And they are accurate, I'm not healthy in large doses, and you, depending on the person judging, can be greatly improved or gratly worsened by adding some pineapple.
You don’t lose anything when you deconstruct it. So you didn’t lose anything when you removed your shield. Id you don’t have cargo space for the things that you destroyed any excess will fall into space so you can pick it up or use it.
The exception to this is after capturing a salvage ship, to stop people abusing the capture mechanic.You basically get the same value you would by salvaging normally.
Hey Lathrix, Small shields don't have the obstruction thing, so use those internally. Stacked small shields and thick armour can be REDICULOUSLY good for the resources, the shields tank most at the cost of energy, if they go down (disruptors or pure DPS), the armour tanks a bit, and then the shields go back up.
Your videos are the equivalent of freshly baked, still warm pastries, and when I'm having a bad day, they feel like a prefectly cold pillow on a hot, midsummer night.
Hello Lathrix! I am here to provide some detailed tips to remove some of your uncertainty and ensure you can slap 6 Deck Cannons while maintaining them with ease in the future! Love to see this come back, I was tempted to grab the game years ago thanks to you but glad its out on steam and have found myself nearing the maximum difficulty in Career. 1) If you specialize your crew, you can run any ship with what I call a "skeleton crew" which is 50% of the suggested. This is very important as you WILL have issues getting enough crew thanks to Fame or at least I did. 1-A) I recommend creating Gunners who do nothing but operate weapons so they don't get off like idiots to resupply it. 1-B) I recommend creating engine operators/maintainers who do basically nothing but ensure your engines are topped off. They can obviously do everything else but engines are priority. 1-C) You will want to have a role that prioritizes feeding ammo to your Deck Cannons and maybe another role to transport ammo to the storage behind said cannons. They are a menace to keep fed! 2) Armor in this game is absolutely amazing even though it gets blown off CONSTANTLY! If there is salvage around you but not in storage, YOU CAN STILL USE IT FOR BUILDING! So some fresh steel still nearly molten after getting slammed by cannons can be instantly used to repair your armor! Don't be afraid to have 4+ rows of armor! Placing them in a brick-wall stricture is optimal by the way when using 2x1 armor. 3) Putting the large shield behind armor is not a bad idea and I even do it on my tank ship. Armor is super cheap to replace as steel is EVERYWHERE so when the armor fails, the large shield comes in as another form of defense. It also ensures it comes in latter in the fight where there is hopefully less DPS from the enemy which can overwhelm the shield(s). 4) Deck Cannons are a menace to supply with ammo! Forget about storing mass amounts of ammo, STORE MASS AMOUNT OF SULFUR! Sulfur is 5x more compact as ammo and you won't need too many factories to ensure you don't run dry. This will ensure you won't need to make a ship MADE OF STORAGE. 5) Deck Cannons fire AN ENTIRE STACK OF AMMO IN A SINGLE VOLLEY! 20 Ammo per volley! 2x2 storage? That can hold only 4 volleys of Deck Cannon fire! 6) Sulfur is the best friend of Deck Cannons! Non-volatile and most importantly: easy to store compared to ammo. Unless you want an oversized ship, you want to store mostly Sulfur on your main ship, not ammo! Sulfur is your ammo storage, which then gets turned into ammo and then carried to a bulk magazine which then supplies the Deck Cannons. You can make supply chains by pressing V and clicking a button in the bottom left corner. 7) Range is completely relative! Based on the range indicator, the weapon can only fire at blocks in that range. This is important for railguns as you may want to target the core of an enemy, so you will need to get a little closer as the intended target may be out of range while other blocks are not. 8) You get 100% resources from removing a placed block. When this is not the case, the game makes it clear and even (by default), requires you to confirm the removal of blocks that will give you less return (which are only blocks you get and repair from a previously destroyed ship). 9) So long as a wreck has an air lock, it can be necromanced! Nothing else matters (maybe an accessible crew quarters does but I have not encountered a situation where there was not a quarters somewhere in the wreck). 10) When making a scrapping ship, STORAGE is all that matters! Mining lasers can make scrapping blocks faster but in the end, you WILL need A LOT of cargo capacity. You may even want a single ship for nothing more than scrapping and storing steel. 11) Be mindful, this game has thresholds. In the event you loose, you can very well loose HARD to the point you NEED to restart. I see no shame in you doing this when suddenly a VERY TINY weakness you had no hope noticing before, destroys your entire ship. Only when this happens can you truly learn how to make a ship survive heavy enemy fire. I highly recommend the Bulkheads mod. It opens SO MUCH MORE in designing your ships! 12) When scrapping a cargo block, all cargo inside is safely ejected and can be picked up. 13) Your idea of turning a station into a leviathan that devours dead ships is brilliant and by far the fastest way to get a working scrapping ship. Wish I thought of this for my early game! 14) Missions never respawn (to my 50hr knowledge). 15) You WILL eventually NEED railguns and or missiles as latter enemies WILL KYTE YOU WITH RAILGUNS/MISSILES! Hope this is helpful!
Wow that's a huge amount of detail! So much so TH-cam put it in the spam folder haha!! Thank you so much, will be sure to try and be mindful of all of this! Good to know about Railguns/Missiles becoming more mandatory later on especially!
@@Lathland something tells me there WILL be a test/quiz on this later, better study up Lathland! this was strangely enjoyable to read that wall of text lol.
I have to question - not in doubt, but curiosity - point 2. What about the "brick" pattern makes it stronger? If you know, that would be interesting to me. Thanks! (I know the advice is for Lathrix, but as readers of your comment, other people can benefit too!)
@@a-blivvy-yus well you see, brick walls are strong, therefore steel that looks like brick wall = stronger steel. In all serious idk 100% but if I had to guess it has to do with the amount of damage armor takes before breaking and not having a 2 wide hole for shots to go through and hit the next layer of armor. So if you have 3 layers of brick wall armor, the first layer gets shot off leaving a hole that is two separate pieces of armor which absorb the damage desperately and break one at a time.
FYI: When you took over the Starbase - In build mode there is a menu option to forget destroyed parts. In the blueprint screen, there is also an option to disregard modifications.
This game gives me the idea that someone will make a Malevolence like class of ship but instead of building Droids on it, the ship would build and field corvette alongside destroyers. That honestly sounds terrifying
18:42 You have the "Avoid collision" option on by default. It's trying to avoid collision with the base, which means, trying to get it out of its circle, but then also tries to get to the position you told it to, so it does that non-stop movement.
I was thinking Malals fist. One defeats you. The other gathers your corpses together for harvesting. Sure Hand is the right word. But it's a former Pirate station. It goes for the Jaw, not a handshake
@@ealtar my deck guns are surrounded with modded single square storage (more versatility with placement) so they are like secluded ammo balls that only stun themselves
For shielding, I found a good way for the Large Shield to effectively work. Mount it wherever you normally would, but put a small shield behind to it protect that emitter if you get Distrupted
Since sulfur is substantially more compact than ammo, it would make some sense for the ammo factory to be kept on your combat vessel, so you can stockpile sulfur for bonus ammo regeneration out-of-combat. Most other resources are more compact when refined, so refining them still makes sense. P.S. from what I've seen, I suspect that a hyper-coil factory might be the most profitable factory to set up.
seeing people play the game i myself have been playing for so long just brings such joy to me, since it equals more content for people to make for the game due to more people playing, which in turn makes the experience even better for those like me who like to dive into the workshop.
I can not stress this enough, get the cannon shell factory, last I checked 1 piece of sulfur, just 1 piece and u get prob 10-20 sulfur per asteroid and u get 20 shells per sulfur, my cargo ship is always full of shells, their cheap but at least u don’t have to pay the stations for them, I have tried selling my shells because I have too many and I am using 2 of those deck guns which gobble up shells, problem with selling shells to stations, 1 their cheap so little money back, 2 stations have limited room and it get’s filled up fast, also make cargo ship, even if it just is a shell of something that stays near a station, save resources, the stuff from the stations is marked up , it’s kind of small but it adds up like crazy when upgrading, from experience I can say going the processing route with a ship to haul cargo, refine resources, and mine resources is really nice, as long as u are careful and got a decent combat ship, the cargo ship doesn’t need to have armor or weapons, slap a ton of thrusters on it and it’s a speedy boy edit: I now know that he at least did some of what I said, I consider this a bit of an oversight on my part but I say yay for lathrix doing smart thingy
*37:12* As a Cosmoteer Faction enthusiast, I'm gonna take off a few minutes from ya'll and explain the four Cosmoteer factions: You are spot on with the grey one (Fringe Systems Resistance or FSR), they indeed are Rebels that use scrappy damaged ships cobbled together from dead ships they find around and any sort of weapons they get their hands on. Things only get more interesting from there on, though: *Monolith Cooperative* (The blue one) is *not* an Empire. It's a capitalist conglomerate with very strong economy that use boxy industrial ships and like resource-oriented weapons like cannons and missiles. The other two you haven't really had much interaction with, but I'll still explain them in attempt to intrigue you as they're easily the coolest factions in the game. *Cabal Of Sol* (The yellow one) is a religious faction that attempts to bring back their dead god- Sol (Or the original sun of our Solar System) back to life using advanced scientific research. They build gorgeous asymmetric ships with detailed decorations and exotic paint job, and tend to use energy weapons like blasters and ion beams. And finally, *Centauri Imperium* (The red one) is an actual empire, that uses spiky and intimidating diagonal ships (Built sideways of the regular ship grid) and love using Ion Beams and their signature _Nuclear Missiles._
in order for the Malal's Wrath to maintain the Malal theme. Black internal and White externals/outline. it would avoid the issue of the black being washed out with the white outlining it. also could result in an interesting "hollow" look...
Installing the ammo factory on the combat ship is something you probably should consider, as 1 sulfur looks to be a full stack of ammo. Put a tiny storage dedicated to sulfur next to it and you then have 20 stacks of ammo ready to go at a moment's notice, plus the 5 due to the factory's own internal storage. If you are just going to dedicate yourself to the ammo gods, then I can't recommend this enough.
So I have found that the mining lasers make for a really good up close defensive laser. Just have 2 of 'em facing away from each other, I prefer side to side. This will give you something with a like 200 or so degree ark of fire to attack the little annoying ships that try to flank you while you are worried about the bigger ships. They do a surprising amount of damage to intact ships. I am loving this content, I really missed watching your channel. I am not really in to Stallars so it's nice to be able to watch you again with Cosmoteer and Terratech, both games I am interested in. I do really miss your FTD content, wish you would finish a playthrough on it.
great video, should name the harvester/scrapper/forge ship "Darvaza" also known as the gates of hell, as thats where all your enemies shall end up lmao
Hey lathrix hope you read this! Been here for a couple years, and at 2:28 I realised exactly why I stayed. I love that you are one of the creators who plays these games with so much genuine passion. Not only is it entertaining, but it also really really helped me improve on my creativity and think outside the box. Lately I'm starting to pick out on art and music, which I historically always struggled with. I kind of realise now that watching you so much in depth explain and ramble away the small details and little fixations helped me a lot to think outside the box in a sense! You are an actual legend!
I love this so much so thank you for all the great content as for some hot tips: you can set the default attack range of a ship in the same dropup menu to tranfer crew, also movementspeed of crew greatly reduces the needed crew amount as does specialized roles, scrapper vehicles or any craft that needs to do long journeys in a system (redeeming quests, selling stuff...) greatly benifits from hyperdrives seeing as they work inside a solarsystem to go to important location....
Not sure on the quantity but you do not need a full crew complement to be efficient, the game grossly exaggerates ship requirements, you can be fine with half a crew complement, but just in case separate crews into different roles (Gunners, Navigation, Logistics etc) with different job priorities and also make sure to define where energy goes on board so crew doesn't take a battery from one end of the ship to the other for no reason
omg its lathland, i used to watch you like probably 10 years ago playing robo craft and first started playing from the depths. i hope your doing well and love to see you still uploading and going strong
As always, your videos are a joy to watch. A little tip that will save you lots of headaches, the recommended crew and power can be *very* generous, if you get into the crew roles system and the resource/power management systems on a ship you can cut down on all the dillydallying and running around crew will do out of the ignorance of their half brain celled minds, and it can also help a lot to manually place all your doors to get better control over how the crew move. Big gun equals big happy!
lathrix, you literally never lose resources as long as it's during construction. Just that you may need to buy resources from stations if you are next to them. Only time you actually lose resources is if it goes boom from combat or fires
How about making a huge cluster of laser fighters? Just minimalist ships with a reactor, a cockpit, a single large bunk room, two to four of the thruster clusters, and maybe two weapons. Something stupidly fast that you can send towards an enemy in a swarm.
armour is cheap, but heavy. iron is very cheap. sulfur is a better way to transport/store ammunition then storing ammunition directly. 1 full sulfur stack holds 5 times the amount of ammo then a single full ammo stack (which helds 20 shells) a single deck cannon fuses 10 shells per shot. it has 2 barrels. 2 shots = 1 full stack of ammo.
What I do to get second ships, is to bridge out from my original ship and build a fully functioning ship on the other side of the bridge. Then I just detonate the bridge.
tip: over dammage is a thing, so it might be worth setting the cannons to ripple fire, even if it might make recoil affect accuracy a bit more, it shouldnt be a huge deal with malals wrath being so big and heavy :D (also btw i love the color scheme)
Lath has fully embraced his inner ork. A freebooter to be precise. Hunting the galaxy for things to fight and scrap, occasionally trading with someone before randomly deciding to wipe them out, bastardizing ships he finds for his own purposes or just strapping a bunch of engines to something and calling it a ship... And multiplying endlessly.
I love having a black colour scheme because I feel despite knowing otherwise that it should make the craft harder to see. The game being as it is... It's more for me than the idea that spawned it.
So lathrix, a weird idea you may like for the scrapper base. Once you unlock the tractor beam, and make a ship big enough to house it, you can use the tractor beam to tow the base around. No need for thrusters if you have the ability to tow it. Additionally the tractor beam is very handy for moving asteroids, ships together to mine/salvage more efficiently, and even has some in combat use. If you push the right spot on an enemy it can spin them after all.
First of all, a nice warm slice of pizza is perfect on a cold winter's day, and second I haven't watched any of the recent Cosmoteer videos and I just figured out you and I have the same paint scheme: one side white, the other side black.
Naming suggestion for the factory base if you haven't already chosen One. The tridents haul. Trident because it's a three-prong ship, and it's going to be hauling a lot of stuff
I really do love this series didn't really watch the old one but I've watched all the other videos for quite some time really enjoying the content keep up the great work
I love the differences between your playthrough and Aavak's playthrough if you know him. He wait about 3 episodes to destroy a pirate base, and didn't really get a hauler until like episode in. I mean he gets real technical but by comparison your playthrough feels a bit more jesus take the wheel with a decent bit of planning.
Lathrix, when you find the right position for combat, you can click on the button for ship options just to the right of the ship's name in the info panel down in the bottom left corner. The button is marked with three horizontal lines. Under the options is the 'save combat settings' or something like that, but that means that in the future your ship will default to the distance and angle you have set, relative to the target. Want up close for devastation? Set it and save it. Distance for sniping? Set and save it. Also, the Deck Cannons stun crew for a short period of time when they fire. Never actually used them, so not too sure how good/bad that is. Probably depends on the ship design, I guess.
Hey Latherix's long time fan of your videos. And a very long fan of Cosmoteer. Finially it is here. So have fun (so we can have fun watching). Keep it up, great job done in the last years, thanks, Phos
ctrl shift and click on the 2 deck cannons, ctrl # to group them up. then press # and target specific parts of the enemy ship. you should also do engine blocks (2crew inside needed) next. you only supply the power batteries to the engine room and it will power up the rockets attached to it. % modifier of the engine room helps nicely.
Great vid I really hope you keep uploading more of this game. Btw if you use 1x2 armor and stagger it instead of using the 1x1 armor pieces, depending on what weapons you are being shot with it can make you 2x as tanky!!!
"Big Guns = Big Happy" and "Greetings you human equivalents of a perfect slice of pizza on a cold day." Lathrix, your videos have surpassed perfection. My vote is for the resistance, as I think there will be more BLOODSHED and less cooperation. Blood for the blood god, milk for Khorne flakes.
im later then intended BUT i advise getting a cannon ammo plants into your main ships who use cannons as the main weapons it will even if its like 2 of them help keep ya firing ya guns for longer and even allows ya to sustain fire (now relying on a though more space taking still more compact resorse of sulfer. this is VARY good for missile ships with iron as well.
Hey Lath, I would suggest testing your new ship blueprints in creative mode before risking resources in your campaign, but as myself have already learned, once you start fiddling with creative mode, you can easily loose an entire day just messing with designs. But it's just a thought. Also, you're intro's are getting more and more hilarious. Perfect slice of pizza on a cold day indeed. Now I'm hungry for pizza. 🍕
Lathrix have you tryed over laping thruster Jetstreem Zones, so thay are far less of an outer target. Also thats far more armor than you need. Makeing steel is not that needed as long as you can salvage entire ship grave yards. As for your faction choice, make two saves and play both.
Hi, i want to give some advice, turn off auto place doors, it has the worst door placement. Also do a brick wall like pattern with the 1x2 armor, it spreads out the damage so it is harder to break through. Also crew management like squad orders and crew priorities, can vastly increase ship efficiency.
The amount of changes to the game are fascinating to me, I used to make hyper competitive ships a while ago for the older version of the game and Im just surprised to see just how different it is. I will definitely invest in this game in the near future.
Entertaining video. Had the similar approach with 2 or 3 ships. Ended up building engines in the inside with 8 deckturrets and 8 perimeters Armor outside 🤣 every thing is surrounded by 8 layers Armor now. After an intense fight I need 3000 steel 😅
i see the irony of the name in your channels history is not lost on me malal's wrath just as malal's will from back in the day is quite flamable for those who are unfamiliar malal's will was a huge ship that was entirely constructed out of wood
Lathland if you want to me more accurate I suggest setting the guns to alternate fire so they are more likely to hit, after using cannon ships I would also suggest storing ammo as sulfer as it takes up less space and have ammo factory’s by the guns Great vid BTW
honestly not sure if itll make a gameplay difference but the idea of the underdog going against the bigger already established forces is always fun. love me some Cosmoteer and cant wait for more
Comments for the algorithm, blood for the blood god. Okay, all jokes aside, I got cosmoteer as soon as it came out on steam and I am loving it so far. Definitely enjoying the changes they made with the cargo and scrapping, really makes you think before firing 100,000 missiles at someone. Cannot for the life of me figure out how to make a second ship though
At first I was surprised you turned an entire station into a salvaging ship, then I remembered that I salvaged 3 stations to build a factory ship. I was expecting to see the big gun. 2 of them, firing a small storage room of ammo with each volley, at early level ships... sulfur is plentiful, have fun.
Btw u can make a new ship by placing two blocks away from your main ship,placing a explosive, then place another two blocks, then build a cockpit/command centre.Then if u detonate the explosive the cockpit should become a new ship and u can build off of it.
Forgive me chaos god, I'm just a humble servant with humble advice Lathrix! it's always worth to use the materials you gathered rather than selling them (as of now the ratio is 2:1, you sell for $1 and buy for $2). I suggest you build a huge storage ship made almost only of cargo to hold materials until i need them, this is expecially useful in "late game" builds where you make huge changes in your ship with the planner function because you can't commit those if you don't have enough resources nearby (and believe me, space bases never have enough resources in them).
smoll tip for the futue if you decide to stick with the deck canons. 6 of them with enough armour in front basically annihilate everything up to level 12. combined with 1 or 2 tractor beams you can even easily control bigger groups with small ships.
"Human equivalents of a perfect slice of pizza on a cold day' is both a mouthful and weirdly... flattering?
I don't know what happen
Yeah idk but it made me feel nice so apparently I liked it?
He’s gonna nom nom us if we don’t like the video
The kindest thing anyone has ever said to me.
ie, the best thing ever
Lathrix’s compliments/greetings continue to be my favorite thing.
Yeah I think so too, it’s so entertaining too
yup
And they are accurate, I'm not healthy in large doses, and you, depending on the person judging, can be greatly improved or gratly worsened by adding some pineapple.
Half of why I always come back
i second this
The new station-turned-scrapper kind of gives me "I took over a battleship and installed a battering ram" vibes
More like "i took over a battleship then made it eat other battleships for a light breakfast"
You don’t lose anything when you deconstruct it. So you didn’t lose anything when you removed your shield. Id you don’t have cargo space for the things that you destroyed any excess will fall into space so you can pick it up or use it.
I came to the comments for exactly this, thank you!
i came to check if someone had said this already and someone indeed already said it
Yea, things usually get replaced by corridors when removed, which are 4 steel per cell
The exception to this is after capturing a salvage ship, to stop people abusing the capture mechanic.You basically get the same value you would by salvaging normally.
@@JakobWasTaken__ yep, it was likely the large chunk of the make it so. And buying things is generally best avoided
Hey Lathrix,
Small shields don't have the obstruction thing, so use those internally.
Stacked small shields and thick armour can be REDICULOUSLY good for the resources, the shields tank most at the cost of energy, if they go down (disruptors or pure DPS), the armour tanks a bit, and then the shields go back up.
So like, a ring of small shields that are studded inside the armor plating?
Smart. Very smart. Me likey.
Once again, Crab strategy reigns supreme. Let the carcinization commence!
Same for the deck cannon
@@kylarirons2236 wait, crab have energy shields?
Your videos are the equivalent of freshly baked, still warm pastries, and when I'm having a bad day, they feel like a prefectly cold pillow on a hot, midsummer night.
for me tbey are more like reheated leftobers because i can never finish them before going to sleep.
True
@@ss-eq1uk I don’t like leftovers so imma just ignore you said that lol
@@esteewilson5482 i love reheated lasange
@@ss-eq1uk that’s the only exception
Hello Lathrix! I am here to provide some detailed tips to remove some of your uncertainty and ensure you can slap 6 Deck Cannons while maintaining them with ease in the future!
Love to see this come back, I was tempted to grab the game years ago thanks to you but glad its out on steam and have found myself nearing the maximum difficulty in Career.
1) If you specialize your crew, you can run any ship with what I call a "skeleton crew" which is 50% of the suggested. This is very important as you WILL have issues getting enough crew thanks to Fame or at least I did.
1-A) I recommend creating Gunners who do nothing but operate weapons so they don't get off like idiots to resupply it.
1-B) I recommend creating engine operators/maintainers who do basically nothing but ensure your engines are topped off. They can obviously do everything else but engines are priority.
1-C) You will want to have a role that prioritizes feeding ammo to your Deck Cannons and maybe another role to transport ammo to the storage behind said cannons. They are a menace to keep fed!
2) Armor in this game is absolutely amazing even though it gets blown off CONSTANTLY! If there is salvage around you but not in storage, YOU CAN STILL USE IT FOR BUILDING! So some fresh steel still nearly molten after getting slammed by cannons can be instantly used to repair your armor! Don't be afraid to have 4+ rows of armor! Placing them in a brick-wall stricture is optimal by the way when using 2x1 armor.
3) Putting the large shield behind armor is not a bad idea and I even do it on my tank ship. Armor is super cheap to replace as steel is EVERYWHERE so when the armor fails, the large shield comes in as another form of defense. It also ensures it comes in latter in the fight where there is hopefully less DPS from the enemy which can overwhelm the shield(s).
4) Deck Cannons are a menace to supply with ammo! Forget about storing mass amounts of ammo, STORE MASS AMOUNT OF SULFUR! Sulfur is 5x more compact as ammo and you won't need too many factories to ensure you don't run dry. This will ensure you won't need to make a ship MADE OF STORAGE.
5) Deck Cannons fire AN ENTIRE STACK OF AMMO IN A SINGLE VOLLEY! 20 Ammo per volley! 2x2 storage? That can hold only 4 volleys of Deck Cannon fire!
6) Sulfur is the best friend of Deck Cannons! Non-volatile and most importantly: easy to store compared to ammo. Unless you want an oversized ship, you want to store mostly Sulfur on your main ship, not ammo! Sulfur is your ammo storage, which then gets turned into ammo and then carried to a bulk magazine which then supplies the Deck Cannons. You can make supply chains by pressing V and clicking a button in the bottom left corner.
7) Range is completely relative! Based on the range indicator, the weapon can only fire at blocks in that range. This is important for railguns as you may want to target the core of an enemy, so you will need to get a little closer as the intended target may be out of range while other blocks are not.
8) You get 100% resources from removing a placed block. When this is not the case, the game makes it clear and even (by default), requires you to confirm the removal of blocks that will give you less return (which are only blocks you get and repair from a previously destroyed ship).
9) So long as a wreck has an air lock, it can be necromanced! Nothing else matters (maybe an accessible crew quarters does but I have not encountered a situation where there was not a quarters somewhere in the wreck).
10) When making a scrapping ship, STORAGE is all that matters! Mining lasers can make scrapping blocks faster but in the end, you WILL need A LOT of cargo capacity. You may even want a single ship for nothing more than scrapping and storing steel.
11) Be mindful, this game has thresholds. In the event you loose, you can very well loose HARD to the point you NEED to restart. I see no shame in you doing this when suddenly a VERY TINY weakness you had no hope noticing before, destroys your entire ship. Only when this happens can you truly learn how to make a ship survive heavy enemy fire. I highly recommend the Bulkheads mod. It opens SO MUCH MORE in designing your ships!
12) When scrapping a cargo block, all cargo inside is safely ejected and can be picked up.
13) Your idea of turning a station into a leviathan that devours dead ships is brilliant and by far the fastest way to get a working scrapping ship. Wish I thought of this for my early game!
14) Missions never respawn (to my 50hr knowledge).
15) You WILL eventually NEED railguns and or missiles as latter enemies WILL KYTE YOU WITH RAILGUNS/MISSILES!
Hope this is helpful!
Wow that's a huge amount of detail! So much so TH-cam put it in the spam folder haha!!
Thank you so much, will be sure to try and be mindful of all of this! Good to know about Railguns/Missiles becoming more mandatory later on especially!
@@Lathland something tells me there WILL be a test/quiz on this later, better study up Lathland!
this was strangely enjoyable to read that wall of text lol.
I have to question - not in doubt, but curiosity - point 2. What about the "brick" pattern makes it stronger? If you know, that would be interesting to me. Thanks! (I know the advice is for Lathrix, but as readers of your comment, other people can benefit too!)
@@a-blivvy-yus well you see, brick walls are strong, therefore steel that looks like brick wall = stronger steel. In all serious idk 100% but if I had to guess it has to do with the amount of damage armor takes before breaking and not having a 2 wide hole for shots to go through and hit the next layer of armor. So if you have 3 layers of brick wall armor, the first layer gets shot off leaving a hole that is two separate pieces of armor which absorb the damage desperately and break one at a time.
@@JakobWasTaken__ The follow-up to the obviously more sensible first answer sounds quite useful. Thanks!
FYI: When you took over the Starbase - In build mode there is a menu option to forget destroyed parts. In the blueprint screen, there is also an option to disregard modifications.
This game gives me the idea that someone will make a Malevolence like class of ship but instead of building Droids on it, the ship would build and field corvette alongside destroyers.
That honestly sounds terrifying
Drones are coming in a future update, according to the dev.
18:42 You have the "Avoid collision" option on by default.
It's trying to avoid collision with the base, which means, trying to get it out of its circle, but then also tries to get to the position you told it to, so it does that non-stop movement.
i don't know why, but the fact you converted that broken starbase into a mining ship made me place the game #1 on my steam wishlist
The factory ship should be called "Malal's Forge"
Malal’s Anvil?
I was thinking Malals fist.
One defeats you. The other gathers your corpses together for harvesting.
Sure Hand is the right word. But it's a former Pirate station. It goes for the Jaw, not a handshake
I was thinking Malal's Greed or Gluttony, seeing as his Destroyer is Wrath.
@@TheAdypoker that would be cool to
@@glenmcgillivray4707 "It goes for the jaw, not a handshake."
I have been killed. Brutally murdered.
I will say this if you haven’t realized already, you need A LOT of ammo to keep the deck guns firing as you will use up Ammon very quickly.
yep it's TEN ammo per rounds fired .... and with the ... STUPID stun keeping it fed is a nightmare
@@ealtar my deck guns are surrounded with modded single square storage (more versatility with placement) so they are like secluded ammo balls that only stun themselves
The fifth chaos god is proud I am sure.
That greeting may just be my favourite thing anyone has ever said to me.
For shielding, I found a good way for the Large Shield to effectively work. Mount it wherever you normally would, but put a small shield behind to it protect that emitter if you get Distrupted
Since sulfur is substantially more compact than ammo, it would make some sense for the ammo factory to be kept on your combat vessel, so you can stockpile sulfur for bonus ammo regeneration out-of-combat. Most other resources are more compact when refined, so refining them still makes sense.
P.S. from what I've seen, I suspect that a hyper-coil factory might be the most profitable factory to set up.
I like the idea of building a space factory, capable of defending itself while a significant portion of the crew goes to mine space debris.
“Human equivalent of a perfect slice of pizza on a cold day“ is probably the best compliment I’ve ever gotten my entire life
seeing people play the game i myself have been playing for so long just brings such joy to me, since it equals more content for people to make for the game due to more people playing, which in turn makes the experience even better for those like me who like to dive into the workshop.
I can not stress this enough, get the cannon shell factory, last I checked 1 piece of sulfur, just 1 piece and u get prob 10-20 sulfur per asteroid and u get 20 shells per sulfur, my cargo ship is always full of shells, their cheap but at least u don’t have to pay the stations for them, I have tried selling my shells because I have too many and I am using 2 of those deck guns which gobble up shells, problem with selling shells to stations, 1 their cheap so little money back, 2 stations have limited room and it get’s filled up fast, also make cargo ship, even if it just is a shell of something that stays near a station, save resources, the stuff from the stations is marked up , it’s kind of small but it adds up like crazy when upgrading, from experience I can say going the processing route with a ship to haul cargo, refine resources, and mine resources is really nice, as long as u are careful and got a decent combat ship, the cargo ship doesn’t need to have armor or weapons, slap a ton of thrusters on it and it’s a speedy boy
edit: I now know that he at least did some of what I said, I consider this a bit of an oversight on my part but I say yay for lathrix doing smart thingy
*37:12* As a Cosmoteer Faction enthusiast, I'm gonna take off a few minutes from ya'll and explain the four Cosmoteer factions:
You are spot on with the grey one (Fringe Systems Resistance or FSR), they indeed are Rebels that use scrappy damaged ships cobbled together from dead ships they find around and any sort of weapons they get their hands on.
Things only get more interesting from there on, though:
*Monolith Cooperative* (The blue one) is *not* an Empire. It's a capitalist conglomerate with very strong economy that use boxy industrial ships and like resource-oriented weapons like cannons and missiles.
The other two you haven't really had much interaction with, but I'll still explain them in attempt to intrigue you as they're easily the coolest factions in the game.
*Cabal Of Sol* (The yellow one) is a religious faction that attempts to bring back their dead god- Sol (Or the original sun of our Solar System) back to life using advanced scientific research. They build gorgeous asymmetric ships with detailed decorations and exotic paint job, and tend to use energy weapons like blasters and ion beams.
And finally, *Centauri Imperium* (The red one) is an actual empire, that uses spiky and intimidating diagonal ships (Built sideways of the regular ship grid) and love using Ion Beams and their signature _Nuclear Missiles._
in order for the Malal's Wrath to maintain the Malal theme. Black internal and White externals/outline.
it would avoid the issue of the black being washed out with the white outlining it.
also could result in an interesting "hollow" look...
Installing the ammo factory on the combat ship is something you probably should consider, as 1 sulfur looks to be a full stack of ammo. Put a tiny storage dedicated to sulfur next to it and you then have 20 stacks of ammo ready to go at a moment's notice, plus the 5 due to the factory's own internal storage. If you are just going to dedicate yourself to the ammo gods, then I can't recommend this enough.
So I have found that the mining lasers make for a really good up close defensive laser. Just have 2 of 'em facing away from each other, I prefer side to side. This will give you something with a like 200 or so degree ark of fire to attack the little annoying ships that try to flank you while you are worried about the bigger ships. They do a surprising amount of damage to intact ships.
I am loving this content, I really missed watching your channel. I am not really in to Stallars so it's nice to be able to watch you again with Cosmoteer and Terratech, both games I am interested in. I do really miss your FTD content, wish you would finish a playthrough on it.
i really hope this series continues, the game seems very expansive and perfect to watch someone else play
YES! I was wondering if you would come back to this. Glad you have, 100% my fav series you ever made.
You have cursed us all with a craving for Pizza!
Just bought this game thanks to you. Going to have a blast guaranteed! Thank you for the awesome videos!
This series is the one I found you playing, always loved the idea and content. Keep it up!
great video, should name the harvester/scrapper/forge ship "Darvaza" also known as the gates of hell, as thats where all your enemies shall end up lmao
Hey lathrix hope you read this!
Been here for a couple years, and at 2:28 I realised exactly why I stayed.
I love that you are one of the creators who plays these games with so much genuine passion.
Not only is it entertaining, but it also really really helped me improve on my creativity and think outside the box.
Lately I'm starting to pick out on art and music, which I historically always struggled with. I kind of realise now that watching you so much in depth explain and ramble away the small details and little fixations helped me a lot to think outside the box in a sense!
You are an actual legend!
Also, Would you ever be considering opening a patrein or channel subscriptions, a merch shop or any other fan-support methods?
This series is getting really interesting...
Your greetings always get a chuckle out of me; always love your content!
I love this so much so thank you for all the great content
as for some hot tips: you can set the default attack range of a ship in the same dropup menu to tranfer crew, also movementspeed of crew greatly reduces the needed crew amount as does specialized roles, scrapper vehicles or any craft that needs to do long journeys in a system (redeeming quests, selling stuff...) greatly benifits from hyperdrives seeing as they work inside a solarsystem to go to important location....
Not sure on the quantity but you do not need a full crew complement to be efficient, the game grossly exaggerates ship requirements, you can be fine with half a crew complement, but just in case separate crews into different roles (Gunners, Navigation, Logistics etc) with different job priorities and also make sure to define where energy goes on board so crew doesn't take a battery from one end of the ship to the other for no reason
omg its lathland, i used to watch you like probably 10 years ago playing robo craft and first started playing from the depths. i hope your doing well and love to see you still uploading and going strong
As always, your videos are a joy to watch. A little tip that will save you lots of headaches, the recommended crew and power can be *very* generous, if you get into the crew roles system and the resource/power management systems on a ship you can cut down on all the dillydallying and running around crew will do out of the ignorance of their half brain celled minds, and it can also help a lot to manually place all your doors to get better control over how the crew move. Big gun equals big happy!
lathrix, you literally never lose resources as long as it's during construction. Just that you may need to buy resources from stations if you are next to them. Only time you actually lose resources is if it goes boom from combat or fires
I lowkey love that he just turned that first gutted space base into a scrapping ship by strapping engines to it. So very scrappy.
How about making a huge cluster of laser fighters? Just minimalist ships with a reactor, a cockpit, a single large bunk room, two to four of the thruster clusters, and maybe two weapons. Something stupidly fast that you can send towards an enemy in a swarm.
they would be prohibitly expensive(chips for cockpit and fissiles for reactor) while not having good fighting capabilities, nor looy efficient
AI will lock to the first ship untill something else is deemed a bigger threat, so a tank with loads of little dps does work
armour is cheap, but heavy.
iron is very cheap.
sulfur is a better way to transport/store ammunition then storing ammunition directly.
1 full sulfur stack holds 5 times the amount of ammo then a single full ammo stack (which helds 20 shells)
a single deck cannon fuses 10 shells per shot. it has 2 barrels. 2 shots = 1 full stack of ammo.
What I do to get second ships, is to bridge out from my original ship and build a fully functioning ship on the other side of the bridge. Then I just detonate the bridge.
tip: over dammage is a thing, so it might be worth setting the cannons to ripple fire, even if it might make recoil affect accuracy a bit more, it shouldnt be a huge deal with malals wrath being so big and heavy :D
(also btw i love the color scheme)
Lath has fully embraced his inner ork. A freebooter to be precise.
Hunting the galaxy for things to fight and scrap, occasionally trading with someone before randomly deciding to wipe them out, bastardizing ships he finds for his own purposes or just strapping a bunch of engines to something and calling it a ship... And multiplying endlessly.
Awwwww that intro is such a nice compliment thank you :)
Lathrix has once again, cheered me up with their new greetings :)
I love having a black colour scheme because I feel despite knowing otherwise that it should make the craft harder to see. The game being as it is... It's more for me than the idea that spawned it.
Aww you warm my heart
So lathrix, a weird idea you may like for the scrapper base. Once you unlock the tractor beam, and make a ship big enough to house it, you can use the tractor beam to tow the base around. No need for thrusters if you have the ability to tow it. Additionally the tractor beam is very handy for moving asteroids, ships together to mine/salvage more efficiently, and even has some in combat use. If you push the right spot on an enemy it can spin them after all.
1:55 you drew a knob
Amusing the differences in Aavaks and your playthrough. wreckage vs corpse .. massive cannon vs laser beams.
First of all, a nice warm slice of pizza is perfect on a cold winter's day, and second I haven't watched any of the recent Cosmoteer videos and I just figured out you and I have the same paint scheme: one side white, the other side black.
Naming suggestion for the factory base if you haven't already chosen One. The tridents haul. Trident because it's a three-prong ship, and it's going to be hauling a lot of stuff
I really do love this series didn't really watch the old one but I've watched all the other videos for quite some time really enjoying the content keep up the great work
I love the differences between your playthrough and Aavak's playthrough if you know him. He wait about 3 episodes to destroy a pirate base, and didn't really get a hauler until like episode in. I mean he gets real technical but by comparison your playthrough feels a bit more jesus take the wheel with a decent bit of planning.
Lathrix, when you find the right position for combat, you can click on the button for ship options just to the right of the ship's name in the info panel down in the bottom left corner. The button is marked with three horizontal lines. Under the options is the 'save combat settings' or something like that, but that means that in the future your ship will default to the distance and angle you have set, relative to the target. Want up close for devastation? Set it and save it. Distance for sniping? Set and save it.
Also, the Deck Cannons stun crew for a short period of time when they fire. Never actually used them, so not too sure how good/bad that is. Probably depends on the ship design, I guess.
Hey Latherix's
long time fan of your videos. And a very long fan of Cosmoteer. Finially it is here. So have fun (so we can have fun watching).
Keep it up, great job done in the last years, thanks,
Phos
XD I love the various odd video openers, one of my favorite things of watching your content
Also, as far the name for the ship: Malal's Throne and give it a really junker type aesthetic
ctrl shift and click on the 2 deck cannons, ctrl # to group them up. then press # and target specific parts of the enemy ship.
you should also do engine blocks (2crew inside needed) next. you only supply the power batteries to the engine room and it will power up the rockets attached to it. % modifier of the engine room helps nicely.
Rockets are actually terrifying for such large aoe and damage. But a simple point defence can ruin them
I'm so glad this game finally released can't wait to play it again!
Cosmoteer is a series we wish to see continued in the future.
Great vid I really hope you keep uploading more of this game. Btw if you use 1x2 armor and stagger it instead of using the 1x1 armor pieces, depending on what weapons you are being shot with it can make you 2x as tanky!!!
Just picked this game up a few days ago and been loving it
"Big Guns = Big Happy" and "Greetings you human equivalents of a perfect slice of pizza on a cold day." Lathrix, your videos have surpassed perfection. My vote is for the resistance, as I think there will be more BLOODSHED and less cooperation. Blood for the blood god, milk for Khorne flakes.
im later then intended BUT i advise getting a cannon ammo plants into your main ships who use cannons as the main weapons it will even if its like 2 of them help keep ya firing ya guns for longer and even allows ya to sustain fire (now relying on a though more space taking still more compact resorse of sulfer. this is VARY good for missile ships with iron as well.
Been enjoying this series a lot!
Hey Lath, I would suggest testing your new ship blueprints in creative mode before risking resources in your campaign, but as myself have already learned, once you start fiddling with creative mode, you can easily loose an entire day just messing with designs. But it's just a thought.
Also, you're intro's are getting more and more hilarious.
Perfect slice of pizza on a cold day indeed. Now I'm hungry for pizza. 🍕
I was just eating pizza and that intro was unnerving, keep it up.
Lath, you can hold "alt" for more details about ship parts! It can show you stuff like how much sulfur is needed per ammo produced
Lathrix have you tryed over laping thruster Jetstreem Zones, so thay are far less of an outer target. Also thats far more armor than you need. Makeing steel is not that needed as long as you can salvage entire ship grave yards. As for your faction choice, make two saves and play both.
Hi, i want to give some advice, turn off auto place doors, it has the worst door placement. Also do a brick wall like pattern with the 1x2 armor, it spreads out the damage so it is harder to break through. Also crew management like squad orders and crew priorities, can vastly increase ship efficiency.
These are really great videos, I cant wait to see the next episode
The amount of changes to the game are fascinating to me, I used to make hyper competitive ships a while ago for the older version of the game and Im just surprised to see just how different it is. I will definitely invest in this game in the near future.
Entertaining video. Had the similar approach with 2 or 3 ships. Ended up building engines in the inside with 8 deckturrets and 8 perimeters Armor outside 🤣 every thing is surrounded by 8 layers Armor now. After an intense fight I need 3000 steel 😅
I think you've convinced me to buy this game. Keep up the great vids!
i see the irony of the name in your channels history is not lost on me
malal's wrath
just as malal's will from back in the day is quite flamable
for those who are unfamiliar
malal's will was a huge ship that was entirely constructed out of wood
I love 2 watch your vids, its soo relaxing to see you progres more and more, keep it up.
Lathland if you want to me more accurate I suggest setting the guns to alternate fire so they are more likely to hit, after using cannon ships I would also suggest storing ammo as sulfer as it takes up less space and have ammo factory’s by the guns
Great vid BTW
honestly not sure if itll make a gameplay difference but the idea of the underdog going against the bigger already established forces is always fun.
love me some Cosmoteer and cant wait for more
you get the full value of the part back if you pick it back up... XD
just bought it, thanks for the spotlight!!! ^^
Make a massive capital shop named the “Khorne Flake”.
It would be amazing to see the Khorne flakes reborn as a capital ship.
I hope for a return of Cosmoteer.
Blood for the blood god, milk for the Khorne flakes!!!
I bought the game... It's insane how you always make me buy games you play! Loved the early alpha and this game will be inhaled tomorrow 😍
how very Orky of you with the base^^ but no dakka that gets you a stompin gretchin. ;)
that... was the coolest intro ever.
You see, the true gamer move is to go with the smallest faction so you can extend DEATH and CONQUEST to the greatest amount of systems! >:D
cosmoteer is how i first found you lathrix :D, its nice to see it back even if it was just this video
Comments for the algorithm, blood for the blood god.
Okay, all jokes aside, I got cosmoteer as soon as it came out on steam and I am loving it so far. Definitely enjoying the changes they made with the cargo and scrapping, really makes you think before firing 100,000 missiles at someone. Cannot for the life of me figure out how to make a second ship though
At first I was surprised you turned an entire station into a salvaging ship, then I remembered that I salvaged 3 stations to build a factory ship.
I was expecting to see the big gun. 2 of them, firing a small storage room of ammo with each volley, at early level ships... sulfur is plentiful, have fun.
Thanks for the video
I ended up buying the game after watching your videos. I love it!
Btw u can make a new ship by placing two blocks away from your main ship,placing a explosive, then place another two blocks, then build a cockpit/command centre.Then if u detonate the explosive the cockpit should become a new ship and u can build off of it.
Forgive me chaos god, I'm just a humble servant with humble advice
Lathrix! it's always worth to use the materials you gathered rather than selling them (as of now the ratio is 2:1, you sell for $1 and buy for $2).
I suggest you build a huge storage ship made almost only of cargo to hold materials until i need them, this is expecially useful in "late game" builds where you make huge changes in your ship with the planner function because you can't commit those if you don't have enough resources nearby (and believe me, space bases never have enough resources in them).
5 seconds in and I already recive the most unique/cool compliment I've ever heard
This might be the 4th game I've bought on your recommendation
I noramlly only watch your Stellaris videos but I watched this and ended up getting this game. Very fun. Thanks for makeing these videos.
smoll tip for the futue if you decide to stick with the deck canons. 6 of them with enough armour in front basically annihilate everything up to level 12. combined with 1 or 2 tractor beams you can even easily control bigger groups with small ships.