I was ill with the lovely flu like disease all the cool kids are talking about, so I decided to create some new FtD designs for a campaign I am starting hopefully very soon! Enjoy this rather all over the place set of designs! Since recording this I've been hiding in a dark room drinking lots of water and taking lots of painkillers. Next video out when I can start opening my eyes again properly.
Yeah This and Stability will mean that Dediblade spam is not really viable anymore as a way to make super cheap and good at everything craft which is great.
Ahh the nostalgia of hearing you say welcome back to from the depths with me lathrics. I remember watching you years ago when I was in school thinking how amazing you were at building ships like I never could. I’m 21 now and still enjoy that intro just as much as I did when I was 18-17. Welcome Sirs and siretts was the best intro I had ever heard.
Holy Shit man!!! Lathrix is playing FtD again!!!!!!!!!! And he's gonna play the WHOLE campaign?!!!!! It must be my birthday and I'm dreaming!! My body is ready, inject me with a new FtD series NOW!!!!!
@@chee.rah.monurB this guy I'd say is though hillarious better at decorating his craft than making them highly efficient and deadly, unless he's been building a flagship after a few beers. Compared to borderwise, who makes some terrifying and just really good crafts that look... Kinda plain.
With the planes, maybe you could configure their engine and AI to go faster on the retreat, and slower on the attack? And perhaps the helicopters could also be made to strafe around the enemy, or go back and forth to help them dodge enemy fire.
Following the old weapon name theme, the helicopter could be called the "hwacha," which was a fifteenth century rocket launcher from Korea. It fits the helicopter's function; strong burst damage at the beginning using missile volleys, and it's also just fun to say. Regardless, I look forward to what this campaign will bring.
Yeah, the campaign is currently playable, though be warned if you want the AI to spawn anything scary you are going to have to give them a lot of time.
From The Depth is a series I wish to see continued in the future! Also, I’d love to see an overview of the systems on your craft in more detail, especially when we get to big complex vehicles.
It seems like the weapons designs this time around are air-based. This faction seems to have their "warships" being hovercraft. This sounds fun, and it would allow them to invade islands with relative ease and protect them too.
After watching a certain amphibians FtD streams, its nice to watch a competent builder make things that actually work. P.S. I think the interceptor should be named something like "Striker" or "Dagger". While the little heli should be called "Horsefly" because of how small yet powerfull it is. Edit: Spelling
Helicopter name suggestion: Name: Khornenucopia/ Ravenwatchers/ Ravenguard/Crowfreat (allows for stuff like a “murder of Crowfreat” and “I really need some Crowfreat right now.” Semi lore stuff (idk what im doing): The (helicopter name) was originally a prototype of the steel striders. With advances in doctrine and a increase of pirate activity in their territory, the steel striders decided to commission a new helicopter. It was made to provide a low cost and upkeep solution to patrol for pirates and skirmishes from other factions, capable of decimating other light craft, especially in groups. However expectations of the craft grew, and more and more stuff got piled on until the goals became impossible to fulfill. The first demonstration to the military ended in disaster as the helicopter struggled to lift off the ground before a malfunction that was “fixed” caused the already strained engine to explode, causing the helicopter to plummet into the ground, killing the pilot; with the terrible first show and costs rising way over budget, the government ended the program and all remaining test vehicles were sent for scraping. However a few managed to be sold to the black market through bribes before they were scraped, but most went to the other factions hungry for steel strider tech; a single helicopter though found its way to deep water guard territory where it was left to rot. Years later a certain ambitious pirate with dreams of world conquest and “being the good guys” heard rumors of an advanced prototype helicopter and went searching for it, after months of searching he found it in a junkyard of a abandoned shipyard and retrofitted to working order. Much to the pirates disappointment just about all advanced components were just memories at this point and he had no blueprints, so the he just had to guess what was supposed to go where; the pirate put a massive rusting rotary cannon from a old patrol boat, fed with scrap iron shells and hopes and dreams of it functioning in the compartment for the auto cannons, instead of a rack of advanced laser targeted atgms, it had 2 makeshift missiles controlled a old computers found in scrapyards filled with as much explosive as it could possibly fit without it just dropping out of the sky, where an engine is supposed to go the engine of a speedboat was bolted and strapped in, with a rocket placed at the back because he couldn’t figure out tilting, and new propellers were sourced from old turbine blades ground into shape. Anything modern or small and/or non-essential wasn’t added; like flares, armor, and a ejection seat. Despite all this hacking together, when it was finished, and tested in the trial of battle, it preformed well; in fact so well it managed to beat the performance of the original design and do the original intended goal. Under its new master it is now and fast and deadly menace; capable of blowing apart the enemy with its missiles, can put down sustained fire with its rotary cannon, and it is extremely cheap to build and run so can be run in large swarms; sure it might be somewhat lacking in firepower by itself and doesn’t even know the concept of armor, but lets see the enemy try to defend 12 of these things, and if you get shot down? Well your replacement is probably already flying to your position. Ya know, the more I think about it, the more it seems like this thing is basically the imperial guardsmen.
Name suggestion for the heli trio, stingers, they have a big initial punch and then have sustained dmg, kinda like a bee sting with the initial sting and then the venom
You really should make an aircraft carrier that works as your “mobile base” in either the campaign or an adventure mode. With tiny little aircraft and little helicopters.
I have found that one of the most cost effective vehicles early game is a torpedo bomber, I use long medium missiles on the cheapest plane hull I can make, I can get them to cost ~6000 resource and 5 of them are enough to take on the crossbones. I usually have them fire the torpedo's fairly far away, ~1000 meters so AA is unable to do much, they also fly high until they drop the torpedo's, so they act kinda like dive bombers. You don't even need good detection on them because the torpedo's lock on. I know you like missiles so I thought you might enjoy making something like a torpedo bomber!
A later upgraded Crossbow with extended body, and ‘wings’ or ‘bow’ bits so they’re not so stumpy would look nice. You could that back area with laser bits for a munition defense system that you can they put on the tips of those bow parts, beef up that cram a bit, and keep the strafe and you’d have a nice fleet support vehicle. Maybe call it something like the ExcaliBow or something more clever. You should also check out making a Mass Driver for late game shenanigans. They’re crazy.
The helicopters could be called Hyenas, since they pick at the weaker prey and provide finishing blows when they scavenge. The interceptor could keep the animal theme by being the Hound class, since it hounds its enemy and persistently hunts them.
I don't think that you can program IA to aim at diferent parts. BUT if you do, I would change the priority of the plaine to target first the propulsion sistems. Being the fastest, that helps bringing down dodgy enemies.
I'd love to see you experiment some more with AI in these designs. For instance, the little strike craft could use a spiral diving/retreating pattern instead of a straight one, which would make it much harder to hit. Lots of simple things like that could let you shed some of that bulky armor for extra speed or damage, as well as a lower profile. Also you missed a huge opportunity when you made a crossbow shaped ship and didn't give it a massive spinal cannon in the middle.
Humming spike for the plane and the flying doom sisters for the helicopter are the best I could come up with for names :) I hope you feel better soon Lath.
Alternatively, if we're going to be in keeping with the medieval equipment theme; the copters could be named Helm/helmet/helmut(this one is just for a silly spelling) , and the interceptors Partisan/Ranseur.(as for the names, like the cross bow its for how they look, not what they do. feel free to look them up)
Loving the more condensed editing of this one, makes it very easy to watch. Editing FTD videos seems like a nightmare so having just the good bits (beginning/end of build and fights) hopefully makes life easier. Looking forward to the next one! The Crossbow also reminds me of the Star Wars AAT which is pretty coo.
Since you named the blue craft the crossbow, you should keep with a medieval naming scheme. The helicopter can be called the sling since its a weak vehicle, theyre a bunch of them, and theyre mostly burst damage with those missiles. The plane should be called the pike since it keeps enemies at a distance
The helicopters are ready cool. A craft with a powerful opening salvo that retreats to a more supportive role after the first bit of combat. I think that the healing forward dude should be called a banner and the two on the side could be called flanks maybe. I’d love to see a crossbow flanked by two of the banners for an even more elite tank+healer type formation.
It's technically impossible to make a healer AI, unless you set their circle around enemy at the same distance, and maybe get lucky they go the same way at the same time. Pisses me off, cuz I have tried to make healer crafts so many times. I wanted a healer helicopter to rescue my downed planes, as to not waste them, but alas, it's not possible, yet. Note: Even with LUA it's not possible, cuz you can't set a target position, which would literally take the devs 5 minutes or less to add to the LUA functions list. Such a waste.
Crossbow Hovercraft (Looks like a crossbow), Katar Helicopter (large central cannon, two small side guns), Shiv Close-Air-Support Fighter (dives into knife fighting range then retreats, program to attack enemies from the rear for a 'backstab' aesthetic).
Khorne-copter vs. Slaneesh-fighter I am for the whole Chaos undivided theme. With equally dedicated crafts to the chaos gods. Nurlge: Very tanky, beating stick that will survive nearly everything Khorne: Just pure violence and death Slaneesh: Nimble, agile and kinky Tzeench: smart everything, missles, canons etc, destruction from a save distance
I suddenly want to make a jetfighter! Was more than a year since last time I think, this game is expansive, I spent the last year doing missiles, crams, APS and armour...
if you want to give meta a go, big 4-8 meter 500 mm. pen depth aps is the way to go and is great fun to watch. Its Armor peiceing head, solid, he, he,he, and then an optional supercav. Of course you tend to just create your own stuff that for some reason performs really well and looks amazing, so you do you.
As for names... What about something like "The Crystal" for the plane? Swarm of "Crystals". They kind of looks like crystals anyways, and they have... quite sharp edges, that they can use to chip bit by bit the enemies off the battlefield = )
There I was making my own FTD videos when I felt a disturbance in the force... Literally checked your channel out of the blue to find you are coming back to FTD! You got me into FTD and I probably wouldn't have started a channel without that so I can't wait to see more!
Hey lathrix for stellaris you should do a challenge where you abuse the vassal system to make another empire really powerful and try and have them fight the endgame crisis. You are not allowed to fight alongside them
the choppers are a 'Trident' of Pilum. the interceptor may be call it the Rabbit; hops away before it gets hit, two fisted punch to the guts from the guns and most likely wont survive a direct hit. try an Catamaran carrier type that launches a swarm of zodiac (fast attack two ammo crates) to act like skirmishers to distract weapons fire instead of aircraft. that has aegis missile like system for attack and defence.
Lathrix: Determined to get to the end Press X for Doubt But seriously tho hope you get better and that the series continues I myself would like to see KhorneFlake V2
Ideas for names, Ray of change for the ship. Khornes Sparrow for the helicopter, and Pleasure Seeker for the jet. My reasoning for the jet is that it’s fighting style puts in close to aa range which makes it more likely to get destroyed. Naming of the heli is simple, little craft big punch and full of rage. Finally the ship, well it looks like a ray and it is tzeench.
IT HAS BEEN LOG ENOUGH!!! also with the advanced cannon plane what about making it strafe the enemy with a ventral gun that can move 180 degrees under the plane.
A interesting idea I have is to make a slighter bigger plane to lead a wing of the planes, sort of the Pack leader that could have like one medium missile in the center to kinda differentiate it, and also could be something that can replace the cheap ones when you get to the mid-late game? Food for thought
i feel as though a "weapon" naming theme would be cool, since the hovercraft is called the crossbow the interceptor could be called the khopesh (ko-pesh) due to the circular ai pattern the copters could be called the knives or the kunai due to how they're small, cheap, and will be spawned in high numbers
Those little helis remind me of a previous design, the Khorn flakes, and given you put a khorn logo on one, maybe name it something like the khorn gull? And then make the rest after other gods, maybe that your character is some sort of prophet, and each design is a gift of each god’s power
Going with the weaponry theme on names, the interceptor could be called the Haladie, and the helicopter Sai. Both are daggers, originating from India and Japan respectively.
So been playing the campagin in the newest test patch and yeah really seems that now the whole design in a sandbox first then just build in the campagin is not the right way to go about it, I am about 15 hours into one run and even now I have not seen anything from any of the enemy factions that is remotly powerful. It seems like they will take 50+ hours to even start building the strongest ships. So in effect they have balanced the campaign so that you can build and design in the campaign setting rather than just switching to sandbox.
Hey Lathrix! You've got 3 vehicles set up and each one has a color scheme going for the Chaos Gods. Make a submarine and color it green then you could call the whole group, "The Ruinous Powers."
you could give the crossbow an upgrade package in the future. Give it a nice metal shield at the front, increase the cram size and call it the ballista.
The crossbow looks really sick and I love the straife dance. Can definitively feel some Stellaris vibes in its design ;) The smaller craft look great too. Having some cheap & fragile craft in your FTD battles makes them more dramatic, and increases the chance of explosions. *I care not from whence the explosions come, only that they do.*
Welcome back to fwam the depfhs! The crossbow really gave me an idea for a new craft, though I already had an one like it is was working on. it's just a bit ambitious and I'm scared to make it well. A Giant crab water skimmer that encircles enemies a high speeds and shoots nearly point blank cramz
The naming scheme of different weapons is quite interesting and has quite a bit of room for upgrading and upscaling. Like keeping with the crossbow's general design, a larger better version could be named 'the ballista' or a mortar version could be a 'catapult/trebuchet'. As for the other two, maybe 'dart/blowdart' for the plane and possibly 'shuriken' for the helicopter. Unfortunately, that's the best I'm able to come up with without using a generator for the names.
With APS aircraft, you can do some nonsense with a bit of extra gauge cooler 'n recoil absorption. Built a decent sized "shotgun" type APS, just need to build a plane to carry it now. Fires three bursts of six simultaneous 60mm shells, with a few seconds between cycles.
Kind of wanted to keep the medieval weapon theme that you got with the crossbow The interceptor should be called a javelin The helicopter should be named archer (the healing one can be name a quiver) And also if/when you make a transport craft you should call it the Squire.
I had an idea for a defense craft/structure called the pontifex, basically it's either a satellite or a high flying craft that has a partical cannon on its belly that would gut anything that gets too close to base/mothership. That may be like a midgame thing but still I thought it was cool
From the depths is definitely something I wanna see in the future. Just had a full work weel for the first time like, ever, so I missed this when it came out but yes I am so happy to see these come back!
I have a idea for this fleet, you have 4 different sections off of each god. Khornes' stuff is either glass cannons or like dreadnoughts, slanneshs' is speed/mobility, tzeentch is really weird and then nurgle is like carriers and stuff
Good to see your back uploading ftd. Can't wait to watch this and the campaign. A name suggestion for the plane is the Vulture, since they will eventually be deployed in groups. One design I would like to see is similar to the old plague guard but even more tanky and larger, with larger guns. Maybe even a LAMS for the ship.
maybe have them be historical/ medieval weapon themed? the planes the arrows and the copters might be the bolts (ammo for a bow and crossbow respectively), then some larger craft could be the sword, the halberd, or even the ballista or "the siege"
Well... This is the best answer to my question under the previous "Stellaris" video about "will we see From the Depths again, and if yes, when?"... I like it! = )
Something you might consider experimenting with is applique armor for lighter aircraft - it's not very good HP, but the high armor makes it still viable, and it's nice and low-profile for allowing quite compact aircraft. Also, for mostly-AA dual-purpose guns, you can actually use the AA mantlet facing up rather than forwards to make a slightly more compact turret (because you only need 1 block of turret forward of the turret's center of rotation) - it's a little janky looking at times, but at least when holding still it can look really nice and it allows you to armor the front of the turret a bit better.
Ooh, could eventually make a larger and more powerful and long range crossbow and call it the ballista. It comes with pre-existing improved-form names!
I was ill with the lovely flu like disease all the cool kids are talking about, so I decided to create some new FtD designs for a campaign I am starting hopefully very soon! Enjoy this rather all over the place set of designs! Since recording this I've been hiding in a dark room drinking lots of water and taking lots of painkillers.
Next video out when I can start opening my eyes again properly.
yay miss this game cuse i dont wanna play itcuse i build boxes
sorry to hear you are ill hope you get well soon
I was wondering will you ever do another land campaign
Planes gotta be called skipper!
wish untis could go under ground n u could make a sand worm for land campain n not tell us
Lathrix you should make it encircle so that it doesn't get hit by a weapon and dodges attacks
From The Depths is a series we wish to see continued on this channel.
agred, inded statment tru
Yes, just yes
I second this
Ngl, read this in Lath's voice.
My lord lathrix i agree with this comment
Those aren't seagulls, Lathrix. They're vultures.
Derpy vultures of death
I mean, he looks a lot like a bot, From the depths protagonist is an adeptus mechanicus confirmed?
They’re actually both. They’re called dreadgulls
deadly seagulls
I mean...
Seagulls are essentially shore vultures.
Because the hovercraft is named "The Crossbow" the Plane could be "The Bolt" and the Helis could be "Arrowheads"
a capital ship or carrier could be named 'The Huntsman' to go with the theme
i will second this idea and of the one bellow
@@kiraw.9521 He could make a supply ship/carrier and name it the feather. He could have it very weak but have it supply other ships.
Maybe Bodkins for the Helis since they’re so small
i like all of these ideas!
Lathrix, the Stable branch is about to get updated
You started moments before a significant update
Dedi-blades are getting replaced
Lmao
I am going to interact with this comment because it increases the chance that he will see it because this sounds very important
Yeah This and Stability will mean that Dediblade spam is not really viable anymore as a way to make super cheap and good at everything craft which is great.
@@wilkins67890 so will the update just rebalance dediblades or will it remove them and replace them with something more balanced?
@@corinthianimperialstudios704 Remove and replace them entirely with a new Propeller block that works a lot differently.
@@wilkins67890 ...thus completely breaking any dediblade builds. I see.
Ahh the nostalgia of hearing you say welcome back to from the depths with me lathrics. I remember watching you years ago when I was in school thinking how amazing you were at building ships like I never could. I’m 21 now and still enjoy that intro just as much as I did when I was 18-17. Welcome Sirs and siretts was the best intro I had ever heard.
From the Depths is a series I would like to see continued in the future.
Holy Shit man!!!
Lathrix is playing FtD again!!!!!!!!!!
And he's gonna play the WHOLE campaign?!!!!! It must be my birthday and I'm dreaming!!
My body is ready, inject me with a new FtD series NOW!!!!!
I mean, it is my birthday. And I'm absolutely not going to complain.
Lathland: I made these three awesome things!
Borderwise: Why does everything I make look like a canoe?!
Elaborate please?
@@chee.rah.monurB this guy I'd say is though hillarious better at decorating his craft than making them highly efficient and deadly, unless he's been building a flagship after a few beers. Compared to borderwise, who makes some terrifying and just really good crafts that look... Kinda plain.
With the planes, maybe you could configure their engine and AI to go faster on the retreat, and slower on the attack?
And perhaps the helicopters could also be made to strafe around the enemy, or go back and forth to help them dodge enemy fire.
Following the old weapon name theme, the helicopter could be called the "hwacha," which was a fifteenth century rocket launcher from Korea. It fits the helicopter's function; strong burst damage at the beginning using missile volleys, and it's also just fun to say.
Regardless, I look forward to what this campaign will bring.
Yeah, the campaign is currently playable, though be warned if you want the AI to spawn anything scary you are going to have to give them a lot of time.
Yeah. You realize your entire personality is just a mood and that makes us happy. Thank you for the videos and keep up the good work.
From The Depth is a series I wish to see continued in the future! Also, I’d love to see an overview of the systems on your craft in more detail, especially when we get to big complex vehicles.
It seems like the weapons designs this time around are air-based. This faction seems to have their "warships" being hovercraft. This sounds fun, and it would allow them to invade islands with relative ease and protect them too.
I have waited an eternity for FTD to come back. Always been my favourite of your series.
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After watching a certain amphibians FtD streams, its nice to watch a competent builder make things that actually work.
P.S. I think the interceptor should be named something like "Striker" or "Dagger". While the little heli should be called "Horsefly" because of how small yet powerfull it is.
Edit: Spelling
Helicopter name suggestion:
Name: Khornenucopia/ Ravenwatchers/ Ravenguard/Crowfreat (allows for stuff like a “murder of Crowfreat” and “I really need some Crowfreat right now.”
Semi lore stuff (idk what im doing):
The (helicopter name) was originally a prototype of the steel striders. With advances in doctrine and a increase of pirate activity in their territory, the steel striders decided to commission a new helicopter. It was made to provide a low cost and upkeep solution to patrol for pirates and skirmishes from other factions, capable of decimating other light craft, especially in groups. However expectations of the craft grew, and more and more stuff got piled on until the goals became impossible to fulfill. The first demonstration to the military ended in disaster as the helicopter struggled to lift off the ground before a malfunction that was “fixed” caused the already strained engine to explode, causing the helicopter to plummet into the ground, killing the pilot; with the terrible first show and costs rising way over budget, the government ended the program and all remaining test vehicles were sent for scraping. However a few managed to be sold to the black market through bribes before they were scraped, but most went to the other factions hungry for steel strider tech; a single helicopter though found its way to deep water guard territory where it was left to rot. Years later a certain ambitious pirate with dreams of world conquest and “being the good guys” heard rumors of an advanced prototype helicopter and went searching for it, after months of searching he found it in a junkyard of a abandoned shipyard and retrofitted to working order. Much to the pirates disappointment just about all advanced components were just memories at this point and he had no blueprints, so the he just had to guess what was supposed to go where; the pirate put a massive rusting rotary cannon from a old patrol boat, fed with scrap iron shells and hopes and dreams of it functioning in the compartment for the auto cannons, instead of a rack of advanced laser targeted atgms, it had 2 makeshift missiles controlled a old computers found in scrapyards filled with as much explosive as it could possibly fit without it just dropping out of the sky, where an engine is supposed to go the engine of a speedboat was bolted and strapped in, with a rocket placed at the back because he couldn’t figure out tilting, and new propellers were sourced from old turbine blades ground into shape. Anything modern or small and/or non-essential wasn’t added; like flares, armor, and a ejection seat. Despite all this hacking together, when it was finished, and tested in the trial of battle, it preformed well; in fact so well it managed to beat the performance of the original design and do the original intended goal. Under its new master it is now and fast and deadly menace; capable of blowing apart the enemy with its missiles, can put down sustained fire with its rotary cannon, and it is extremely cheap to build and run so can be run in large swarms; sure it might be somewhat lacking in firepower by itself and doesn’t even know the concept of armor, but lets see the enemy try to defend 12 of these things, and if you get shot down? Well your replacement is probably already flying to your position.
Ya know, the more I think about it, the more it seems like this thing is basically the imperial guardsmen.
I was itching for more from the depths from the glorious lathrix
Name suggestion for the heli trio, stingers, they have a big initial punch and then have sustained dmg, kinda like a bee sting with the initial sting and then the venom
You really should make an aircraft carrier that works as your “mobile base” in either the campaign or an adventure mode. With tiny little aircraft and little helicopters.
I have found that one of the most cost effective vehicles early game is a torpedo bomber, I use long medium missiles on the cheapest plane hull I can make, I can get them to cost ~6000 resource and 5 of them are enough to take on the crossbones. I usually have them fire the torpedo's fairly far away, ~1000 meters so AA is unable to do much, they also fly high until they drop the torpedo's, so they act kinda like dive bombers. You don't even need good detection on them because the torpedo's lock on. I know you like missiles so I thought you might enjoy making something like a torpedo bomber!
Oh I almost forgot to say I hope you feel better soon!
A later upgraded Crossbow with extended body, and ‘wings’ or ‘bow’ bits so they’re not so stumpy would look nice. You could that back area with laser bits for a munition defense system that you can they put on the tips of those bow parts, beef up that cram a bit, and keep the strafe and you’d have a nice fleet support vehicle.
Maybe call it something like the ExcaliBow or something more clever.
You should also check out making a Mass Driver for late game shenanigans. They’re crazy.
The helicopters could be called Hyenas, since they pick at the weaker prey and provide finishing blows when they scavenge. The interceptor could keep the animal theme by being the Hound class, since it hounds its enemy and persistently hunts them.
I don't think that you can program IA to aim at diferent parts. BUT if you do, I would change the priority of the plaine to target first the propulsion sistems.
Being the fastest, that helps bringing down dodgy enemies.
I'd love to see you experiment some more with AI in these designs. For instance, the little strike craft could use a spiral diving/retreating pattern instead of a straight one, which would make it much harder to hit. Lots of simple things like that could let you shed some of that bulky armor for extra speed or damage, as well as a lower profile. Also you missed a huge opportunity when you made a crossbow shaped ship and didn't give it a massive spinal cannon in the middle.
you should check out the new propellers that are in beta (they are the replacement for dedi blades) btw the crossbow is so cool
Name the copters your little “Khorne Dogs” after those mini corndogs you can get and the fitting blood god pun.
OR how about a doge meme that has been made chaos-y. That would be pretty funny LOL
The jet could be the thunderstrike because it does a striking dive maneuver and does some burst damage
Lathrix every time he starts a new campaign: so... last time was a bust, but this time Ill definitely finish the campaign
I see that Lathrix is making a Chaos Tau vessel for the hovercraft lol.
Humming spike for the plane and the flying doom sisters for the helicopter are the best I could come up with for names :) I hope you feel better soon Lath.
Alternatively, if we're going to be in keeping with the medieval equipment theme; the copters could be named Helm/helmet/helmut(this one is just for a silly spelling) , and the interceptors Partisan/Ranseur.(as for the names, like the cross bow its for how they look, not what they do. feel free to look them up)
Loving the more condensed editing of this one, makes it very easy to watch. Editing FTD videos seems like a nightmare so having just the good bits (beginning/end of build and fights) hopefully makes life easier. Looking forward to the next one!
The Crossbow also reminds me of the Star Wars AAT which is pretty coo.
Hovercraft: the ray
Plane: the spike
Helicopter: missiles!! Yay
Oh there should be a bigger crossbow called the ballista.
Since you named the blue craft the crossbow, you should keep with a medieval naming scheme. The helicopter can be called the sling since its a weak vehicle, theyre a bunch of them, and theyre mostly burst damage with those missiles. The plane should be called the pike since it keeps enemies at a distance
The helicopters are ready cool. A craft with a powerful opening salvo that retreats to a more supportive role after the first bit of combat. I think that the healing forward dude should be called a banner and the two on the side could be called flanks maybe. I’d love to see a crossbow flanked by two of the banners for an even more elite tank+healer type formation.
It's technically impossible to make a healer AI, unless you set their circle around enemy at the same distance, and maybe get lucky they go the same way at the same time.
Pisses me off, cuz I have tried to make healer crafts so many times. I wanted a healer helicopter to rescue my downed planes, as to not waste them, but alas, it's not possible, yet.
Note: Even with LUA it's not possible, cuz you can't set a target position, which would literally take the devs 5 minutes or less to add to the LUA functions list. Such a waste.
I got back Into from the depths a few weeks ago. Glad to see you back too.
Challenge: use only air craft for the campaign
@Cyclops Cool yes, but aircraft
So happy to see the return of from the depths. Your last full play through is my favourite series on the channel.
I love the idea of Aircraft havy campinge
Helicopter name suggestion, going with a good guy theme
One with a flag: Bearer
Other two: Followers
Looking back at the old From The Depths series and beeing into 40k myself now, I can realy enjoy the warhammer references
Crossbow Hovercraft (Looks like a crossbow), Katar Helicopter (large central cannon, two small side guns), Shiv Close-Air-Support Fighter (dives into knife fighting range then retreats, program to attack enemies from the rear for a 'backstab' aesthetic).
Khorne-copter vs. Slaneesh-fighter
I am for the whole Chaos undivided theme. With equally dedicated crafts to the chaos gods.
Nurlge: Very tanky, beating stick that will survive nearly everything
Khorne: Just pure violence and death
Slaneesh: Nimble, agile and kinky
Tzeench: smart everything, missles, canons etc, destruction from a save distance
you know it’s a good day when lathland uploads a ftd video, especially when he says he’s gonna do another campaign
I suddenly want to make a jetfighter! Was more than a year since last time I think, this game is expansive, I spent the last year doing missiles, crams, APS and armour...
Huh.
Seems that Dediblades still exist on the main branch.
They're gone on the alpha :p Well either that or this recording is quite old.
My favorite design of these is that little jet. Something about it just tickles my brain, and I adore it!
if you want to give meta a go, big 4-8 meter 500 mm. pen depth aps is the way to go and is great fun to watch. Its Armor peiceing head, solid, he, he,he, and then an optional supercav. Of course you tend to just create your own stuff that for some reason performs really well and looks amazing, so you do you.
As for names... What about something like "The Crystal" for the plane? Swarm of "Crystals". They kind of looks like crystals anyways, and they have... quite sharp edges, that they can use to chip bit by bit the enemies off the battlefield = )
There I was making my own FTD videos when I felt a disturbance in the force... Literally checked your channel out of the blue to find you are coming back to FTD! You got me into FTD and I probably wouldn't have started a channel without that so I can't wait to see more!
Also, make sure you put doors on your vehicles so you can get in and out!!!!
The crossbow reminds me of a manta ray, looks neat.
Thought the same thing, especcially with the color theme.
Hey lathrix for stellaris you should do a challenge where you abuse the vassal system to make another empire really powerful and try and have them fight the endgame crisis. You are not allowed to fight alongside them
the choppers are a 'Trident' of Pilum.
the interceptor may be call it the Rabbit; hops away before it gets hit, two fisted punch to the guts from the guns and most likely wont survive a direct hit.
try an Catamaran carrier type that launches a swarm of zodiac (fast attack two ammo crates) to act like skirmishers to distract weapons fire instead of aircraft. that has aegis missile like system for attack and defence.
Lathrix: Determined to get to the end
Press X for Doubt
But seriously tho hope you get better and that the series continues I myself would like to see KhorneFlake V2
Ideas for names, Ray of change for the ship. Khornes Sparrow for the helicopter, and Pleasure Seeker for the jet. My reasoning for the jet is that it’s fighting style puts in close to aa range which makes it more likely to get destroyed. Naming of the heli is simple, little craft big punch and full of rage. Finally the ship, well it looks like a ray and it is tzeench.
Could call the planes Belly Dancers, feels pretty Slaanesh with the colour scheme and matches the way it bounces low over the water!
I like the name "Helios", you can give it to any of them. I also like the name "Torment", it fits your style of doing things.
YES MORE FTD!! I am so super glad you want to finish the campaign!
IT HAS BEEN LOG ENOUGH!!!
also with the advanced cannon plane what about making it strafe the enemy with a ventral gun that can move 180 degrees under the plane.
Have you ever tried using spin blocks as reaction wheels?
A interesting idea I have is to make a slighter bigger plane to lead a wing of the planes, sort of the Pack leader that could have like one medium missile in the center to kinda differentiate it, and also could be something that can replace the cheap ones when you get to the mid-late game? Food for thought
I absolutely love you from the depths content keep it up
i feel as though a "weapon" naming theme would be cool, since the hovercraft is called the crossbow
the interceptor could be called the khopesh (ko-pesh) due to the circular ai pattern
the copters could be called the knives or the kunai due to how they're small, cheap, and will be spawned in high numbers
OMG I just realized that the game is like 10 years old. Still awesome. May the Flying Squirrel smile upon you.
Those little helis remind me of a previous design, the Khorn flakes, and given you put a khorn logo on one, maybe name it something like the khorn gull? And then make the rest after other gods, maybe that your character is some sort of prophet, and each design is a gift of each god’s power
Going with the weaponry theme on names, the interceptor could be called the Haladie, and the helicopter Sai. Both are daggers, originating from India and Japan respectively.
So been playing the campagin in the newest test patch and yeah really seems that now the whole design in a sandbox first then just build in the campagin is not the right way to go about it, I am about 15 hours into one run and even now I have not seen anything from any of the enemy factions that is remotly powerful. It seems like they will take 50+ hours to even start building the strongest ships. So in effect they have balanced the campaign so that you can build and design in the campaign setting rather than just switching to sandbox.
Side to side stepping of the Crossbow looks really nice and constant changing of movement makes it more dodgy so i would stay with that
You should try your hand at making an aircraft carrier
sweet! nice to get some FtD again! i would say "Flea" for the copters and "Cricket" for the plane.
Hey Lathrix! You've got 3 vehicles set up and each one has a color scheme going for the Chaos Gods. Make a submarine and color it green then you could call the whole group, "The Ruinous Powers."
For the planes I think Cobra would be a good name, given their coiling then lunging attack pattern.
you could give the crossbow an upgrade package in the future. Give it a nice metal shield at the front, increase the cram size and call it the ballista.
The fighter reminds me of a mosquito. Maybe the "Mosca," taking out the diminutive '-ito.'
The crossbow looks really sick and I love the straife dance. Can definitively feel some Stellaris vibes in its design ;)
The smaller craft look great too. Having some cheap & fragile craft in your FTD battles makes them more dramatic, and increases the chance of explosions. *I care not from whence the explosions come, only that they do.*
Welcome back to fwam the depfhs!
The crossbow really gave me an idea for a new craft, though I already had an one like it is was working on. it's just a bit ambitious and I'm scared to make it well.
A Giant crab water skimmer that encircles enemies a high speeds and shoots nearly point blank cramz
The naming scheme of different weapons is quite interesting and has quite a bit of room for upgrading and upscaling. Like keeping with the crossbow's general design, a larger better version could be named 'the ballista' or a mortar version could be a 'catapult/trebuchet'.
As for the other two, maybe 'dart/blowdart' for the plane and possibly 'shuriken' for the helicopter.
Unfortunately, that's the best I'm able to come up with without using a generator for the names.
Lathrix I dare you to do a campaign where you cannot use missils cannons only (you can use torpedoes though)
Wooooh new campaign!!! Oh, also- I'd quite like the name Skipping Stone for the aircraft, with how close it gets to the water before going up
With APS aircraft, you can do some nonsense with a bit of extra gauge cooler 'n recoil absorption. Built a decent sized "shotgun" type APS, just need to build a plane to carry it now. Fires three bursts of six simultaneous 60mm shells, with a few seconds between cycles.
Kind of wanted to keep the medieval weapon theme that you got with the crossbow
The interceptor should be called a javelin
The helicopter should be named archer (the healing one can be name a quiver)
And also if/when you make a transport craft you should call it the Squire.
I had an idea for a defense craft/structure called the pontifex, basically it's either a satellite or a high flying craft that has a partical cannon on its belly that would gut anything that gets too close to base/mothership.
That may be like a midgame thing but still I thought it was cool
Glory to chaos undivided
I was thinking the manta, the stinger, and the wasp.
A bit generic though
From the depths is definitely something I wanna see in the future. Just had a full work weel for the first time like, ever, so I missed this when it came out but yes I am so happy to see these come back!
Name suggestions
Plane: Sparrow (it gives bird vibes with its wings)
Helicopter: Jackrabbit (because it bounces when it shoots)
I have a idea for this fleet, you have 4 different sections off of each god. Khornes' stuff is either glass cannons or like dreadnoughts, slanneshs' is speed/mobility, tzeentch is really weird and then nurgle is like carriers and stuff
You could call the helicopter: the Hatchet and the jet: the Arrow. So glad to see you playing ftd again, I hope you get better real soon!
Your very first season introduced me to From the Depths. Happy to see the game return to the channel more recently
Name suggestions:
Mosquitoes for the helis (blood, buzzing around, anoying af)
Desire for the interceptor flier (Slanesh, sounds cool)
Good to see your back uploading ftd. Can't wait to watch this and the campaign. A name suggestion for the plane is the Vulture, since they will eventually be deployed in groups. One design I would like to see is similar to the old plague guard but even more tanky and larger, with larger guns. Maybe even a LAMS for the ship.
maybe have them be historical/ medieval weapon themed? the planes the arrows and the copters might be the bolts (ammo for a bow and crossbow respectively), then some larger craft could be the sword, the halberd, or even the ballista or "the siege"
Well... This is the best answer to my question under the previous "Stellaris" video about "will we see From the Depths again, and if yes, when?"... I like it! = )
Something you might consider experimenting with is applique armor for lighter aircraft - it's not very good HP, but the high armor makes it still viable, and it's nice and low-profile for allowing quite compact aircraft.
Also, for mostly-AA dual-purpose guns, you can actually use the AA mantlet facing up rather than forwards to make a slightly more compact turret (because you only need 1 block of turret forward of the turret's center of rotation) - it's a little janky looking at times, but at least when holding still it can look really nice and it allows you to armor the front of the turret a bit better.
Name for copter: Emissary(s). Fits with the flag design out in front like it's the heralds of an invasion.
Ooh, could eventually make a larger and more powerful and long range crossbow and call it the ballista. It comes with pre-existing improved-form names!