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there's no defensive measures besides just having thicker and thicker hulls, having better and better weapons but never talking about or designing defensive measures in this game is going to be the death of it. it can't just be mobility and weaponry. i haven't heard talk of anything else to do with defense besides shields, fine, you guys hate shields and think it's just bad sci fi crap, fine, i'm cool with that. But this game needs to have some defensive measures. Pure mobility doesn't sound like fun to me.

Point defense turrets to deal with missiles solves the problem though - machine guns aren't strong enough to do significant damage to heavy armour, so defending yourself against missiles with point defense means your ship won't get rekt by missile spam instantly and means that in combat focusing down your enemy's defenses would be the best strategy. Laser point defense or ballistic point defense, whatever, neither are unrealistic and it means you don't have to have bs energy shields.

Me and another FP member are playing survival. Join up, just look for the server hosted by Smoot.

I wonder when they're going to introduce character customisation of some sort? I noticed that each astronaut 'colour' is actually its own texture, but it'd be nice to at least choose which one you have rather than getting a random one on each new world.

Since they eventually let us choose the colour of blocks, they'll likely allow us to choose astronaut colour at some stage.

What do you guys think of this thing so far? [IMG]http://puu.sh/8gA1l.jpg[/IMG]

huge

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;44598572]Acid missiles? Acids are not some magic eat-everything substance. I've spilt more than my fair share of concentrated acids on lab tables, and they haven't started looking like Swiss cheese yet. Plus, acids require being in a solution with water, which is not going to work well in space. I did accidentally drop a copper plate in fuming nitric acid once, that was a fun day. Billowing clouds of poisonous gas and one less copper plate.[/QUOTE] i could see an [URL="http://deadspace.wikia.com/wiki/Flamethrower"]improvised liquid hydrazine weapon[/URL] that functions similarly to acid, and i guess you could melt through light armor with that. but it'll probably never happen because of the particle effects involved with making accurate zero-g fire, plus the fact that it would be a pretty pointless addition with the grinder

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;44597718]They need heavier duty landing gear [t]http://i.imgur.com/CH8ZPJU.jpg[/t] My quarter of a million kg dropship needs 38 to land without them all exploding and you still have to go super slow[/QUOTE] Why are you trying to land something that weighs a million kg? Wouldn't it be better to dock the ship from the side with some kind of connecting tunnel?

Hoho, guess what guys! [IMG]http://oi58.tinypic.com/htbfgk.jpg[/IMG] 3D printers! [url]http://forums.keenswh.com/post/update-1-027-idea-and-speculation-6855339?&trail=45[/url]

looks like a bunch of automated welders to me

that looks fuckin sick

Its confirmed to be a space 3d printer in the thread.

So does one place frames in the printer, and it welds them; or does one input a blueprint of some sort and it starts from scratch?

Edit: [url]http://forums.keenswh.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1282443879&postcount=88[/url] It was fun while it lasted, heh

[QUOTE=Wazbat;44599174]Oh well, apparently they're fake[/QUOTE] why do you say this

[QUOTE=Magman77;44599280]why do you say this[/QUOTE] I cant see that said anywhere so I assume another kids word was thought to be the truth Nevermind its actually fake.

[QUOTE=Wazbat;44599174]-quicksnipehopenoonesawthis-[/QUOTE] I saw it. Another pic from another tester [t]http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/468682039721968575/A9293615D853EA9D6D8CB4FFB83DFDB35A112A76/[/t] edit: welp, i done goofed

Dont get too exited, the OP, Vermillion is a total douche and has intentionally leaked true things before, and this time he just used unfinished blocks to make it look like a 3d printer. Its confirmed fake and hes just a giant attention whore.

[QUOTE=Birdman101;44599353]Dont get too exited, the OP, Vermillion is a total douche and has intentionally leaked true things before, and this time he just used unfinished blocks to make it look like a 3d printer. Its confirmed fake and hes just a giant attention whore.[/QUOTE] Here's hoping he gets forum banned.

[QUOTE=Vilusia;44599381]Here's hoping he gets forum banned.[/QUOTE] And banned from the dev build group.

In the end I hope they have a heat system. IRL it is really hard to get rid of excess heat in space since it can only be done via radiation (infrared). That may be a good way to balance guns / energy generation on large ships as each shot would produce heat that would have to be removed from the ship. Giant gun boats wouldn't be viable because if they miss that one shot - it will be a long time before they can fire again.

[QUOTE=Raptors!;44599046]Hoho, guess what guys! [IMG]http://oi58.tinypic.com/htbfgk.jpg[/IMG] 3D printers! [url]http://forums.keenswh.com/post/update-1-027-idea-and-speculation-6855339?&trail=45[/url][/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Raptors!;44599341]I saw it. Another pic from another tester [t]http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/468682039721968575/A9293615D853EA9D6D8CB4FFB83DFDB35A112A76/[/t] edit: welp, i done goofed[/QUOTE] Just saying again that these are fake and was meant as a joke (and it was not that funny).

[QUOTE=bord2tears;44599471]In the end I hope they have a heat system. IRL it is really hard to get rid of excess heat in space since it can only be done via radiation (infrared). That may be a good way to balance guns / energy generation on large ships as each shot would produce heat that would have to be removed from the ship. Giant gun boats wouldn't be viable because if they miss that one shot - it will be a long time before they can fire again.[/QUOTE] I hope that they have vents. Or coolant piping systems. Just think it'd be cool to have dedicated engine rooms because reactors need space to flood with escaping radiation. Forcing players to build cliche Rooms with glowing powercore hanging in the centre (or dangerously have the powercores exposed to space) With luck we could fire a rocket into that vent and watch the deathstar blow up. In all seriousness though; I realy want a challenge in thinking up the most effective ship designs.

To be fair, he did ask permission, and it wasn't I'll intended, but I guess it wasn't as funny in the end as everyone thought.

You guys need to lighten up. [t]http://i.imgur.com/W0XWUHc.jpg[/t] The first piece of heavy machinery - an articulated cargo truck - is delivered by dropship to a newly opened asteroid mine.

[t]http://puu.sh/8gK6G.jpg[/t] [t]http://puu.sh/8gK8M.jpg[/t] Making FTL ships is hard

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;44599856][t]http://puu.sh/8gK6G.jpg[/t] [t]http://puu.sh/8gK8M.jpg[/t] Making FTL ships is hard[/QUOTE] Honest to goodness, I thought that ship was one of these for a second: [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/Klingon_Vor'cha_class.jpg[/img] Either way, it looks cool.

I have no clue where I'm going with this ship :v: [t]http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/468682039731169126/708EBAC7F31399BE87ABFA6E8E1DFDB2A68E97D1/[/t] [t]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/468682039731172028/1DC71CBFBD07F34E0C1289BE3C60044165BD6890/[/t]

On a luxury cruise, by the looks of it.