New Factorum ships revealed (showcase)

[@Aragath]

Hey Lunar! The High Profile Transport was not based on the Pilgrim's Curiosity. I guess I just love the industrial exposed component style and Nasa-Punk. It actually got a little tricky at first when I worked on the warship as I realized that these two ships have two entirely different design languages, which felt understandable by their purposes but by adding the orange canisters into the warship it all seemed connected again.

[@mattstorm360]

The Nasa-Punk style is amazing!

[@chiaeagle6720]

I absolutely love that you've added radiator panels to this design! Really help sell how powerful the prototech thruster is supposed to be.

[@Codster121]

Hey Aragath, I really like your ships, I'm thinking about making some "early prototech" designs, simple spacecraft with radiators and solar panels, and their armor is suspended heavy armor plates that provide limited protection. Though I think SE is missing blocks for realistic (and immersive) docking of spacecraft to stations or other spacecraft. I have an idea for their designs, but I'm not quite sure how to actually add them to Space Engineers myself as a mod, though I plan to create visual concept models, and share them. Docking Ports would effectively function as a hollowed out Connector block to allow players to walk through them, rather than transferring components (except the 3x3 version) They would make it possible for vessels to dock to each other or to stations seamlessly whilst also providing an airtight seal between grids. 1x1 "Docking Port" 3x3 "Large Docking Port" with conveyor ports for resource transfer, though the passageway for players to walk through would be the same as the 1x1 version. Passage Tubes would be airtight and hollow pistons to allow the extension of Docking Connectors for otherwise unsuitably shaped ships. They would come in the same sizes as the Docking Connectors, except no versions for small grids. Perhaps different variants, like a basic kevlar/rubber accordion version, a fancy glass tube, or an armored version. 1x1 "Passage Tube". 3x3 "Large Passage Tube." New hinge passageways could be made to allow for the flexibility of the Docking Tubes, and would allow players to create the space equivalent of airport jetways. Also, for visually realistic maneuvering, RCS thrusters should be introduced allowing ships to maneuver in a similar way as a gyroscope, but with the RCS thrusters rotationally and linearly maneuvering the ship as a "low tech" but potentially more effective alternative to gyroscopes. Z could disable their rotational dampening, as it does with inertial dampening.

[@timeis247]

​@@Codster121dude, ain't nobody reading all that.

[@pajalixd4016]

@@timeis247 I just did and you are missing out. The man has some interesting ideas.

[@SiegeHearts]

Wow, these interiors should be studied by everyone. Everything is coherent and there's so much attention to window, grates, lighting, and room usages.

[@PraetorPaktu]

I absolutely love them.

[@LunarKolony]

Truly masterful

[@thesaddestdude3575]

The relaxation section inside the station looked so freaking cozy!

[@wildwyatxbox]

Aragoth is the master of interiors.

[@gamerelite3989]

the big warship is a total monster .... i had a really fun time takin that down people should take notes on this .... that thing took 5 player missiles to the face and still kept coming O.o

[@Wyk_]

lol, missiles never were a big deal, they packed a bigger punch in the past wwhen the only alternatives wwere gatlings/player made weapons, but if you wanna hit hard you have to "spam" artillery or railguns

[@LunarKolony]

Absolute beast

[@teineone]

@@LunarKolony Unless you can get inside :) The two larger ships are both pretty easy to completely disable once you're inside.

[@UNSCSpartanS114-g6e]

Just make a nuclear missile. I’m on Xbox and I’ve been testing the capabilities of using a large amount of floating explosive items inside self built missiles. 999,999 artillery shells can destroy a scary amount of heavy armor.

[@Erik_Ice_Fang]

Small grid fixed assault guns are amazing when massed. You can fire them inbetween the spaces of blast door blocks and you can fit way more DPM in a small space.

[@Alice_Sweicrowe]

Yes, test the ships and do individual detailed tours of each one. Classy.

[@RichyN25]

Those first 3 ships aren't bad on their own but when they are hitting you 4-6 at a time they can easily overwhelm you. Also Factorum has drones, one of which is a twin railgun small grid that keeps distance from you and I've had to fight two of them at once

[@gers.g.5707]

such a pain those drones are, specially when they spawn or are created constantly on the bioresearch lab encounter, had to go back raging every 5 minutes or so cause my ship wasn't able to deal with them cause the sheer range small grid railguns have, they are agile enough to dodge most artillery fire, destroyed like 15 of them in total, my ship was punctured, no other encounter hurt my ego that bad, the cost of killing them was too damn high

[@Танкозера]

​@@gers.g.5707 Maybe try to break antena so drones won't spawn anymore

[@MK84]

The Factorum Warship also "launches" three missiles from time to time. Small little thing that's hard to track and kill unless you're well covered with PDCs.

[@JOHANN8242]

It also has a warhead that detonates if you grind any core system

[@mkohlhorst]

Faced off with a Warship a few days ago... arrogantly figured I'd give it a fair chance so went in with shield off (modded game... obviously). I won but lost half my ship, both refineries, four out of five jump drives and everything except the two batteries and gyros on the warship was toast. Everything in the bay there to loot were toasted by my turrets. Salvaged what I could and limped away but those artillery turrets were knocking me around so much I couldn't get good shots. Only got hit by the railgun once but it was after my heavily armored area (drives/refineries and batteries) had been softened up and it cored the area killing three of the four jump drives I lost in one hit. Since then I've been gathering resources to build myself one of these beasts.

[@oleksandr4371]

Summarizing: high armor and firepower, low speed and maneuverability. Best tactics: drones/rockets with warhead, nimble fighter with cannons for dps, bomber with detachable warheads, gravity well.

[@PeterBoddy]

Thanks for the video, it's great to see the internals of these ships.

[@LunarKolony]

Thanks Peter !

[@dragonfish3596]

Love the way they designd the back red thing on the big transport ship,they almost look like radiators for the engind

[@vampyerion6804]

I know we’d be a long way from seeing one, but a contact II update would be so cool. I’d love to see Prototech weapons, reactors, things like that

[@thesaddestdude3575]

I still think regular weapons need to be expanded before prototech weapons are addet.

[@maxhill7065]

I'm here for the inside info; my friend and I just play a private survival world - just mostly having fun building - but eventually I do want to get into prototech eventually without abusing admin rights

[@JeddaiNyte]

Whew! I've been getting my junk kicked in by these guys. Knowing how they're armed will be a huge help.

[@Erik_Ice_Fang]

1: I can't speak for the other ships, but the High Profile Escort has a function where if its weapons are disabled, it automatically initiates a RAM (started via an event controller) 2: assault cannons actually have better dpm against spaced heavy armor 3: SPOILER ALERT- on the Warship, there is a war head hidden in the base of the fin just below the aft thrusters, right in between the two underslung tanks made of armor blocks. Presents a high risk of losing prototech gyros or batteries

[@GhostOfSnuffles]

The most dangerous of the small grids is the two stage missile. It spawns in that one Factorum storage depot with all the ship debris around it inside the debris that looks like small grain silos. They're armed with warheads and zig-zag when they fly so they can make it past most large turrets and hit like a hammer. I had one punch a hole clean through my salvage ship after i cleaned up all the drones and assumed everything up to the front door was cleared out so i was coming in slow with my turrets shut off when that little monster slowly drifted out of it's hiding spot then suddenly went hot. I had time to switch my turrets on and they got a couple of volleys out but the missile dodged all of their fire and hit my ship dead center. Now, every time i see debris around those factorum bases i'll stay back and circle them in a very cheap remote controlled drone just to make sure there's nothing inside. Aside from the exploding fungus pods that easily has to be one of the worst jump scares SE has ever given me.

[@AnkhWolf]

Some Battleships working as escort for some High Profile Transports would be an interesting thing to see on the Servers

[@drewbear_07]

Thank you for this showcase commander

[@fredpryde8555]

thank you for that tour i was surprised to see normal gyros on the ships and drones instead of prototech ones being used powerful enemy for sure

[@TomPrickVixen]

I already made the 4 "pilotable" ships more survival friendly. The "freighter" needs the most work do to some AI (and a few structural) blocks are not airtight (cockpit/bridge) and needs at least 1 extra air vents at the rear ( lucky there's room without making any noticeable change to upgrade the conveyor system) 2-2 extra thrusters up/down, and than just connect the 2 large cargo containers at the airlock, replace the 2 external conveyor covers with connectors, and it's ready to be a usable ship. The 2 large grid escort ships/drones work well as parasite fighters just set up a timer-block to detach and activate the thrusters and the AI blocks (+ add extra thrusters to be more dangerous (optional)). But of the space grids, that "logistics station" is the easiest to capture, only a few interior turrets and 2, single turret satellites; just mind the 4 warheads (careful the way I remember it's not set up to be a station, similarly to the listening post and CAN drift away).

[@bloodysath]

Realy good break down, thanks Mate

[@MANU-dw9dh]

Damn, I love them all. I spend my time watching your construction videos, but all I can do is make killer shoe boxes.

[@timeis247]

Love to see you do some combat testing with your ship from your survival series.

[@steakinbacon8593]

My first time encounter was against the warship it did a number on my ship but I managed to come out as the victor. Fortunately it’s relatively intact so im hauling it back to base to repair repaint and refit it to be part of my fleet. Because after all “to the victor goes the spoils”.

[@Erik_Ice_Fang]

I hope you checked for traps..........

[@steakinbacon8593]

Well if there weee any there aren’t now lol

[@Lambda420]

Nice to see interiors actually being thought out.

[@Sternenflucht]

Love the design style

[@Rob-zz7bq]

I think the lack of gatling turrets will make custom made warhead missiles or bombs the best way to deal with these ships. You just throw a missile corvetter out there that can launch custom made, mass producable guided missiles that just smash into the ships over and over again. And you can stay out of the 2km death range of these ships.

[@LunarKolony]

first

[@drewbear_07]

Nuh uh

[@shikashi18]

As someone who plays as the infiltrator and hacking style of combat in SE, I can corroborate that these ships are a PAIN to handle, first time I saw the warship I noeped the hell away from it!!!! Unlike the Space pirates that are more passive, these ships are more ACTIVE in their aggression, using the AI combat blocks to avoid getting boarded.

[@thesaddestdude3575]

How do they avoid boarding?

[@shikashi18]

@@thesaddestdude3575 IT's thanks to the AI blocks, Defense and Offense.

[@furryfuntime6864]

as a person who charges at ships with naught but a jetpack and grinder those bigger ones are gonna be so easy to approach with the lack of gattling or external interiors

[@Spirit_Yoshino]

These really are beautiful ships. They really outdid themselves here. I did find one encounter while messing about and spoiler alert . . . . They had a Asteroid base that was set to self destruct once attacked soo you only had a few minutes to grab the good stuff before it all exploded. The base itself wasn't really armed but it did call in the Warship which was fun... Lol. That Warship is no joke.

[@Swellard6415.]

By far the last ship is the most difficult to take down with a grinder if you're going at it for the first time.

[@z3ntropy]

not that I can truly claim ownership of a style but... the overhang panel style and most of the interior design feels very reminiscent of my ship, which in my humble opinion is (was) very unique feels kinda nice

[@elderweeb1834]

love the aesthetic design of these new ships. would love more updates like this

[@thesaddestdude3575]

Id love warfare part III

[@xelan8549]

I suppose if you are running endgame equipment yourself the basic trick to beating these remains the same as always: have higher range! We can still outclass the artillery turrets with railguns. Maybe with a zippy fighter or a custom railgun turret or two we can take out the weaponry and after that it’s business as usual. Edit: or maybe we need to have a look at printed missiles.

[@wanderingaceminecraftandmo8034]

Alternatively: rail gun drone swarm.

[@sSpaze_yt]

if u dont have enough time for survival i'd love to see more videos like this. maybe more combat ship testing stuff like you did in your video "endless drone waves"

[@teineone]

I have studied the component locations on two ships and am now confident (100% on the factorum warship encounter) that if I can get on board I can safely disable them without causing any significant damage to the vessel, resulting in the ability for it to be 100% salvageable.

[@aethertech]

9:08 Yea, that's about right for a small/light gunship.

[@bowlock9901]

The new updates on SE2 from the live stream are looking very interesting...

[@mikewhitaker2880]

imagine IF one could gain positive rep with the Factorum... pretty sure we can't.. yet.. but imagine getting good rep and being able to simply fly up to one of these ships and just take it over with no fight...

[@axialivanov6101]

Even if you set yourself to neutral or max good rep with the f10 menu as soon as you grind or damage a block they immediately start lighting you the hell up 😂 I've tried

[@MrQuantumInc]

Epic Anime Betrayal. Grinding rep isn't easy and you would get to do that exactly once.

[@mikewhitaker2880]

@@axialivanov6101 IF i remember, there is always the option to enter the menu and change ownership with NO grinding... the rep would simply be used to get close without getting shot up....

[@thesaddestdude3575]

@@axialivanov6101 Thats hilarious xD

[@RvnKnight]

Yes, it is more on Microsoft as for the delay as they have to test everything before release. There is also at least one smaller drone I did not see and is armed with an assault cannon. I have been grabbing bps of each ship so I can study them before I take them on.

[@RvnKnight]

The missing one is much smaller than the Reclaimer and has a connector on the stern.

[@Dmnnet]

I found this video trying to find out how the AI on the ships are set up particularly the battleship because I want to recreate it I don't believe I'm able to spawn it into the fact I own none of the DlC

[@chiledog17]

Would there be any chance to get a showcase of the Small grid craft they use, as I've noticed in some of the events its only theses smaller grid ships that spawn?

[@VeryScarySmile]

You straight up need like 3 people to successfully raid their space stations in my experience. The small grid drones alone are dangerous to anything that isn't covered in heavy armor.

[@PraetorPaktu]

I cannot praise these ships enough.

[@thesaddestdude3575]

They are super cool!

[@GEA_RuthlessKillaz35]

The largest one I jumped too the other day with my near complete battlecruiser named GEA Victory, her shields was fully down and she let's just say made the NPC ship basically completely written off with very little damage done to the Victory herself. 💀

[@captaindarksign3589]

I think its mainly meant for Vanilla combat. Not for Mods of course. Most Mod weapons are just super op but thats not what these are meant for!!!!

[@thesaddestdude3575]

@@captaindarksign3589 I prefer vanilla which is why i want more offical and balanced weapons to be addet to the base game.

[@versinussyrin577]

So this faction is both brutal and awesome. I would like to ask for a few tips from the creator, as they look insanely good

[@gers.g.5707]

bro, these are not much problem, the ones that slay are the small grid drones, specially the railgun ones, such a headache

[@neon4070-yf1gz]

hehe me 95kt super heavy dreadnaught's nuke missiles go BRRRRRR (good luck penning the 4 layers of heavy armor😊)

[@piolewus]

I love the part when the modded dreadnought broadcasts „It’s kingswordin’ time” and then kingswords the enemy fleet command

[@neon4070-yf1gz]

@@piolewus nah my dreadnought might only be 300m long but it has over 80 turrets; domr bo BRRRRRT, TOK TOKor even TATATATA

[@piolewus]

@@neon4070-yf1gz the dakka needs to add up

[@neon4070-yf1gz]

@@piolewus the thing already has it... times 10

[@piolewus]

@@neon4070-yf1gz nice, also: do you use any weapon mods because I've been searching for some new ones

[@JUNIsLuke]

Getting my ass handed to my by the high profile drone, they have ai combat blocks so the rail gun and biggest cannon can shoot you from 2ks away and the turret right on front and too makes it super hard to hydro man

[@Carnados]

i want that frigate, they gotta release more vanilla ships like this

[@alan83251]

Liked the video but I'm not going to watch (yet). Want them to be a surprise. Looking forward to watching later!

[@Waldherz]

More detail and longer form videos would be welcome.

[@drewbear_07]

This comment is a petition to bring back the warship guides series and make an atmospheric version of the ships

[@dennisklaus7188]

Funny enough all these ships are easy to fight. What I class as a gunship is able to handle each of them. Even with some encounters being a 1v3 fight. Loadout is 10 assaults, 4 gatlings, and 4 decoys. The gunship also has more acceleration allowing it to have an edge with dodging shots.

[@ronabthefifth4170]

jus wondering, whats the song in the intro?

[@helohel5915]

The recent update is REALLY unstable. Gpses being wiped, ships desyncing all over the place, performance issues and loading problems. it's understandable why microsoft are holding things back I play on an official server and some of the issues HURT

[@HalNordmann]

Are those on the Workshop yet?

[@discoturtle310]

"A bit like Megan Fox"😂

[@survivalready7280]

All ships have AI modules installed. I wonder if the ships are controlled only by these modules or if there are hidden capabilities? I have tested a lot of AI blocks with different behavior and have not seen anything that I had to deal with in combat. The ships are clearly more maneuverable than their design would suggest.

[@bobbywinicher9080]

That factorum warship you called it a firgate...i find that amusing that thing is smaller then my corvettes hell a couple gunboats are bigger.

[@ri0llvlad]

i like, i comment, i subscribe, i hope youre happy

[@benroseth2378]

Lunar thank you for showing me ships I didn't know about the other ones yet I have came across the escort and the battleship excuse my language but holy s*** I brought my third biggest ship which I named the Hyperion ship station it's a ship that's supposed to look like a station when it's not in combat or moving it's supposed to stay stationary consumes all power from the Sun let me rephrase that it's recharges when it's not moving the ideal of the ship is posed to be solar dependent it has about I think 10 or 20 guns on it it's a space survival purpose ship it works well in combat but when I put it to the test against the factorial battleship and I brought five stingrays to fight with me armed with I think about six guns on each stingray the I found and refixed in creative. By the end of the fight there was the ship station and the stingray that was left we almost got our ass kicked I am just thrilled that we have new enemies to fight 😊😊:). One more thing thank you for making the video.

[@chiaeagle6720]

Holy shit that transport has radiators on it? Keen build a ship with radiators??!

[@tcw_6609]

Commenting to help with Algorithm

[@oliviersacksteder1700]

Bonjour je suis débutant et je ne sais pas ou trouver ces vaisseau possible d'avoir les lien steam ?

[@standbyfordisto]

Anyone know the name of the custom asteroid with the deep factorum mining base with the exploding spores?

[@sSpaze_yt]

yo lunar tune into the anniversary stream rn

[@LunarKolony]

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@sirkawaiipanda1606]

ahah im trying to make a rectangle ship for them

[@gewoontony8721]

How do they even make that much space for interior and functionality

[@AshinEys]

By sacrificing mobility through liberal use of heavy armor, and no bulky piping for hydrogen thrust?

[@LunarKolony]

Being all ion thrust gives you a lot more room to

[@thesaddestdude3575]

@@LunarKolony Combined with less space needed for batteries since it uses the prototech batteries

[@meyatetana2973]

I really like these ships mostly due to how they look the creator of them is in need of praise for them. I had to cheat to steal a drill drone from them it's got a gatling gun and will suicide enemies LOL

[@lunarhalo6977]

The suicide drones that accompany some of these are nasty. Ive died 3 times to those exclusively.

[@meyatetana2973]

Wait you dare insult our battle brick! This is an insult to all brick kind! And means war!

[@Boldro92]

The cruiser seems heavily inspired by the Nestorius, which was used in v1.186's trailer (kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHXaoJ-LeLh0o7M&ab_channel=SpaceEngineers) . In fact, it basically looks like somebody removed the middle section of the Nestorius and pasted together the two sides.

[@thesaddestdude3575]

I see what you mean. its the red ship right? it does have a comparable shape! Could be the same artist!

[@pepethegood]

Its easily destroyable by using railway drone swarms, a small very fast drones with AI blocks set to Hit & Run

[@mightymicroworlds4566]

I’m building a massive cruiser, and by massive I mean mass lmao, it’s got Soooo much amour 😂😂😂

[@thesaddestdude3575]

Its got mass in that ass!

[@seanwolslau-holdren6731]

The Factorum scare me.

[@thesaddestdude3575]

*You should be scared*

[@taiko1237]

I remember watching a video (kzbin.info/www/bejne/epTPn5dml9uEopI - this) which showed a Factorum Warship using subgrid torpedoes, but I didn't see any sign of those in this video. Are they actually present and if so where on the ship?

[@lindsaybosse122]

They are nice ships, but I'm kinda disappointed. Official servers are so PVP Heavy that they hardly compare to a mid tier ship. They don't seem end game at all. Biggest worry will still be other players at an encounter. Nobody needs to work together to fight them

[@davidalldred9392]

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[@fulconini]

Why

[@thesaddestdude3575]

Why not

[@gustaveliasson5395]

That thumbnail needs a spoiler warning.

[@gustaveliasson5395]

As in, that thumbnail itself spoils the surprise. You could do black silhouettes or smth. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to research the subject, and publishing your findings.