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@@fakeaccount5349 thanks so much! I don't know how to use LUA but I use a lot of breadboard for all of the crafts.

Haha people complain about FtD's interface but it's leagues better than any work-related software I have to deal with, with exception of Solidworks.

@@normal6969 custom campaign is a few videos ago called Tiamat. It's with current game version and I use a lot of breadboard work as you can imagine. It's with different physics to be slightly more realistic and / or to favor ships. It's increased gravity, damage, and missile speeds. Storage density is reduced as well.

@@chillbuilder101 yes, I've also needed to fiddle with the physics settings, altough I've set resource containers large, and base detection to zero. :)

@@ivanneto5250 I was just thinking I can do a different series called 'Deep Dive' and go into some tutorial level stuff of how I build! I want to make content for experienced FtD players as there are a lot of beginner tutorials on APS / CRAM Tetris so no need to reinvent the cannon.

@@chillbuilder101 Sounds good! While there are a lot of tutorials about the technical side, there aren't a lot of tutorials of how to build nice looking machines, from people that know how to lol

@@ivanneto5250 There's a series called 'Wrench's Way II' that's very specific to WW2 style gun warships, it's a very good tutorial and you may be able to apply the principles to other types of craft. It might be weeks until I'm able to make a tutorial so I don't want to leave you hanging.

@@cantfallforit Thanks! Always down for video suggestions as I use 99% of my brain power on the builds so I'm exhausted by the time I have to record

Thanks so much! I have 4000+ hours in FtD and work with machines in my day job... But I hope to inspire people to learn more about both this game and the design process itself. Hope you enjoy and don't be afraid to ask for help =)

It's too big / not agile to be a lore-accurate AC sadly, but yes I got all 3 endings of AC6 and really enjoyed the game.

@@chillbuilder101 same bro, my profile picture is actually a screenshot from AC6 while using some mods. (why is it so damn hard to mod?!)

@@greasy019 It's almost a different game! I started in 2021 and it felt like a mechanical design game. Last year I learned all the new breadboard stuff and it felt like I'm doing robotics and integration. Wild though. A lot of the same thought processes regarding planning and troubleshooting helps me with my day job. Most of these here took 20-40h to make with about 30% of the time in testing.

@@goodstormsgames9744 thank you! The sailcraft carry 500mm DIF guns and operate on the principle of first strike, low cost, burst damage. If they have some missile defense installed they might do well vs DWG and OW

Thanks!

Thanks fellow Depthian! Let me know if you want tips or anything, always happy to talk shop =P

Mechs break my brain! Thanks for the sub =)

Thanks!

@@goodknightpangestu470 there will be lots of aircraft too, even large aircraft, but there will be a serious tradeoff for storage and range, which makes ships (hopefully) more competitive

@@chillbuilder101 but Will there be more reasources available? Like the ruler of steel campaign they have alot of resource so people like me who isnt very experienced can also play and not worry too much on not enough troops. And are cram cannons banned? And since there Will be no need of active detection on our craft mean enemies don't use emps right?

@@goodknightpangestu470 I don't think Caravonian Rebellion lowers damage, their crafts are probably just tankier and has cheaper components compared to Neter ships

@@chillbuilder101 really? Oh well then i just suck at making cram cannons then.

@@achurch2430 thanks!

Also encourage plane spam as planes aren't ment to be hit anyway, and with you making them faster and giving them 3x damage could make smaller craft way more powerful then big ones

I highly recommend trying Rulers of Steel campaign! It has 3x damage and has already been fully released. It's made by a team of players from Japan and they have some whack units😊. As for the Tiamat meta, there's only one way to find out which is to play! Currently the Vanguard cruiser can vaporize the Vanguard destroyer with a single missile salvo with it's converging missiles, but the destroyer has ASW focus whereas the cruiser is ASM.

​@@thenorwegiantimelaps7005 The Vanguard faction definitely is weaker due to having to look similar to real life units. Once lasers show up things change a lot. I think the new rules heightens the rock-paper-sicssor dynamic so it's important to have mixed capabilities and combined arms. That's the goal anyway let's see how it pans out.

Thanks!

glad someone else said this

Thanks for letting me know! I'll look into it.

Chaos vs Imperial Navy when?!

@@chillbuilder101 I'm sure that if Lath got his hands on these builds, we could expect that quite soon! By the way, is it possible to make custom campaigns in this game, with user made maps and community builds as units?

@@totalNERD-eo7wx There's several custom campaigns! Indeed a lot of players find the default Neter / Ashes campaigns lacking mass fleet battles, so they have taken upon themselves to create their own campaigns. The best / most complete campaigns are: Finest Hour, Caravonian Rebellion, and Ruler of Steel. I'm slowly releasing my playthrough of Ruler of Steel from a year ago, though it's not the best edited footage... I'll try a different commentary format for my next custom campaign playthrough.

@@chillbuilder101 Oh boy, imagine a warhammer 40k themed one!

Haha thanks!

Purge the mutant, burn the heretic!

Thanks!

​@chillbuilder101 are these on the workshop?

@@Makar-ip1dg Yes I have my workshop link in the video description

@@monklizard9035 Thanks so much Monk! I'm working on a CC and I realized it's so much work to create a large number of facilities to make it look good. I'll have a video about this in a few weeks. I'm excited to see your CC at some point and get a close look at all the great work from the last few years.

@@chillbuilder101 i was planning to make my cc showcase too but there still missing contents need fill in for now. But i reconsider for short intro.. maybe :D

Thanks! I uploaded blueprints for my WH40K fleet which you'll see in a video in a few weeks. For my own style designs... some stuff are too dangerous to let out into the wild, maybe I can tune it down a bit for some export variant lol and put on workshop. Thanks for reminding me I should put a workshop link on my videos (even if not specifically for the crafts in the video).

Thanks! There's a few BB tutorials out there, but I ended up developing all of my own tech, I guess everyone has a different way of doing things, I'll think about what I can put together!

Thanks!

I keep my game up to date! I think collision avoidance was updated Q4 2023, a lot of melee craft had to be updated so they would collide! It is still definitely not perfect, but noticeably better than before.

#TSDR @@chillbuilder101 I reverted because it has my favourite unit resource sharing interface, has separate ammo and fuel resources beside materials. The other reason was that I am a slow player, add to that I like to turtle, building small underwater bunker networks on chokepoints and resource-zones. So those frequent updates and re-settings they did made me start over the neter campaign 3 times, because my units got small inbalances. :( Could you tell me if these updates on the game are still frequent? Not as I cannot google it, but to have some personal communication and feed youtube algorythm. Your units are beautiful, but not overdecorated, as a functional builder I could appreticate the solutions for symmetry. Made a recent video if you want to look at them, testing 2 of my moving minibases, "Beaver class" flying submarines. I was honestly surprised when they shot down the spacebase-fleet of the Scarlet Dawn I've spawned in at the end to kill my units as a closeup for the vid. :D A recap of "my faction" the Vulcan Inquisitors (Onyx Watch + Twin Guards style): -make sure they don't consume materials when not in combat -also do get more materials for damaging the enemy than using up for ammo -go for disable and confuse, not for pure damage only, makes capture easier -shared detection - more units, more accurate -solid shields, because occassional repairs costs less than keeping up shields for the whole combat -if the movement allows, use terrain for cover -using subvehicles for complex turrets, only the inner main unit is vulmerable -using decorations only to draw enemy fire away from important parts (one time a huge chicken with flappy wings, built from single wood blocks and era, worked well on Captain Zoidberg, a ghost ship which drifted slowly and turned like a whip) Shields fell out of favor when they changed speed and angle based deflection to percentage. A shields which is vulnerable, costs a lot to keep it up, and "maybe" protects me can't go along with my sparing materials view. I also like "cheese" and researched their downsides as they are huge in most cases. To quote Corwin, Prince of Amber: "This isn't exactly the olympic games." So any tournament (of WAAAGH!) I've held contained all the contestants at the same time, placing them most unfairly, and a sacrifical AI unit in the middle. The combat flow was surprisingly balanced, smaller ones ganging up on others (I assume they left targeting mostly at base settings) before attacking eachother. You can also get better test results than the one-on-one or limited tech matches, in my stoopid opinion. :) Have fine building!

@@chillbuilder101timed fuse is extremely useful. By the way, how anti-air graviton rams asre today?

@@normal6969 Haha thanks =) I'm pretty much the opposite, I'm a blitzkrieg player, I always consider playing on Very Hard without salvage, and with 1v-all diplomacy potentially open. My units are very fuel hungry but can outrun any opposition, so they can always a) overcome a more expensive unit, and b) achieve a local material superiority using the virtue of mobility. Usually in campaigns I find myself taking no losses or barely any damage, but always struggling to fuel my forces. This is also because I push my forces as far as the fuel will allow. I try not to do any 'cheesy' designs like Twin Guard or sub-vehicle or repair cheese in my 'main line' forces. Of course my mechs can use any cheese but a) they're a separate fleet and b) I only have a few mechs. I like all the updates to the game, I only started playing in 2021 so I never experienced the old-school resource system. The most game-breaking thing was EMP update where HA became super-conducting and most compact airships had to go through extensive refits. The fire update changed how I have to deal with steam turbines as well... But there's been great changes too, like increased functionality to breadboard that you can make mechs like I showcased here previously impossible. Plasma and fire has been very interesting. The improved graphics and QoL has been very helpful too. I wish shield mechanics has more depth, but mathematically they just make sense. If a shield mitigates even a few 500mm APHE railgun shells, it already pays for itself. I wish shields function as armor, like in StarTrek, where they have a health pool that's charged by engine or battery power. But the game is already complicated as it is so I understand why...

@@normal6969 Never leave home without timed fuse! Funny enough I never tried graviton ram, outside of 1 or 2 mass driver trials. I just built a WH40k cruiser that fires 40x 500mm sabots in one broadside, I can imagine the funny if they all carried graviton rams though. Will let you know lol.

Thanks! I only spin clip a bit otherwise it gets too annoying to keep track of what is on which level. Otherwise you'd have to create a shell, build your pieces on an open platform, and then assemble things into the shell. I made a mech that had several layers of spin-clipping this way once, it dies instantly to piercing PAC; would not recommend lol.

Thanks!

If you feel like they’re a bit weaker than other factions, it would be because they were the first faction I’ve made

Wow that's such a huge effort to update all these ships, your dedication is inspiring.@@ApertureGaming011

Woah, accidentally used thumbnail for Ep 35 instead of Ep 25... Thanks for the catch, glad it was a quick fix