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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Talk about brinkmanship. This hard mode run has me constantly right on the edge of disaster and I am loving it. It's worth catching the fight right at the end of the video!
1.15 is out now, but we will stick with 1.14 for this playthrough. - เกม
I love how the nomad had it's missile go off in the tube, then all his buddies shot him while trying to shoot down your wing.
Yeah, that was hilarious
I was actually speechless when that happened.
That initial two-ship of attack planes at 22:00 are fuggin heroes, taking down a Nomad in one go, then dipping under it, dodging two AA missiles, and sending the rest of their payload at another ship before bugging out straight through the enemy fleet.
Ace Pilots for sure, the weaving and dodging was something else.
Protip: to find hidden cities in the large expanses of desert, they never spawn within 900km of a known city. so limiting your search vectors to areas within that dead space will bag you a hidden city 99% of the time.
That is a very useful tip, thank you for sharing!
Yes, can’t wait to try this! Thanks!
That last battle had me so anxious I caught myself grinding my teeth.
I was fairly anxious myself xD
@@Phrosphor can’t wait for more highfleet. Also hoping for game play and design in Nebulous
Wow what a thrilling fight! Poor Daud's gonna have to do his job again 😁 It seems fighting with Audacities really leaves no room for errors
So about Daud... he kind of hates me now. His moral/support level is 0 out of four.
Oh bummer... Now the stakes are way higher! Wish you good luck in the following episodes!
That airstrike at 22 minutes was kino AF
Probably one of the nicest strikes I have ever seen. The fighters flying under the crashing nomad, dumping their last needles and then boosting altitude is gorgeous.
@@Phrosphor Absolutely. It was like pearl harbor in highfleet.
Loving this! Things are getting a little bit more tense!
It really is! That final battle was... very stressful.
Watching this campaign definitely helped me get into high fleet and now I can't wait for the next video to come out.
Awesome, I am so glad you have found it useful!
Regarding that trade fleet, I have never seen a trade fleet engage my ships willingly or attack a city I'm in. I think they always run away as soon as they notice the city is occupied
I was just extremally concerned because if they DID engage I would have lost my flag.
39:00 getting all your ducks lined up.
Update on screamer: I tested its ability to tilt. And yes, fixed thruster only ships are kinda controllable. But the Screamer has thrust way too close to center of mass for that to work.
Yeah it is a boondoggle in it's current state. Need to add gimballed thrusters to the 2.0 version
I made a version with a symmetrical assembly with still only the two fixed engines and you can roll and even land it... But I lost one to a cruise missile. Still, better than it hitting an actually important fleet!
Nice turn of fate that surprise trade fleet ran away after The Event a few episodes ago 🤣📡
This really was a very difficult time, if that fleet had engaged we were at risk of losing the flagship or an aircraft carrier. I specifically built them with no offensive weapons with the intention of them never getting into a fight.
“Air Dodge” could almost always work as an ep title! Mentally bookmarking this one as the argument against the biggest plane rockets, btw 🧨
Noice! Been waiting for this episode!
It took me awhile to come up with a workable plan for what to do here!
Unfortunately I have learned to no longer fear strike fleets, missile TAC groups or aircraft TAC groups. Build a strike fleet basher that can shoot and move in the combat mini game and also get aircraft that can shoot air to air missiles. Everything countered cost effectively.
You can cheese the game this way but I was trying to go for a more 'lore friendly' fleet design :)
@@Phrosphor That is fair. We all inevitably end up at ship design though.
30 laser guided and a lightning fitted with 6 barrel 180 squall is all i need to destroy 3 ship strike group. Its pretty satisfying to melt those kormoran
Wow that is quite a ship. A flying warcrime if you will!
22:11 I'm more surprised by the planes dodging 3 sprints
Oh no my position had been uncovered... Anyway i start blasting
That clip is in my head a lot when I get into the second half of this campaign
@@Phrosphor lol
Keep the good work
Must say I'm beginning to take a liking to your Audacitys. Very maneuverable and deadly. Only thing I'm skeptical of is their range. I know they have good range with a tanker, but all of my interceptors have at least 1500km range on their own. You never know when you might need to retask a tanker, so having them be capable of striking or patrolling on their own saves time, money, and lives. Of course, that makes them just a tiny bit more sluggish in combat. But the amount of times I've been able to intercept and destroy a strike group with just two interceptors leaves even me surprised.
Do consider that if you ever decide to run yet another campaign! I know its just a bit repetitive, but I for one would be thrilled to see what you'll come up with.
I suggest you retreat your planes if you're not sure they can survive a second attack run. Even if they succeed, retreat them so they won't be shot down at the last minute (like in the soon-to-be infamous Nomad strike).
The smaller rockets are indeed the best. Their two runs required to deplete their ammo are both a blessing and a curse;
Curse because they can get shot down,
Blessing because they can shoot down maneuverable foes after they overheat their engines and because they can show off their sick piloting skills.
With the changes to marching engines I think light, long range interceptors will be even better and cheaper for another campaign.
Everything you said about planes holds true as well!
@@Phrosphor Well, for the next campaign I'll try and submit a few of my own designs for consideration. My missile boats and AA ships are the most original out of most Highfleet ships I think.
I'm currently trying to fit in sensor equipped cruisers and cruisers in general. The Sevastopol, properly equipped, can be deadly on both the tactical and strategic screen, while still being reasonably quick.
Smaller cruisers can only do a few of those things, but it's still an asset to have a tanker-brawler that can take on problems independently.
I lean heavily on smaller ships in my campaigns, so playing with a bigger frontline fleet will be an interesting concept.
@@Phrosphor Bigger in number or size? :]
I thought the way to stealthily airstrike was to strike with a ship being escorted by planes.
I have tried this with inconsistent success. I think I need to test it properly like the bombing video
As a ex-proleague counterstrike player,
i noticed your firing tic, its really common in counterstrike players.
Moving your mouse slightly after a shot, as if you flicked and clicked, or clicked and lowered your weapon.
If you're compensating for recoil this makes sense, but i don't think you are?
WIth the rather random bullet spread it might be better to do some practices of having a steadier shot, and less flick-to-click, so you don't later over compensate to re-aquire a target with your mouse.
Center the target, drag or lead as needed, and try not to let your mouse finger influence the mouse position.
(though i am aware you've mentioned some where on this channel that you're uncomfortable with your mouse? maybe that was earlier in the campaign.
This is fascinating! I have played a lot of FPS games over the years, but never anything to a large extent. Certainly nothing that I would assume would build habits in my mouse use. My multiplayer gaming is primarily in RTS rather than FPS. I wonder where I picked it up?!
I am being more mindful of mouse 'flicking' and hopefully it shows in the latest video, still hard to avoid when dodging 180mm shells and tracking three+ missiles in the air!
My old mouse was awful though I have a better one now, still clicks a little too loud for recording!
Thanks for bringing this to light.
im wondering, what would happen if you order the fighters to escort the fleet going to attack, and just left them on escort all the way in?
Honestly it's been inconsistent and I am loath to test more in this game. I might do a quick side video to confirm. SOMETIMES they attack first and then the battle launches right after the last strike. SOMETIMES they don't do anything and on reddit people were saying that they had had them JOIN IN with the fight... so who knows? I need to confirm the behavior.
@@Phrosphor Them joining in sounds badass
Why don´t you try Radar to find hidden City´s? I mean you paid for the Radar then use it.
I have to agree that he should use ground radar when he is looking for them if he has cleared the area of enemy fleets
I don't use ground radar usually because I don't want the enemy to ELINT detect my location. However now that we are going loud there is no reason not to use it. I just don't have a fast enough ship with radar equipped right now.
@@Phrosphor I get that, but
1. You lure them into the dessert
2. It's ELINT that's very close to begin with
No radar on the flagship I get but the scouts can be loud.
@@Phrosphor Even if within range of enemy ELINT, so long as your ELINT is more than double your radar range you can use radar without the enemy noticing you.
Dodgeball is a great movie bite your tongue lol
Are there any games like this for console?
Sadly none that I know of. PC seems to be the space that Indie Dev's can explore stuff like this.
Honestly I don't even see the point of AP ammo. Sure it can P though A, but in a game where all ships by necessity have gaps in their armor, and almost all default ships have unarmored bottoms prox fuse seems much more useful. Look how quickly you managed to wreck that Gladiator with prox fuse in the final fight compared to the difficulty you were having with AP ammo. Just swoop in under, bang bang bang, enemy destroyed. I really can't see a situation where AP ammo would be superior. Even if you're flying some big cruiser-sized monster ship with two dozen 180mm guns... Sure at that size AP ammo will probably penetrate better than 100mm. But prox fuse will *also* go more damage at that size, and likely find gaps in the enemy's armor, and frankly in enough quantity it'll sandpaper away armor too. And that's without even getting into the utility of prox fuse as an anti-air and anti-missile weapon.
tl;dr- why ever use AP ammo?
Dodgeball really is a terrible movie isn't it
I still hold that the 4Ds of Dodgeball are a good mantra for Highfleet combat!