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Hey BorderWise! Im so exited about this whole campign and im really enjoying following the progress. It has also got me interested in actually playing a campaign myself, but i cant really find any guides or similar thats newer than about 2 years old. Could you consider making a short video explaining the basics of the campaing mechanics?

Hydroden also have higher lift force than helium.

Time to rename the Shade to the 5H4D3! :D Cant wait for the demo ngl gonna cover that a lot. Think I may try and make a Sewowal heli carrier or something.

Do you run a Discord server? 🤔

Would you consider doing tutorials on all the stuff related to custom campaigns? you've said that there's not a lot of information out there, perhaps you could be the one to remedy that.

I would love to submit some craft where could I do that I have some interesting designs I’ve been working on and would love another persons opinion on them

I don't know if it's good enough, but i've posted a small Stonelight Presence plane. A small 3RRAplane =) I never used deco blocks before. Had to put a lot of them to cover the messy hull.

Nice to see the frog faction hq complete

Colabs like this quicky turns to hell when tracking changes by hand. Have you tried using a version control system?

that's such an adorable little gunboat

Awsome progress, When this CC is done and you want to start on the cano version. I would love to help, and i think some other people would as well.

I forgot to say in the video: submissions are done via the workshop, just include the specific faction name in the title of the craft and I'll find it. Cheers! 👍

The wise of border, big fan 😃

exited to see the stream!!!!

The first thought of mine was "that's a homage to Cybran's Land Emergence Galleon System (aka LEGS) from Supreme Commander, T2 naval destroyer to be specific" and yes, the sound of walking was indeed named "Cybran Walking Loop" also amphibious walkers are obliviously intersex xd

This is lovely

Yeah the airships are so cool when they are able to be evasive, when not, wellllll Nice test!

some bonus info on the steam/fire section, while being underwater does proect you from frag, HEAT/HESH and fire, underwater explosions (and I think the thump effects in the recent updates) deal twice the damage. This is why the steam boilers dealt more damage when they exploded underwater than above water.

I've been working on a Crimson skies inspired faction for awhile, which means lots of airships. One of these faction rules however does put a series limit on the effectiveness though, that being that have to be held up via helium pumps. When you can't use custom jets, it really limits how much armor and how big of Advanced canons you can realistically squeeze on to them. Even with their problems they have been a blast to build and some of them see use in my standard campaigns playthroughs.

Hey Borderwise! When is the next livestream going over new Sewowal submissions?

you can change the air and water physics in the custom settings to some degree, i guess it's better than just vanilla physics edit: but yes vertical maneuver is better than horizontal maneuver

Personally I like to spam the casemates, shard cannons, and the 60mm grenade launchers.

Massive real airships are incredibly weak to the wind while massive ftd airships are nigh-unstoppable.

Albeit I'm getting this more from watching than playing, but it seems that passive buoyancy has an even greater advantage than material efficiency, and that is the "second kind of survivability". Such ships can be turned to absolute Swiss cheese and reduced to 60% health and still somehow fight.

Albeit I'm getting this more from watching than playing, but it seems that passive buoyancy has an even greater advantage than material efficiency, and that is the "second kind of survivability". Such ships can be turned to absolute Swiss cheese and reduced to 60% health and still somehow fight.

And then you've got the Dustwind Gypsies with their land ship and the White Flayers with their legions of fire ships. The four elements in harmony.

One of the most important reasons airships are better is because of their speed, but not just in the way you mentioned. Short range or melee weapons can be extremely powerful in FtD, and the only counter is being able to run away from them. Think about any WF craft, nukes, CRAMs, short range lasers / laser swords, DIF spam, etc. A lot of new players tend to find themselves completely unable to deal with these kinds of cheesy builds.

As someone who loves and only builds ships, the discussion ended when I realized that the bulwark is so much scarier than the original. oof. (long time fan btw thanks man :D)

Well... there is a lot worse than airships. Like being able to breadboard and code and understand the physics engine. There are bans for a reason in tournaments ;D You can basically teleport tungsten or a nuke right into the enemy with a weapon so fast, it teleports its distances per game tick. But to your airship dodging, this is a RIP against anyone who knows how to put in a curve prediction for his gun aims. I think they could update the base game targeting to do that.

honestly the toad should be the Tree Slug and the Tini AA should be Swamp Roach

Submarine is just an upside down airship

I've already asked the FTD community the "Why ship?" question before. Got answers like "it's a cheap platform that holds weapons". Based on that answer i've built a very effective small ship. It's a big flat alloy platform 2 blocks thick. Main weapon is a big 360 laser turret. It just works. Enemy AI often targets the flat part, ignoring the middle, where laser components are, so the ship lives long enough to disable enemy turrets. The other ships i've built are drones. They're tiny and don't have much armor on them. Basicaly a small gun, wrapped in thin metal. Dirt cheap, so you can spam them. Since they're small, they're harder to hit, so if you put equal in terms of material cost amount of them against the big ship they're going to win 100% of the time. Often even half the cost is enough. Torpedo defence turned out to be easier than i thought it was. Just put a sonar decoy on 2 connected ( Г shape, spinblock on the right end of the shape, decoy bottom) 4m truss blocks spinblock under the ship and make it spin. 9/10 torpedos will miss. No need to add anything else, unless you're building big, then you'll probably need more of them. I find CRAM only viable as bombs for bomber planes. Most things in the game dodge CRAM shells, unless fired point blank. Never put CRAM on a slow ship. Planes with hit and run tactics are much better for that weapon type.

a comparable thrustercraft would be like the avengers ship. the queen of the real world is the nuclear sub. not at all the aircraft carrier- they are in groups for a reason. the real king of everything? nuclear tipped missiles.

I've been building airships for the last 1000 hours now. primarily for adventure mode. They are just way easier to handle.

I think I really need to stop trying to maximizing effectiveness for things that don't matter. Designing starter crafts to be almost entirely EMP proof despite just fighting DWG is just silly. There are alot of crafts I've started and never finished because and it led to me to take a break from this game, but I do really want to get into ftd again cause it's just so amazing.

There are other differences between real life and From the Depths that favour ships, like how ships can spend momths on sea without having to resupply while ftd crafts constantly repair and refuel through scavenging and supply lines (in a campaign). Thrusters and CJEs can lift flying bricks of heavy armour and guns, even against the soup that is neter's atmosphere. Those same bricks have to dedicate only a tiny portion of their volume to fuel and materials. If real life had these ftd technolgies than I'm sure military vehicles would more resemble the Scarlet Dawn or Gray Talons rather than Steel Striders (or the other way around idk)

Great video! I really like hydrofoil ships, they're kinda in the middle of ships and airships, not only altitude wise but also regarding maneuverability.

I like bouncing is from Not the Nine O'clock News with Rowan Atkinson on vocals.

Thank you for motivating me to build ships.

1st <3 also hello BorderWise. Id love to go throuhg and make a boat with you someday

hello

Mmmm, BBQ boats.

How do this for a submarine like air pumps to a set depth???

gay boat!

Not a fan