Thanks for the nice intro to ion beams. For demonstration, the binary tree of prisms at the beginning (1:17) makes sense, but technically you don’t need half the prisms in the first column and delete the 2nd one, right? The top of two adjacent prisms can point down and the bottom one becomes a combining instead of a redirecting prism! I was just wondering, because immediately afterwards you demonstrate reducing superfluous prisms…

you sound a bit like an average redditor that may be intelligent but you also have an arrogance about you.

Driving me crazy moving the camera around constantly as I'm trying to look at the prism arrangement as you explain it.

Both of these ships are indeed ingame creations! The Imperium vessel Shrike and Monolith vessel Anvil are both available to be spawned into creative without any prior downloads! 1. Open a creative game 2. Open your ship library and navigate to built-ins 3. Select Imperium/Monolith and then the subtab combat ships 4. Type in Saris or the ship's name, and drag it into game! And voila, you can see the ship, observe its internals, modify its organs, and try railfanning yourself!

That ship is awesome, is it on the workshop?

Very interesting fights

Where Imperium

I was hoping I could see how that ship is setup but it doesn't appear to be on the workshop. 😢

Did you make the Crown? It's a bitch to deal with, starting out. In other words, good work.

It seems heavy shields cannot be beaten by 2 8-length railguns. You need to get the shields harder or faster to get through them.

If i could paint this good my ships wouldnt look like pieces of sh*t

hey could you post that red ship on the workshop?

1:38:00 - spinners are not a thing... yet slowking wins without any problems the second time...

Was wondering what I was doing wrong for Railguns to be such massive dogshit, it's because the AI has downs syndrome! Good to know.

Addressing this six months after the fact because I didn't explain it well in the video; Banning point defense (or limiting it to 20 modules per ship) is a necessity because all it does is remove build variety. Functionally speaking if point defense is allowed, then it is instead HE missiles that are banned due to how they are completely, irrevocably put into a largely unusable state. It doesn't pwn them as hard but the same applies to rails. From a balance perspective, rather than a tournament one, would it not be better to try and expand and reward diversity? Sure this would come at the cost of PD intensive ships, but as a reward multiple entire weapon groups would be allowed to flourish.

don't ban point defense coz someone knows how to use it. make the circle of death appear faster... and do more damage, problem solved.

what is the reasoning behind playing with fog of war enabled?

If players are limited to one ship, why did Enoshade get a suicide ship?

All well and good... but how do you rotate them? Aside from up down left right, I have been unable to get any kind of angling on my prisms. And I don't know why.

How do you get paint schemes and copy diferent paint styles?

Rocks win.

I just subscribed to your channel. And I only watched the first three minutes. This is the kind of tutorial content that makes my day.

you guys should start drafting because these lasers walls aren't fun

Adolf would approve the spinning ship

why every multi ship player sends them 1 by 1... why cant they keep it together and then split for flanking when enemy is detected

Great commentating. I learned a lot, thank you

I love domination

So cool

this is not "basic"

blackout played a great first match but then just suicided twice.. noooo

only problem with painting that nice is now every time i modify the ship, i've gotta change the paint a bit to match

Wtf was that match! 56:00 was GREAT!

I love domination mode. Reminds me of Istrolid, if anybody knows that old gem.

Anyone know how to get multiplayer working in this game? I keep getting connection timecd out errors. Singleplayr runs flawlessly.

Love the ship and paint great video

Wow, these were some amazing battles! I loved all the ships on display. The top 3's, Nick's, Erin's, and SpaceCat's were all extremely interesting and stood out. I did feel most impressed by Nick's ships in the end. They looked both visually pleasing in an extremely alien kind of way, that was at the same time extremely functional. The multi-missile ship with the preloaded EMPs was especially surprising for how well it performed. It was deceptively well protected and well armed.

I swear I can watch someone build or paint a ship in cosmoteer for hours and not be bored

Awesome am impressed with how confidently you build

The match 45m through to 56m was definitely the highlight. A real nail biter.

Do you have sketches of the ships you build beforehand or do you improvise everything during the building part ?

saris = cool

I'm still trying to figure out where the factories are.

Great job on the ship, I rate it a good Iconoclast out of 10.

A point about the PD balance changes: Investing in PD is essentially wasted money in the majority of matchups. So it should absolutely counter missiles. Otherwise what's the point, if the one matchup where PD is supposed to be great it ends up being just ok? That's the problem with single use case weapons like PD. If you want to balance PD, maybe it would be better to introduce more uses to it, so that you can approach more than one aspect of the weapon when making balance changes.