The Event Horizon - From the Depths: Most Wanted!

[@lane9668]

Some funny notes from building this thing 1: the gun type was mostly just a meme that went too far. Lyons (of Lyons the Mad fame) was showing us this new burst railgun thing he made, and I just asked how much it'd cost if we made the entire Event Horizon turret out of it. after realizing it had close to 2,000 firepower and was over a million by itself, we just kinda kept running with the idea because it was so fucking stupid. 2: the turbines are actually armor. it needs such an outrageous amount of power to run it that fitting anything other than large turbines in most places was basically impossible, so the big high HP pieces of turbines help block things like piercing crams, lasers, pacs, etc. Still very weak to pierce tho. 3: the total lack of ejectors and chain reaction was left because it was funny. if it were pure kinetic, it wouldn't chain react at all, but we wanted to make the firepower number bigger, so we added a bunch of frags. after we realized it lost like 40% HP to its turret popping off, we just went "fuck it" and put the AIs right next to the main turret with literally 0 armor separating them. if the turret's gone, it's not gonna do anything anyway, might as well double down on the joke. tl;dr, it's a colossal shitpost we made because we made a single bad decision and whenever we realized how bad the decision was, we just doubled down and did stupid shit until we somehow ended up with something that's kinda strong. thanks for the video BW!

[@NearQuasar]

That thing still rips your guts out as long as it’s turret is intact.

[@NearQuasar]

This “shitpost” could actually be the best craft on Neter if it only had ammo ejectors.

[@lane9668]

@@NearQuasar Could also just be pure kinetic and not need ejectors. It's not meant to be a godly craft, so we did make the funny choice of having it blow itself up when damaged. If you want a more challenging experience, just change the shells to be sabot/solid with base bleeders instead of frag.

[@NearQuasar]

@@lane9668 I will test this. Also despite its flaws, it is my favourite Faction craft.

[@ithuriel128]

I love hearing all those details! The gun is hilarious.

[@leopardspheel3638]

Okay, so this is unrelated, but I have to share this to some people that will actually understand. I one hitter quitter the Crucible. One singular huge missile took it from in the air to under the waves. 10 degree frag cone with IR guidence sent it straight for a lift jet and it went through everything and ate the jet controller. I think the missile was salty over the Crucible taking its brother down and chose violence. Related note: CRAMS are fun c:

[@BorderWise12]

It is so nice when FtD RNG works out, doesn't it? 😁

[@ithuriel128]

I just noticed that this thing's AIs are named after a quote from Hollow Knight! That's super cool.

[@Marcel-ODB]

i guess those tiny lasers purpose is to trigger enemys smoke to further weaken enemy lasers and for nasty flys for sure

[@BorderWise12]

Ooh, didn't think of that! Good point!

[@scorpion563]

Probably primarily fly swatting since if it was just to trigger smoke you can do that with 1 pump.

[@atesz7636]

7:15 Hold up one moment! It uses 1m shells??? That explains why it fires in such massive bursts. Death by a thousand cuts is more devastating than I initially thought.

[@Klint_Izwudd]

Railguns do pretty well with smol shells since the rails do most of the work. That said if you make a 500mm x 8m shell purely from solid warheads, you can penetrate the fabric of reality.

[@tekoimming1943]

​@@Klint_Izwudd that not the whole truth! If you take 8x500m pure kinetic shells and use them with maximum rail draw they pierce the fabric of reality, punch through four parallel universes and still have 99% damage left. The only downside of that thing is that you have to find something worth shooting.

[@Peanut4899]

I saw this ship in one of Lathlands videos and was terrified - so glad you are showing how to defeat it.

[@BorderWise12]

So I forgot to mention HEAT and HESH, which should also work great on this thing. There, I have now mentioned it. 👍

[@mechastophiles2118]

Building on that, a submarine with supercav HEAT guns, for those who think particle cannons are too cheesy

[@formicidae9126]

another thing worth noting is the innac on the event horizon. its got so much spread on its shells that a small craft with just a decent amount of armour can tank it fairly well simply by nature of not getting hit by most of its volley in fact, i've found the most efficient way to kill it is a few small craft with decent pen weapons

[@NearQuasar]

@@mechastophiles2118PACS come with a big premium though.

[@addisonchow9798]

Borderwise, which turret are you the most proud of making?

[@drkreuzer670]

Woah, i thought this series is over! O.O which means, more FTDs most wanted! :D

[@BorderWise12]

Yup, it's ongoing. I'm just slow with it. XD

[@HerrLich36]

As yes the old "when in doubt, bring a bigger gun" trick. :p

[@zsdfasdfas]

No one: Event horizon: tickles belly, commits seppuku

[@alexorsmthnidk2449]

Have you considered making a most wanted on the hydra, its a pretty nasty steel striders heli imo and has some EXTREME dakka

[@TechnicalTonics]

Really appreciate this series of videos.

[@jamesscalzo3033]

Loved the video @Borderwise! Can't wait for the next video man! I wonder how much damage you'd be in for if you can across a Singularity and a pair of Event Horizons? Better yet, Can the Alaska from the Finest Hour Campaign take on the Event Horizon?

[@Klint_Izwudd]

I find the trick to hitting strafers is to be stationary so they fly in a nice predictable circle.

[@NearQuasar]

Just use giant piercing pacs

[@doritosama8854]

I assume shield projectors aren’t good against this thing?

[@BorderWise12]

Nope. Too many AP shells too fast and there's disruptors mixed in there. 😅

[@3dwrecker_4660]

Well I know what I'm building next. PAC sub here we go.

[@twiexcursori]

Oh hey, those AI names are a Hollow Knight reference, lol

[@JerryTheDinoKnight07]

wish I could make a railgun with that kind of reload

[@admiraltorvosaurus8513]

Imagine a BB with four of these turrets

[@AngryProtoBoi]

instant death for anything I would assume

[@matthewyang7893]

Overly large HESH spam should tear this apart in no time as it's literally just heavy armor without spaces... Hehe HESH go bonk.

[@marckasprzyk9276]

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[@matthewyang7893]

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[@RoccoGreenall]

i am a god

[@addisonchow9798]

Is this the power of a God?

[@revengefullobster4524]

Once again proving how much railguns need to be nerfed... so much hate for them. Or they fix shields so that they are effective counters again.

[@carlborg8023]

When huge missiles, literally tin cans full of fuel and explosives, no longer take ten times as many shots to kill as heavy armour. Then, maybe, railguns can be revisited

[@andrealmeida8055]

railguns arent broken, theyre just power dense. and even then in a bad way, since normally GP is better...

[@formicidae9126]

i'd disagree there railguns can pack a decent amount of damage into one shell, but in terms of efficiency they're outpaced by just about everything but pac. if anything needs a nerf its cram, stick a well built cram on a well built platform (something most people don't seem to know how to do, which is probably why its so strong) and you get a craft that can take out just about anything

[@andrealmeida8055]

@@formicidae9126 this ^^^, cram when done right is kinda busted and really the only counter is extreme amounts of passive evasion... so yeah, nerf cram. buff railguns, maybe? or just nerf cram

[@tekoimming1943]

​@@formicidae9126 cram gets countered real hard by strong LAMS though. I think the balance of the game right now is quite on point. Not perfect, but when does that ever happen