Is this the Best Shape for Ships in From The Depths?

[@EnRandomSten]

"captain captain! the fore of the ship is engaged in combat with the enemy!" "w-what? why didn't you tell me sooner??" "I ran as fast as I could at the first sight of the enemy! It just takes a while to run all the way that's all..."

[@Zulban48]

I once heard someone describe this game more as a model ship maker than an actual game. Seeing all the ridiculously detailed default ships it's easy to see where they're coming from.

[@TrixterTheFemboy]

proof that it's not how you use it that matters, just the length

[@Hubububububu]

😭👍

[@leopardspheel3638]

of course its a femboy that said it, who else would ever

[@BorderWise12]

As someone who is addicted to making long canoe-like ships... I feel validated. 😊 Subbed for whacky science, long ships, discovery of WF fetishes and brazen use of the Skyrim soundtrack. Very enjoyable FtD video! 😁👍

[@Beepogen]

Gimpsuit deathcannon is wild

[@CobaltianEmpire]

I feel you are bringing a new age to boat design in From the Depths

[@CharliMorganMusic]

Linger is better for long haul, but you don't see warships getting that ling. Not because the can't, but because sometimes shorter is better. Longer thinn ships can't steer for shit

[@sensha5470]

I think its a missed opportunity to not make the biggest spinal cannon ever

[@hentaable]

Absolute Cinema

[@ShyDMs]

Tbh the best take away is staying low to the water. I build all my ships to skimming the surface, along with being thin, and concentrating armor on the cheeks. I can usually make out pretty well, given that I have a phobia of buildings over 25k.. I've also never beaten the game either.. so yeah

[@xxizcrilexlxx1505]

it can what? O//////O

[@hentaable]

Baby baguette was cool, can you make a video on that?

[@thathitmann8282]

@hentaable it was going to be a part of this video, but I cut it because it sucked. It just flipped upside-down and sank and could barely kill things a tenth of the cost. Called it the Ladyfinger, btw.

[@goatcat2737]

30:05 that collision did more significant damage to the baguette than it suffered the entire rest of the fight.

[@ultmateragnarok8376]

Y'know, real large ships don't turn with singular rudders. Some have additional control surfaces at the front to help, but a lot of them simply have sideways turbines at the front and back set into the hull which allow the entire ship to turn on the spot with powered movement rather than relying on forward momentum to turn their immense weight. I think this could use that.

[@thathitmann8282]

@@ultmateragnarok8376 oh, I know. This was funnier, though. 2500m turning radius.

[@ultmateragnarok8376]

For sure the 2.7km turning circle was funny but I think it's perhaps equally funny to see something so long manuver and perform like it's some sensible normal craft.

[@itme7531]

you gotta test this against the pyre

[@MasamuneX]

long ships that are deep in the water using some lead and buoyancy control so its just the turrets poking out could be cool. Now imagine that but as a sub and using particle cannons.

[@thathitmann8282]

@@MasamuneX or you can do one better. A sub that uses pistons to poke guns out while they are loaded and hide while it's reloading.

[@noahwhygodwhy]

You know what system benefits from ship length? Lasers 👀

[@leetheeagle7264]

You must recreate the kilomarauder for the sake of taking advantage of this.

[@viktorutterstrom3144]

you have to combine this boat with the other stuff u made in ftd to create the ultimate boat

[@xuoario]

ok i am convinced the length is truly the method

[@rahko3736]

if you need more boat you can always make it a split hull

[@arthurg1425]

Definitely much preferable to a giant paper mache ship. More satisfying. Anyways, back to a scale im familiar with, medium small DWG and sail ships.

[@miguelgameiro8063]

Lenght beam draft are all important factors in a ship To make a ship turn faster for the same size slower speed and larger beam help longer ship can have higher speed for the same beam

[@thathitmann8282]

@miguelgameiro8063 normally, yes. A wider beam doesnt really work, though, when the point of the video is maximizing length-to-width ratio. Also, it's high draft and tiny freeboard make it really hard to hit, as you could see by a single high wave making a barrage of radar seekers completely loose lock-on while fighting the Redeemer.

[@snowdrop9810]

​@@thathitmann8282 tiny freeboard is bad. You want some freeboard so that target above water doesnt snipe all your turret caps instantly (your weakest points). However, a longship is good because.... boats are only good at being redundant. And long ships are best at being redundant. Can knock off 50% of a longship and it'll still be very much so functional. Cant say the same for most flyers or even most normal ships. A lot of flyers lose a ton of efficacy after just 15-20% dmg

[@ornerylurker8296]

Boats? Only good at being redundant? Fek’n w h a t ? Tell me you misunderstood the assignment!

[@ornerylurker8296]

Honestly I think the biggest takeaway from this is what it means for the balance of structural design and armor mass. Specifically how this thing’s hull is paper thin and that still wasn’t enough to properly inconvenience it. While it might not be good at all, it’s far more efficient ton for ton.

[@thathitmann8282]

@ornerylurker8296 i think it's more a lesson in redundancy. Having 7 AI, 48 guns, and 10 magazines meant that even when sitting dead in the water getting wailed on, it kept outputting a decent DPS.

[@ornerylurker8296]

I can concede that point! Though looking closely it appeared that sheer volume/bulk played a major part in stunting the bite of those not-quite-doom-crams. At little thing like that, squeaking by the blast radius to avoid getting split in halves can go a long way. The entire ship is basically one giant torpedo bulge.

[@tired4743]

Sinners beholding the Ark of Noah

[@mohamedghaithmajjani8553]

I think one cram cannon could split this ship in half lol.

[@dripwastaken7884]

Shape factor really depends on what specifically you want to fight. Thicker ships tend to be more tanky longer ships tend to be more redundant Also the cruicible is by far not the strongest craft in the game, its so bad for its price that it actually got removed in the alpha version. The current strongest craft is probably the pyre

[@thathitmann8282]

@dripwastaken7884 Really? I've never had much issue with the Pyre. Obviously it's not easy (a 1.5 million material ship) but never enough to consider it the strongest. IMO the Redeemer, Crucible, Contingency, Impedance, Basking Shark, Anvil and Singularity are all harder than it. Pyre always struck me as overpriced.

[@dripwastaken7884]

@@thathitmann8282The new SD craft should be way stronger than the pyre but currently i truely think its the strongest craft both per cost and overall. It can beat the singularity and the crucible in a 1v1 while being much cheaper than them.

[@dripwastaken7884]

It 1v1 kills prettymuch any other craft that i can think of that isnt hyper specialised on taking out wedge spam frontsiders like the hypernova, and even that thing sometimes fails

[@MrCatofdoom]

This isn't even really mentioning you are using a 48mm advanced cannon. If you switched to 100-200mm the broadside would annihilate. You could even put in mixed shells adding emp, flame, ect.

[@MrCatofdoom]

Thinking a bit this is actually something you could do pretty easy. just reduce the amount of barrels on the cannons and you will get it.

[@picklerick2861]

Is it bad that I now want to use you as ship building inspiration? Also hear me out. Replace all of the guns with very large crams. I'm talking like a few million damage and a minute or two reload at least, which wont matter as they can all be synced to like 3 seconds of each other.

[@cdmonmcginn7561]

HII, Huntington Ingalls Industries makes most of the boats, especially the big ones.

[@Sawtoothlynx279]

In my early builds of FtD I made a "destroyer" that was 3/4 as long as the megalodon

[@TheOgreishere]

"he killed a fleet with a Pencil"

[@energymass7944]

Good, now make it **THICC**

[@Rafael_Fuchs]

This is so bad, it might actually be good.

[@xyvernthederg5760]

that’s a shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip

[@dripthanos5595]

me 10 seconds into a video: ooh a conventional ship design, maybe i can use that for inspiration me 1 minute into the video: 😭 P.S. you should face this against the Gimle

[@melfely474]

Did you use propellers to help it turn at all? Or just pure rudder 😂

[@thathitmann8282]

@@melfely474 just a single rudder because I thought it'd be funny.

[@xuoario]

triangle is the best ship shape in my opinion DEPLOY THE DORITO OF DOOM

[@notachair4757]

Northrop Grumman is this you?

[@drawter3592]

this is your magnum opus

[@orang7539]

I have the opportunity of being the first comment, but not the wit to write something funny. Good video though!

[@AkiUwUx3]

Come on, we all know the best shape is the strongest shape 8===D It's only backed by a _Real Civil Engineer_

[@gex6692]

The redeemer is possibly the most evil ship ever

[@sampletext5959]

It's tough, but not invincible. A prototype battleship of mine uses guns based off of Tyr's, and they have little issue making fish food of a Redeemer's tightly-packed internals.

[@dripwastaken7884]

Arguably the covenant from the same faction is more painfull for its price

[@therealpuzzlecube3123]

martincitopants could use this

[@picklerick2861]

He'd probably double it's size as well.

[@phroogo...]

the best shape for a boat is a fish

[@mechicanalnumbariaro]

Wth, compensated for something much?

[@Damaddok82]

In FTD spam is king

[@KawaiiFlandre495]

The music he used if form Undertale.

[@fishHater]

Honestly beating the games overrated.