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It did! I bought it after seeing it the first time, probably because it just shot up in popularity

All weapons have strengths and weaknesses. Rails have long range and burst, but suffer when needing to get through a lot of defenses. Ions have super good sustained damage, but have a lack of range, etc. One option is rarely outright superior. Hybridization, or having both weapon systems gives you flexibility at the cost of raw power

The purpose of using lots of armor is to show how it stacks up over time. You are correct in that there is minimal effect, but it adds up and is easy to do, and as the thumbnail demonstrates it can still take effect with as few as two layers. A lot of competitive ships do have similar levels of high frontal armor, such that there can be massive rather than minor differences if you weave of not

Also, something that coudl be a cool update in future is if they had a armor integrity system that can disperse damage to adjacent armors that would probably make weaving stronger but might not make it that strong

2 layers is all you'd need to effectively have an increase in defense from weaving armor from weapons fire that's coming in perpendicular to your armor. That's because a 2x1 block of armor is 8000 HP no matter where you hit it, so if you weave the 2 layers, perpendicular fire has to penetrate 24K HP instead of 16K HP if you simply stack it (or worse, 12K HP if you stack 1x1 armors). Things change when the weapon fire is angled and not perpendicular but you're more likely to face perpendicular fire than constantly angled shots imo.

He was considering it at one point, but has yet to do it or plan on doing it

@@SarisWinterwisp Yeah I remember him talking about possibly removing them at one point hence why I asked, wasn't sure if he had confirmed it yet or not so yeah :P

oct 24th

The reason why armor weaving is effective is because it forces weapons fire to hit more 2x1 armor blocks than any other design. There for needing to burn through a larger pool of HP before passing through to the next layer. So if you can figure out a pattern that catches weapon fire by more individual 2x1 armor blocks, then yeah, it would be better.

Well there isn't that much difference, regular weaving works, just weave it facing away from your ship. (Assuming your ship points up and left) Your left side should face up and your right side should face right

@@SarisWinterwisp But If you had a diagonal ion beam ship you didn't want to turn and were taking damage head on you would be better with un-woven armor... Weaving armor essentially tilts the armor layering 45 degrees (puts more blocks in the bullet path and narrows damage gaps) which a diagonal ship already has naturally. So weaving should actually weaken the defense from the front while strengthening the defenses from 45 degrees diagonal.

Yes, I thought it looked interesting and was used on a few other high end Monolith ships

​@@SarisWinterwisp Ah okay. Nice to know. Do you know a way to transfer crew roles and squad orders from a blueprint into career mode? Doesnt seem to work.

@@Cubianify Unfortunately not, that's something that will be fixed sometime in development

There's no 1x3 or 1x4 long armour, only 1x1 and 1x2 armour, so you can't do that unfortunately

It still can assist diagonal ships. Not to the same degree as linear ones, but it's still definitely better than using 1x1s

@@SarisWinterwisp Got it, thanks for replying.

Burst damage and disruptors/EMP missiles go through shields relatively quickly, while armor doesn't have any direct counters. Shields also require a power source nearby to be effective which can mean putting your reactors close to the edge of your ship where they're vulnerable. Of course armor can't protect surface turret weapons, meaning you have to use ions, rails, missiles, or the upcoming deck cannons. They both have their uses.

A bit, but not in a super effective fashion. If you're trying to counteract nukes specifically having small armor caps connected by structure are usually more efficient

@@SarisWinterwisp i appreciate the swift reply, ill have to try that out, thank you

@@lidltraut8258 Worth noting that it's almost always superior to dodge nukes than tank them. They will crunch through armor and shields quite easily, and they're one of the most easily dodged weapons in the game

Thanks, it's hard to try and find a good balance, especially since my microphone is actually a headset that's been chewed on by a cat 😅. I'll try to fix accordingly

​@@SarisWinterwisp Heya. Depending on the tool you're using you should've audio tools built in. If not, 'DaVinci Resolve' is a great (free) professional tool. The usual thing to aim at is your loudness being around -12db. I personally feel -10db or even -8 to -7db for quieter voices much better. -12db is usually fine for musical content -10db usually for general audio content that evolves around talking. I think you should be just fine with -10db. That level of audiolevel will cover headphone, speaker and boxes/monitor users. Sure, it's not perfect but you're not someone who needs perfect audio ^^ Oh, I forgot: Loudness is not master-output. Most integrated audio tools should have a loudness meter too. Stay crunchy.

Nope lmao

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Spaced armor is actually pretty complex with a lot of it's interactions. You are correct in that it's resistant to AOE more so, but trying to mention it would require it's own video

@@SarisWinterwisp do you think that a more detailed armour model / simulation would benefit this game? For example, angling the armour against projectile weapons like the cannons can cause ricochets, and also when angled against explosive type weapons the damage is reduced depending on the angle.

@@SarisWinterwisp Would love to see a spaced armor guide. I'm watching this hoping you said something about it and it's also why I'm in comments :) Also thanks!

Yes

The classic version of this game that has existed for like seven years now has an extensive multiplayer history, of which yielded lots of results

@@SarisWinterwisp Oh shoot when I downloaded Classic I was greeted with a message suggesting I should pick up the demo instead so I figured the Demo had all the bells and whistles.

At one point, but it seems as though he's yet to follow through

I was hired by Walt (the dev) to make in-game space ships for the campaign

@@SarisWinterwisp holy shit I've been dreaming about that for months

I believe there are plans for transforming ships... moving parts and all that... maybe it might be possible to do that then? who knows..

Will do!

None of these ships except for the top one were designed for combat

I personally and directly asked Walt for his permission before posting

@@SarisWinterwisp oh ok cool

you are incredibly disappointing

“This is incredibly disappointing”, is what your parents said when they had you

@@savagecabbagedank3771 how very juvenile