]

@@rogaldorn4759 i mean with lams and vehicles that are evasive in nature cram kinda suffers Its definitely one of the better all rounders though

[@atesz7636]

Yeah CRAM CIWS is no joke, utter garbage against APS, but it's excellent against CRAM, also good against missiles

[@rogaldorn4759]

@@el_buro Thanks for the info! @Atesz763 as well!

[@IainDoherty51]

@@rogaldorn4759 Not particularly, as it has its counters, but if you can land the hits it is materials wise the single most efficient weapon system in the game when well optimised and tuned. Vs evasive craft it can struggle, and it generally relies on short engagement ranges so the craft carrying them needs to be able to catch and close in on the target. Long range is still the domain of lasers and hyper velocity APS, but both of those generate less DPS for the cost and as such need to be built differently.

[@rogaldorn4759]

Watching huge crams destroy boss crafts really makes me wish APS had access to 1000mm rounds. There was a mod for it, a while ago, but it sadly broke.

[@EtherToast]

Did you know that the SD Sovereign actually has the most powerful single turret on Neter?

[@Oneye.]

Have you seen the 2000fp burst railgun turret on the new Event Horrizon (alpha branch)?

[@rogaldorn4759]

@@Oneye. ...elaborate.

[@DSIREX_]

@@rogaldorn4759 He doesn't need to All you need to know is 'Brrrrttt' A-10 warthog style

[@rogaldorn4759]

@@DSIREX_ Nice. Now I have been enlightened. Seriously though. Sounds kind of... enticing.

[@EtherToast]

@@Oneye. no, but I'm not an Alpha Test kind of person

[@LambdaTF2]

Considering how close those crams got, do you think you could use an altitude fuse or something similar to detonate 180 degree frags to hit bouncing crafts such as the sovereign? It might not be the most effective but could make an all cram ship somewhat viable against SD.

[@revengefullobster4524]

I REALLY wish they would make shields effective against the meta rails again. high speed kinetic is way op...

[@leetheeagle7264]

According to a KOTL i've talked with, theres a thing called the Crucible thats getting worked on to outdo the singularity, the true SD supergodly that is. Its in game now, but it's fixing to be given a facelift to make it a lot more terrifying.

[@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544]

Can you do the Event Horizon? Since recent updates it’s more powerful than the Snig against most craft, and can actually easily 1v1 the Snig. It’s guns are extremely good at tearing up armour so a video on it would be cool. Like a year ago the Snig was a lot more powerful than it is right now as warp drives were heavily nerfed, it used to be able to dodge CRAMs with it easily but now can’t.

[@anamerican1054]

I don't know much about CRAMs. I do know fighting your Titan the CRAM shells have a lot of HP and are hard to take out.

[@rocketdoof1398]

Would it be possible to make a gun that fires above the singularity and have frag offset by 90 degrees so it just rips through the roof

[@llamamclarry7048]

if those cram frags were -90 elevation offset pretty much 100% of the frags would go into the ship as it's hitting from the top

[@BorderWise12]

You can't change the elevation of CRAM frag.

[@alexorsmthnidk2449]

Can you do the Hydra? Its pretty good and i also love the way you break down craft and explain the squishy bits of crafts!

[@BorderWise12]

I'm taking a wee break from FtD at the moment, but I'll keep the Hydra in mind. It is a spicy heli for sure! 😁

[@Garethaxz]

Hollow Point frag da bes.

[@lt.lettuce2023]

Are you gonna get in on the mass driver cram cannons people on the subreddit have been making?

[@TrixterTheFemboy]

Mass driver WHAT NOW?

[@BorderWise12]

Huh?

[@lt.lettuce2023]

@@BorderWise12 grav ram super railguns that hit the back of a cram cannon. Cram detaches just before shells hit, cram gets launched forwards. Cram fires, the shell's speed is inherited and it shoots out at 1000m/s. Tractor beam then catches the cannon and pulls it back to be reattached.

[@DSIREX_]

@@lt.lettuce2023 so you mean Make a small or probably big cram craft Put it on dock, undock and immediately fire big boi railgun, then cram cannon gets launched and if timed perfectly, cram cannon shoots near the target and then kaboom, then it gets retracted back by the dock?

[@lt.lettuce2023]

@@DSIREX_ no need to launch the cannon at the enemy. The idea is to take the momentum from shooting the cannon and put it into the cram shell. You can do this in about 100ft of space, then catch the cannon again.

[@DSIREX_]

If you thought the sovereign was bad, check out the new event horizon

[@SecularStrategy]

I haven't played the game in a while but I seem to remember the Singularity warping like every 5 seconds. Now I see videos where it warps twice the whole fight. Am I missing something?

[@zjanez2868]

From what ive read in other comments warp drive got nerfed to basically being useless CRAM also got their speed buffed which makes them an actual threat now Theres a pinned comment by (what looks like)one of the deigners going more in depth

[@doritosama8854]

Oh my, I remember asking for this on the last singularity video and here it is

[@shawnreed343]

XD I love the Topgear Stig references. When you know, you know. ;P

[@BorderWise12]

Yay! Have a chip sandwich! 🍟🥪

[@rogerrabbit2913]

What are your detection settings? I'm working on fine tuning crams and cram mortars

[@BorderWise12]

The default settings tend to do the trick, usually. Sometimes I'll set them slightly higher for CRAMs.

[@jamesbernard8072]

SO ROOKS

[@drkreuzer670]

What Specs are on your PC? i would like to upgrade my PC one day :>

[@BorderWise12]

I can never remember off the top of my head. It's in the about page on me channel. 👍

[@drkreuzer670]

@@BorderWise12 Thanks .o.

[@marckasprzyk9276]

how do I find your discord

[@BorderWise12]

I have a private one for my Patreon patrons, but The Armory and the Shipbuilder's Paradise are good servers to hang out in. 👍