@@coltonlarsen9664 Avaak is throwing a banger out there. I hadn't caught up with him or lath in a while, so I'm super stoked they're covering Cosmoteer.
Hey Lathland! I was a beta tester for this game and am happy you are playing it! Did you know you can capture ships that you kill? As long as they still have a functioning airlock you can transfer crew to them from the drop down menu under the communications button! (This also includes stations) Then you can have multiple ships! PS your storage died seemingly out of nowhere because it caught on fire, remember to place fire extinguishers!
Ah right didn't even see the fire since I was focusing on the fight! I did have extinguishers for the majority of the time ... Then kinda forgot about them haha! Will look into boarding too, thanks for the tip! :)
Love the way you disassembled an entire station and then just cramped it in your trunk lol. Yep, that's a habitat housing hundreds of people just folded up in the back of my car. Awesome.
glad to see you're back in Cosmoteer! by the way, did you know that in gameplay setttings there is a setting to make attacks ship-relative rather than grid-relative? that way you can tell your ships to stay behind the enemy, instead of having to constantly redirect them, I personally prefer it Settings > Gameplay > Ship Commands > Prefer Ship-Relative Attack Angles
Will this stop the enemy ship from constantly moving backwards? Every fight I engage is my ship chasing after the other in a straight line. It’s annoying cause all their broken bits and salvage are strewn across the sector.
@@superfinalcountdown1 if you approach them from the side this might force them more into a circle, yes if you want to keep the enemy in one place though the best you can do is to try to match their range, so they don't want to back up
Hey Lathrix, its amazing to see all of the attention this game is getting, I've been playing for years (still don't know all the tricks a features though) and am so happy that you're playing as well. Some advice is that when you are attacking smaller ships, say if you want to capture it, going for the cockpit is better that a reactor since reactors explode and have valuable enriched uranium for salvage, if you take the cockpit, you can then capture the ship in the majority with a valuable reactor. Thought I would mention this since I love having multiple ships and MONEY. Have a good one.
Just in case you haven't noticed yet, there is a new weapon. A massive deck cannon. It devours ammo but but deals huge damage and can be put in the middle of your ship with almost full rotation. Also causes nearby crew to stop working for a moment when it fires.
I wasn't sure if there was anything significant not showin in the demo build, that was extra compared to the previous free version I guess I'm getting the game now lmao
@@Tomahawkist_ Those are probably all broken now. Small reactors can now project through adjacent armor and you now need airlocks to hire crew, along with some new parts that would improve your old designs.
One thing I love about Lathrex is that he mostly knows the controls and stuff in games so i.e. I don't have to scream in front of the screen that you can drag from an enemy ship to move relative to it. ( example: 13:59 ) :D
yo! you got me into this game years ago and i remember how much crazy stuff i made, especially with mods! my favorite ship was a massive capitol ship called the hourglass because of its shape and it was a brute with shields, armor, point defense, missiles, canons, lasers, and a fully functioning death star laser... now that it's finally out maybe ill check it out again! hoping with the steam release the modding scene is a lot easier...
Hey Lathrix, I have found a way of playing that I want you to try, a scourge-like run where you try to devour every solar system's resources. (No, sadly you can't kill all factions as you need crew, and I'm not even sure how to kill any factions yet) you could also do a ship building episode or two for this playthrough. You will need most if not all manufacturing techs, and multiple ships, which you can make by using explosives to create new ships off of other ships, or by taking over wrecks. Up to you. I do hope you end up doing this however, it would be cool seeing what you differently than me :D
Aw man, so good to see Cosmoteer back on the channel, it has been a good while and the game seems to have progressed nicely! Also.. rail guns are nice and all, but you know what's even better? Self-propelled railgun shells aka missiles. ;)
So, few tips I've noticed in the brief time I played the game myself. 1. Energy weapons are king when it comes to salvage. Lasers are more accurate and longer range than cannons, meaning less lost scrap. And that is without taking into account disruptors which don't deal much damage, but directly damage Energy. 2. Building ships diagonally is a Really Good Way To Build a Defense oriented ship. 3. Despite what I said in point one, I haven't found much loss in just blasting through the target and taking whatever is left. Mainly, because you can supplement the material gains by having a crafting and/or mining ship. 4. It's usually best to just spam the accept button for quests. All the objectives are pre-spawned, so all the quests do is tell you where it spawned, making it easier to avoid fights with non-com ships. 5. The easiest way to make additional ships currently, is to use explosive charges to break off a little baby ship, that has a reactor/cockpit/barracks. 6. You can manually select components on your ship by ctrl+r.clicking the part. You can use this to disable excess weapons/components that you just don't have the crew/power to use yet 7. When you start crafting, for everything but ammo factories, you need to manually set the supply lines, because otherwise they won't empty the factories when they fill up on the refined product. 8. I've noticed that it's hard to exceed 100 m/s in speed without the ship being built to Just be fast. 9. The big dotted ring, is the asteroid belt. Just like the astroid fields, thee have a lot of resources within them. 10. I recommend not mining Sulfer and Jump Fuel until you need to. They aren't worth much, and sulfer is Incredibly inefficient to store. 11. If you can refone something, do it. Everything becomes much easier to store as it is refined, and in the case of coils to hyper coils, unless you need the coils for building, they sell for 3x as much once turned into hyper coils. So you end up with far more credits per space taken up in storage. 12. It is incredibly worth it to build your own space station, if not for the purposes of refining materials, then for storage, as you can shove raw materials into there for when you finally can refine it.
Don’t forget, I’m the crew tab, you can designate an entire room of crew to only supply and another to only operate so you can have multiple supply and 1/2 operations people
If I may suggest something, You should build what I call a Void Maw. To put it simply, a Void Maw is a massive U shaped ship with a large amount of mining lasers pointed in. I use it to consume entire stations, but dead, alive, or rock, it consumes all without a trace It requires an escort to disable faster ships but other than that it is the perfect ship to eat your enemies alive
PLEASE continue cosmoteer. You introduced me to the game, and it has become one of my favourite games. Please keep playing it. Also you can make death lasers
I remember playing this game way back in the day and just 7 minutes in I'm very impressed with how clean and intuitive the UI/Controls are now, as well as the effects for salvaging.
Another warship building and combat game to play? Yes please! I played this game a few years ago before it was on steam, and I really like how it has evolved since
Awesome to see you playing this game! I absolutely love it, so it's great to see you playing it too. Building a huge fleet is super fun, if you set up a second ship attached by an explosive piece and blow it up you can break it into two! another little thing, blocks extend out of their place in the grid visually so it's best to paint over the edges too. If you use gradient paint on a layer you can make a "3d" look which is also nice.
If you want cheesy there’s this wonderful type of ship called a rail fan. Basically you put a bunch of rail guns next to each other in a row and quickly turn the ship while telling it to fire at a specific block. They will only fire once pointed at that block basically making a burst fire rail gun. Only thing holding it back is you can’t really maneuver while firing and it’s very vulnerable
Hey Lathrix, just in case you didn't know, if you notice that small blue orb middle right of screen, you can click that then click on the map to drop a waypoint you can name. Useful for noting any salvage you leave behind or any areas that have specific resources you may want. Also would love a series on this, looking forward to the builds!
Hey there Lathrix, I remember watching you first video on this game years ago. I picked up because of that. Now that its fleshed out its even better. Was hoping to see you do a video on the update and here we are. Looking forward to more videos on it.
So happy to see a video again from our overlord Lathrix and to see Cosmoteer reappear with the Steam release to boot. I do hope you get to play this alot as I for one will watch it all.
You can set railguns to only fire at targeted blocks; this will make them more accurate and will prevent them from firing at the edge of ships and missing (this matters mostly for rail fans which have several railguns spread out over a large area)
Oh god, cosmoteer. That’s a name I haven’t heard in ages, I still remember having the little website downloaded version that I’d play all the time, incredible to see it’s still been worked on all this time, what a glorious day indeed
I am so happy to see more big TH-camrs such yourself paying attention to Cosmoteer and playing it, giving it recognition it oh so much deserves... Have been playing it for well over two years now and know almost every nuck and cranny of the base ''Classic'' game. The base game was already one of my favorite games of all time, having two things I love the most- Total control and customization over anything and simple to use yet very complex sandbox tools, and spaceships. I loved Science fiction and spaceships since early childhood. Also, great video 👍! Also... You seem to be loving railguns, I see... Then prepare for ''Railfans!'' Railfans are one of the most commonly known Cosmoteer meta ships. It is a ship that consists of a single side covered with railguns, about 6-8 long ones (With 9 railgun accelerator modules as 9 of them allows you to reach maximum Railgun range, 600 metres) or up to 20 tiny ones. To use the ship, you basically set all of your railguns to ''Fire At Target'' in the weapons menu, make all of them target a single part of an enemy ship, like a reactor or a command room, spin your ship slightly left or right so all the railguns are aiming away from the enemy, and then let it all loose, by rotating the ship the opposite side of where you spun it previously (The community calls this *''Fanning''),* making every single one of your railguns hit the same exact spot, causing an enemy to get absolutely pulverized, if used correctly. It is such a -fun- FAN ship to use! (...To whoever's reading this, sorry for tiring you with extensive Cosmoteer info :>...)
Ok so, something i recommend... split the ship into two. One is a scout fighter ship, nothing but guns and crew, and the other is a salvange hauler ship, nothing but storage and crew.
Oh my god this game was something I enjoyed watching long ago, I hope you enjoy it enough for a series, cause there is a LOT in this game that could be anazing!
YOUR BACK TO COSMOTEER YEEEES. Question though will you be playing this game again when cosmoteer gets most of its features released/ when its further down the roadmap?
There is a mechanic I think you would enjoy called rail fanning. If you select your the launcher section of your railguns, you can set them to only fire when a targeted block is in sight. You can have multiple rails hit one place by doing this. What you do is when attacking, hold position at max range, target a block, and them rotate your ship to have both railguns fire at the same place causing devastating damage and lost of explosions. I’m not the best at explaining it, so if you want a demonstration, there is tons of guides and videos on railfanning. Enjoy
I could see a pretty good strategy being a wide ship with a ton of railguns, and has a really good turning ability. This ship would have a ton of range and would be wide enough that it would be almost impossible to escape a salvo.
25:51 The storage exploded because it was on fire. And the crew couldn't put the fire out, because the ship had no fire extinguishers. I tend to forget them as well, and realize it when the ship is on fire. "Only _you_ can prevent shipboard fires."
Hey Lathrix, fyi, you can't buy everything from the stations, they have inventory if you look, they do run out and not every station has everything, if it is full on something you can't sell to it said resource and also the steel starts to become worthless quick and you can double click a resource out in space and it will collect 1 stacks worth, so you don't have to pick up everything.
The increased storage mods are essential, otherwise you just need a 500 mile long ship full of storage bays. Before I got one of those mods I just had a support ship that was just engines, crew and storage bays that followed my combat ships around to pick up all the salvage and make stuff with the factories.
The first pirate station I took down, I did so with just mining lasers! I dug into a nearby asteroid, basically rammed the station with it (very very slowly (it was slow)), cut the asteroid in half from the inside and cut straight to their core while my shield tanked the 2/3 cannons that could shoot at me lol
Here's a tip, if you didn't know this, You can just mine for awhile, raw resources are cheap but fast, manufactured resources are decent cash makers, and the best thing is that the prices don't drop (Well when I last played they didn't) also the mining gun is a great CQC for enemies and for scrapping down ships easily (you can also produce your own ammo with small amounts of sulfur)
Wouldn't mind seeing where this series goes. but seeing this really makes me want to see a return of an Avorion season. it's had a fair amount of updates and all that since your last play.
I've been looking forward to this... I was going to jump into it, the day the Steam version released, but I had so much to catch up on piled on me beforehand, so I haven't been able to dig into it proper, so having this as a decent... enlightenment as for what to expect is such a good relief of anticipation for me.
I love Cosmoteer and played a good bit of it before the full release. As a fellow madman, I think you would very much enjoy the ion beams which you can now combine into a DOOM BEAM thanks to the ion beam prisms(4-2-1 does more damage than 4-1 btw)
It's been so long that I've been wanting to play Cosmoteer again, finally! I'm so happy that I can finally play it again. Can't wait to make needlessly big ships again.
I try to kill the bridge where possible, the reactors are good to salvage. The Marigold, you can kill by shooting it's thrusters off, that kills it. Once you have issued a move order, this is handy outside of combat, you can hold SHIFT and you get a couple of green overlays. the forward most, circling arrows, that is rotating your craft, the up/down/left/right arrow in the middle allows you to move your outline. using either will then have your craft move to the new position. good for maneuvering around asteroids and scrap heaps and stuff when salvaging. that bit where you were fighting the asteroid to move, that's where I use the SHIFT button. Just some information that may, or may not, be of use to you coming up.
The reactor rods sell for quite a bit, also I have found that some stations dont sell them so """borrowing""" enemy reactors is what I had to do for upgrades.
I LOVE the demo for this, can’t wait to see more but if you can I think you’ll like the death beams because in the demo when you have a focusing crystal in front of them they can aim and focus fire. But do play the way you like
Hint: ammo is quite hard to produce as its not automated at all, but if your good at salvaging, then it wont be that hard, if you can oporate properly Hint 2: research laser shooter when the game starts to get a headstart on weaponary, its the most commonly used weapon, and the easiest to reload Hint 3: dont rush shields as they take a large space, use them later when you have a good amount of minerals
love this game. star little and in the end Borg Cube !!. Shields all the way around with passages to walk besides Engiens inside the cube Wall of Guns just inside the Shield Wall on all 4 sides and Armord corners sins Sheilds dont fully cover them can be any Size u want it to be xD 10/10 xD
hey, I saw on another video that there is a blueprint mode so you can upgrade your ship even if you don't have the resources currently, it can also help you change your design by letting you move rooms instead of deleting and creating them. hope this helps😁
Thanks for the tip! I am already using the mode, at times like 12:10 / 7:36 is the more apparent cases- when the background is blue like that the mode Is on, though I'm sure I've sold stuff without the mode too like a dummy! I really should have mentioned the mode in the video, honestly! :)
Cosmoteer is a series we wish to see continued in the future.
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@@coltonlarsen9664 Avaak is throwing a banger out there. I hadn't caught up with him or lath in a while, so I'm super stoked they're covering Cosmoteer.
Hey Lathland! I was a beta tester for this game and am happy you are playing it! Did you know you can capture ships that you kill? As long as they still have a functioning airlock you can transfer crew to them from the drop down menu under the communications button! (This also includes stations) Then you can have multiple ships!
PS your storage died seemingly out of nowhere because it caught on fire, remember to place fire extinguishers!
Ah right didn't even see the fire since I was focusing on the fight! I did have extinguishers for the majority of the time ... Then kinda forgot about them haha!
Will look into boarding too, thanks for the tip! :)
Wait you can capture ships right now i fought that was going tk happen with the boarding update? I might try that out later
@@dethstrider6 Yeah you should Be able to capture ships, the boarding update might make it so you can board WHILE IT IS STILL ALIVE
@@Lathland you’re welcome! Just remember to kill their reactor or bridges before attempting capture!
@@Lathland can did be a actual series plz
I always am excited to hear Lathrix's names he calls us, first it was highly value scrap and now this lol
It’s Like gambling you never know what you’re going to be called next
I haven't watched for a while, is that a new thing he's doing?
Will we ever hear sirs and sir-ettes again 😔
@@twangus7766 It kinda is, we may potentially get another sirs and sir-ettes at some point, but right now he's "compliment-insult"ing us
Always great intros. Imagine the shorts intros he could do
Ok, but now I'm wondering if Lathrix actually knows who the Redshirts were?
Edit: Nvm, he meant the crew of his starship...
Love the way you disassembled an entire station and then just cramped it in your trunk lol. Yep, that's a habitat housing hundreds of people just folded up in the back of my car. Awesome.
glad to see you're back in Cosmoteer!
by the way, did you know that in gameplay setttings there is a setting to make attacks ship-relative rather than grid-relative?
that way you can tell your ships to stay behind the enemy, instead of having to constantly redirect them, I personally prefer it
Settings > Gameplay > Ship Commands > Prefer Ship-Relative Attack Angles
Will this stop the enemy ship from constantly moving backwards? Every fight I engage is my ship chasing after the other in a straight line. It’s annoying cause all their broken bits and salvage are strewn across the sector.
@@superfinalcountdown1 if you approach them from the side this might force them more into a circle, yes
if you want to keep the enemy in one place though the best you can do is to try to match their range, so they don't want to back up
you can hold alt to toggle this while giving a command aswell!
@@Ctaehko TIL!
I prefer ship relative by default myself tho, as holding alt for every command is just silly, and ship relative makes more sense to me
@@catgirlQueer true! I use ship relative too
Me wearing a red shirt:
Lathrix : "GREATINGS you valuable and indispensable red shirts and welcome back after an insanely long time"
Pretty sure he threw a pun in there too, and said "ensignly" instead of insanely.
I like the new shields being 2x3 rather than 2x2 with an exclusion zone. Looks much better and is easier to build around
Hey Lathrix, its amazing to see all of the attention this game is getting, I've been playing for years (still don't know all the tricks a features though) and am so happy that you're playing as well. Some advice is that when you are attacking smaller ships, say if you want to capture it, going for the cockpit is better that a reactor since reactors explode and have valuable enriched uranium for salvage, if you take the cockpit, you can then capture the ship in the majority with a valuable reactor. Thought I would mention this since I love having multiple ships and MONEY. Have a good one.
Just in case you haven't noticed yet, there is a new weapon. A massive deck cannon. It devours ammo but but deals huge damage and can be put in the middle of your ship with almost full rotation. Also causes nearby crew to stop working for a moment when it fires.
I wasn't sure if there was anything significant not showin in the demo build, that was extra compared to the previous free version
I guess I'm getting the game now lmao
I was hoping for a series of this game out of you! Perfect for working hours
Can’t wait to get back to this game, haven’t played it in years
same, i probably still have one of the original builds somewhere on my pc
@@Tomahawkist_ Those are probably all broken now. Small reactors can now project through adjacent armor and you now need airlocks to hire crew, along with some new parts that would improve your old designs.
I started playing before ion beams, crazy to see how far the game has gone
"in years" ???
So it's not exactly a new game hmm
Tried the demo on NextFest
@@vormarsch was in early access for a long time
Sooooo soooo happy to see Cosmoteer back again. Reallly look forward to seeing more Lathrixian adventures in Cosmoteer
One thing I love about Lathrex is that he mostly knows the controls and stuff in games so i.e. I don't have to scream in front of the screen that you can drag from an enemy ship to move relative to it. ( example: 13:59 ) :D
"in believe it or not, space." that tickled me :D
i remember lathrix doing this game a couple years ago (aprox 5 years ago) and i loved it then and i love it now
33 minutes? This is. The shortest video I've ever seen on the channel. Well that i remember.
I hope it's still awesome!
I LOVE that you are playing this!!! I absolutely love this game (even the beta version- in which is still don't have the full release)
yo! you got me into this game years ago and i remember how much crazy stuff i made, especially with mods! my favorite ship was a massive capitol ship called the hourglass because of its shape and it was a brute with shields, armor, point defense, missiles, canons, lasers, and a fully functioning death star laser... now that it's finally out maybe ill check it out again! hoping with the steam release the modding scene is a lot easier...
Ok so, hear me out: "lasers" and not just any laser, but multiple death Ray's combining into 1 giant death ray... Imean personally I'm sold.
I am so glad you are playing this. I got the game as soon as it came out and it's awesome. Loved your playthrough.
Hey Lathrix, I have found a way of playing that I want you to try, a scourge-like run where you try to devour every solar system's resources. (No, sadly you can't kill all factions as you need crew, and I'm not even sure how to kill any factions yet) you could also do a ship building episode or two for this playthrough. You will need most if not all manufacturing techs, and multiple ships, which you can make by using explosives to create new ships off of other ships, or by taking over wrecks. Up to you. I do hope you end up doing this however, it would be cool seeing what you differently than me :D
Aw man, so good to see Cosmoteer back on the channel, it has been a good while and the game seems to have progressed nicely! Also.. rail guns are nice and all, but you know what's even better? Self-propelled railgun shells aka missiles. ;)
@Druid of Scosglen Yup. Lathrix has made GLORIOUS gigantic missile barges in this game and in Reassembly before and they are lovely.
My mouth was wide open I’m so glad this is back
So, few tips I've noticed in the brief time I played the game myself.
1. Energy weapons are king when it comes to salvage.
Lasers are more accurate and longer range than cannons, meaning less lost scrap.
And that is without taking into account disruptors which don't deal much damage, but directly damage Energy.
2. Building ships diagonally is a Really Good Way To Build a Defense oriented ship.
3. Despite what I said in point one, I haven't found much loss in just blasting through the target and taking whatever is left.
Mainly, because you can supplement the material gains by having a crafting and/or mining ship.
4. It's usually best to just spam the accept button for quests.
All the objectives are pre-spawned, so all the quests do is tell you where it spawned, making it easier to avoid fights with non-com ships.
5. The easiest way to make additional ships currently, is to use explosive charges to break off a little baby ship, that has a reactor/cockpit/barracks.
6. You can manually select components on your ship by ctrl+r.clicking the part.
You can use this to disable excess weapons/components that you just don't have the crew/power to use yet
7. When you start crafting, for everything but ammo factories, you need to manually set the supply lines, because otherwise they won't empty the factories when they fill up on the refined product.
8. I've noticed that it's hard to exceed 100 m/s in speed without the ship being built to Just be fast.
9. The big dotted ring, is the asteroid belt.
Just like the astroid fields, thee have a lot of resources within them.
10. I recommend not mining Sulfer and Jump Fuel until you need to.
They aren't worth much, and sulfer is Incredibly inefficient to store.
11. If you can refone something, do it.
Everything becomes much easier to store as it is refined, and in the case of coils to hyper coils, unless you need the coils for building, they sell for 3x as much once turned into hyper coils. So you end up with far more credits per space taken up in storage.
12. It is incredibly worth it to build your own space station, if not for the purposes of refining materials, then for storage, as you can shove raw materials into there for when you finally can refine it.
Don’t forget, I’m the crew tab, you can designate an entire room of crew to only supply and another to only operate so you can have multiple supply and 1/2 operations people
Wow! I played the game white a while ago. So much has changed! That is super cool! Thanks Lath for showing!
If I may suggest something, You should build what I call a Void Maw.
To put it simply, a Void Maw is a massive U shaped ship with a large amount of mining lasers pointed in.
I use it to consume entire stations, but dead, alive, or rock, it consumes all without a trace
It requires an escort to disable faster ships but other than that it is the perfect ship to eat your enemies alive
PLEASE continue cosmoteer. You introduced me to the game, and it has become one of my favourite games. Please keep playing it. Also you can make death lasers
I remember playing this game way back in the day and just 7 minutes in I'm very impressed with how clean and intuitive the UI/Controls are now, as well as the effects for salvaging.
Another warship building and combat game to play? Yes please!
I played this game a few years ago before it was on steam, and I really like how it has evolved since
Awesome to see you playing this game! I absolutely love it, so it's great to see you playing it too. Building a huge fleet is super fun, if you set up a second ship attached by an explosive piece and blow it up you can break it into two! another little thing, blocks extend out of their place in the grid visually so it's best to paint over the edges too. If you use gradient paint on a layer you can make a "3d" look which is also nice.
So glad to see you back in this game, quality content and much appreciated. Yes please continue as a regular series at a harder difficulty.
If you want cheesy there’s this wonderful type of ship called a rail fan. Basically you put a bunch of rail guns next to each other in a row and quickly turn the ship while telling it to fire at a specific block. They will only fire once pointed at that block basically making a burst fire rail gun. Only thing holding it back is you can’t really maneuver while firing and it’s very vulnerable
YES! At long last we're back at cosmoteer! I'm hyped to see your lets play for this game. Much love
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Cosmoteer!
I remember playing the test version, glad to see it make a return on Lathland. Cheers!
Hey Lathrix, just in case you didn't know, if you notice that small blue orb middle right of screen, you can click that then click on the map to drop a waypoint you can name. Useful for noting any salvage you leave behind or any areas that have specific resources you may want.
Also would love a series on this, looking forward to the builds!
Hey there Lathrix, I remember watching you first video on this game years ago. I picked up because of that. Now that its fleshed out its even better. Was hoping to see you do a video on the update and here we are. Looking forward to more videos on it.
So happy to see a video again from our overlord Lathrix and to see Cosmoteer reappear with the Steam release to boot.
I do hope you get to play this alot as I for one will watch it all.
You can set railguns to only fire at targeted blocks; this will make them more accurate and will prevent them from firing at the edge of ships and missing (this matters mostly for rail fans which have several railguns spread out over a large area)
19:58 I laughed way to hard at this, so cool to see this game make a comeback! Hope the move worked out well!
Oh god, cosmoteer. That’s a name I haven’t heard in ages, I still remember having the little website downloaded version that I’d play all the time, incredible to see it’s still been worked on all this time, what a glorious day indeed
Super excited to see this again, and would definitely love to see more
Such a cool game. Almost Reassembly like, but far more in depth in a lot of ways.
I am so happy to see more big TH-camrs such yourself paying attention to Cosmoteer and playing it, giving it recognition it oh so much deserves... Have been playing it for well over two years now and know almost every nuck and cranny of the base ''Classic'' game. The base game was already one of my favorite games of all time, having two things I love the most- Total control and customization over anything and simple to use yet very complex sandbox tools, and spaceships. I loved Science fiction and spaceships since early childhood. Also, great video 👍!
Also... You seem to be loving railguns, I see... Then prepare for ''Railfans!'' Railfans are one of the most commonly known Cosmoteer meta ships. It is a ship that consists of a single side covered with railguns, about 6-8 long ones (With 9 railgun accelerator modules as 9 of them allows you to reach maximum Railgun range, 600 metres) or up to 20 tiny ones. To use the ship, you basically set all of your railguns to ''Fire At Target'' in the weapons menu, make all of them target a single part of an enemy ship, like a reactor or a command room, spin your ship slightly left or right so all the railguns are aiming away from the enemy, and then let it all loose, by rotating the ship the opposite side of where you spun it previously (The community calls this *''Fanning''),* making every single one of your railguns hit the same exact spot, causing an enemy to get absolutely pulverized, if used correctly. It is such a -fun- FAN ship to use!
(...To whoever's reading this, sorry for tiring you with extensive Cosmoteer info :>...)
Ok so, something i recommend... split the ship into two.
One is a scout fighter ship, nothing but guns and crew, and the other is a salvange hauler ship, nothing but storage and crew.
I gasped so hard when i saw this gem that i proceeded to choke for several seconds
Oh my god this game was something I enjoyed watching long ago, I hope you enjoy it enough for a series, cause there is a LOT in this game that could be anazing!
"No such thing as too many Rail guns" - Sun Tzu (probably)
Would love to see more cosmoteer. Thanks for the video, as always, it was amazing. Keep up the great work
YOUR BACK TO COSMOTEER YEEEES. Question though will you be playing this game again when cosmoteer gets most of its features released/ when its further down the roadmap?
This was my favourite series on TH-cam
So happy it’s back
There is a mechanic I think you would enjoy called rail fanning. If you select your the launcher section of your railguns, you can set them to only fire when a targeted block is in sight. You can have multiple rails hit one place by doing this. What you do is when attacking, hold position at max range, target a block, and them rotate your ship to have both railguns fire at the same place causing devastating damage and lost of explosions. I’m not the best at explaining it, so if you want a demonstration, there is tons of guides and videos on railfanning. Enjoy
Wow this looks sweet! I would love to see more of this, I've now got the game wishlisted
I could see a pretty good strategy being a wide ship with a ton of railguns, and has a really good turning ability. This ship would have a ton of range and would be wide enough that it would be almost impossible to escape a salvo.
Ok this looks like the ideal game to completely snowball and gather every piece of resource possible in the entire system. get greedy and take it all!
25:51 The storage exploded because it was on fire. And the crew couldn't put the fire out, because the ship had no fire extinguishers. I tend to forget them as well, and realize it when the ship is on fire.
"Only _you_ can prevent shipboard fires."
i played cosmoteer years and years ago, it really has come a long way
Yayyyy! I'm so glad you came back to this now that it's early access!
Remember playing the game many years ago on the crappy laptop of my mother. This is nostalgia pure for me
I have been staring at the store page waiting for this to come back, loved this game
This game feels like the child if Starsector (or FTL) and Space enginners met
This is quite acurate
Hey Lathrix, fyi, you can't buy everything from the stations, they have inventory if you look, they do run out and not every station has everything, if it is full on something you can't sell to it said resource and also the steel starts to become worthless quick and you can double click a resource out in space and it will collect 1 stacks worth, so you don't have to pick up everything.
I'm so excited to hear that this game is finally put on Steam, I remember really enjoying the beta
Finally, can’t wait to watch see how your playthrough goes!!
The increased storage mods are essential, otherwise you just need a 500 mile long ship full of storage bays. Before I got one of those mods I just had a support ship that was just engines, crew and storage bays that followed my combat ships around to pick up all the salvage and make stuff with the factories.
OMG, Its good to see you back covering this game!!!!
First ever cosmoteer video I've seen and it's a Lathrix video and I'm early. What is this, heaven?
The first pirate station I took down, I did so with just mining lasers! I dug into a nearby asteroid, basically rammed the station with it (very very slowly (it was slow)), cut the asteroid in half from the inside and cut straight to their core while my shield tanked the 2/3 cannons that could shoot at me lol
This game is awesome! Glad you are turning it into a series!
Here's a tip, if you didn't know this, You can just mine for awhile, raw resources are cheap but fast, manufactured resources are decent cash makers, and the best thing is that the prices don't drop (Well when I last played they didn't) also the mining gun is a great CQC for enemies and for scrapping down ships easily (you can also produce your own ammo with small amounts of sulfur)
Lath you did it to me again. You got me buying a game that I'm unsure if I will understand how to play >.
Cannons make me happy because big explosion fun is a sentiment I back fully and completely.
Love cosmoteer. Played this game years ago and now its steam ready
its been while since i saw a cosmoteer video in youtube its nice to see someone play cosmoteer again
Wouldn't mind seeing where this series goes. but seeing this really makes me want to see a return of an Avorion season. it's had a fair amount of updates and all that since your last play.
I've been looking forward to this... I was going to jump into it, the day the Steam version released, but I had so much to catch up on piled on me beforehand, so I haven't been able to dig into it proper, so having this as a decent... enlightenment as for what to expect is such a good relief of anticipation for me.
This is great! I'd love to see more videos about this game.
cosmoteer (specifically the pre-steam alpha) shaped my entire middle-highschool years
I love Cosmoteer and played a good bit of it before the full release.
As a fellow madman, I think you would very much enjoy the ion beams which you can now combine into a DOOM BEAM thanks to the ion beam prisms(4-2-1 does more damage than 4-1 btw)
Cosmoteer is a series we wish to see continued in the future because it is so much fun!
Man I loved this game in its early years. Buying this asap
You said easy but you were lucky to not encounter the missile pirate base so good luck with that when you encounter it
This video convinced me to get the game. Awesome showcase.
So glad to see this game on the channel again!
It's been so long that I've been wanting to play Cosmoteer again, finally! I'm so happy that I can finally play it again. Can't wait to make needlessly big ships again.
Man, Cosmoteer is great.
I always build a railgun ship ASAP solely to annihilate - and ventilate - the nearest unidentified flying opponents.
Haven't played cosmoteer in years. These updates look great
I try to kill the bridge where possible, the reactors are good to salvage. The Marigold, you can kill by shooting it's thrusters off, that kills it. Once you have issued a move order, this is handy outside of combat, you can hold SHIFT and you get a couple of green overlays. the forward most, circling arrows, that is rotating your craft, the up/down/left/right arrow in the middle allows you to move your outline. using either will then have your craft move to the new position. good for maneuvering around asteroids and scrap heaps and stuff when salvaging. that bit where you were fighting the asteroid to move, that's where I use the SHIFT button. Just some information that may, or may not, be of use to you coming up.
The reactor rods sell for quite a bit, also I have found that some stations dont sell them so """borrowing""" enemy reactors is what I had to do for upgrades.
I LOVE the demo for this, can’t wait to see more but if you can I think you’ll like the death beams because in the demo when you have a focusing crystal in front of them they can aim and focus fire. But do play the way you like
Cosmoteer is a series, I wish to see continued in the future.
I just picked up this game and its honestly been a blast
Please make a series of this, I love how you design your ships
Been a while indeed, and now I'm back as well. Thank goodness you hopped in to full release, as it's come so far... 😎
Great episode so glad you covered it
Hint: ammo is quite hard to produce as its not automated at all, but if your good at salvaging, then it wont be that hard, if you can oporate properly
Hint 2: research laser shooter when the game starts to get a headstart on weaponary, its the most commonly used weapon, and the easiest to reload
Hint 3: dont rush shields as they take a large space, use them later when you have a good amount of minerals
Please, more of this
Your old series on this is something i return to on the regular
Awesome, was thinking about this game recently!!
love this game. star little and in the end Borg Cube !!. Shields all the way around with passages to walk besides Engiens inside the cube Wall of Guns just inside the Shield Wall on all 4 sides and Armord corners sins Sheilds dont fully cover them can be any Size u want it to be xD 10/10 xD
hey, I saw on another video that there is a blueprint mode so you can upgrade your ship even if you don't have the resources currently, it can also help you change your design by letting you move rooms instead of deleting and creating them. hope this helps😁
Thanks for the tip! I am already using the mode, at times like 12:10 / 7:36 is the more apparent cases- when the background is blue like that the mode Is on, though I'm sure I've sold stuff without the mode too like a dummy!
I really should have mentioned the mode in the video, honestly! :)
@@Lathland lol sorry I must have missed it😋
i havn't played this since like freshman year in highschool Loved this game to death!