Space Engineers - "Naga" firing it's Cluster Bomb Cannon

Just a short video showcasing my new cannon, along with ship, made for it.
Here's the link - steamcommunity...

[@Try2-Imagine]

FINALLY! Someone showing a weapon system attacking a target that fires back.

[@Aetrion]

Now all we need is a target that is moving!

[@ThatHungryAfricanChild]

It wasn't really firing back more like firing at the incoming projectiles defensively

[@Artameful]

@@ThatHungryAfricanChild That's exactly what he means. PDC No large combat ship will just let missiles and explosives fly uninterrupted

[@CharleyXMIke]

Just watching the first cluster head towards the enemy ship gave me The Expanse vibes, like something you would see a belter ship would fire.

[@KGAnims]

Beltalowda!

[@CharleyXMIke]

@@KGAnims Oye bossmang!

[@jacko5451]

@@KGAnims Cluster bombas, ay bosmang?

[@thegoodolddayz6183]

100% agree with this statement!

[@69Kazeshini]

Stop taking the aqua

[@FurryEskimo]

Glad to see I wasn’t the only one to think of a design like this. Mine was a bit bigger, but instead of dropping mines I think it dropped beacons with other stuff on the ends. The guns prioritized shooting the beacons so the detached fragments broke into two fragmented parts resulting in even more collision damage.

[@gozzilla177]

I was thinking this as well and for extra umpf you can make the main projectile have a warhead attached on the back the beacons distract from it haha I might play with that idea.

[@FurryEskimo]

@@gozzilla177 I couldn’t do that when I played because I failed to find the materials for explosives..

[@gozzilla177]

@@FurryEskimo I think they only take silicon and magnesium, although if playing with a design like this I usually do tests in creative to make sure it works before building them in my survival world lol

[@FurryEskimo]

@@gozzilla177 Magnesium, that's what I never found. Resorted to nodded laser weapons. I scanned all asteroids I could find with a large ship scanner, from all sides, and performer tests drilling through larger asteroid, but I just never found what I needed.

[@rebaav]

Wow. Reminds me of the Lotus by W4stedspace but considerably more evolved per the game itself. Most impressive!

[@lechking941]

mind you a good mind can turn w4sted's lotuses into a force of nature beyond ALL hell they are just laerge enough to be colony killers.

[@skoovee]

i love this game so much, making a ship from the ground up and knowing exactly how it works is such a awsome feeling

[@dangarcia1617]

Seeing stuff like this makes me want to get into this game.... until I play it and realize I need to be an actual engineer🤣

[@Ranstone]

And how do you become an actual engineer? By doing. You can learn more from the internet than you can from university, and as someone who went to uni, I stand by that claim.

[@KrushVarO]

@@Ranstone The Point on University is to study, not to learn. You are your own Teacher, thats why it is studying not learning. And so it is in the real world and Space engineers. I spent hundreds of hours in this game trying out, fail, destroy my base while fail and sometimes i am sabotaging my mates for fun.

[@Ranstone]

@@KrushVarO Exactly. People need to have more confident in their ability to teach themselves. Go to uni on top of that, and that's a recipe for success.

[@drewishgaminginc.3942]

Yea at first this game is daunting but you learn as you go....I started not even knowing how to make a ship fly.... now I'm 200 hours in on an absurdly large carrier with all the good fixings.... carries 30 fighters, lots of guns, it's own large grid mining ship that's remote controlled and an orbital strike platform attached to the bottom that you just drop off and remote control into position, gps tracking cluster bombs similar to these to level planetary bases in just a few minutes without ever needing to leave the bridge

[@rusername]

you guys need to realise that this game is actually unoptimised and unplayable as hell in multiplayer, also its dead by now, most popular server UD has online of a 3 players...

[@michaelhice7636]

Construction phase looks ominous! Sweet build man!

[@sevinojono]

i love how the little parts that fall off while its moving make the ship shoot itself.

[@synthdriver8817]

Okay that revolving loading system ammo assembler is clean af.

[@lenshibo]

Very incredible design! though i feel it would be a good idea to keep that front door closed until you fire it, just seems like a vulnerability to me. but past that im really impressed that you made it able to swap payloads like that! ive never seen any kinetic weapon do that in this game

[@dudeinadoughboy4327]

Sci-Fi logic dictates every badass ship must expose at least one "PLEASE SHOOT ME HERE!" glowing weak point

[@lenshibo]

@@dudeinadoughboy4327 very fair

[@jay-d8g3v]

@@dudeinadoughboy4327 this

[@suddeneevee9441]

@@dudeinadoughboy4327 Deathstar exhaust port be like:

[@jarrodsteers8991]

I had the same thoughts.

[@Dathemyr]

Really cool ship! In terms of just visuals, it makes me think of a Farragut class battle cruiser from Elite Dangerous, with how the front end splits into two prongs. Just, instead of a hangar bay, yours has a pretty nice weapon design.

[@DavidUtau]

Not even close :|

[@Dathemyr]

@@DavidUtau I mean, the split front aesthetic is there. It's missing the beams between the individual prongs, but it's still reminiscent. And I only meant the front end, not the whole ship.

[@bendover1028]

Cool setup and cinematics , outstanding construction and rotation sequence and of course a spectacular death and destruction scene to demonstrate your anti-intruder security system. Bloody well done mate.

[@alexandersergal]

i just realised that with the new combat update, cluster bombs a legitimate threat now due to how lock on works

[@SondreWingarElnes]

I actually expirienced this in a dogfight yesterday going against a large ship base, fragmentation is deadly if accuratly targeted at you! I could only reapond with some small railguns, but was not able to break its welding mechanisms on time!

[@ginjaedgy49]

beautiful seeing the PD's getting overwhelmed.

[@NameName2.0]

Looks good for Orbital Bombardment, but not for ship combat, lining that up against a moving ship would h u r t. Maybe against stations?

[@KGAnims]

Yeah, it's really only useful against stationary targets. The cannon can be improved upon and then installed on smaller ship which can be used to ambush player stations or parked big ships from very far away - well beyond any turret targeting range.

[@NameName2.0]

@@KGAnims actually, it could work as a broadside hail, if you set them up under protective movable plates, they finished reloading and or preparing the rounds, then you'd get close, the plates would make way, and try to get ahead of the target a bit, could rip apart the enemy ship that eay

[@KGAnims]

@@NameName2.0 unlikely, as there shells need time to start rotating and disperse warheads. You are looking at very least at 1km "arming" time after firing them off the ship. And that's plenty of distance for enemy to dodge.

[@ForgeofAule]

These are good for going against fleets. It similar to the grapeshot used in old cannons, not a ton of damage to a single target but a large area of lesser damage

[@MrGantron414]

Try dreadnaughts and all those other huge ships who load up a metric crapton of heavy guns. This would make a good ship against the big boys but you aren't going to be able to set up a second shot before they start heading towards you. Tactically it's an ambush bomber. Now if you could make it able to reload while firing and keep it up... Maby by the time the fourth one is launched the first one is done building and ready to launch?

[@EssentialLiberty]

NAGA! Cuz it naga-na-be-threat-no- more

[@justinke975]

I think I've just witnessed a level 4 flak cannon from FTL, damn

[@zaflowgalactic]

Very cool! Different ammo types as well looks like. :)

[@nobody-yj9uu]

"Sir two projectiles incoming shoot em down sir, they've become multiple shoot them for the love of Clank

[@lexguttman]

You need multiple cannons to make it really effective. Think a Hapan battle dragon from star wars. When one set of warheads launch and need to be rebuilt the barrel rotates out of the way which allows the next set of 'rounds' which have finished building to rotate into position ready for an almost immediate launch. it would increase the size of the ship drastically to provide for mechanics for rotating and ammo capacity (though if your auto building the warheads on site then I guess thats just more component storage). Blueprints are your friend though.

[@davidtapp3950]

Apart from the severe vertigo from !lading the turret, the result was really nasty!

[@petererdei7128]

I don't play space engineers, but still liked this video

[@the_real_inquisitor]

Beautiful design and weapon.

[@bigpeeneugene7739]

i havent really played much of this game, but one thing i find funny is the fact that once the bomb has fully detonated, the enemy ship's autoturrets try to shoot the cluster's remains, which results in it inadvertently causing more damage by shooting itself

[@nobody-yj9uu]

sounds are so cool, it looks absolutely terrifying

[@rarehydra1179]

How deviously clever.

[@kilzme2222]

Oh wow! I'm loading SE now to play with it. Going to take loads of inspiration from this design. Thanks for posting and sharing!

[@skorgevondoom___9571]

I need a few of these for "Relocation" operations ;)

[@darrenbootland2316]

I don't have the slightest idea what's going on in terms of the game but it sure looks impressive.

[@raylordofkhalah28]

dude made a missile that splits into many smaller bombs to get past flak and defensive fire easier, from a range that counter fire is near impossible. Imagine combining a sniper and a shotgun at the same time for how the damage is dealt. Really nasty. Then make the normal defenses against things like this (Defensive fire) be able to only take out 1 or 2 targets before they reach the ship, and this thing makes close to 30, and its really hard to stop this. the downside is its very difficult to aim at moving targets and its best use is on giant and/or stationary ships.

[@pizzaface117]

Belter: *"Get ready fo walowda pashang, coyomang!"*

[@contingenesis5126]

that ship looks like an stellaris titan

[@shadownium2528]

To anyone wondering, the other ship was made by Venom,

[@Novasigmia]

This ship design gives me ideas

[@vegas6067]

Гениальный корабль, торпеды просто кайф только не совсем понятно для чего 2 вкладка на панеле управления

[@KGAnims]

Спасибо) Вторая вкладка для смены типов торпед. В каждом залпе четыре торпеды, они запускаются с 1ой по 4ую. Так вот, эти восемь кнопок во 2 вкладке позволяют настроить какие торпеды будут в залпе: 1 - первая торпеда будет приманкой 2 - первая торпеда будет боевой 3 - вторая торпеда будет приманкой 4 - вторая торпеда будет боевой 5 - третья торпеда будет приманкой.... и так далее. Тип надо менять ДО того как запустишь процесс варки торпед.

[@vegas6067]

@@KGAnims понял спасибо

[@SirTail]

This is a rather impressive system.

[@TheDeathless]

Practical? No. Amazing? Yes.

[@jojoskunk]

favorite kind of engineered and controled destruction

[@wepntech]

Ok that's a cool system.

[@thehatred94]

Meanwhile, the ennemy ship : "Hey captain, that ship is looking at us menacingly while doing some whatevermachinashenanigans since the last 2 minutes.... shouldn't we like... aim our railguns at it and blast it to smeetherin?" "Nah, it'll be fine, they're probably admiring our magnific-" "they've launch something at us cap'. " "-well fuuuuuuu" * no ship with a competent captain ever.

[@KGAnims]

First things first - this cannon has massive range. Easily can shoot from over 5km away where it's difficult to spot anything. Next, you can fly around with cannon already loaded and ready to fire. And last - obviously this cannon isn't really useful against moving ships but can be useful if enemy ship is parked or vs a station.

[@thehatred94]

@@KGAnims i mean hey, i did like the video and i do like the concept. And it is a good engineering disign. But you have to admit it is quite a funny scene if you look at it from that angle. Also, while it would work a whole better against a station and anything docked to it. Realistically unless you have stealth or do a jump in, you will be seen coming even before 5km range from radars or patrolling ships. Either way sorry if my comment offended you, it was mostly intended to be a light touch of humor.

[@KGAnims]

@@thehatred94 huh, i'm not offended, just wanted to clarify the use of the cannon, so no worries here :) yeah, scene is unrealistic, but I was just trying to showcase the working mechanism and potential damage it can do if you land the shot. I am not sure how effective script based radars are, but I thought it could work :P

[@thehatred94]

@@KGAnims fair enough then. I did say if. A lot of people are easily offended out there when i really dont mind to so never hurt to be careful and apologies just in case. xD

[@Razor773_YT]

You good sir, are a freaking genius and I love this

[@pumpy2728]

1:19 Enemie: *watch at his clock*

[@emre7029]

Well job solider

[@magicscreenman]

This is like some shit straight out of The Expanse.

[@judicatorhurayth1927]

Would you do the "Executer, I will steer the gantrithor into a collision course with the overmind

[@richi3500]

: D

[@geegeetomlinson2316]

Gorgeous

[@davidcolaco8355]

Looks like something straight out of the expanse 😅

[@ethrsag735]

"FIRE THE CLUSTER BOMBS!!"

[@Motionlesscapture]

if this becomes a regular thing in SE, then we would be going around saying we hate nagas, not a good look

[@user-hf6os1qb2w]

Dunno what's wrong with people in comments but amazing creation I can also see it being useful to disengange from battle (dropping these payloads behind so enemy has to go around)

[@houdinied8619]

Damn, that is quite impressive! Reminds me of a dust gun

[@alistermanase2581]

Looks more like a weapon designed to take out enemy installations then ships. Time it takes to ready the shots is to long and a ship can easily move out of the way avoiding such a hit unless taken by complete surprise. Namely not noticing you till the automated PDS start firing. Still an interesting build.

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

ohh..now this gives me some sweet Home world 1 vibes.... or dune vibes... aka..background ambient noises + status screens and basic engineering details..nothing else... as you watch things execute the orders given monitoring them

[@Jalbesbe]

Absolutely Beautiful. I still much prefer the cost effective way of firing tons of little stones as ships can't shoot it down and you often have piercing damage on top of the stones floating in the enemy ship after causes the ship when trying to fly around to put more holes into itself

[@KGAnims]

I think devs removed damage dealt by flying ore chunks long ago. Now they barely do anything.

[@gmaninatrashcan7144]

@@KGAnims yeah ore guns haven't done squat in years. That said, container bombs can be useful for interfering with a ships maneuvering. Basically glitch the ship full of rocks to make it's grav gens interfere with it's flight profile.

[@Zeecontainers]

@@gmaninatrashcan7144 Yeah though there's no way in hell you're going to hit a moving grav drive ship from beyond point blank range, so the practicality of that isn't there, these systems are better for defeating defenses pre warfare 2. Keen ruined defenses with warfare 2 though as you can now use conventional weapons to shoot from beyond turret range. I don't get why keen would make defenses useless. It's dumb. Creative methods like these were much more interesting and a big part of the game.

[@Jalbesbe]

@@KGAnims Ore guns actually still do considerable damage with pulse gravity generators, causes a slight glitch to speed. Also becomes more effective the more players there are on the server starting at 8. I've torn thru massive ships with ore guns still. You do get dud rocks but with the speed you can fire they just start tearing thru

[@timw.5030]

what in the sam hell, very cool

[@leroyjenkins9035]

would be an incredible weapon on a stationary asteroid too, youd have a deployable mine field whenever you like

[@HorizonSniper__]

Woah. Such damage!

[@normal8999]

Me looking at the thumbnail My mind: "you can't fire a hole into Mars"

[@Red-Brick-Dream]

"Naga firing it is cluster bomb"

[@AmneziaLP]

engineering madness :D respect !

[@Opachki69420]

Holy crap I bet CIWS systems would have a nightmare with that

[@WardenWolf]

Interesting, but the destruction is underwhelming given the long prep time.

[@PanderanMonk]

Dammit that's a cool ahip

[@clouduslakestream8781]

I have no idea what’s going on here but it was cool. Too bad it wasn’t longer and such

[@user-yv4up3jz9s]

Dude, that's the frag cannon from elite dangerous

[@pandagamer-hg5be]

cruiser sized shotgun

[@snometro]

dude made a spaceburst shotgun

[@AaronCross760]

cool but in a real fight the whole missile assembler would be gone by the time 1 missile is half finished

[@nathantownrow4177]

This is my thoughts saying out loud but could be more destructive power for example super charge mega cluster bomb rabit firing cannon

[@Jacob-bm6wb]

i think real cluster bombs are bombs that land and explode throwing out lore explosives which then throw out shrapnel

[@IHiggs]

Caldari Tier 7 :D

[@anguschamberlain633]

Awesome

[@goldridder]

No matter what game, if I saw those bay doors opening at the front, knowing that was behind them, I’d be thinking, well this is fucked.

[@xwar2173]

thats one way to do it

[@darkideas2088]

While in one!!!!!

[@noahbluecoat]

That weapon is so good. Also one more question. Does it always cause major damage?

[@onex0064]

How long did it take? I mean it is a powerful weapon but I think it is only effective at stationary targets right?

[@Kleexun]

Space tropedoes

[@xslowday6850]

Wow dude

[@FMHikari]

Great design! Could use some extra improvements as well.

[@bloodstormwolf9512]

Why is there a warhead? Top-Right, 2:46

[@voruma]

Titanfall 2 ending

[@jaydubz2885]

so... it's a Battlestar's flak gun!?

[@zuberk8812]

I thought of it as a SpaceShip Shotgun lol

[@Mazephyr]

Its an interesting idea, but it is only really effective against targets that are not moving at all. Non-tracking warheads are just really not that great

[@RevokFarthis]

As it is, yes, but with a bit of retooling (thrusters, turret control blocks, some overide locked gyros on rotors, etc) this could certainly be made to lock on to moving targets. If it can acellerate faster, or fast enough, it can even catch them in a stern chase before both grids hit the speed cap...

[@danielthegermanguy8978]

torpedo tube 1 loaded

[@jonathanbrouwerdekoning3825]

welcome to warcrime enigeers

[@Garvey64LIVE64]

Can you make a standalone cannon blueprint?

[@Zenek7274]

Now put it on a piston gun

[@devilishdavid4623]

That’s a lot of damage

[@thatdude9588]

*NOW THATS A LOTTA DAMAGE*

[@yamatokurusaki5790]

Seems very complex

[@pouncepounce7417]

It is spaceENGINEERS ... offcourse complex you only build rugged and simple if you need to impress customers

[@phoenixyo9987]

I think the problem will be hitting anyone who is moving. Otherwise quite a cool design.

[@MaDmanex100]

Perhaps its a good siege weapon against stations and radio relays. seen some roleplay servers where a heavy weapon support ship would be quite handy.

[@devNeverless]

The target ship appears to be a station. Projectiles do much more damage to stations then to ships. Please try with a target that is a ship

[@KGAnims]

It is a ship. "Phoenix" battleship from workshop if memory serves me well.

[@AVERYhornyMrDinosaur]

flex tape can't fix that

[@rpscorp9457]

meanwhile, youve already died to rail cannon lol...

[@Smarglenargle]

now show it hitting a moving target that doesn't sit still for 1 minute.

[@KGAnims]

Would you ask tank to hit a jet? This thing wasn't designed for hitting moving targets. Think of it more like weapon that can be installed on some sneaky ambush ship to devastate docked ships or stations, that have too thick of an AA defense for conventional attack.

[@net343]

I don’t want to admit how wrongly i read the title 💀

[@thezerg618]

Are these homing missiles If yes giv workshop

[@leonardschopper1076]

did somone say jerrico?

[@mathewking1559]

Is it combat and Klang proven

[@sephiroth5949]

thought KZbin was suggesting videos of that other game which is expensive asf and is basically an early access scam