Ha yes building big, recently got back to working on ships after 2-3 years of not playing the game much and playing almost exclusively AOTE and it is a royal pain, especially since I have not build a ship in so long, but what I found recently is that building the ship front to back really helps, starting off by putting a turret and then adjusting from there, and then starting work to the back building the stern and bow last, getting dead set on measures before even starting can cause a lot of problems, in my last ship had to raise the area for the turrets by 1 because it was a block short, which meant raising the deck and everything above it 1 block, the space I ended having to make a bridge and so on was also less than desirable, so test fit at least the main guns before going ham on building the hull. Also helps doing the same height wise, so starting on the top and finishing on the bottom in case if you build like me and do "layered" ships. Edit: The biggest tip I would give now a days is the advantage of building big is also that you can have so many different weapons systems, so actually make use of them, don't just slap 1 AI down and call it a day, make sure your different weapons are prioritizing the vehicles they are meant to hit, the prioritization card is not great but it can still offer some more effectiveness, and if you have a bunch of high powered weapons, then organize them into groups the same way, it's hard to justify shooting 20 railgun APHE shells into the same spot in any vehicle, it will also make them more effective against multiple vehicles.
I remember making a "cruiser" size ship and out of lazyness I just added two LAMS rather then a large massive one piped all over and it was SO MUCH BETTER.. like.. I just do that going forward. Ship getting really big? Welp, time for quad LAMS.
Just as a random aside, you can figure out the displacement of a craft (in long tonnes because it works for comparison) by dividing the weight stated in the V menu by 38.88
Good advice! But I wouldn't be me if I didn't add something more so around 11:00 you start putting spaced lines of propellers. You could make much better use of the empty space if you placed back to back strips of propellers with reversed ones because that way you're essentially getting twice the propellers for the same amount of dead space. Also, you need to make a video about being able to keep doing this for several years :P EDIT: by "this" I meant playing FtD and making videos for it
I got my friend into FtD a few months ago, I told him to start small and stuff. Two ships down the line and he already got past 200 meters length. Unfortunately he plays on a potato so he can’t really play. I don’t follow any of these rules but currently I just know what works and doesn’t work so usually the things I build are quite successful though recently I don’t find the need to build big, just build for long range.
Great, informative vid again Mr. BorderWise. Quick question for anyone reading, how do I help a ship manuever better? This moreso concerns AI than big ships, but it's a problem I have more consistently with bigger boats. I keep getting the "AI cannot manuever properly" alert and my ship really struggles to hone in on a point. It often turning past it, recharting, and turning past it again. When i use the AI manuever view, i can see that when the ship gets close to a point, let's say within ~400m, and the ship is already mostly pointed towards the goal, for some reason the AI sets another point like 50m to the right/left and tries to turn into the point, causing it to overshoot/undershoot.
Cheers! You might want to add more steering (either turning props or custom rudders) or increase the turning radius of your vehicle. It sounds like she's trying to make turns she can't physically do.
i usually just make a big ass gun, put 3-5 on a floor then add walls. put not-gun stuff in the big empty spaces. #1 tip is width makes things bigger, better than length and height
Congrats on building something so big! I love to see this thing square up against other ships like the Komoto, Shtallslang, and the Ascaridole, or the Iwoa Also as a name for the battleship keeping with the reptile theme, Crocodile could work! Wide, flat, and sits very low in the water ;)
I use prefabs to a moderate degree, but am a huge fan of sub objects and the flood function on large builds. Also the test often bit got a chuckle from me, I can’t count how many times I’ve thrown a half-built battleship in to battle to see what happens! Also, I at least like to have at least the main armament designed and at least partly tested before building a ship. My gunboats are always build around the main turrets to ensure they fit nicely.
I don’t plan ahead at all. Instead, I build my main weapons systems first, maybe secondaries too, then build hull and armor around those as necessary. Also, to save time, I prefab chunks of the hull to repeat along the length of the ship.
My current project is about as large as the OW Stronghold and my biggest thing was making the air pumped sections as I build up the hull. This gave me good blueprints for where deck guns would go and where I could fit which internals.
How did it take me this long to realize how similar my builds are to your canoes? Allow me to go over my process. I start my builds by designing the armour layout. I build a full "slice" using 4m beams. A buncha layers of metal and alloy and an open square in the middle to put... schtuff. This is the first prefab. Second step, make a wedge that fits onto the slice. This will be the bow and stern. Third, design gun turrets or other weaponry to fit inside the inner measurements of the slice. Fourth, Put a number of slices together and put the turrets inside. Also add engines (usually pre-prefabbed) and ammo/AI compartments Fifth, once you are pleased with the length of the citadel, add a wedge to the front and back Sixth, add propulsion. The great thing about this modular approach is that it's flexible. A one-turret monitor can be extended into a multi-turret battleship. A turret can be ripped out to mount a vertical launch missile battery. This creates an entire series of vehicles, which I name after the serial number of the original slice.
9:20 this is true for the new dediblades you showed us in one of your videos Except you can use older versions from cracked versions and save that ship and move it in your files to player profiles in the files and still have that old dediblades
Loved the video @Borderwise! Sorry if I haven't been around for a while man! I was just looking at the Yamato, Littorio and the Planned but Cancelled Montana-class Battleships and I just got an Idea. Now, Call me an Absolute Mad Hatter, but what if there was a Design for a Class of American Battleships that were armed with.... • 4 Triple Turrets with 18"/45 or 50 Caliber Guns (A, B, X, Y Configuration) • 4 Triple Turrets with the 8"/55 Caliber guns normally used on Heavy Cruisers • 8 Twin 5"/54 Caliber Guns (1 Forward, 1 Aft, 2 Port and 2 Starboard; Like the twin 5"/38's on the Baltimore-class Heavy and Cleveland-class Light Cruisers) • 64 40 millimeter Anti-Aircraft guns (10 Quad and 12 Twin Mounts) • 32-48 20 millimeter Anti-Aircraft guns (All in Single Mounts) This design was Inspired mostly by the Design of the Italian Littorio-class Battleships and the Main Battery of the Japanese Yamato-class Battleships and the Secondary Battery of the Planned but Cancelled American Montana-class Battleships. The Littorio's had 15 inch Guns for their Main Battery with the normal 8"/55's on their Heavy Cruisers as the Secondary Battery while the Yamato's had 18.1 inch Guns and the Montana's were supposed to have the 5"/54's as their Secondary Battery. The Barrel Lengths of each gun are as Follows.. • 18 inches × 45 Calibers = 810 inches ÷ 39 Inches (1 Meter) = 20.769 meters or 18 inches × 50 Calibers = 900 inches ÷ 39 Inches = 23.076 Meters • 8 × 55 = 440 ÷ 39 = 11.282 Meters • 5 × 54 = 270 ÷ 39 = 6.923 Meters • 20 mm ÷ 25.4 mm = 0.787401574 inches × 70 Caliber = 55.11811024 inches ÷ 39 Inches = 1.413284878 Meters • 40 mm ÷ 25.4 mm = 1.57480315 inches × 60 Caliber = 94.48818898 inches ÷ 39 Inches = 2.422774076 Meters Just as a side note, 25.4 millimeters is 1 inch *Even*. So for the 20's and 40's I had to get the amount of Inches in order to determine the Barrel Length. For Camouflage, I was thinking about using Standard Measure 32/D Which is actually a Destroyer Pattern (/D) in Standard Measure 32's Colors and actually was painted on the Larger Warships that were operating close to the Japanese Home Islands near the end of the Pacific War. I'll try to get the RGB Values of the Colors as the Ones I do have are for Measures 11, 12, 12 (Modified), 16, 21 and 22 as well as the Carrier Deck Colors.
While this video is good, I'm surprised that you haven't thrown in the main advantage of building big, redundancy. If you make something over 400k materials, unless you are burning mats armor spamming, you should be able to make 2 of any key systems, that basic redundancy means you should be able to keep fighting until 40-60% usually. Above a million, you can have 3 instances of most stuff and keep fighting to sometimes 30% health. It's also the main way for broadsiders ships to handle high pen frontsiders, when you get penetrated, it can go straight through without taking you down when you keep your systems redundant. The larger a system is, the less overhead space/materials-wise redundancy has. the best part is that your armor is less wasted too, if the enemy has to penetrate it many times to disable any specific system instead of partially reducing output.
It's me. I'm the one who keeps taking breaks from the game because of changes to the game. Though my problems were the physics overhaul years ago and the resource overhaul when they got rid of ammo and fuel. I will play the game again, once steam engines are fully flushed out. I really like steam engines.
I got a personal standard of 40 to 45 thousand blocks (and a bad but somewhat irrelevant -within this context- habit of not giving a darn about certain costs), above those numbers the game starts to lag heavily because of constant calculations that are going on in the background. Anyways, a large canvas is the definition of heaven for certain artists, thats how I would explain it. :p
How do I stop building glass cannon APS ships? If one of the turrets explodes. Oh there goes 1/3 of the ship and probably the engines. Do I use ammo ejectors? Even on beltfed autoloaders?
Ejectors don't work on belt-feeders, but yes. That combined with safety fuses makes APS much less volatile. Also making a dedicated turret compartment and armoring the turret itself goes a long way in mitigating damage if the whole thing blows up. 😁
hey man I wanted to ask you (or anyone else for that matter), how do you fill an area with blocks while building ? I've seen it multiple times in your videos and I can't seem to find how on the internet and it saddens me how much time it would save me ! Also for new players it could be good to make a video about usefull keybindings (unless you've already made one that I haven't seen) because the game doesn't really show you how to do a lot of things
My number one problem with big builds is realising after spending hours on it that it's going to be garbage and in that time I could have built and used 3 much more fun and efficient medium to small craft. I remember losing a weekend to my second attempt at a battleship and it ended up being trash compared to the same material cost of frigates I made while drunk. Still good for heating my room in winter.
I'm no building something big, but I have this destroyer that I'm making for the finest hour campaign, and I have guns, torps, the engine, ai and detection all sorted out, but I still have internal space and the boat is top heavy. help?
Best to start small, then realize that you are going to need a bigger weapon. Side note, what's the deal with sails? I haven't been able to get them to work so I moved on to paddle boats. I suppose the better question is how does one get a signal for the wind direction so I can make a circuit to turn the spin blocks to catch the wind...
There should be an option in the "Adjustment" tab of the AI behaviour. There, you should uncheck the ability to pathfind upwind. That alone should be enough to make the trick. IIRC obviously, who knows if things are the same with patches.
Question: so if you make a large craft and have lots of space, how do you make a super powerful laser? Without being compact just trying to get pure damage.
Just making it bigger makes it stronger, generally. If you really want to optimize it, balance the total energy storage with the pumps so it refills with energy just as fast as it drains.
It's a way of reducing kinetic damage and chemical AP shells at the same time. Poles are like slopes and wedges in that they take reduced damage from kinetics at the right angle, but poles have an even and reliable 360 degrees of reduced KD, as opposed to the greater reduction of slopes/wedges that can only occur from the front. Poles also function as improvised airgaps for dealing with HEAT and HESH, although there is apparently a chance that HEAT charges can still pass through them. Hope that clears things up!
@@BorderWise12 huh. So the poles actually have "air space" to act against HEAT and HESH? I never realised, I thought they were just reskinned beams. Time for me to look at re-armouring my ships again I think.
1:01 this, this is my problem with from the depths, my definition of big is what should be equivelent to a “big” thing in real life, id say things that are bigger than me are considered “Big” and thats a LOT of things, but in this game EVERYTHING is bigger than the player. a single meter cube is small enough to fit comfortably inside of, its bullshit! theres nothing small enough!
~15000 blocks at ~1mio. materials with ~700 firepower are quite medium for me. There are many beautiful ships with stunning decorations on the workshops designed after real warships with terrible firepower/material values (like 2000-3000) put on rather ineffective weapon systems with no active defence. Like ships with a single "realistic" 76mm guns that can barely penetrate a meter of alloy block. For my play style it's a pity to take down such ships with a 300k material corvette of mine
Looking at this, my biggest problem with big ships is apparently that I thought "I have five layers of armor now, that should be enough, right?" :D I didn't even think about the paint mode thing though (even if I definitely knew about it in 2015, looking back at old designs). Thanks for reminding me, that'll save so much time!
Kinda funny, since i am building the biggest rainbow ship. The only reason why im building one, its because i wanna make a floating city for the gays x3
@@BorderWise12 the only concerns i have is whether i can finish it, aaand whether i can upload it to the workshop, because of how big it is. Because the gayzer battleship i used to have is gone, along with the giant aircraft carrier because i cant upload it to the steamworkshop before, and they are deleted from the old laptop after i got a new pc and i didnt realise it until its too late. So now they are the very few from the depths lost media qwq unless darcow still has them, cause he made videos about these two massive artistic ships of the sea qwq
Ha yes building big, recently got back to working on ships after 2-3 years of not playing the game much and playing almost exclusively AOTE and it is a royal pain, especially since I have not build a ship in so long, but what I found recently is that building the ship front to back really helps, starting off by putting a turret and then adjusting from there, and then starting work to the back building the stern and bow last, getting dead set on measures before even starting can cause a lot of problems, in my last ship had to raise the area for the turrets by 1 because it was a block short, which meant raising the deck and everything above it 1 block, the space I ended having to make a bridge and so on was also less than desirable, so test fit at least the main guns before going ham on building the hull.
Also helps doing the same height wise, so starting on the top and finishing on the bottom in case if you build like me and do "layered" ships.
Edit: The biggest tip I would give now a days is the advantage of building big is also that you can have so many different weapons systems, so actually make use of them, don't just slap 1 AI down and call it a day, make sure your different weapons are prioritizing the vehicles they are meant to hit, the prioritization card is not great but it can still offer some more effectiveness, and if you have a bunch of high powered weapons, then organize them into groups the same way, it's hard to justify shooting 20 railgun APHE shells into the same spot in any vehicle, it will also make them more effective against multiple vehicles.
I remember making a "cruiser" size ship and out of lazyness I just added two LAMS rather then a large massive one piped all over and it was SO MUCH BETTER.. like.. I just do that going forward. Ship getting really big? Welp, time for quad LAMS.
That's a good point. I typically stay away from lams cause I'm like "ugh it needs to be bigger??" I'll try multiple
Was literally just thinking about this, the biggest things I build are around 15-20k because I just build everything way too compact for my own good.
Personally, I love building micro designs to test just how efficiently I can make them. Some of my smallest effective craft are 50> blocks.
Teach the world your skills, we need smaller craft to spare our terrible computers.
The problem with too compact is that one good hit can knock out the whole ship
@@truereaper4572
Good luck hitting a ship with a cross section of 5m randomly strafing at 50m/s using anything other than airburst flak hah.
My biggest battleships are 40k
Just as a random aside, you can figure out the displacement of a craft (in long tonnes because it works for comparison) by dividing the weight stated in the V menu by 38.88
Oooh, interesting! Thanks for sharing that! 👍
The ratio is actually 37,5.
Good advice! But I wouldn't be me if I didn't add something more so around 11:00 you start putting spaced lines of propellers. You could make much better use of the empty space if you placed back to back strips of propellers with reversed ones because that way you're essentially getting twice the propellers for the same amount of dead space. Also, you need to make a video about being able to keep doing this for several years :P
EDIT: by "this" I meant playing FtD and making videos for it
I got my friend into FtD a few months ago, I told him to start small and stuff.
Two ships down the line and he already got past 200 meters length. Unfortunately he plays on a potato so he can’t really play.
I don’t follow any of these rules but currently I just know what works and doesn’t work so usually the things I build are quite successful though recently I don’t find the need to build big, just build for long range.
I actually draw blueprints for larger ships that i want to build
Yeah.
Great, informative vid again Mr. BorderWise. Quick question for anyone reading, how do I help a ship manuever better? This moreso concerns AI than big ships, but it's a problem I have more consistently with bigger boats. I keep getting the "AI cannot manuever properly" alert and my ship really struggles to hone in on a point. It often turning past it, recharting, and turning past it again. When i use the AI manuever view, i can see that when the ship gets close to a point, let's say within ~400m, and the ship is already mostly pointed towards the goal, for some reason the AI sets another point like 50m to the right/left and tries to turn into the point, causing it to overshoot/undershoot.
Cheers! You might want to add more steering (either turning props or custom rudders) or increase the turning radius of your vehicle. It sounds like she's trying to make turns she can't physically do.
i usually just make a big ass gun, put 3-5 on a floor then add walls. put not-gun stuff in the big empty spaces. #1 tip is width makes things bigger, better than length and height
Congrats on building something so big! I love to see this thing square up against other ships like the Komoto, Shtallslang, and the Ascaridole, or the Iwoa
Also as a name for the battleship keeping with the reptile theme, Crocodile could work! Wide, flat, and sits very low in the water ;)
Cheers! I'll be testing her against those craft and others soon! 😁
I use prefabs to a moderate degree, but am a huge fan of sub objects and the flood function on large builds. Also the test often bit got a chuckle from me, I can’t count how many times I’ve thrown a half-built battleship in to battle to see what happens! Also, I at least like to have at least the main armament designed and at least partly tested before building a ship. My gunboats are always build around the main turrets to ensure they fit nicely.
I don’t plan ahead at all. Instead, I build my main weapons systems first, maybe secondaries too, then build hull and armor around those as necessary. Also, to save time, I prefab chunks of the hull to repeat along the length of the ship.
I do the same thing but without prefabing the hull.
My current project is about as large as the OW Stronghold and my biggest thing was making the air pumped sections as I build up the hull. This gave me good blueprints for where deck guns would go and where I could fit which internals.
How did it take me this long to realize how similar my builds are to your canoes? Allow me to go over my process.
I start my builds by designing the armour layout. I build a full "slice" using 4m beams. A buncha layers of metal and alloy and an open square in the middle to put... schtuff. This is the first prefab.
Second step, make a wedge that fits onto the slice. This will be the bow and stern.
Third, design gun turrets or other weaponry to fit inside the inner measurements of the slice.
Fourth, Put a number of slices together and put the turrets inside. Also add engines (usually pre-prefabbed) and ammo/AI compartments
Fifth, once you are pleased with the length of the citadel, add a wedge to the front and back
Sixth, add propulsion.
The great thing about this modular approach is that it's flexible. A one-turret monitor can be extended into a multi-turret battleship. A turret can be ripped out to mount a vertical launch missile battery. This creates an entire series of vehicles, which I name after the serial number of the original slice.
9:20 this is true for the new dediblades you showed us in one of your videos
Except you can use older versions from cracked versions and save that ship and move it in your files to player profiles in the files and still have that old dediblades
Loved the video @Borderwise! Sorry if I haven't been around for a while man! I was just looking at the Yamato, Littorio and the Planned but Cancelled Montana-class Battleships and I just got an Idea. Now, Call me an Absolute Mad Hatter, but what if there was a Design for a Class of American Battleships that were armed with....
• 4 Triple Turrets with 18"/45 or 50 Caliber Guns (A, B, X, Y Configuration)
• 4 Triple Turrets with the 8"/55 Caliber guns normally used on Heavy Cruisers
• 8 Twin 5"/54 Caliber Guns (1 Forward, 1 Aft, 2 Port and 2 Starboard; Like the twin 5"/38's on the Baltimore-class Heavy and Cleveland-class Light Cruisers)
• 64 40 millimeter Anti-Aircraft guns (10 Quad and 12 Twin Mounts)
• 32-48 20 millimeter Anti-Aircraft guns (All in Single Mounts)
This design was Inspired mostly by the Design of the Italian Littorio-class Battleships and the Main Battery of the Japanese Yamato-class Battleships and the Secondary Battery of the Planned but Cancelled American Montana-class Battleships. The Littorio's had 15 inch Guns for their Main Battery with the normal 8"/55's on their Heavy Cruisers as the Secondary Battery while the Yamato's had 18.1 inch Guns and the Montana's were supposed to have the 5"/54's as their Secondary Battery. The Barrel Lengths of each gun are as Follows..
• 18 inches × 45 Calibers = 810 inches ÷ 39 Inches (1 Meter) = 20.769 meters
or 18 inches × 50 Calibers = 900 inches ÷ 39 Inches = 23.076 Meters
• 8 × 55 = 440 ÷ 39 = 11.282 Meters
• 5 × 54 = 270 ÷ 39 = 6.923 Meters
• 20 mm ÷ 25.4 mm = 0.787401574 inches × 70 Caliber = 55.11811024 inches ÷ 39 Inches = 1.413284878 Meters
• 40 mm ÷ 25.4 mm = 1.57480315 inches × 60 Caliber = 94.48818898 inches ÷ 39 Inches = 2.422774076 Meters
Just as a side note, 25.4 millimeters is 1 inch *Even*. So for the 20's and 40's I had to get the amount of Inches in order to determine the Barrel Length.
For Camouflage, I was thinking about using Standard Measure 32/D Which is actually a Destroyer Pattern (/D) in Standard Measure 32's Colors and actually was painted on the Larger Warships that were operating close to the Japanese Home Islands near the end of the Pacific War. I'll try to get the RGB Values of the Colors as the Ones I do have are for Measures 11, 12, 12 (Modified), 16, 21 and 22 as well as the Carrier Deck Colors.
While this video is good, I'm surprised that you haven't thrown in the main advantage of building big, redundancy.
If you make something over 400k materials, unless you are burning mats armor spamming, you should be able to make 2 of any key systems, that basic redundancy means you should be able to keep fighting until 40-60% usually.
Above a million, you can have 3 instances of most stuff and keep fighting to sometimes 30% health.
It's also the main way for broadsiders ships to handle high pen frontsiders, when you get penetrated, it can go straight through without taking you down when you keep your systems redundant.
The larger a system is, the less overhead space/materials-wise redundancy has.
the best part is that your armor is less wasted too, if the enemy has to penetrate it many times to disable any specific system instead of partially reducing output.
It's me. I'm the one who keeps taking breaks from the game because of changes to the game. Though my problems were the physics overhaul years ago and the resource overhaul when they got rid of ammo and fuel. I will play the game again, once steam engines are fully flushed out. I really like steam engines.
Pound land spiffing Brit offering those spicy tips yet again. Amazing work!
First off, it was both helpful as an FTD newbie and extremely nice to hear as an artist.
Really solid advice, entertaining and helpful. Also cool canoe
Thank you! 😁
I typically Identify my ships by length
And carriers are like
I got a personal standard of 40 to 45 thousand blocks (and a bad but somewhat irrelevant -within this context- habit of not giving a darn about certain costs), above those numbers the game starts to lag heavily because of constant calculations that are going on in the background. Anyways, a large canvas is the definition of heaven for certain artists, thats how I would explain it. :p
his boat got a bullpup cannon
That ship looks like a pre-dreadnought.
I dig it.
How do I stop building glass cannon APS ships?
If one of the turrets explodes. Oh there goes 1/3 of the ship and probably the engines.
Do I use ammo ejectors? Even on beltfed autoloaders?
Ejectors don't work on belt-feeders, but yes. That combined with safety fuses makes APS much less volatile.
Also making a dedicated turret compartment and armoring the turret itself goes a long way in mitigating damage if the whole thing blows up. 😁
10:40 pinky out
I like to build like 8-10k blocks that is what i consider big but i am new to this game:)
hey man I wanted to ask you (or anyone else for that matter), how do you fill an area with blocks while building ? I've seen it multiple times in your videos and I can't seem to find how on the internet and it saddens me how much time it would save me ! Also for new players it could be good to make a video about usefull keybindings (unless you've already made one that I haven't seen) because the game doesn't really show you how to do a lot of things
Hit 'f' to fill a space with blocks. All keyboard shortcuts can be found in the options menu. 👍
@@BorderWise12 Thanks man now I won't have to place blocks for 20 minutes lol
I’m actually gonna go home and design my ship completely based off 4 max gauge APS for my campaigns
you Should name it NIJIGIRAL DER KOLOSS. Seems fitting
My number one problem with big builds is realising after spending hours on it that it's going to be garbage and in that time I could have built and used 3 much more fun and efficient medium to small craft.
I remember losing a weekend to my second attempt at a battleship and it ended up being trash compared to the same material cost of frigates I made while drunk. Still good for heating my room in winter.
Sounds an awful lot like a Lathrix moment. Cheers to you man!
I'm no building something big, but I have this destroyer that I'm making for the finest hour campaign, and I have guns, torps, the engine, ai and detection all sorted out, but I still have internal space and the boat is top heavy. help?
Now THAT'S called a Basilisk
Oh geez, the smallest ship I’ve built is 70k blocks haha
But yeah, not everyone builds that big
I have come to do no less than like 80-160 missile interceptors as default on my craft from testing lol
Best to start small, then realize that you are going to need a bigger weapon. Side note, what's the deal with sails? I haven't been able to get them to work so I moved on to paddle boats. I suppose the better question is how does one get a signal for the wind direction so I can make a circuit to turn the spin blocks to catch the wind...
There should be an option in the "Adjustment" tab of the AI behaviour. There, you should uncheck the ability to pathfind upwind. That alone should be enough to make the trick. IIRC obviously, who knows if things are the same with patches.
Can you do a video on how to build small
All my small vehicles are straight shit and don’t work
Already did!
th-cam.com/video/afecu8tVN_I/w-d-xo.html
Early for once and on a topic I like. BIG
Question: so if you make a large craft and have lots of space, how do you make a super powerful laser? Without being compact just trying to get pure damage.
Just making it bigger makes it stronger, generally. If you really want to optimize it, balance the total energy storage with the pumps so it refills with energy just as fast as it drains.
What's the reason for using metal poles for armour? I'm a bit out of loop on FTD recently
It's a way of reducing kinetic damage and chemical AP shells at the same time. Poles are like slopes and wedges in that they take reduced damage from kinetics at the right angle, but poles have an even and reliable 360 degrees of reduced KD, as opposed to the greater reduction of slopes/wedges that can only occur from the front.
Poles also function as improvised airgaps for dealing with HEAT and HESH, although there is apparently a chance that HEAT charges can still pass through them.
Hope that clears things up!
@@BorderWise12 huh. So the poles actually have "air space" to act against HEAT and HESH? I never realised, I thought they were just reskinned beams.
Time for me to look at re-armouring my ships again I think.
How do you make such a huge ship float so well? I make these ok size ships and they are barely floating
1. Lots of compartments with air and helium pumps.
2. Alloy deck and internal armour.
👍
@@BorderWise12 thanks
i have 5 unfinished dreadnoughts that are twice the size of the megalodon
Yeah, if I want to make it too massive. My computer starts to complain at over 60k blocks
Is length 1605 big?? And width 257 and hight 54 bigg?? Its gona take wery long to build the hole hole:)
Over 1000m long is big, yes. XD
1:01 this, this is my problem with from the depths, my definition of big is what should be equivelent to a “big” thing in real life, id say things that are bigger than me are considered “Big” and thats a LOT of things, but in this game EVERYTHING is bigger than the player. a single meter cube is small enough to fit comfortably inside of, its bullshit! theres nothing small enough!
I guess my "big" is like 1000 blocks
~15000 blocks at ~1mio. materials with ~700 firepower are quite medium for me.
There are many beautiful ships with stunning decorations on the workshops designed after real warships with terrible firepower/material values (like 2000-3000) put on rather ineffective weapon systems with no active defence. Like ships with a single "realistic" 76mm guns that can barely penetrate a meter of alloy block. For my play style it's a pity to take down such ships with a 300k material corvette of mine
Big, if true.
Building big is kind of my speciality, I need to know how to build small lmao
Looking at this, my biggest problem with big ships is apparently that I thought "I have five layers of armor now, that should be enough, right?" :D
I didn't even think about the paint mode thing though (even if I definitely knew about it in 2015, looking back at old designs). Thanks for reminding me, that'll save so much time!
Yer welcome! Paint tool changed me life for the better. 😁
AND last thing for big ship it BALANCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! agree ??
Kinda funny, since i am building the biggest rainbow ship. The only reason why im building one, its because i wanna make a floating city for the gays x3
Noice. 🌈👍
@@BorderWise12 the only concerns i have is whether i can finish it, aaand whether i can upload it to the workshop, because of how big it is. Because the gayzer battleship i used to have is gone, along with the giant aircraft carrier because i cant upload it to the steamworkshop before, and they are deleted from the old laptop after i got a new pc and i didnt realise it until its too late. So now they are the very few from the depths lost media qwq unless darcow still has them, cause he made videos about these two massive artistic ships of the sea qwq
@@BorderWise12 Also i have a new discord account .w.