Thanks, and it's planned! That'll either by my next video, or the video after my next one

Tools are planned in the future to make prisms better turrets (such as being able to limit their arcs, them not rotating into your ship and such) but currently they're somewhat janky. I myself, though it requires micromanagement, tell them to fire on specific opponent parts and if I disengage untarget them so they can rotate back to forward in their default state

One thing I do is set the prism to only target specific parts. That way i can be more precise.

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Yeah this video was definitely *too* concise for its own good, and I really ought have done more takes to more properly demonstrate all that's going on. Advice is appreciated though

@@SarisWinterwisp Concise is good, that with less camera movement is better! ;)

Heh, those were intended as jokes. I find the idea of being disappointed in how someone else plays the game ludicrous and absurd to a hilarious degree

Never tried deck guns as they stun nearby crew when they fire.

Weapons aren't all necessarily better or worse objectively so, they all have different niches and fulfill different purposes - Railguns are high range precision burst weapons, but suffer when you have to get through a lot of armor or heavy shielding - Ions are very strong constant damage weapons good at pressuring, but have no burst ability (making them also struggle against shields) and often require immobilizing opponents to deal damage - Deck guns are new so there's not as much solid info about them (plus they're likely prone to being changed), but their shtick as it appears thus far is being able to stack lots and lots of defenses in front of them at the cost of no projectile velocity, which makes it so hitting stuff is extremely difficult

@@SarisWinterwisp Really long railguns can punch through nearly anything, and each tile they punch through also takes damage and fire, AND they outrange pretty much anything. The only thing that can consistently defend against them is massed flak (long railgun projectiles are very fast, tho, so you need a LOT of flak to shoot them down) or several efficient shield generators (if you can catch the entire projectile on shields, then recharge the generators before the next shot, you can effectively neuter even the longest railgun). A railgun paired with a few EMP missiles is an incredibly powerful long range weapon system, as the EMP will drop any shields while the railgun blows things up. You just neet to tack on enough reverse thrust to allow you to control the engagement range and you can punch well above your "weight class" (oh, and keep an eye on missile ranges. Your need for speed will probably result in a fairly vulnerable design, especially to the flanks and rear where missiles like to land. Also, the fact that ammo factories require mined materials can be a pain if you're not careful with your storage.) Sidenote: yes, I like railguns. Why do you ask? :P

@@derkylos Incredibly long railguns are painfully cost-efficient, though, especially past 9 accelerators after which their unique ability of extending railguns' range reaches its hard limit. That's why you'll never see a competitive design that uses more than 9 accelerators, like, EVER. It is 100 times more worth it to built two 9 accelerator railguns than one 20 accelerator one, as not only they have most of the benefits like maximum range already, they also cost cheaper and do more raw damage. Most people argue that the best way to use railguns is to spam over a dozen of ones without any accelerators at all, as they are the most cost-to-damage efficient and take less energy to power per point of damage as well, but I am personally against these designs because not only they look way uglier than normal railfans do, they also expose way more of your ship that each needs defending, practically rendering their cost-efficiency useless. They also don't have any benefits of accelerators obviously, like increased projectile velocity, range and, yeah, raw damage. Plus, _Railguns don't start fires on ships!_ It might appear like that, but only because you might pierce through and destroy an explosive object while attacking a ship, or manually target it.

@@NickAndriadze Do accelerators beyond 9 increase the penentrating power, tho? 'Coz that's really the thing I like most about them (well, when combined with the ridiculous range). You might not be blowing out the shield generator in one shot, but if you can do damage to components behind an active shield, eventually you'll destroy the generator completely...especially if they can't return fire (so you have all the time in the world to plink at them :P).

No, not at all! There's certainly ways how weapons can be optimized (as shown in this video), but there isn't an objectively best strategy or weapon thus far in any way! Even some of the previously weakest options like mines and EMPs are finding effective usage these days

Once i got to 4-6 i can easily get 1000 plates if needed. The bigger problem in singleplayer is enemy speed so i have two prisms, one per wing

The game has had an inferior version called 'classic' for some time. There was also a closed beta for testing. In both of those tactics were developed and kept and carried over into the latest version of the game

Cosmoteer has existed for way longer than that

Yes, it's only that it costs more. But it's a hefty price, and if it's destroyed then your ship can't fire anyway because it was relying on that to shoot

Hold Ctrl while setting said prism

Hold ctrl while aiming

@@SarisWinterwisp thanks king

yeah same problem everyone says hold ctrl, I want to turn the prism at a 45 while placing it in construction mode. I hold CTRL all day click on everything no dice

youre probably in the lower level zones, once you start fighting the bigger ships its not gonna work that well.

@@nox_luna yeah fighting level 6 for the most part I keep starting over trying different stuff loving the game so much, favourite weapons so far are the deck cannons 🙂 total have ADHD playing the game want to try everything and everything is so cool I can't stick to just one 😂 think I need a ship with every weapon type to be satisfied tbh 😂

@@PsychoticEwok theres a high level ship called anzu that i killed and took over, it has one hell of a laser attack, drills right through enemy ships like butter.

@@nox_luna I'll need to keep an eye out for that one

@@PsychoticEwok its like a 2 pronged fork, kinda reminds me of a lightsaber when it fires. it also has rockets but i took those off for more armor and some disruptors, theres another ship called apotheosis thats pretty tanky, terrible frontal speed, but hauls ass backwards, great laser but not as strong as anzus.