From the Depths: how to deploy your turrets in style

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[@TheKenji2221]

People saying this is useless are missing the main feature of a super villain. Presentation

[@acestillwell98]

My favorite line of any movie.

[@blueflame7068]

@@acestillwell98 imagine this agenst players though, attacking what looks like a cargo ship just to suddenly find a warship

[@net343]

And this gives your weapons another layer of protection while reloading/ not in use

[@genericname3685]

Behold the gun presenter-inator

[@Ethan_488]

Why do I hear guns and roses?

[@DaylightFan4449]

POV: Youre a German sub captain attacking what you thought was a unarmed merchant ship

[@creeper_ninja_]

This is what I came to the comments for

[@raoulduke7668]

@Polandball do you know where I can read more about that?

[@davidriadi7999]

@@raoulduke7668 Try drachnifel or potential history video of hmas Sydney

[@davidriadi7999]

@@raoulduke7668 or drachnifel video on the merchant raider itself, kzbin.info/www/bejne/eF69iqaHrcSmqJo

[@AlabamaSoldier]

"Drop your anchor und prepare to be boar-- *SCHEIßE!"*

[@ThelagKingStrikes]

while some say these are impractical, the extra protection provided by hiding your weapons could allow you to get within range of an enemy that outranges you before they decimate your weapon systems. Situational? yes, but they do have a use.

[@mini0541]

nice

[@no3ironman11100]

I make my land turrets like that. Stupid armor from where long range strikes would hit, only deploys it's slightly more fragile turret with less armour when in range.

[@Laughing_Dragon]

Extra defense is extra defense man, its not impractical if it works just fine lol.

[@impguardwarhamer]

it should also reduce your radar cross section.

[@jasonsweeney890]

also allow you to retract and deploy destroyed equipment so the bots can repair it

[@Erowens98]

If only this game didn't take 10s of hours just to get competent so I could actually do something like this.

[@livslab]

Tens? You must be new here! More like hundreds!

[@VorticalOatmeal]

*me with 600 hours in and still haven't beaten the campaign

[@livslab]

@@VorticalOatmeal neither did I. As a matter of fact I only beat DWG and OW, and since then never left the designer for longer than a few minutes

[@potentiallyaheretic9281]

I have like 700 hrs and I've never played the campaign. Or the tutorial.

[@deakdaniel74]

The learning is part of the fun. I could barely build anything useable the first time i played. Now i can build battleships that can easily kill everything i throw at it.

[@_samtsa]

Call robbaz He has renovations to make

[@notverysmart4096]

Stealth ship+

[@agnesclarenbaut5607]

Hw would do it for shure, he slacks for everything but ftd

[@RightfootWestHam]

@@agnesclarenbaut5607 And The sims3, and Fallout4... He is a self-proclaimed slacker that puts in more effort in to his videos then most other youtubers. What a hypocrite, but we still love him. Even though all he talks about is his ass-pain these days.

[@agnesclarenbaut5607]

@@RightfootWestHam you're right bout that, how to forget ginger Town and the glue factory

[@RightfootWestHam]

@@agnesclarenbaut5607 And what about all the slacking in the triology my summer car? What a slacker! REport him for slacking! He deserves all the ass-pain he got for all that slacking!

[@aznhunt]

Holy shit this guy knows how to play the game

[@john.harrison]

now make a cargo container ship that likes to go *SURPRISE!!!*

[@Laughing_Dragon]

you thought this cargo ship was unprotected, BUT IT WAS PROTECTING ITSELF! MUHAHO!!! reminds me of certain creatures in our world and fictional ones that have ways of basically hiding their stuff, like hiding a stinger or something.

[@potentiallyaheretic9281]

This reminds me of ace combat seven. The Belkan airforce would launch suprise drones from cargo containers.

[@ronrafols3861]

if I recall correctly, a german container ship in WWII actually sunk an Australian warship (HMAS Sydney i think)

[@AcTive_AK]

@@ronrafols3861 Mhmm, HMAS Sydney was unprepared and had the crew treat the KMS Kamoran as a lost merchant vessel so most of the crew was on low alert, due to this the ship got waaaaay too close to the Kamoran allowing for even MG's to rake the deck. By the time the Sydney even knew what was going on, most of her crew was already gunned down. P.S. I haven't read this in a long while so some stuff may be horribly wrong

[@john.harrison]

@@AcTive_AK i think thats the point right? Hide the guns to catch them off guard.

[@BusterBuizel]

*Taking notes to make a carrier sub with a railgun as the flight deck*

[@anormalphantom130]

Yeah yeah alicorn and all that

[@platiuscyndar9017]

Make sure not to let anyone talk over your crisp white sheets

[@despacito_boi4484]

@@platiuscyndar9017 oh, and something something salvation.

[@Rifky809]

@@despacito_boi4484 and also something about three strikes?

[@comradegregori2419]

ONE MILLION LIIIVES

[@blazingbl2gamingop794]

This makes me want to make a Q-ship with turrets that emerge from their containers.

[@coenogo]

Ah yes, warcrimes

[@blazingbl2gamingop794]

@@coenogo war crimes are the best crimes.

[@banebladecommanderchristia7951]

Especially with heavy flamer

[@Laughing_Dragon]

wait war crimes how? how is turrets emerging from a container a war crime???

[@coenogo]

@@Laughing_Dragon Hiding military equipment among civilians, or military equipment/personnel pretending to be civilian.

[@chaosincarnate9794]

Looks cool! I'd never have thought of any of these. Took me months to figure out i should put the turret rotator IN the ship instead of on top of it, weapon turrets became a lot smaller after that.

[@Laughing_Dragon]

PFFFFT, I make towers at this point. I should do what one of the factions does, and just make fortress looking ships and such, because what I make in turrets, tends to be towering bahemoths... like... the towers are the sizes of a small-medium ship and if I turned them INTO a ship or plane, it'd be...oh wait I should do that. think like the A-10 Warthog, its basically a tank like plane built around a gun, as the gun is as long or almost as long as the plane. lol.

[@somewierdoonline2402]

This is supposed to be from the depths but now you've made it ace combat 7 or something with all these cool hidden guns

[@Kazrel]

Thought it looked Belkan.

[@jannikheidemann3805]

The cool thing about modable building games is that you can make them anything you want!

[@lukevankleef4245]

Man, all these cool things you can do in the game, and I'll probably never be able to recreate them.

[@livslab]

Cmon, its not that hard, most are just 1-2 ACBs! I actually cobbled together the whole contraption in 1-2 hrs. If you want you can download the craft to vetter see how it works!

[@no3ironman11100]

@@livslab Making the spinblock setup AND the damn turrets in that time ? geez.

[@livslab]

@@no3ironman11100 the one on the iris is an old one I had saved, and the other ones are really crappy turrets that are barely funcional and have no value at all. The whole project is all looks, no funcionality!

[@TheAttacker732]

This gives me ideas for Space Engineers.

[@thelazyredpanda1668]

Clang says: *NO*

[@TheAttacker732]

@@thelazyredpanda1668 Ah, I take it that you tried?

[@ViciousVinnyD]

Now that they finally fixed the broken hitboxes this might actually be possible

[@XiaoYueMao]

@@ViciousVinnyD the issue isnt hitboxes, the issue is the rotors and such break too easily during movement for complicated systems like hidden turrets, armor that simply rotates out of the way? doable, but anything hidden would be too complicated for the game to handle while in movement. also depends on how many you plan to make i suppose. also doable on stationary bases too

[@AstraOG]

@@XiaoYueMao i swear clang has double standards like nooo i cant leave 1 fucking gram of stone on my mobile base or else the wheels go nuclear and create a crater the size of texas. but then someone creates fucking REALISTIC TANK TRACKS and NOTHING GOES WRONG *AND* IT WORKS PERFECTLY >:(

[@spankymate9906]

I really love the designs and am impressed I have over 400 hours and from the depths and never thought about doing this I applaud your dedication and hope that you come out with a new video

[@livslab]

I struggle to build finished ships, too. Less because of overseized weapons and more because of this kind of thing, just cramming as many features and tech onto the ship until its made out of 50% ACBs

[@plasticballs]

@@livslab I'm still working on the Tyrant and I always call it the "finalized version" when I take all day to add slightly better LAMS

[@comickazii6629]

Little did he know the vessel hes attacking is not just a cargo ship, but an arms dealer's cargo ship.

[@dictatorputski5053]

you could do a lot with this and missile launching systems, like horizontal launch tubes that fold up and poke out the deck just enough for launch

[@Shinzon23]

Not worth it with the hatches and VLS style vertical tubes; you can fit in more missiles with a simply VLS cell array than a deployable launch tube.

[@dictatorputski5053]

@@Shinzon23 err, that's not the point? it'll look fucking cool is the point

[@MrPotatoMush]

Anyone else like this could be useful for a stealth update? like the newest US destroyers have a funky shape for the sake of not being detected easily, so this could be used instead of making your turrets have funky shapes

[@MarterElectronics]

Radar stealth is already in the game. Some materials are easier to be detected than others. I think rubber had the tiniest amount of detection. The moment you pull out your guns, you become detected.

[@rafaelsousa5]

@@MarterElectronics Realistically it only works well on subs and even then it's very minimal, since they have the advantage of being underwater and having very limited ways of being detected, but otherwise there is no benefit for replacing your vehicle's outer layer with rubber (the go to material for lower detection values) enemy will still be able to reliably hit you so it's a very bad idea to reduce your armor, even if it's just a metal outer layer, shooting also has barely any effect on overall detection in the case of subs since they mostly use missiles and torpedoes which can be done to fit the shape of the hull, and even 1 or 2 guns will be a small portion of the overall craft. Just remember that if you do it you still need armor, it makes your enemy have poor accuracy but doesn't mean you won't get shot, it's not a form of active protection, it won't block enemy firepower. "like the newest US destroyers have a funky shape for the sake of not being detected easily" That also already exists, different shapes give different detection values, the bigger the angle of your armor the harder to detect, and the more flat it is the easier to detection, profile also, something tall, wide and thin will be easy to detect from the front and back but hard to detect from the sides and top/bottom.

[@nl5494]

This is some USS Zumwalt style engineering coupled with a similar degree of inefficiency

[@TheBigNazrin]

At 1:34, in the reflection of the gun, there is a silhouette of a man absolutely VIBING.

[@imperialofficer6185]

I am to this day absolutely haunted by the fact that this game wasn't a fever dream

[@livslab]

is it that good?

[@imperialofficer6185]

@@livslab No, I was 12 when I was playing it and nothing made sense. Not that it does now

[@tlad2750]

That final one though.... Grand stuff

[@wolfe8035]

I want to see Lathland build his ships with this concept now... how fucking cool that'd look. :D

[@815TypeSirius]

I know this is 3 years old but I am building a doom satellite and being able to articulate blocks is going to be a game changer. It means, because space isnt very high up without glitch/cheat, I can deploy fully armored then open up to fire long charge particle beams.

[@savage7882]

Honestly a pretty good idea, sacrificing space for armoring your turrets can be a great trade if you don't want to be decimated when caught off guard.

[@__Gaz__]

thanks recommended, i don't have this game but now i want it

[@livslab]

glad I could spread the love! join us on the subreddit, you'll see plenty more shinnanigans like that

[@Jupiter__001_]

The missile deployment one seems cool for use on submarines

[@sampletext5959]

Everybody gangsta till the cargo ship pulls out a battleship turret

[@danielm.595]

The pilot's last words were: "Turns out that container was not, in fact, a container"

[@raffia16thblaze10]

daaaang that iris was sick

[@adamofblastworks1517]

Yeah. My reaction was "Is that a f*cking iris?!" and immediately rewinding and watching it two more times before finishing the video.

[@atesz7636]

I never even played FtD but this is enough reason to buy it

[@Laughing_Dragon]

go into it, do the tutorial FIRST, and probably keep a few tutorials on stand by, because the game can be quite a bit complicated, more so than others, its great fun, and honestly fun to learn as well, love watching tutorials. suck at keeping stuff armored and well...efficient I do tho... but love making towering turrets XD!

[@RookieRogu]

I’m paraphrasing someone else when I say this. From the depths doesn’t have a learning curve... it has a learning cliff... on fire... covered with bears.

[@markov633]

Good luck lad

[@evilbadger34]

I went into FtD not knowing about the learning cliff. 20 hours of tutorials later and I came up with a wood boat that doesn't sit still, and a couple cannons, moves 24m/s 200 hours later and I have gotten better, but I still dont understand 20% of things lol

[@MFenix206]

@@RookieRogu but the bears are friendly though....

[@gawayne1374]

That last one made me scream. Well done

[@slyllamademon2652]

This would be pretty good idea for concealing your ship on the water: you could make a small silhouette that makes it harder to spot you over the horizon.

[@atarigod8634]

good luck trying to hide a pagoda mast under the deck

[@roxrequiem2935]

This is pretty cool way to protect the AA simple weapons from getting hit by frag splash and stuff.

[@DawnBriarDev]

Only if you aren't shooting them. I don't think breadboards have conditions for a specific local weapon controller not having a valid target to even hide them when their preferred target isn't around. Maybe in LUA, but I wouldn't know what's available there. But in practical use with just ACBs: No. You'd only be able to do that if you manually hid the guns one by one and in doing so prevented them from shooting. Cool RP idea but it'd rarely be seen in combat.

[@nervehive2768]

Imagine this, you're piloting an aircraft, you see a surfaced submarine, you fly close, then you get rekt by AA guns that came out of nowhere

[@gabebell924]

The style points are off the charts.

[@oskar_f2397]

This looks awsome! I'l make shure to steel this next time I'm making a ship ;)

[@indeepjable]

This Is Important If Something Like Combat Can Happen Suddenly And Some Turrets May Need To Be Protected If Not In Use or something

[@KaneyoriHK]

The lens design was really cool

[@ryokkeno]

Dude, That's amazing!

[@livslab]

thanks :)

[@schoenperkins8210]

that last one was the best imo

[@brentramsten249]

so you got the: broadside pop and slider corner flip adjustable death egg full flipper "i thought it was just part of the wall" barrel cosy (my personal favorite) 'the stargate'

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

My only improvement would be to try a split door on the second one to reduce the unveil time

[@921HUNTER129]

Thats some proper Neon Genesis Evangelion Tokyo City shit

[@allenliu8820]

i think this is good for battleships and other naval vessels as they allow the user to hide weapons that make them seem obsolete for example hidden torpedo tubes, missile silos, and anti aircraft batteries which the enemy has no clue about until they are deployed

[@ddssrr1614]

Dude. How just how.. So talented..

[@Mabra51]

The aperture one, damn.

[@airekusandaa9529]

Robbaz needs to see this

[@stove5480]

I dont know when, i dont know why, but for some reason, i have already watched 40 seconds of this video without knowing it even existed.

[@livslab]

when on mobile, you always see a preview of the video, right? This counts as viewtime, so lets say you were scrolling through your recommended feed, you got distracted while this video was selected, and 40 seconds later you kept on scrolling. You have "watched" 40s of this video without ever clicking on it!

[@Codebreakerblue]

Oh I absolutely love the dome one

[@bjarkelyk3518]

KZbin has recommended my this video since it came out by putting it on my front page about 30% of the time. I have finally given up and watched it.

[@anonymouspersonthefake]

0k 0:56 is by far my favourite its so c o o l

[@NeonBeeCat]

"license and registration please" My minivan:

[@E1ectr0]

The last one is awesome.

[@daddybondrewd7271]

y'all straight up going *battleship - 2012*

[@beaclaster]

why do i feel boss vibes from the last one

[@baseddino]

If only just breaking the spinblock weren't enough to instantly destroy most of them. This game needs an armored spinblock or something but that doesn't fix the single connection point but ig that's how it works irl too

[@livslab]

If its just the spinblock with a bunch of armour then its not a big loss but as soon as you put weapon on the moving part it becomes a risk... Though maybe you can move the spinblock into an armoured container inside the ship and have a beam extend to where the moving parts are to better protect it!

[@baseddino]

@@livslab see this is the 2000 iq I need lol

[@classysquid7501]

I love things like this

[@solitaregames]

Hidden weapon system. I've been using that for years, since before it was a thing. My main ships had that in my workshop, especially my NASA Fleet.

[@doublehirn]

Okay the last one is pretty cool

[@energeticcreeper7969]

i mean if you have a doom cram or some other one per fight super weapon this could actually be used those things can be *expensive*

[@RedRanger-ll7hx]

I've never seen this game before, seems like I've been missing out

[@coffeezombie244]

Definitely good for close range secondaries and AA not in use.

[@lastfirst5863]

This is giving me serious Total Annihilation vibes.

[@heyguy2367]

Spin block man Blows your brain 2021 colorized

[@nguyenthuhien1674]

When the merchant ship came from the West...

[@theamazingcaptainawesome3438]

man these look awesome

[@billylauwda9178]

auxiliary cruiser *INTENSIFIES*

[@lukebrennan3954]

Holy shit dude I'm in fucking awe!

[@cooperproductions3731]

Go go gadget concealed carry

[@zetarhythm3503]

That last one is great.

[@sirdeakia]

Suddently i have a better grasp on Bond villains.

[@AhmetCan-jc1ml]

Omg iris mechanism so cool

[@normanj4007]

these would go best with missles

[@big924]

The appliqué barreled turret could probably work as a missile turret

[@GreyKnightsVenerable]

Me: (Overconfidently) This ship has no AA to speak of! My simple bomber should do fine! Person who watched this video: (Grin widens.)

[@junatah5903]

In a game where space is everything, seems a bit impractical but cool.

[@safeforwork8546]

I have no idea what this game is but it look cool

[@gasmaskghost4110]

ah yeah in style

[@tyazze6390]

Amazing, simply

[@ghost_ship_supreme]

The 6th one would be really good for starships

[@brianbecking1]

This looks super cool. I bought the game some time ago because it looked cool, but never came further then the beginning of making a ship. Its to hard to learn for me.

[@ScruffyNZ.]

hard for everyone tbh. well worth investing the time in the end

[@avi8aviate]

I like the dome shield most.

[@GeneralFOPPA]

Nice work.

[@therealbahamut]

Classy as fuck. Now build Autobot city...and make it transform.

[@Dom-ny9dt]

Very impressive, personally I dont have the patience to make stuff like that lol

[@Bigbluedragon9]

This is amazing

[@invol67]

meanwhile i cant even make a shell that can penetrate wood

[@livslab]

you dont need to penetrate it, destroying it is enough. and if in doubt, use nukes, just to be sure!

[@danielbagley2847]

You hide gun in wall? HA gun IS wall!

[@cat19649]

ok realistically how many hours of learning to get to this point

[@Cykz.]

I’m so upset the last one didn’t shoot missiles

[@markov633]

Saddly there sent a missile that sized for the game...yet

[@davidmay9956]

Gotta tell lathrix!

[@purerussianvodka_]

Holy fuck this is cool.

[@dancingsilence7828]

Zummwalt be like

[@lordrichardxii9382]

is radar "stealth" a thing in FTD in that case this is revulutionary, and looks Amazing

[@themecoptera9258]

Yes and no. You can use things like rubber and alloys to reduce the detection range of radar, but it doesn’t help against visual trackers so it doesn’t really make you stealthy so much as slightly difficult to hit for anyone using radar principally. The thing that works best is small rubber coated submarines with ion drives as they can be very difficult to accurately target as only active sonar works and that gets reduced by the rubber coating. Well designed ones can even avoid torpedo detection.

[@applecore4720]

POV: HMAS Sydney

[@geodarian1361]

awesome, but highly impractical for anything besides styling upon your enemy

[@livslab]

gloriously impractical, highly inefficient! I couldnt do it any other way!

[@verianlewolf2417]

well, it could be used for the protection of something like a bow mounted short range particle cannon, put it behind armored doors so it isn't destroyed on the approach, then open the doors and fire. for an example of a weapon like this, look at lathland's recent survival series

[@Bacony_Cakes]

Q-Ships be like

[@thelegend8570]

Oh. Okay then.

[@agecom6071]

This kinda reminds me of Babylon 5 if I'm honest with you 😂

[@insane5947]

Fuck I wish I could play this game but i lack the patience

[@davidnax9058]

2:34 this is literally the poorest city in Germany and looks better then most of america