The Enemy gets Railguns as well : Cosmoteer

That one mistake cost us dearly. We need to be more careful and more defended in future. Our latest upgrade is going to make us more robust and I may even add some armour behind our defences to make us a little tougher.
Next stop, maximum difficulty levels.
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[@user-vv7fq3gn2r]

Awesome how francis was like: "I am going full glass canon with this one" for the last episodes and then he sounds like an insulted king when he sais: "We just took damage?!"

[@gothicpando]

The peasants are in an uproar again?!?

[@stingray4567]

@@gothicpando WHAT?? My glass cannon is made from... GLASS?????? XD

[@gogudelagaze1585]

"I'd like to see inside that ship" - You can spawn that ship in creative mode and take a look at not just the insides but crew assignments and everything. Some designs have crazy good optimization, even though most are a balance between looking pretty and optimized.

[@tyraelpl]

25:50 You can take over a defeated ship if its hulk still has a hatch. To do that, go near it, use your ship's hamburger menu and transfer a crewman. After that you can see inside AND rebuild the while thing and even save a blueprint.

[@MarkkuS]

Cool, thanks for the tip!

[@JuanSoloPlays]

to see the blueprint you can check all designs in creative. I'd advise against capturing hostile ships for the sole purpose of checking their blueprint. If you want to use it/scrap it for ressources though, then go for it!

[@tyraelpl]

@@JuanSoloPlays Why would you adv against it?

[@RobindenHertog]

@@tyraelpl you can see all blueprints in the game from the blueprint search menu, just click build new ship, load in a bluprint in the build menu and on the side you can see all the ships in the game

[@JuanSoloPlays]

@@tyraelpl well it is tedious and can even be dangerous to do. Its much more complicated to disable a ship than to just destroy it. Of course you are totally free to do so and there are ways to achieve it. For example using mining beams to destroy reactors without them exploding. You gotta be pretty aware of your surroundings and be in a more expensive (well crewed and defended) ship. So if you are doing all this to check the blueprint its much better to remember the name and look the ship up in creative instead

[@NickAndriadze]

*1:01:21* The ship you just met is Clockwork. It's supposed to be a missile kite, so it has barely any forward thrust however *a lot* of backthrust. But since rails outrange missiles, your ship kinda breaks it... Which is unfortunate because that ship is a beastly encounter, not to mention very beautiful. Anyways great episode, I loved the complications that higher level ships got you in and the countermeasure design decisions you had to take to avoid them from happening again. Good luck with the final areas, but with an OP railkite that most of the game's AI can't fight against and is defenceless against, I'm pretty sure you won't be needing any of it.

[@JStankXPlays]

That's no moon.... Its a storage box!

[@samir5740]

Well.... they gave me this whooooole grid to build in it. i'll be dammnd if i wouldn't use every square of it.

[@zito88]

What if you built a bunch of smaller versions of this ship. Just one or two rails each. They would be able to go similar speeds with less engines and crew, plus with multiple ships you could aim all the rails at the weak point of a ship simultaneously without having to rotate back and forth. You'd have to setup a flight formation and everything but it would be cool. I started playing this game since you started the series and I'm enjoying it a lot. It's clear they put a lot of thought into things and allow you to play basically any way you want to without having difficulty getting most any ship designs to work.

[@jbthekeeper2509]

I was thinking similar, just have a personal Militia of ships to fight against the pirates. you could probably bring along flak ships and missile ships too.

[@zito88]

@@jbthekeeper2509 seems like it would be easier to scale that way, maybe more to think about in combat though

[@salemprompthous3820]

​@@zito88a lot more to think about, yeah. Done the 16-18 zones a couple times, and by far my easiest runs were with one oversized rail-boat flagship, and a couple nuke-interceptors. Flagship to keep them occupied, interceptors to flank from behind and drop a nuke in their weakest points before hightailing (Hyperjump, once at a safe distance) back to my Hauler for an ammo restock. FJ has definately given me a reason to come back to the game, and maybe try out some Chaingun-interceptors for early game

[@williamhess180]

@@zito88 would definitely work you can even set up formations to initiate combat then micro manage from there

[@tondekoddar7837]

I was thinking same, modular single railgunships, a missileboat or maybe just a ball bearing to take damage and interest of enemy vesel. But probably fastest per-click is still glass cannon and reverse a solar system when firing railguns :)

[@KreiiKreii]

Surely, I’m not the only one who looked at the “sun spike” of his and went, “Yep, that looks exactly like a home pregnancy test…”

[@asureaskie8955]

45:30-46:00 This is the direct result of improper crew management. When one reactor got taken down, the crew in that sector decided to retrieve energy from another sector, exiting the ship to do so. As an aside, mining lasers also return more resources from scrapping than crew do, so it's still worth using them to scrap ships.

[@arielmoonsoo9219]

One potential way to reduce the amount of 'make work' around the flying warehouse would be to set resource limits so that it automatically stops collecting (say) steel when you have more than X quantity of it. This would also allow you to happen to pick up low quantity items that you don't expect to need and then end up needing.

[@zipperless6036]

The max size railgun ship should be called "The Long Finger" on account of how often you use the phrase

[@Jpound87]

The mighty Monarchs 🦋flying cocoon finally makes its appearance @ 54:00

[@apolloj23]

'They will be remembered, whatever their names were." Classic.

[@AlexScotton-Illizian]

The Stargate reference!!! As if I could love you anymore Francis! ❤

[@MrDrPhDDakamC]

Petition to name the Sun Spike various iterations of Icarus with Roman Numerals in honor of Sunshine.

[@cuddlebuff]

Trading with the small ships that also visit stations is a great way to trade for Tri Steel and uranium. But there is joy in mining the sun as well.

[@packediceisthebestminecraf9007]

40:03 I love how while turning around the ship just decides to take out that last control room on its own

[@salemprompthous3820]

36:07 when in need of repair, and the ship doesn't have the resources in storage, it'll automatically target, collect and assign resources floating nearby, aka nomnomnivore snacks from recent kills. No need to go back to the Hauler every time (assuming the enemy ships have dropped the resources required, ofc)

[@salemprompthous3820]

Also, (unless it's been changed and I haven't noticed) Rails' range only goes up to a set point, long before the 30(or so) rail extenders reach maximum efficiency. After range is maxed, it only affects damage and penetration, assuming nothing has changed since I last took out the 16-18 zones (which was before the QOL of having crew do any of the repairs or construction), also using an oversized Rail-Boat as the flagship. Looking forward to FJ getting there 😁

[@user-hf9gx2xe8n]

He knows about a range cutoff. It was mentioned like 2 episodes ago

[@salemprompthous3820]

@@user-hf9gx2xe8n I'm aware of that, I was just providing clarification to what it means and entails, as FJ didn't go into detail, other than mentioning the range cut-off. Sorry for trying to help others who might not know

[@sebbes333]

*@Francis John* 1:03:12 Put that exit-airlock near an edge or corner of the ship, NOT in the middle (& adjust crew-quarter locations accordingly). 1:03:20 Ah, exactly. Then you can park the ship & rotate it such that the airlock is as close as possible to the scrap-target, *that allows your crew to work longer on the ship before running out of oxygen,* by cutting down the travel time in space to reach the target. You could even build an "arm" with the airlock at the end, so the ship can reach even further towards the target.

[@All_Night]

The title track for this game is great makes me watch the outro more often.

[@RichardTruth123]

Crew quarters have always had 2 doors the 2x2 version has only 1 but can have the door on tye side

[@mattfirestone1]

Seablip looks like a game that might peak your interest.

[@randallporter1404]

46:56 Can you imagine if crew rescue/capture mechanics existed? Where would you put that many crew/hostages? You would have to include so many brigs and additional crew quarters; adding weight and slowing down your ship. Who would do that???

[@salemprompthous3820]

🤣🤣🤣 I sense a "Warcrimes Expanded - Cosmoteer" mod should be in the workshop 🤣 (One of my must-have mods for Rimworld, btw. Love it)

[@adhender82]

@FrancisJohn You can load a blueprint and seen inside all the ships if you want to. It has stats along with it like crew needed and credits value. It's in the drop-down on left when you are loading in your own ship designs. You can also load in the space stations if you want to.

[@92thorstein]

The best way to farm uranium is to do small ship to lower lvl zones armed exclusively with mining lasers. Mining lasers make reactors not explode at hit.

[@densamme1752]

"They will be rememberd, whatever their names where" 😮 from the eulogy for the crewmebers of the forward rightmost engine nacell, crewmembers 110 tru 115 you will be sort of missed but not really.

[@cf453]

Please do a ridiculous ion ship before you finish. They're SO satisfying.

[@mikhailgusev2394]

Thank you. New stuff to deal with Francis addiction for another day!)

[@BrendanWinterSC81]

Was just thinking it would be fun to see you build a few other designs around some of the other weapon systems. (Now that you have all the resources to max things. Could take them for a spin in the high level areas just to compare.)

[@w4rum]

That Star Gate reference was gold.

[@zenthorth4874]

I suggest longer rails. 300% seems like a good sweet spot. Make 4 or 6, slices through everything when you fan them.

[@thefreeaccount0]

Needs at least one 26 segment rail to more or less ignore shields, but I haven't figured out how to build a viable ship with that for less than 1.5M credits.

[@zenthorth4874]

@@thefreeaccount0 oh, if cost is a factor, my suggestion is not possible. The 1/2 minimalistic 8 rail, 300%, ship I built was 7mil ish, with only reverse thrust. Traveled in reverse and rotated to face enemies in combat. If you want speed forward and back, and good shielding, 10mil minimum.

[@salemprompthous3820]

If mining resources yourself, cost shouldn't be an issue. Just go back to previous zones, and/or other low-lvl zones, and stripmine everything. It'll be tedious work, but filling in the entire ship size is definately possible without spending a single credit, just need a good Hauler (or three) to store it all

[@Therealtek1]

Awesome ship bud. But damn you zoom out before your rails hit. We never get too see the change that they can do

[@bjw8qsrmhgxn4wwk30]

1. Yes there is thrust to weight ratio where additional engines start providing little benefit. 2. Capacitors are pretty awful unless you need to split double or triple batteries amongst smaller things or share power.

[@Altair565]

The mirror view in the top right can be resized and you can use it to target, you do not have to zoom in and out for every single ship you fight. In the options you can tell it to always show enemy ship in combat.

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

1:04:55 earlier on I thought you could make one ship of each weapon kind as a challenge. You've taken the best weapon and you have built a really good ship. Next challenge would be to build another ship but without railguns.

[@NickAndriadze]

Railguns are easily the best weapons in the game at least when it comes to career, for sure, but missiles are a not that far second. Any type of missile in fact is good. HEs are the best all rounder weapon and they have second best range out of all the damage dealers, excluding railguns (And in extremely niche circumstances, nukes), with their 450 range, so you can still make a solid kite out of it. EMPs are great at destroying shielded enemies from afar. Nukes are exceptional at dealing unholy amounts of brute force damage at a relatively closer range, and Mines are easily the best complement weapon for kiting ships, with their tendency to... Kind of delete any ship bold enough to chase you in an instant.

[@d.6325]

​@@NickAndriadzeI would recommend him to have a few mines on the railkite they'd be useful as an emergency "I'm scared of this ship and it's too fast" blasters are a very good option for career mode too, just build a very big avoider

[@kirosun]

I suspect the lag is from every ship in the map having 200+ crew

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I captured a ship and checked the blueprint it's closer to 400+ to 500+ crew for those ships.

[@leafykille]

I can see that this series is coming to a close soon, I hope you continue to do these videos on ship building type games like from the depths and this as you clearly have the right mindset to build really good ships :)

[@hquest]

You got to a point where crew is no longer a main concern, but resources are. Particularly Uranium, to scale your power needs. That is where capacitors come to play, fitting the bill very well for your larger rail on thrusters vessel. The larger cores produce more batteries than you can consume in your thrust area, so you can exchange one or two of your cores with capacitors, quarters and walkways. Otherwise you will need to scavenge the entire universe to find the necessary materials for the amount of energy from cores you’ll need. As you noticed, a lot of the ships you’ve encountered were very optimized. Time for you to do the same before you hop into the end levels.

[@RobindenHertog]

You Can look into the designs you fight,/kill you can usually transfer crew(not using the hail though, and 1 crew is enough) to the downed ship and the largest remaining bit of ship will have the full blueprint you can repair them and run them or save the blueprint, I've noticed that the doors are not always correct but it does teach you a bit. And on a side note that mesh "structure" does not block shields, you can then make some armour in front of your shields which does stop the EMP's from taking down your shields most of the time for a minor amount of repairs (which seems more crew efficient because you need less shielding you do need to run some smaller shields so you have more contact points at the front though) that only cost steel anyway(weighs a tenth of armour has a fourth of the hit-points but displaces the EMP blast away from sensitive stuff) since you're not getting in range of anything except EMP and rail gus when you are a rail platform ...

[@leftblank131]

Who are you? >I am Ba'al That's it, just Ba'al....... as in Bocce?

[@davidsalisbury1688]

They've adapted. We knew this day would come.

[@beerkiller]

Starting to look like a Borg cube. I’m not complaining. 🍺

[@94doodle]

Slight issue with your new defensive upgrade: if an enemy takes out a corner the entire brick falls off.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

A mining outpost can be either simple storage for relay back to the main base, but usually you would do one level of processing as you will always need to do that anyway and it reduces the size of the material so it takes less trips to transport.

[@RichardTruth123]

This game has drag and a theoretical top speed of 120m/s. So as your thrust to weight ratio gets diminishing returns as you try for more than 80m/s

[@arkansasorigami83]

I have a ship that does 130m/s no boosters....

[@RichardTruth123]

@@arkansasorigami83 good point. The 120 isnt a hard cap its where the thrust vs drag becomes very hard to improve. Thrust vs weight is linear but drag is exponential

[@Adamius_]

Ahh yet another episode of slightly overkill space massacres.

[@tylergreen4977]

That was a stargate reference around 45:00. I approve heartily. I love stargate.

[@mofoq]

"Ball?" "As in 'bocce?'" 🤣

[@DawidSikora]

Consider building a relatively small brawler ship whose all purpose is to flank the enemy and either shot their engines down or bait them to turn around leaving back open for your railgun Also add a bit of armour in front of your generators so they won't get destroyed by a random lucky shot. Just a little bit will help a lot

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I think next run would be 3 gun wall type ships with a lot of frontal armour for soakage and large cannons for maximum damage.

[@Gimli2022]

I don’t know if these are the kind of games you enjoy, but i‘d love to see you play Victoria 3 oder Europa universalis 4. I love the way you analyze those game mechanics and always come up fast with excellent solutions.

[@bruhder5854]

Capacitors in general feel like they need a change. 1 battery is not good enough, especially when it comes to larger ships. Plus having a capacitor is supposed to store energy and release it all at once. Batteries are supposed to store energy and release it incrementally.

[@williamhess180]

I love the design of some of the higher level ships. involves another refit but a couple emp missiles up front instead of 2 of the flak cannons and you can take out the shields for your rails

[@CarlosEstebanLopezJaramillo]

Look at the ship library, those ships should be there in some folder, if that ship comes from a mod then the folder for workshop items should show in the ship library, great examples there on how to build different type of ships. Maybe the ship does not run full speed for long, who knows, also most of the weapons with ammo use no energy, or little of it.

[@ganashal]

I'm just wondering whether it would be possible to increase the uptime of your mining lasers by rotating them 90degrees, so that the doors are that much closer to the power supply?

[@diggdugg]

75min video, and it the 3rd or 4th one? I think he has had fun with the game, it does look good

[@custume]

9:08 soo the KSP approach, more rockets, hehehhehehehehehehhe

[@FelixChamber]

Looking forward to seeing those rails maxed out in length

[@titikma]

FINAL MISSION IS COMING

[@kirosun]

The reason that i never needed to sun dive is because i found enough asteroids outside the sun area

[@samir5740]

The only name possible for the full length, 8 rails ship? The Overcompensator. And only because "smallPPenergy" would rufflle ytube sensitive feathers.

[@DawidSikora]

40:00 it wasn't actually dead, it was still red but as you decided to go away from it one of your rails fired and killed it without you noticing

[@joebywan]

Franky, move your reactors back a couple squares between the rails and you can bring them closer to ship centre by putting shields up front. Move the control and all that crap in the middle to the back. #1 priority is to have rails as close to the centre of ship as possible. Also longer rail = longer range & more damage (up to a maximum). Checkout the wiki

[@dimanarinull9122]

mining laser is awesome at taking out paralyzed ships, less carnage and more resources.

[@astronomicalanomaly7973]

got the game, went to a lvl 4-6 zone, there is a ship called the Backup, it has a cannon in front with a nuke launcher behind it and shields, so when you destroy the cannon it launches nukes... I was nuked 3 times..

[@Sytesh]

You were buying enriched uranium and tri-steel off the other ships but you should also get the raw tritanium and uranium to make your own.

[@goodstormsgames9744]

I got into this game because of you

[@RichardTruth123]

Emp missiles only do 300 physical dmg and 18m emp you could set up some forward side armor attached by structure blocks that tanks emp missiles. And keep shields safe from emp. One large shield can easily take two rail shots

[@salemprompthous3820]

Although it is possible, having forward armor just for EMP will cost more steel in repairs. Armor, once it's taken 1 damage, costs 1 steel to repair, up to full consteuction costs, depending on how much damage it soaks up before actually getting the repairs done. Have tried similar, and personally just found it more annoying than helpful. Against early-game emp ships, it's very useful, though. A lot more steel per damage done/taken

[@JuanSoloPlays]

@@salemprompthous3820 I think the bigger issue of adding that armor would be weight slowing the ship down. This ships survivability relies mainly on being fast enough to keep out of weapons range

[@salemprompthous3820]

@@JuanSoloPlays but only if using actual armor tiles. Structure tiles stop missiles aswell, and has about 0.2 of the mass of armor. With more engines (which I do believe FJ mentioned was the plan), adding those forward armor-structures doesn't slow down the ship anyway, unless you do double/triple layer. As I said, built this myself, so speakin' from personal experience, not just theorycrafting.

[@JuanSoloPlays]

@@salemprompthous3820 alright. You were discussing armour though. Aniway, at the end of the day its a balance act. You could shed some weight reducing reactor amount, trying to shrink the ship. Also if you can get away with not having identical forward and backward thrust or removing rear defences altogether would help to have some free weight to put on some armour. In most engagements this designs faring really well. What concerns me more than emps is the high explosivenes of so many reactors

[@salemprompthous3820]

@@JuanSoloPlays my previous was about both armor and structure. Either works in stopping EMP missiles, which the main topic. I have over 400 hours in the game, and built a lot of different ships. OP's suggestion in stopping EMPs from taking down the shields has been one of my issues late-game, and have tested different solutions. And yes, you're absolutely right about ship design being a balancing act. If you have a definitive goal about what you want your ship to do, you have to make sure you can balance out all different aspects (main aspects being the big 3; damage, defense, speed). Increase one, and you'll end up decreasing the others. FJ said plainly what he wanted: a ship that can surgically take out other ships before they even get within range of shooting back, having a top-speed of minimum 100m/s. Plan was to add more engines, so adding some forward armor should not intrude on the speed. Adding a structural missile-catcher definately does not intrude on the speed. So balancing it all does come imto play

[@beheroot]

1:11 oh that's so satysfying :D 22:00 profile looks like Red Baron... 46:07 yup, you should :P this game does not appriciate glass cannons. Or not making crew managment (i learned that hard way, but it's not your problem ;P) there are lots of guns for a reason :D 51:00 why not put shield in middle of flacks? 58:33 it's dead Jim, take his stuff.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I put the the flak beside each other so the same ammo factory can feed them. If we put them either side of the shield it would complicate logistics.

[@tylergreen4977]

1:08:18 was that beluga caviar bit a Fraser reference? I approve regardless

[@Berathan-dnd]

I'm not sure if Doctor Octo Rail should be called a ship. It's more a mobile weapon platform pretending to be a ship.

[@willbordy]

Did saw the amount of trursters, that it's the fastest shit in the galaxy

[@tylerderosier357]

The worst two ships I found in the game were both rammer ships that I'm curious if you'll be able to avoid. The one was the Negotiator, which I made a similar ship of and mass chain guns are just an absolute blast. But the level 18 was the Shostopyor. Absolute nightmare. Hope whenever you find it you totally wreck it

[@topis6987]

How about adding some side firing EMP missiles or something else to compliment the railguns? Considering you're always reversing, the enemy would be flying straight at your missiles.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I thought about missiles but decided against them. The ship is a balancing act between Damage, Speed and defence. Our two biggest obstacles are shields and Flak/PD. Missiles are countered by Flak/PD so adding in EMP missiles only helps with heavily shielded targets that don't have flak/PD. I decided I would prefer to have more rails and better defence/speed against enemy. Adding in EMP with only help against a specific type of target, more rails helps against just about everything.

[@thelicand3931]

Thank goodness. You finally realized you have money 😂😂

[@enire8477]

painful to watch 8 stubby rails over 4 long ones

[@r3dp9]

I wonder what the most cost effective way to "spend" red shirts is. Swarm attack craft of low quality, high damage to weight ratio ships?

[@bruhder5854]

Now I kinda wanna see you do a hybrid ship. Rails, beams missiles and cannons. All in one

[@dannyunixanalyst9018]

Welly = oomph Also I'd like to see you make an all missile ship work

[@Blaszj]

Jaffa, Kree!

[@Savantrovert]

You should rename your ship Hotknife based on how fast it cuts through most of your opponents

[@salemprompthous3820]

Butterknife?

[@CChironCentaur]

you need to add more air locks to support ship. if you can get the pawns out and in the ship faster it should speed up collecting of your booty. I'm wondering if you put air locks near the room and air locks near the respectable storage area would the pawns use the one closest to that storage

[@thaconaway]

picture this: a rail gun ninja star that can shoot in four directions. no more need to wiggle

[@stephenhurley4296]

But it would have to spin constantly or loose its ninja star badge

[@salemprompthous3820]

Would still need to wiggle. It's the one downside of railguns, no matter how you build'em.

[@thaconaway]

@@salemprompthous3820 Oh I meant the wiggles would just be 360 spins and shooting every 90 degrees

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I have seen a Cosmoteer brawler channel and they have several designs like that shown. They call them fidgit spinners. They work really well assuming you don't have to move, they need to stop and spin up before the enemy gets in range. They tend to be very slow.

[@kamalotkam]

Most of the enemy ships seem to be extremely vulnerable from one particular direction. Could go a two ships approach. One heavily armored tank that grabs attention and one offensive ship that sneaks around a hits the weak side.

[@d.6325]

in the pvp community we call that "trapping" and it's the most effective strategy in the game. Its only downside is that it requires more micromanagement. I'm sure that's enough of a downside for FJ.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Multiple ships sounds like far more effort, I figure we get enough gun on the ship we can pound down the front door. Though when I do another run I'll have to do a close combat cannon ship for fun.

[@TheGreatOldOak]

Looking forward to see how Francis optimizes Cosmoteer.

[@cuddlebuff]

TIL: what a Welly is.

[@-yttrium-1187]

The reason the enemy is outranging you is because the railgun range is set at the first module of your gun. so a shorter gun will outrange a longer gun.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

That is such a weird mechanic I would have assumed it was the end of the barrel, good to know, thanks for the info.

[@zaidounazzam7288]

Squares with engines and guns.

[@OleksandrKolyvushko]

I would want to see how one sided, quick turning killer stick would do. if you halve the engines you can double the rails (again) ? edit: it could be also much better at strafing due to having side engines

[@OleksandrKolyvushko]

Can you make a large no weapons ship (maybe some EMPs), with a huge scoop at the front, and tons of engines, to push enemies in to the sun dmg zone ?

[@FrancisJohnYT]

This is a preferred method to liberate the resources from a friendly star base, along with a bunch of tractor beams.

[@RobindenHertog]

I think the Lag/CPU drain just scales with level due to the increased complexity of the ships, etc. Going back to a lower level are I have a lot less of it.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I rebuilt an enemy ship and it had 500 crew space, their were several of those ships floating around the level so I think you have hit the nail on the head about lag.

[@aaronduran3506]

first, i look forward to these, thank you

[@nublord365]

At some point with all the engines and stuff you're cramming in. Why not just make two of the Dr. Octo Rail ship? You double the firepower and have less crew.

[@danfr]

I see a lot of right clicking to make small adjustments. Has FJ not discovered the left shift key's ability to make precise adjustments to position and attack angle?

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Have not fiddled with that to much, I tend to just spam a bunch of clicks until it works. Lazy I know.

[@galsherp6173]

u should make a run without rails, its too easy, btw u can deactivate that resource mode, and j ust get credits (to save time) (but i dont know how good ship upgrades then work)

[@Genesis8934]

44:38 RIP Cliff Simon. :(

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Ah man I had no idea he had died, he was such a fun villain in SG1, RIP.

[@KaoVamp]

Hey Francis, any chance we could get your ship design files linked in description?

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Have linked most of them in the description of the final episode. If you want some of the missing ones just let me know. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJmpYq1sp7KZm8k

[@KaoVamp]

@@FrancisJohnYT Thanks. Will definitely play around with them. Glad to see you enjoyed Cosmoteer, have a great rest of your week.

[@feardieshogun8153]

any tips & trick for future video

[@cupofcoffey2752]

wooooo stargate reference

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

I didn't get the reference Francis mentions at 44:50. P-90's? I know Ba'al is like a surname for the devil or Satan, but what's P-90's?

[@greywolf6443]

Only thing I can think of is a refference to the series Stargate. One of the major big bads was Ba'al and the hero team was usualy using FN P-90s as main armament.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Stargate SG1 was a cheesy bit of fun si-fi. The most fun Villain was Ba'al. The troops were from the air force so carried P90s, which looks cool but were totally not how they would have been used. P90 was a gun you cram in a cockpit as an emergency weapon if you get shot down. Still it was a fun show and seeing Ba'al as a ship name got me thinking it had to be a stargate reference. Though yes it is originally a Egyptian god, I'm still thinking it's a si-fi game so I figure Sg1 was an influence.

[@Conqueror933]

longer railguns are better btw, more velocity, more dmg, more penetration

[@grimmlinn]

Damage drops off the longer you go, so multiple smaller rails do more total damage.

[@ninedown]

Ba'all and talking about P90's? Did I just hear a Stargate SG-1 reference? O.o

[@grandfremdling3841]

Fine

[@alexeynezhdanov2362]

Do you really need exact same speeds forwards and backwards? It would be OK if forwards a little bit slower.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I ended up going this way in the end. A bit slower going forward while maintaining our reversing speed advantage. Used the extra weight this allowed us to put on some more armour.

[@grimmlinn]

You need to catch a ship as well as kiting.