Cosmoteer Basic Guide: Railfanning
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ค. 2024
- Second of what I hope will be several guides aimed at new players to help cover a lot of the lesser known, niche details that can serve as a barrier to entry.
0:00 - Introduction
0:26 - Priming Your Ship
1:29 - Setting Your Target
2:53 - Advanced Targeting
3:58 - Basic Tactics
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Both of these ships are indeed ingame creations! The Imperium vessel Shrike and Monolith vessel Anvil are both available to be spawned into creative without any prior downloads!
1. Open a creative game
2. Open your ship library and navigate to built-ins
3. Select Imperium/Monolith and then the subtab combat ships
4. Type in Saris or the ship's name, and drag it into game!
And voila, you can see the ship, observe its internals, modify its organs, and try railfanning yourself!
And thus I was introduced to a new strategy that I was not aware of before. Time to try my hand and a new ship design philosophy!
This video is a life saver. I have a deep love of railguns and when tiny ships started strafing at a snail's pace while my fat ship wouldn't just turn and shoot them, I thought I'd have to give up on them. Now my rails shall elongate and penetrate deeply.
A toast to you sir.
I never understood why people in the community said that railguns were OP, and then I discovered the railfanning meta
Now I can use this strategy as well, thanks to you :)
yeah if you don't do this railguns are balanced. at least they feel balanced.
I think my issue is the railguns tend to combust at the slightest thing.
@@christopherrogers532 well that is why you need an armoured "barrel" infront of it with some shields protecting it. if you design your ship around it it can be very powerful.
I just made a 2 railgun ship to cheese the midgame :sob:
As a begginer I'm learning a lot from your, very high quality videos. Thanks for your effort!
I couldn't play this game without you! Thanks for your videos
Thorough and concise, nice job!
Loved the video, I had to listen to the start twice to confirm what you said, was not expecting that.
Excellent video. Masterfully explained by an extraordinary player and teacher alike.
Hey dude. Nice vid. Could you please make a detailed video on shield generator setups? Shields can be tricky to set up correctly and I've noticed that some of the better built-in ships seem to have way sturdier shields than my ships. Like, sometimes I'll need 3 shield generators to mimic the effect of what the enemy achieves with just 2 shield generators.
Yeah i stack shields so you have two in Front Left and Right and in the Middle two the Rest are Weapons and Armor
If you catch the names of those NPC ships, you can go into the ship library on the main menu and see how they are set up.
that's a sick looking ship you got there, mate!
compared to my squarey flying scrap bathtub fitted with cannon of mine, I think I need to learn more about how I should design my ship.
I just subscribed to your channel. And I only watched the first three minutes. This is the kind of tutorial content that makes my day.
Very good guide
Awwsome video, please continue making more 💯💯
Awesome vid
Can you do a video on optimal crew management / reload times for railfans?
you deserve way more subs
Curious about mounting rails perpendicular to the direction of your ship and orbiting your target.
game: press R for rotate
me: PRESS R FOR RAILFAN
This strat helped me to add a sniper to my fleet, also helped drastically during career mode, where pirate bases became absolute missile spams
I'm sorry, newcomer here. Are there other game modes? I thought free build (or what it is called) was just for designing and testing ship. On second thought, you might be just talking about multiplayer.
@@YouthOobe nah, you can definately build *blueprints* in career mode, and plan out stuff in sandbox and use them in career mode, if you have the resources.
I did not make exact copies, but tried similar builds and they work pretty well.
Team Railgun ftw! ^_^
Where do you change the color of that circle around your ship and the command buttons?
This purple looks amazing.
And ofc nice vid! Thx for that!
*0:03* We are three seconds into the video and I'm already laughing uncontrollably. That's when you know you're in for a treat.
Anyways... Yes! I *needed* a guide on Railfans! Even if I'm not that much of a meta enthusiast, I still like building railfans and trying to make them look as unique as possible even if that's not their point, whilst maintaining their shredding abilities. But I always struggled a lot with controlling them. For example, I always fell into the trap of rotating railfans too quickly for their own good, making them hit their projectiles in different places and hit the part I was aiming at from different directions, which ruins their whole point of being a ship shredder. This guide really helped me, thanks.
.....Also, could we mention how straight up gorgeous that Imperium-style railfan is? I wish my building and more importantly painting skills were 10% as good...
it's not just imperium-style, it is imperium
the Shrike, you can find it ingame
@@ez_theta_z9317 -5 month late comment LOL-
This video came out like one month before the game lol, so of course I would be none the wiser about Shrike.
IIRC, didn't someone figure out you can set up automatic railfanning into your combat defaults?
This ship Looks nice
Can you make Build Guide about Good ships from early lvls to mid to end lvls?
I was hoping I could see how that ship is setup but it doesn't appear to be on the workshop. 😢
That ship is awesome, is it on the workshop?
epic
...Suddenly I'm imagining a battle station with multiple arms and engines set up to make it into a fidget spinner of death.
How did you spawn the ship in for testing?
Damn that ship looks amazing, any chance you would provide a download for it?
It's actually the built-in combat ship 'Shrike' for the Centauri Imperium
@@SarisWinterwisp Oh damn, I knew I should have looked before asking like that but wasn't home, sorry for the silly request then.
@@Jixxor Nah man you're fine
Make one absolutely MASSIVE railgun.
Like, a floating superweapon.
hey could you post that red ship on the workshop?
It's in the game, actually. Go into build mode and you can find it under Imperium warships as the Shrike.
thanks@@SarisWinterwisp
Why do you have to weave left and right? Cant you just leave it in place and theyll fire when ready?
If I do that, then they don't hit the same target. You could theoretically do more damage, but it won't be focused. Taking out a reactor is a much better alternative to more armor or shield damage
@@SarisWinterwisp Is it a big or glitch that they dont attack the same target but when you weave they do?
@@lycon7000 they can only shoot straight forwards, so you need to rotate to make them point where you want them
Any chance you'd share the design to your ship somewhere? :D
It's actually a built in named "Shrike" for the Centauri Imperium!
@@SarisWinterwisp Sorry I'm new. Is that a mod package or?
@@Anthony-qt3wm If you go into creative or such and open the ship library and click the right-facing arrow to the left of built in ships, it'll show the resoective factions. Then go to Imperium, then combat ships, then look up Shrike or Saris
@@SarisWinterwisp Hmmm still not seeing it. Are you on the discord server?
So I just need to make a UFO with rails on all sides.
that's a railspinner
Hey could you share your design? @saris
Hello! Could you please name the release date of cosmoteer please.
oct 24th
This dude sounds exactly like I thought he would.
You shouldn't use the word 'Misfire' to describe when your weapon is missing it's target, that word actually means another thing.
The projectiles failed to hit the intended target. What's a single word as evocative and concise that you suggest as an alternative?
@@SarisWinterwisp just miss would work
misfire would, in a cosmoteer context, refer to the railguns hitting the side of their barrel when firing, rather than just missing a target. At least in my opinion
Was wondering what I was doing wrong for Railguns to be such massive dogshit, it's because the AI has downs syndrome! Good to know.