The Finale : Cosmoteer

[@wookie-zh7go]

"It's a victimless crime" The station crew floating in the void: Am I a joke to you

[@PartranTiger]

This ended how all DnD games end, the birth of a murder hobo

[@muraj7418]

6:38 "It was a victim-less crime" as the bodies of the station inhabitants litter the space around...

[@АлександрГриханин-р4г]

Can't wait to see Francis, The Evil Genius, tackle synergies in Noita's wands and come up with more inhumane ways to kill game entities.

[@tondekoddar7837]

Least amount of modular stuff in Noita afaik, so darn interested in FJ's take on it.

[@bg3841]

And somehow end up with a brick.

[@r3dp9]

I'm more interested in how he's going to kill the framerate. You can't underestimate the value of bullet-time on demand.

[@CST247]

“Hear me out… Smash and Grab” classic Francis 🤣. Literally never thought that when buying stuff from the stations!

[@jodiac]

ph no what am i gonna do without my semi-regular dose of francis playing cosmoteer!!! I await excitedly for the next roll of the wheel.

[@NickAndriadze]

Rails are indeed absolutely busted in Career. In the PvP gamemodes of Cosmoteer much less so, because the enemies you're going up against actually have *brains* and know how to counter your cheesy tricks, such as stalling you out, spreading your rail fire with armor and tilting and of course, investing into enough speed to catch you up. However against AI rails are impeccable.

[@HenrikEbert]

As someone who "finished" the game I got bored of rails at some point and purposely switched to other weapons because they stopped being fun. I never touched PVP but seeing his minmaxed ship it is relatively easy to counter, his sides are unprotected and I cant see any weapons that cover them. A small speedy boi could yeet itself into his side and proceed to chew him up. And to be honest watching the battles got boring once he got the rails going. The highest point of tension was when he got sandwiched and even then he got out easily.

[@IsilionNELE]

@@HenrikEbert How's the run going? I wanted to do a run using weapons I don't often use, so I challenged myself to only use missiles, high energy ones and EMP. It got a bit boring, the accuracy is so damn low fights take way too long, and after the fight there's not a bit of enemy ship left because you hit everything EXCEPT the spot you were aiming for

[@HenrikEbert]

@@IsilionNELE My run was about a year ago I believe, dont if anything major changed in that time. In the end my ship was just a facetanking capital gun/pd/lasergun with as much speed as I could give it (including strafing). So I would get nice and close and then circle my enemies and dakka them down. Huge repair bill but with the resources my factory/mining ship got per zone... not a problem.

[@salemprompthous3820]

​​@@HenrikEbert a multifaceted fleet is a lot more fun end-game, mostly cause it takes a bit more brain to manage, rather than what the 30-length railboats do. Completely agree with you about rails quickly becoming boring.

[@HenrikEbert]

@@salemprompthous3820 I lack brain so I went for the sledgehammer approach after the sniperrifle got boring. And well, controlling several ships is far more difficult since I have a great need to micromanage. Also, I have some minor compulsive behaviours like the need to stripmine every single resource from a system before leaving, except the ones near the sun.

[@mattfirestone1]

Rip the first station. Went down like the death star.

[@taccat199]

That was a great series. Thank you for finishing it out with a bang. I would love to see you design for pvp. AI is too easy for you.

[@toddboward4771]

And watch Francis lose his mind the first time he comes up against a spinner. 😂

[@mallik10892]

Can't wait to see you on Battleship Brawlers (competitive pvp scene)

[@TheMalT75]

Thank you for a great series! Never played the game, but it is on my Steam wishlist... And thank you for using my two naming suggestions, Ali reference and implementing some of the suggestions we discussed in the comments ;-) As an outro for the first Noita episode, it would be fun to see the Hypersonic Bumblebee going up in flames when hit by an Arbiter without sniping or running away and how long it actually takes a lvl 18 opponent to breach the Flak + shields at the front??? Might also motivate Noita fans to check out your Cosmoteer videos...

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

The entire series has been awesome, Francis. At the beginning I thought you would going to do a symmetry ship with railguns at 90° or 45° and make it spin like a machine gun. As a future challenge for you, I'd go with a repeat but with a couple of restrictions: no big ships, no railguns. Or any variation. Maybe no big railguns, or force yourself into a specific ship shape. Diagonal only, triangle only, etc. Like rolling 2 dies when building a ship: size & weapon type. The quests may be repetitive, but there's a lot options for the player.

[@leftblank131]

Now if you could trick the faction wanted level hunters into following a sun diver into the sun, THAT would be hilarious......

[@MrJamesstarr]

It seems like the game knew when to end. I do not think the gameplay loop would of stayed interesting much beyond this point. Even if their was higher level equipment and more advance enemies, the size of the ships would just be to unwieldy.

[@daanstrik4293]

Already the gameplay loop is stretched thin. The game is still being developed thankfully. More mission types being one of the things currently in the development. That being said, the true game here (for me at least) is in creative mode. There is a suprising amount of depth from simple mechanics. And making a ship that is equally cost effective to the built in ships is a major challenge that still entertains me after hundreds of hours. Let alone if I also want it to be aestetically pleasing. There’s new parts being added as well, which all significantly add to the available options

[@Joepido]

I'd actually love to see you make a beam ship next time around... or maybe a rocket spam ship... Or maybe.... A FLEET OF ROCKET SPAMMING BEAM SHIPS!

[@toddboward4771]

I agree, a fleet swarm playthrough would be fun to watch.

[@Squirrelthing]

So I'm just going to thank you for all the entertainment you've given me so far, and looking forward to more. It's become part of my morning/evening routine to catch a relaxing episode from you. I will note that Outer wilds is on my list of games to play, and since it has a knowledge-based progression system any gameplay at all would spoil it (the ending is already spoiled for me, but the journey there isn't) I won't be watching if you play it. Same would have been true with Tunic, but I've already beaten that game. Just fair warning to anyone interested in those particular titles.

[@samuelblankenship9404]

Amazing series Francis! I've been playing this game since its early alpha stages and loved seeing your uniquely utilitarian approach to ship design! I've been mulling around a "Borg cube" challenge for a while now, where you take the modularity of ship design to its natural conclusion. The challenge would be to have a small number (1-5) of perfectly square modules that each feed off of a single reactor, aiming to create a ship that can take out a maximum level sector. Since I haven't seen any Borg freighters around, you'd also have to keep all of your cargo inside, and I'd also recommend limiting your reactor size for the first few sectors. It goes without saying that tractor beams should be a part of the offensive modules eventually! Also, I really like the wheel spinning system! I think it's a good compromise between popularity and viewer-driven suggestions.

[@koobluh]

Was really hoping Against the Storm would be next. Just got it over the weekend and already clocked 18 hours - it's so fun!

[@VersesAllOdds]

Would love to see you play more of this game not using the the OP railguns

[@toddboward4771]

Railguns aren't OP, they are extremely limiting.

[@daanstrik4293]

@@toddboward4771Against the AI? They’re defenitely OP. They outrange everything, and their main balancing factor is their weight (which makes speed a major challenge to achieve). But in Career your own ships can be so much more expensive that you can outspeed + outrange everything (as was shown here). So long as you have enough damage to penetrate shields + enough ammo you will *always* win with these parameters.

[@Nexadon]

Watching you take that space station was like watching a master craft video! Great Scott! LOL Great work, sir!

[@nikita24330]

Great playhtrough, thank you for this wild ride. You sold me on this game from the very first video. I hope you would also check out Highfleet someday, it kinda have the same «easy to build» ships mechanics, but much more depth to it's strategy

[@salemprompthous3820]

Oooh, Noita. Love that one, a lot of fun, pretty colors and quite challenging. Looking forward to FJ's approach ❤

[@dahn57]

Yeah, Cosmoteer is one hell of a game, as you said, a little repetitive right now, but it is still early access and it's a super strong base for whatever they plug in to it next. Rails are very powerful, but you could try the other weapons, set on multiple ships. You don't really have to micro other weapons as much as you do with the rails, as most of them have a wider firing arc that they can shoot from, so you wouldn't have to do the rail-shimmying, just point at your target and maneover your ships to keep them on target and safe. Flying a pack of smaller non-railgun ships is a very different feel to flying the one monster around! 😉 Looking forwards to watching you play Noita next Francis, it's a VERY different game that can be over in a blink or last for a while. And your strength depends on luck as well as skill. Another amazing indie game with a truly phenomenal world built by the engine, I was incredibly impressed when I first started playing Noita. You should feel quite at home in Noita's world, it's probably as hostile as the Dark Souls or Salt games 🙂

[@mattfirestone1]

Going Medieval looks like its an enjoyable early access title.

[@ApocolypseChild]

Awesome! I just picked up Noita but hadn't had a chance yet to jump in. I'm looking forward to it!

[@Kaldris]

God that was a fun series. Loved every minute of it; Looking forward to the next series!

[@johnarmitage3452]

ive seen some nutty designes for missle boats

[@Br3ttM]

Shooting right down the center of the station to kill the reactor reminds me of the old arcade game Bosconian.

[@ashen0001]

damn this makes me sad, really loved this game/series, you finally got me hooked to something other than ONI... If I had to nitpick, as many people already said railguns breaks most of the AI, making a ship that could withstand the end game AI while still dishing out damage is very hard and I wish we could've seen your take on it. Your idea multiple ships could be fun but honestly the game suffers greatly from end game lag so I hope they work on that otherwise I can't even try it..

[@christophemalgouyres]

That was a fun journey, thank you Francis!

[@emilesteenkamp]

yes, would be fun to see a ship with cannons

[@Berathan-dnd]

It would seem that Francis has lived long enough to become the villain in this game.

[@bjw8qsrmhgxn4wwk30]

Walt has a massive development pipeline for this game too. It'll be like christmas every 6-12 months when a new thing comes out.

[@ekothesilent9456]

Comment didn’t age that well 😅

[@benjaminolsson2162]

Noita is an awesome game. Just watch out for polymorphine. That stuff can kill you if just a single drop touches you. The easiest way to get your run going is to learn how to increase your attack speed by using chainsaws, luminous drills and drill bolts while also having enough "add mana" to not deplete the mana bank of your wand while firing att maximum speed.

[@overdramaticpan]

Interesting to see another playthrough come to an end. I suggest Mindustry next, it's a weird cross of a factory management game and tower defense. Tower defense is loose, because there's also RTS elements. I've played it for a while and it's fun.

[@Spessanon]

Time for Francis to have the fear of god put into him by saws

[@8willman]

Enjoyed the series, if you like this you might be into Forts, you also have cannons, lasers, etc. and blow stuff up and everything's destructible.

[@MrBuyerman]

'Look at that Beautiful Beam of Destruction' 'OK, Lets blow it up!' 🤣😂🤣 Quote of the series for me!

[@SpicySpleen]

awesome series Francis! you gotta try out FTL at some time if you have never, even on the side off screen, you will love it.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Oh FTL is on the list, it's just it has some heavy competition. Right now it is ranked 19th on my weird ranking system, since only 15 games go on the wheel it will be a while before it even has a chance at a spin. Using the new ranking system has given me Cosmoteer and Noita, so I'm pretty happy sticking with the system for now.

[@arturmonteirodacosta170]

I know you've played this game a bunch, but I'd love to see other weapons explored as well, specially a "meele" ship.

[@neilclay5835]

Float like a butterfly, sting like a battleship.

[@MrLancar]

omg. he's finally tackling Noita :D I wrote a large chunk of articles for the original wiki for that game, so I know how crazy its systems can be. Can't wait to see what wands he'll make ^^ (and how badly he'll butcher the names of.. basically everything. lol )

[@basbekjenl]

Aw I was hoping for a swarm of needles. As many one max rail ships as you have crew for 2 octo rail are impressive but 5 single or dual rails would be a nasty pack, quick and deadly

[@hardkur]

i was waiting for longer rail guns , they pack so much more punch :D

[@wChris_]

I do not recommend playing Outer Wilds on YT, since its nothing but lore! And once you played it or lets be real, once the comment section spoiled it, there isnt as much replayabilty in there. Im also amazed it got on the list in the first place, as it is a story game. Also i cannot recommend Starbound because of its controversy of unpayed labor and exploitation allegations.

[@nickgrout2502]

Honestly im just surprised he didnt push it into the sun

[@Tsuchimursu]

Remember that "Minä" is your biggest enemy in noita. That one will be killing you a lot.

[@wild1000022]

I love this rating system for the games, only bangers so far. So excited for Noita!

[@BWSC81]

Would be cool to see a small squadron. Maybe have a few different specialties. Have a tank for distractions, and some others that play with various weapon systems. I wonder if the idea of a controller class or a healer makes sense in the game. 🤔

[@loreillequipanse9069]

Thank you for this whole playthrough Francis! And... OH MY GOD! You have Project Zomboïd in your list! I would love to see you trying to survive the apocalypse with your engineered playstyle! It is so unpredictable, I wonder how you would "problem solved" this one! XD

[@danielduncan6806]

The problem many indie games face is, they never go all the way. You could handle so much more than what this game is currently offering. They could halt your progress here, and take the level of enemies up to 40. And that may still be too easy for you. I like to feel like a god in games, after some work of course. I like it when I am sitting there facing a half dozen enemies at once, it makes me feel powerful. I like to sit here and say "I can take you all on, hundreds of you, a sea of you, all at once!" And then I maniacally laugh. It is fun. But no game ever created has been able to deliver. Everyone is always worried about letting me get too powerful. Like somehow me being really powerful is a bad thing. Like, what the fuck is "overpowered"? I do not understand this concept. As long as I have to work my way to it, as long as I have to earn it, let me be "overpowered". And the overwhelming vast majority of indie games just don't do it. They just don't, but they should. They should let gamers live out their power fantasies.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Older games tend towards allowing players to get massively overpowered. Not because it was part of the plan but because game balance was less relevant back then. I still go back and play Master of Orion 2 sometimes just to make a super high tech ship that can take on the entire universe. The down side is older games have terrible graphics and tend to be very grindy.

[@daanstrik4293]

Because being overpowered is usually the end of the game. Its fun for a while but being OP bores a lot quicker than working towards becoming OP. And a lot of games nowadays are either multiplayer, “live service” or plan DLC. which means they don’t want the game to end. I too enjoy being OP, but I want to feel OP through mastery of the game, not because the game has no more challenges left to provide. If i’m cutting down a sea of enemies I want to come out victorious yes, but also bloodied and bruised.

[@TechMa-iv8bm]

Btw, you can always sell all your most expensive resources before destroying it, that way you get some money, and then the resources back

[@bruhder5854]

How do you set the hotkey for the specified weapons? Like 8x rail on 1 button press

[@FrancisJohnYT]

Just select all the items you want, Hit "Ctrl + 1" and now every time you hit the 1 key it reselects all the items. This works with all the number keys 1-9

[@NotStoop]

Looking forward to you getting Noita'd but it might be cool if on your next Cosmo run you make a fleet of small but efficient missile ships to just make a moving wall of missiles and since you can restock pretty easily you could probably have a series of moving missile batteries and a huge supply/mining ship.

[@bruhder5854]

Using hyper drive to run after after destroying a base is the best method

[@walterroche8192]

It's been fun and further illustrated just how unbalanced the game gets with Ion Beam, mass shields & Rail guns (aka after lvl 8). If they increased the weight and energy consumption of those by about 15-30% it would really change how people instantly jump to only Ions & rails

[@titikma]

glad it ends with a bang, literally

[@wilshireanasurimbor3068]

Oh I am excited for Noita!

[@DeathByRabbit]

I don't see a playlist for it on your channel so I'll ask: Have you played Stardeus? I've heard people compare it to the Save Our Ship mod from Rimworld, but it's kind of like this as well.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

I have a rating system I use for games, basically rates steam games on reviews and release year. Stardeus gets a 25 out of 45. I like to try and play games that patrons will hopefully enjoy, I can't in good faith put Stardeus forward to them. Sorry.

[@DeathByRabbit]

No worries!@@FrancisJohnYT

[@thefipster]

Oh man, can't wait to see how you do in Noita, I already went down that rabbit hole to some degree, it was a ride. Took me 137 attempts to complete the first normal run if I remember correctly.

[@elliotphoenix]

It would be fun to see one special pvp episode

[@zackkuvent5819]

Francis, if you haven't checked it out, you might like Final Upgrade. It reminds me a lot of this, and I think it's also a solo dev game.

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

Does anyone know which site or app does Francis use for tge spinning wheel? I already know a few of them, but I like how simple this one looks like.

[@FrancisJohnYT]

The web site is called WheelOfNames but usually I just google "random wheel picker" because I can never remember.

[@muhammedenestopcu2406]

1:55 this is how the Death Star was destroyed

[@jle6785]

If you enjoyed Cosmoteer, I could see you enjoying TerraTech.

[@aldrea6506]

Between this video and his latest Rimworld video, I am starting to think that FJ's true MO is "if I can get away with it, it's fine". Trying to figure out if this counts as Neutral Evil or Chaotic Evil....lol. Speaking of Evil, I'm hoping we will get one last video of Dave the Diver after the new Dredge crossover DLC comes out on Friday!

[@bruhder5854]

Oooh Noita is next on the menu

[@Dtats2]

Wow! That series was awesome! 😂

[@custume]

yeah, the ship/ships looks good

[@none-ve6qy]

Oh thank god we ended up with Noita, maybe if Francis explains spell wrapping I might finally explain it lmao

[@MarkkuS]

I planned to take a station for a vacation in the corona, but this was worth the 1 k hit in reputation.

[@lyssalud6781]

looks like lemmings as a left to right shooter

[@apolloj23]

Almost got pincer maneuvered.

[@KitMolfar]

Now i am curious what will come after you when you blow friendly stations

[@nickgrout2502]

Ooh! Fresh cosmoteer!

[@theheadone]

I would like to see you build a nuclear missile ship, that seams like it could be interesting to balance the defense with offense.

[@JStankXPlays]

...And they had to patch that out because the AI should have found that horrifying... but they didn't." Total Biscuit

[@PicaMula]

NOOOO WAY IT'S NOITA!!!

[@bruhder5854]

I wanna see you do a proper ion beam ship and a deck cannon, heavily armored one.

[@hquest]

On your last video I made a comment on how complicated it would be to collect all necessary resources to expand your glass cannon. Clearly forgot I was typing that to FJ, one that is like life and always finds a way. I would never ever consider going after a space station for resource farming. Guess I'm really new here. Clever way of game mechanics, as usual. Curious to see how Noita will develop: looks like an action shooter type of game, and you seem more like the person that pauses and thinks thru challenges. But again, I'm new here.

[@theglassishalf]

It would be cool if you did a series trying to get good at PvP. I bet it would be a hard set of lessons, and a great story!

[@arkansasorigami83]

Loved the series and now enjoy the game myself... rimworld, oxygen not included and I hope dyson sphere program are up to come =D

[@buginabassbin]

Dyson Sphere Program has the combat update coming out on Friday. Will you be going back to have another look at it?

[@FrancisJohnYT]

No Dyson Sphere at least for a while. It would be a big time commitment, I will have to add it back to the wheel and see if it pops up.

[@emeryglas]

NOITA! Enjoy the suffering!

[@PicaMula]

I imagine this is the last episode. But imagine building a swarm of needle-like max tail length ships? Perhaps you would be able to deliver all the firepower without this rotation silly business.

[@MysteriousStranger50]

Mindustry

[@MrJablis]

left it stinkin'

[@jamesb7994]

Kills all the pirates so that he can be the only pirate.

[@someotherzachguy]

i was really hoping to see the railgun platform blow up at least once the way you kept hyping up how the whole thing would blow if just one rail got hit. also, noita looks as great as senua, probably gonna skip through a lot of it for the highlights. glad rimworld is still going strong, maybe you should try the rimionship monthly challenge, 11hours of playtime on a map to try to get as high wealth as you can and this month's challenge is a mountain base with eternal eclipse and all/most research unlocked

[@dynafire]

It looks like once you transfer a single crewperson, you're able to transfer all the resources off. Of course you should still deconstruct it after taking the resources in storage. You can see at 6:48 that you're able to transfer back resources..

[@BrianC1664]

I thought you were going to try a beam ship after this

[@maik3001]

Oh god! Noita! This can really good or really frustrating

[@TENGILL]

Naw, i was looking forward to you taking over the universe. :(

[@williamhess180]

would like to see you go thru again doing lasers or missiles.

[@20985229147]

Don't forget the first person perspective mod for Noita!

[@juanhector4023]

Spreadsheets will not help in Noita but don't let that stop you.

[@sicariusdracus]

Clearly a Borg Square. Resistance is futile.

[@dimanarinull9122]

next few updates will bring new mission variety and environmental hazards according to the roadmap(was updated yesterday) alongside dynamic economy and shipyards. also, good luck with Noita, it's a very fun game, if you don't care about dying every so often.

[@ComTrag]

bit hype for FJ + Noita tomfoolery.

[@mallik10892]

What about armour in front of the rails