Post spaceships. Maybe brainstorm settings.
>>98763719
Shiptans count.
>>98764373You play that loose with terminology you're going to have people posting ships in space.
Behold the greatest spacefighter in the Freespace franchise.
>>98763719always thought the idea of flying saucers being launched like frisbees would be funny/cool
>>98764277Delta was a bit of a letdown after Frontier, but Nue's design work is as every bit as awesome as it's ever been.
I feel disappointed in this thread, but I can't quite explain why. There are some very classic ships here, after all. I suppose it's because flying office buildings. Simple boxes with engines. Maybe a few embellishments here and there, but nothing that really takes advantage of the lacking need for aerodynamics in space. Am I really wondering where all the flying O'neill Cylinders are? Hm...
>>98764520The Glorious Leopard. somehow able to hold 300 Battlemechs.
Sexo.
>>98765186Best I can do for you, I don't care much for weird ship designs. The Taiidan Salvage Corvette is just the right amount of asymmetric and odd yet functional for me to save.
>>98763719> brainstorm settingsMad respect for those who do, but as a GM, I always was satisfied with what was readily available to me.> Star Wars: KOTOR> WH40k> Firefly/Serenity> Galaxy's Edge LLC> and more!There's something I really like about the dynamics of a space transport, its captain, its crew... The only thing I could really want from a new sci-fi setting is more fighter escorts.
>>98763719Fucking love Taiidan designs from Homeworld! Their cruisers are so sexy!
>>98764373The Taiidan are the only ones we never see in the games, aren't they? I think the RPG by Modiphius has one guy who looks like a generic scifi space marine. Personally, I always kind of pictured them looking like futuristic IJN sailors like in Gunbuster.
>>98765186Gundam actually has a couple, but only in obscure spinoff manga.
>>98766072Well, we do see the emperor, barely. I kind of get the feeling they're like Sci-Fi Melnibonéans. For me though I'm a firm supporter of the Taiidan being the real Hiigarans based on circumstantial evidence from the first game.
>>98766032
>>98766125They ruined the design with those stupid pipes.
>>98766161dat sexy standard destroyer
Sort of related question. If anyone has any inspiration that'd fit this:In my setting there's a sort of liminal subspace called the Veil and containing a lattice that wraps around the world, it's kind of a sunless skies or dEAD gODS style of unconstructed potential as a scaffolding for reality. Tech is pulpy 1940s with some fantasy tropes and they graduated to airship. Would be cool to have a Veil ship. They have the equivalent of lasers and such. Any ideas that would be similar to airships but metal and weird?
>>98766125Jet Force Gemini lookin ass
>>98765186
>>98764257Sweet spaceship, I like
Warning: this selection of starships require Elite Spaceball Knowledge™ to appreciate.
>>98766434I see the toilet, but there doesn't seem to be any sinks or shower.
>>98766449Funny, none of those looks like an RV or a Macross-class in a maid outfit.
>>98765186>lacking need for aerodynamics in space.Not really a thing unless you plan to never ever land.
>>98766456That bugged me as well, I´d say it´s a minor flawHowever I wanted to post a spaceship map and that´s the only one I got
>>98766469anon doesn't know most irl ships need ports because they can't land>>98766456>>98766545isn't the space directly across from the toilet supposed to be sink on the port side + shower on fore wall
>>98766554On further inspection it seems to me, that the structure on the starboard wall isn´t the cistern but a cistern/faucet kompination or at least that´s what I thinkThat Portside module looks more like a computerterminal to me
>>98764277where is this from?its not macross frontier, is it?
>>98766637Macross Deltard
>>98766637nevermindit is macross frontier, guantanamo carrier ship
>>98766469Orbital space ports are underrated
>>98763759I don't remember this artwork being so shitty
>>98766125I fucking LOVE homeworld!>>98764525I fucking hate starwars ship design.
Huh lads, does something seem off about this transport to you?
>>98767058I think it just needs so more sunbathing launch it into the sun
>>98766398I don't understand what you're talking about but here have something
>>98766368Yeah, it's a good'n.
>>98766434>merchant shuttle>no cargo hold
Why fly a spaceship when you can travel space by surfing the stars, man
>>98770289You're thinking way too legally
>>98769848This hurts my eyes.
>>98766021World needs both those who revisit old worlds and those who create new ones. You do good work too.
>>98770585You should probably see someone about that... or turn down your screen brightness.
>>98770289Maybe it has more than one deck. Or maybe it can go up on big struts and have removable cargo containers attached to the bottom like the Public class' missiles in Gundam.
>>98763719C O N E SONES>>98764520I'm constantly and mildly annoyed that they turned the aerodyne Leopard into a VTOL. Like, give me a Union.
>>98770342I'm not radical enough to shred gnar amongst the nebulas, anon.
>>98763719LOGH spaceships are my favorite at the moment.>>98764257Steampunk and steampunk inspired aesthetics might be a corpse right now, but I'll still love them.>>98765186>Am I really wondering where all the flying O'neill Cylinders are?I think when most people think of spaceships they think of warmachines but in space with lots of guns to destroy other spaceships.I think O'Neill Cylinders count as spaceships. I also know that some people may look at the vast sizes of those things and perhaps classify them as "artificial planets" due to how big they are. But I think they're just space ships that act as massive habitats for lots of citizens aboard them.
>>98771182It always had VTOL capability from the rocket thrusters on the bottom. In fact, they're the main engines when it's in space, otherwise the gravity wouldn't work properly. The big engines on the wings are massive, air-breathing fusion powered turbojets it uses for forward thrust in atmosphere. The video games just depict it flying around in space like a plane with the afterburners constantly firing out the back is because it looks cool.
>>98765186>O'Neil cylindershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSsWkooeIds
>>98771308>always had VTOLNo, the transit drives were space only. Landing was depicted in fluff and by the rules as needing a runway.
>>98771343That's a bit silly, innit? I mean, I guess a runway would be a handy thing to have if you're landing in friendly territory and don't want to set anything on fire.
>>98769682Thanks, it's cool.
>>98770289What exactly do you expect from 8t cargo? This was clearly made by someone clueless about logistic because most of delivery trucks you see in any city are in 4-12t cargo range.It's so bad you would need four of these shitpiles to carry the same cargo an average lorry does.
>>98767058>Cancer on shipI prescribe 40mt of radiation therapy
>>98771250>>98765186There's oil rigs that can move. That doesn't make them ships.A trailer isn't a car.Movability doesn't inherently confer vehicle-nature.An O'Neill CAN be a spaceship but you better give it a drive with serious heft.
>>98764515[Squints]Only if the Eryrine's is still classified.
>>98771219Ah EVE Online, the setting where the largest space battle of all time happened because... [checks notes] Somebody forgot to pay the rent.
>>98773225Kinda based
>>98773225Was that the same dustup that had one of the battle commanders stroking out while online? There's an mp3 somewhere on the internet of this guy losing his marbles then ACKing during a raid.
>>98771219Nah that's fine dude, you can fly one of the guitar ships instead man
>>98770342Be careful with that, man.
>>98776303Hell yeah. Gonna get me a Flying V.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaJQA6w2stw
>>98776303somehow that reminded me of this.
>>98777190
>>98766449damn this brought me backi still use techerakh as a character name in games sometimes
>>98777190>>98777195Feels like rejected Homeworld concepts.
>>98769848is this based on a lego set or something?
>>98771308The belly transit thrusters only allow it to vtol on small objects like airless moons, large vessels, and asteroids.It can use them to shorten its needed landing strip, but it really shouldn't, it's the price of 20 atlases, not worth risking that in a crash under pretty much any circumstance.One can also stall an aerodyne, and let it belly flop a height 1 crash, this effectively destroys the vessel and cargo, but if done over water, the repairs are pretty trivial, given a recovery can be conducted and one has a few days before any fighting starts.The video games use them due to being iconic, but the Confederate is a spheroid that they could have used in the same method, although it is uncommon. These operations are what the Union is for, (although just like the leopard, it is VERY vulnerable to getting shot down while touching down or lifting off, and should not be close enough to combat to risk that), a union with only 4 mechbays would also have a game-appropriate amount of volume for cargo
>>98778024Nah it's a still from an animation. I just like the design of the ship on the right. They were clearly going for a toyetic 80s saturday morning cartoon look with the thing on the left, and with the colors.
>>98766449I'm looking for tokens for a space game, and if there are animated versions of those sprite anywhere I could blow my player's minds with them.
>>98778024There was a lego comic with spaceships, I guess from the 80s.
>>98769848>>98778024Since he didn't link it, it's a still from this. I think it was in one of the gamebooks too, I'm not sure where. https://youtu.be/JOGdEIaa_V4Almost related. there's some funky starship designs in this.
Always had a soft spot for this ship. When I GM Traveler I imagined it was a CEO's private/secret spaceship not quite a yacht but something flashy to impress his date with. Any ways the players had to steal it for survival and turn what was meant for 1 super wealthy person into living quarters for 12 people.
You guys into sleek ships or bulky ships? Personally, I enjoy bulky ones, especially if they're human ships, being these big industrial flying brick shit houses going up against more advanced races
>players are space pirates aboard a smaller carrier type ship that they can upgrade and fly together>They each have their own fighter style ship that they can customize individually>They upgrade other skills using different points than what they upgrade their ships with>They go on adventuresRealized that i'm thinking outlaw star but everyone can fly their own fighters
>>98785365Both have their place.
>>98782579Anyone have any art of ringworlds that are mostly just big enough to be a single city? I've got a location in a game that I'm working on that's exactly that, and I'm trying to wrap my head around what kind of scale I'm actually working with.
>>98772985A more apt comparison might have been the ISS having maneuvering thrusters (same as a number of satellites) but not being ships, though that, like most of your post, seems to miss the point that anon was talking about exotic shapes being possible in space. Like the old saying, "All these flavors yet you choose to make your scifi spaceship a gunmetal gray box with some engines tacked on."Personally my favorite gunmetal gray box in space is the USS Sulaco. Big ol' box where someone kitbashed a bunch of knives on the front.And as for oil rigs, nothing says fun in space like the USCSS Nostromo. You might have trouble spotting it in the pic, though. Most of that image is the big ass refinery it's TOWING BETWEEN STAR SYSTEMS. The Nostromo itself is relatively tiny.I guess that's the fun thing about space people sometimes overlook. Outside of a gravity well you don't really need a drive with serious heft to move an object. Any force applied can move it, and small force applied consistently over time can build up to phenomenal speed. A lot of ion drive proposals get by with slow and steady winning the race, as opposed to exploding a nuke behind your ship to go straight to plaid.And, hell, while we're talking about space drives and the Alien franchise, what the fuck is up with the newer Alien stuff saying they don't have FTL drives? I feel like some idiot saw that they use the ol' freezerino and decided this meant they don't have FTL. Meanwhile the Nostromo was detoured to Zeta Reticuli, roughly 40 ly from Earth, yet still expected to get back to Earth in 10 months. How the fuck is that possible without FTL? Ripley could have never made it back before her kid dropped dead from old age without it. It's a minor point but it grinds my gears.
>>98777195>>98777190That's a neat technique. Oddly cute.
>>98787230>How the fuck is that possible without FTLThey didn'r think things through.They must have some type of FTL, just not a Star Trek warp drive or Star Wars hyperdrive.10 months for 40 LY is stil fucking fast. . .but space is huge.And cryosleep is probably a good idea if you want to avoid people going fucking crazy on those trips.
>>98777461I still use Rick Hardslab as a name in Doom multiplayer. Not that that's from EV but it's the first place I saw it.>>98778528There's full rotations around somewhere, though I don't have them handy. The best I could find was this impressively useless thread, maybe there's something to be salvaged with the wayback machine or similar, I don't know how reddit works.https://www.reddit.com/r/Escape_Velocity/comments/hn6ldk/escape_velocity_nova_ship_models/>>98785365I like 'em somewhere in the middle. Full on Halo flying bricks rarely do it for me but neither do chewed gum looking Mon Calamari ships.
>>98788370The weird thing is it's come up multiple times in different productions. Alien Earth mentions it, but then so does Predator Badlands. The half an android chick asks the Pred if its species has cracked FTL because humans haven't figured it out yet. Amusingly that film takes place the furthest in the future, after Alien Resurrection. This means multiple writers, directors, producers, have failed to catch on. And it's such a silly mistake to make.Like you said, with such long duration in travel it still makes sense to go into stasis. Less boredom, less use of resources, but, yeah, the RPG also states that FTL can make you crazy. Neurological Distortion Disorder, or NDD. Synthetics, whoops, I mean Artificial Persons are immune, naturally, which is why they can remain awake to maintain the ship.
>>98788441I thikn they just didn't care because it really didn't hurt the story they were trying to tell, and having a 5 mionute infodump in a movie will just bore the normies.I'm the type of guy who loves a SciFi book with 40 pages of annexes that explain weapons, FTL drives, etc.But I understand that normies just don't care, they just want cool explosions or scary aliens etc.
>>98786363There was something like that in Treasure Planet, a small halo like star port
>>98788542NTA, but isn't a small ringworld just a spin gravity von braun wheel?
>>98787230Anon every time you see the name [thing] you have to remember its only there to sell you [newthing] by surfing the goodwill from the previous thing.It's not any more canon than less well funded fanfictionIt's less canon actually on account of not being made by a fan
>>98786363Art about a ringworld just being a city is a niche, and they're always as big as the Halo rings in sizeI mean, you could say the ring is broken up into districts, with one district being the city, another an industrial district, and an entire district for the sole purpose of being a wild land for fauna and "natural" landmarks for folk wishing to do some hiking, camping, or big game huntingThat said, I did found this artwork; is this the sort of style you're looking for?
>>98764515I only use twice in campaign and only because it is best choice to deal with ship doing Thunderchild maneuver while also being useful for rest of it (Technically 3 missions because mission after is red alert mode)
>>98788514>I thikn they just didn't care because it really didn't hurt the story they were trying to tell, and having a 5 mionute infodump in a movie will just bore the normies.I get that more for why it was never brought up in the earlier movies how they travel. The problem is the new films ARE bringing up FTL and acting like they don't have it, which is just weird and nonsensical. If they kept not bringing it up that's fine. If they bring it up to say they don't have it, when it contradicts the previous plots which don't work without FTL, that's just idiotic.I mean Alien Earth alone has a plot that active at the same time the Nostromo is doing their fatal last run somehow traveled between multiple worlds to acquire exotic (hostile) alien species (including the Xenomorph) and while it's said they've been away from Earth for many decades sub-FTL speeds it would be centuries, if not millennia, to complete such a run.The average joe probably doesn't get the issue, but I see that more as a sad statement on how far education and critical thinking has fallen that even scifi enjoyers don't get this basic shit.
>>98788992If you're talking about Alien, I'll point out how Ridley Scott refuses to stop injecting himself into the process, to the point that it's said fucked over the sequel to Alien Romulus. Romulus was well received and Fede Álvarez is a hot commodity in horror flicks right now. But Scotty felt that Romulus was just "ok" and the franchise was in desperate need of his return to save it again. Sure, thanks, Mister Prometheus, you fucking hack. Covenant wasn't any better.However since this is /tg/ canon should matter even less than usual. I personally haven't run the new Alien RPG and I'm mostly aware of it from the threads that pop up from time to time (the cinematic approach to the game story structure intrigues me, though it's not the only one to use that kind of gimmick). The RPG has FTL, I'm not changing that to fit whatever the new shit is doing. If the RPG explicitly lacked FTL I'd say fuck that and still have FTL, because otherwise none of it makes sense. But being strict with canon is silly. Everything is just a toolbox to use.
>>98789997I'm pretty sure this is a screencap from Gundam Wing.
>>98791250>Alien EarthI didn't watch that, so I don't know. It seems taht lately the writing has nosedived hard into being completely idiotic, yeah.In the 90s it may have been pulpy and physics-defying, but at least the story worked even if the worldbuilding suffered.
>>98763719still one of my favorite ship designs, and i love that it lands standing up like an old school space rocket instead of docking horizontally like a boat. this series overall had some great ships and they were well illustrated
>>98786363Have you played Citizen Sleeper? It's a ringstation but pretty close.
>>98786363There's a city-sized ringworld in one of the episodes of The Mandalorian (or one of the other shows where Mando appears, I don't remember).
>>98791830Alien Earth is watchable, but that's my opinion. It's not great, and because it's being worked on by Noah Hawley it's got his classic years long delay between seasons that essentially kills any hype (again in my opinion).Some of the things it adds to the franchise I hate. Lack of FTL makes no sense, but the thread's already been over that. What I really hate is the series decided to focus on real-worldification. They declared that nations no longer really exists and instead only a few major corporations are running the show with the old nations of the world split between them into corporate controlled territories. Old school Alien and Aliens certainly focused heavily on corporations, true, but the first film is from 1979, entering the 80s. The era when multi-national corporations were getting so powerful it was common to fear them taking over (which arguably they done). No nations, though, means no United Americas, no Three World Empire, no Union of Progressive Peoples. Arguably all artifacts of the 80s cold war/Japan as a high tech innovative powerhouse. I still miss them and I'm actually a bit pissed they've been abandoned rather than explored. The 3WE and UPP especially have needed some TLC for ages (my opinion running rampant). I don't even know how the USCM makes any sense under a corporate owned Earth.However some of the new alien entities are interesting. All essentially nasty predators, some worse than others. Any new non-Xenomorph alien to add to games is appreciated. They're probably a bit generic overall. A mobile murder plant (more or less), some giant ticks, giant flies that spit acid to melt down metal into a drinkable slurry (lethal to synthetics). The star is definitely the goddamn eyeball monster. Highly mobile eyeball squid thing that displaces an organisms eye and moves into the socket, taking over the nervous system. Stated as highly intelligent, potentially to human levels. Has a weird sense of humor, too.
>>98792372T. Ocellus goes fucking hard, son. Only lifeform that's freaked the fuck out of a xenomorph and lived. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mowrSeqYIgUThe only thing that made zero sense was taking over and piloting a half-decomposed corpse of a guy who'd been chest burst.
>>98787230Nostromo definitely is FTL capable.
>>98791906>mouseslopVile.
>>98792551All their ships would have to be unless physics works drastically different in their universe.
>>98793115Dark Horse's AvPvT comic is canon. After Skynet was defeated, humanity used time travel to go back to shortly after the Big Bang when all the stars were closer together.
>>98765186O'Neil Cylinders are just cylinder containers with engines tacked on. Not really any different if you decide to make a rectangle with the edges rounded off. The only coolness about them is the theoretical insides but even that is an artistic representation.Real space looks like an endless black abyss so the cylinder loses the appeal. (Source: William Shatner)
>>98789997This right here is exactly the kind of visual example I was looking for. It's space fantasy I'm working in so I don't have to worry about walls and keeping the air in, I can explain it away with a mcguffin. But that's the kind of scale I needed. That's gotta be weird perspective-wise, like you'll always feel like you're in a valley but never actually going uphill or downhill.
>>98791906This makes no sense to be in in Star Wars.
>>98795879That's not entirely true, even in EU it's implied that Corellia was artifical and was moved into it's orbit with massive engines under it's crust. There's a vague implication that it was secretly earth I think at one point? Hence why Han knows what a Falcon is. And hell.
>>98796685It wasn't Earth, it was settled by refugees from Earth. There was some book that tried to tie all of George Lucas' work together where a bunch of people from the dystopia future of THX-1138 stole a rocket ship and flew it into a wormhole to another galaxy, becoming the ancestors of Star Wars' humans. One of them is the great grandson of Bob Falfa from American Graffiti, which is why Han Solo looks just like him.
>>98795879>somehow Palpatine has returned again and this time he has a Star Destroyer that can destroy galaxies attached to a giant paper airplaneThey just can't stop winning with the new writers!
>>98797359Didney Wars would never make anything that looks that classy. Too hard to make a dogshit lego of to sell to manchildren.
>>98794664Well, in that case, may I point you in the direction of Sigil from Planescape? Technically doesn't belong to this thread, but it may be useful to you.
>>98797495Scale and perspective is good. Aesthetic is all wrong. But still good.
>>98770136Skaal Tel my beloved
>>98772755Do those lorries have toilets and living quarters?
>>98798518What, yours don't?
>>98766434Crew/Capacity: 4/6Seat: 4Bed: only 1 double bunk!?Pray it is a short ride.
>>98799162You know bunk beds? This is like that only it has 8 tiers. You do NOT want to fall out of the penthouse bed when gravity is set to Earth sea level.
>>98799377L-lewd
I quite like the ships from the aquatics expansion for Stellarishttps://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/stellaris-dev-diary-230-the-art-of-aquatics-ships-the-drake.1495959/https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n1J5OKeamWQ
>>98766456Could be one of those toilets that has a sink built in to top of the cisternstill nothing to bathe with though, could be a sonic shower in the bedroom chair like in star trek although even in star trek I believe they were self contained roomsit could be the trips it takes are only ever a day or 2 long so it doesn't need any bathing facilities but then in that case you would probably only have a 2 maybe 3 person crew, could need co pilot ready at all times to man weapons maybe (I was gonna say 4 was also odd considering only 1 bed but it says it's a bunk bed)actually the thing directly across from the toilet could be the sonic shower
>>98766871Fuck that's cool
>>98771250Ships with big guns at the prow are my favourite, and they do actually make sense given that longer is always better if you're using a coilgun.
>>98795732>>98771250>two LOGH ships I like them. I don't know what they did right that made those ships so cool though. >>98800281They're basically all big guns with multiple barrels with space travel technology slapped on and I love them for that. I also prefer the Alliance ships over the Empire's ships. The Alliance ships look more "cost effective" to be pumped out. Utilitarian is a word I've seen used to describe them while the Empire is all about sleek smooth looking ships.
>>98785474the extraction game marauders made it like a third of the way there to your description, instead of fighters you use individual escape pods to crash into other ships and space stations to board them. no customization of ship or pod though (maybe there was some choice in what weapons were on the ship itself I forget)it updated slow as shit and crashed and burned, shame I think it did have potential
>>98786363fantasy but look at sigil from D&D maybe, I think that's meant to be on the smaller side of a city though
>>98800313Bummer. I was kind of peripherally aware of it for a while, the shooting looked a little basic but it had an interesting hook with the boarding actions. Was waiting for it to get to commercial release - I don't do Early Access anymore.
>>98790437Its pretty good late campaign for dogfighting once you figure out the Avenger is better than the Prometheus at dealing with Shivans.
>>98800976Well they said back in april they are returning to development with something big but I wouldn't expect much (if anything) and even if it really was some huge improvement I don't think people would come back anyway
I fucking love FreeSpace's fighter designs, and þe GTB Medusa's easily my favorite æsþetically.
>>98805478Most of them are missile pods strapped to a cockpit and engine which I find oddly appealing. They also have asymmetric ship designs which isn't that common in sci-fi.
>>98806398>They also have asymmetric ship designs which isn't that common in sci-fi.I like when Shivan have it, makes their ships even more alien
>>98796895I'm now remembering that one comic that had Han and Chewie crash land on earth and Indiana Jones finding the ancient ruins of the Falcon.Come to think of it, Han Solo is racking up those death scenes. He's getting close to Shaak-Ti's death count at this rate.
>>98806818It took me a while to realize it but I noticed that there are many aspects of the Reapers from Mass Effect in the Shivans except the writers never wrote themselves into a corner. Then again this is a common trope with scifi with mysterious race bent on extinction with motives beyond our comprehension type.
>>98805478luv' me Apollo
>>98766871>Orbital space ports are underratedAgreed.
>>98766871
>>98800304Because they look like submarines. In any case, they're just phalanx battles in space.
>>98819122I've also heard it compared to Napoleonic line infantry.
>>98763719>have a thing for shmup ships>used to be fan art and concept art all over the internet>seems to have vanishedI particularly remember one that had all the popular ones gridded with each other
>>98763719>Maybe brainstorm settings.I really liked the industrial setting of wipeout 1/2. A racan rpg would have been cool. It's implied there are colonies but we never see any space faring ships.Not quite a space ship but I think it passes.
>>98819323>>98819323the character designs, sure. but the battles lack anything like a canon, except maybe a few super special ships of the gay factionnothing dominates their battles the way a death dealer that outranges and outkills anything on the battlefield but itself does. Something that can only be dealt with by another or (very) superior maneuvering.
>>98771250AD 1939: the snow is speaking Finnish.AD 1969: the trees are speaking Vietnamese.SC 796: the nebula is speaking German.
>>98819364>enlarges pic >We Have Explosive automatically starts in my Fuck me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUC4K3DsXugThere was a not!Wipreout boardgame called Speedstream with free rules but print to play. Looks like they took down the prints.
>>98821434Cool, gaslands also has an AG expansion too.
>>98792372>The star is definitely the goddamn eyeball monster. Highly mobile eyeball squid thing that displaces an organisms eye and moves into the socket, taking over the nervous system. Stated as highly intelligent, potentially to human levels. Has a weird sense of humor, tooPredictive programming at its finest.
>>98821434>>We Have Explosive automatically starts in my head, fuck meFTFY and same here.
>>98819348I like the front of this, the back though is too "I had leftover model parts and a lot of glue". I like the front design for a cargo hauler, but their design for the cargo part is nonsensical.
>>98765186>build O'Neil cylinder ship>turn the thrust on>everything gets instantly pushed to the backRetard.
>>98822625No no, stupid, you gotta build the engines in the direction of the spin. You reorient them on a swivel. Do I gotta think of everything, ya knucklehead?
>>98822177Not just thinking ahead, it knows pi to the digit of shit. 100% accurate, ask any of the 12 people who watched the show.
>>98799373luv me warp rings>>98799377Reminds me of some of those deep sea siphonophores, very cool.
>>98822177The real predictions are the fact that nearly every single specimen has escaped at least once. In fact the company that wanted to steal them from Weyland Yutani had the Weyland ship sabotaged to crash in his corporate territory. He just sort of hoped everything wouldn't arrive as chunky salsa (on fire and spread across half a continent) or wouldn't escape and unleash an uncontrolled infestation. Because being Alien Earth they actually brought the ungodly invasive ultra hostile species to the ol' homeworld instead of some cozy remote research outpost with twelve people who are about to get the most out of their life insurance policies (or would if they hadn't neglected to notice the ultra fine print about Act of Alien Explosive Impregnation/Dismemberment in their contracts).I'm not kidding about the escapes, either. Weyland sprung for cheap non-reinforced glass specimen containers that shatter the instant they fall off of a tabletop or shelf, as well as an alarming lack of alarms for when containers fail to lock back into secure storage. They do have some, set to go off hours after the wee murder beasties have scarpered.
>>98765216I think in MW5 the mechs you're not using are stored on the JumpShip.
>>98822625If you limit thrust to something like .05g it should be fine.
>>98765932I've always loved this about Homeworld. The fuckhuge hangars, gigantic derelicts in the background etc.
>>98821712I had forgotten about that, how is it compared to ground car gaslands?
>>98825641I've never tried it. I imagine its good shit.
>>98810650Shivans and Reapers also share cyclic nature of their extermination. But I would say Reapers are like between Shivans and Shadows (B5)
>>98821712>>98826605Where do you get the models for this version of the game? Obviously half the appeal of Gaslands is the fact that you use customised Hotwheels/diecast cars for your models, but I'm not sure if there are generic spaceships in the same size range as that. Do you need to print or buy specific spaceship minis?
Ship Breaker is a Commie as fuck game, but it did have some fun block ships. Too bad that story fucking sucks.
>>98829841>Too bad that story fucking sucks.That's an understatement anonFor any anon who never got to experience this mess it goes like this>You play the game, some fuck is in your hears whining about how you have to repay the 6gorillion debt you signed up for when you picked the plastic free diet>When you go back to your quarters to buy more oxygen from the NAP dispenser the game checks if you earned more story>If you did, you're treated to one of those conversation were the guy keeps pretending like you can reply but won't let you>its 15min long, you can't skip it, crashing your game makes it begin from the start when you next launch.>Every character is some blue haired jewess's idea of what the proles are like, country music and bumfuck accent includedTo add to that the game is exactly as pictured, most of the ships are exactly the same as the last one but painted red so you go faster
>>98830228Well yeah, but:a) I don't have to listen to the inane blatheringb) cutting ships into pieces with a laser is fun
>>98826864You could easily use any spaceship models from many ranges.The most common thing I've seen is also buying the whacky hotwheels cars and then converting them by taking the wheels off and modelling over the arches or upturning the wheels to look like thrusters.Not buying expensive model ranges and making your own models is what gaslands is all about anyway.
>>98830349>I don't have to listen to the inane blatheringYou do during the habitat sections of the gameImba I walk away
>>98826864Its kitbash focused. Taking the weirder hotwheels and making them into hovercars is I think the idea but you could look at any of the dozens of spaceship models and modify them or rummage though your bits drawer and come up with things.
>>98814768Really all of þem are so good.
>>98831875I wish GTVA got Interceptor what was as fast or faster than Horus. Only Stealth fighters had same speed but everything was slower, Serapis is successor to Anubis, not Horus.
Spaceships from the Traveller game I'm currently running. Big black ship is a nanite warship, the big yellow one is an alien research ship, the rest are various human warships, couriers, and shuttles.
>>98832335I like the satan edition black buttplug ship
>>98765186I wish Starsector had more 3d renders or fanart hanging around, although i understand the difficulties associated with rendering those ships designed in a way that would make sense around gameplay being on a flat plane. Theres a lot of cool ship designs, everything from boxy and pure function to sleek but asymmetrical weird shit
>>98822625>>98824574No, the answer is clearly not spinning fast enough. MORE SPIN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19qpqjebafg
>>98829841>>98830228Ship Breaker plot isn't that bad. It's just culture war talking (aka brainwash everyone into viral nihilism so they don't unite against the corporations)>muh commieThe corporation literally enslave a copy of you with a bullshit level debt, the most you do is gain worker right. I know murican have been raised to think union=communism, but this is so low it'd be still be a plutocrat paradise.The one flaw this game do have is that I expected harder puzzles to safely disarm spaceship.Still worth its price.
they should make a game that takes place in the space battle above earth during the starsiege
>>98836910>Making corporations all-powerful, truly inhuman, evil things, and the only good in the world is if the WORKERS take control of the means of production! Unions are as bad as corporations, but what gets my goat about ShipBreakers is it doesn't go into the evils of Unions.
>>98836910Big disappointment they didn't make your original boss side with the company. I knew they weren't going to do it but it sucked still.
>>98837192>space battles above earth during the starsiegeThat was mostly the TDF getting their heads kicked in, there was a space station maybe, I forget the message board bits but the fleet was still trying to make it back from Mars no?
>>98766871Tbf, even planetside space ports are underrated.
>>98843627If that ship crash-lands, the emergency vehicles are going to be the first casualties.
Talk about spaceships not which boot tastes better you faggots.
>>98836910>>98845593>>98845650Ah good, yurothirdie schizobabble in my cool spaceship thread, just what I wanted
>>98846395/pol/ doesn't even try to defend their arguments anymore. They just seethe about 'Murica, samefag, and then electrocute their dog.
>>98832764I have a feeling most Starsector ships may not "translate" well into 3D because they're all designed to be viewed from above them on a 2D top down environment.I still want them to work and I hope they will.But I know my imagination is thoroughly shot through and I may not ever recover my imagination. If I had any to begin with.>>98819122>Because they look like submarinesThey really do and they look like gun barrels without the trigger for a hand to hold as well oddly enough. I prefer the boxy industrious design of the Alliance ships over the sleek "organic looking" Empire ships.
>>98830228Weaver's alright. Would share a cold one with over a grill after working on a barely-spaceworthy scrapheap of a ship.And it's new-ish thing too, as it wasn't anywhere near that bad in the earlier versions.>>98838436They did, but you're supposed to brush it all off as "corpo propaganda" because it came in a letter from LYNX.Whole thing is so poorly done it's insane, the early version wasn't stellar but it was never THIS bad.I'll say this, however, Shipbreaker did make me realize just how much space there is inside a ship, but outside the walkable interior.You could hide plenty of hostile alien shit between the inner and outer hulls, especially on larger ships, then have it punch through the wall and pour in, seemingly out of nowhere.Way better than walking into a room and ayys are just chilling in there, waiting for someone to stumble upon them.
>>98838436Honestly, unions in spess may be a wholly different beast given the sheer scale of things.
>>98852412Guilds? Guilds.
>>98846395First it's a table GAME board and spaceship themed Shipbreaker would serve as inspiration (gameplay wise) for a shipwreck scavenging game where you need to roll to disarm damaged subsystem.With its dystopian-corporation plot also serving as a legit setting.Second, you are the one attracting attention to something you dislike without posting a spaceship or game related post.
>>98843126These guys are way too close to the landing zone for that thing. You'd be talking about brain hemorrhaging from the noise alone.
>>98848375Not every games are meant to have top-level writing, and Shipbreaker gameplay is worth its price.Yes it shouldn't have bothered with a plot (even if the final job shifting the rule upside down is fun), but the criticism were mostly culture warrior who'd use anything as a pretext. Alien? Men in Black? Terminator? If those came out today they'd practice 1984 newspeak, call them woke to then push whatever is the opposite as good by elimination.
>>98854132Don't worry, that thing is clearly not capable of landing using pure thrust, therefore it must be some kind of antigrav.
>>98854158Looks like a BattleTech drop ship, which just use big fusion torches if I recall correctly.
>>98764257This image makes me want to puke.
>>98854190>Looks like a fictional drop ship, which just use big magic thrusters if I recall correctly.Fixed that for you.
>>98859171You know what. I hate this. And I can't say any one reason why, just the accumulation of illogical lazy bullshit going into the designs. I just kind of hate this.
More a space station than a space ship.
>>98854107>Deserts of KharakIt only makes me pissed off about Homeworld 3, man.
>>98859991The rot from 2 only got worse in DoK, and both led to 3's complete trainwreck. You have to accept this.
>>98860156This is some jump to make anon
>>98860204I think I know where he is coming from. HW2 was an absolute rush job in the end cause they had to remake the game from scratch essentially cause they couldn't get shit to work. In the process it killed a lot of world building they had been trying to get done for HW and HWC and DoK took all the bad plot parts from HW2 and dialed them up to 11.Still neat aesthetics though.
>>98766456Sink is likely embedded into the wall to save space. The shower is likely the same as older sailing yachts where it's above the toilet and you wash while sitting there
>>98859189I'm the one who posted it and I agree.That said, a Lunar battlefield would lead to surprising concept.Artillery would obviously rule as a god. But so would counter-artillery and with future technology you might actually intercept a shell mid-vacuum.You wouldn't really need tracked vehicle, they would actually lack grip and flip if they try to turn before stopping themselves. You'd prefer vehicles that are capable of controlling their clearance, can control their attitudes quickly, and move sideway basically mechaAs for gunship, while hovering would be plain inefficient, you could use a vehicle meant to orbit at extremely low altitude, change trajectory, and shoot a missile which would impact a target at orbital speed.Thanks to the low gravity, you are also inclined to make combat vehicle that get in position quickly as sub-orbital artillery won't be kind to slow crawling vehicles.The only place to be save would be near infrastructure both side want to protect.
>>98860204>>98860251NTA but putting Karen Sjett at the center of the narrative as some sort of ascended cybernetic goddess - and, by extension, making her ancestor similarly integral to the discovery and reclamation of the hyperspace core - ruined the setting's potential to tell interesting stories about people just trying to survive in a hostile universe full of wonders and horrors from precursor races long since died out. Instead it's all Sjetts all the way down, and the reveal of another Sjett story in Homeworld 3 is exactly why I skipped it. Added bonus for our social justice warriors, making Sjett the star of Homeworld 2 was an early example of the fetishization of the powerful girlboss trope made even worse by the comparison to Cataclysm which shows what a post-Hiigara story could have been if only we weren't hung up on hers.
>>98865040>at the center of the narrative>Was she even that important? Haven't replayed since the remaster but I remember her being related to the story only so far as she's central command and the voice on your coms/narration sometimes.She walks out at the end which is just dumb if you know, but that's about it for complains on Kareen really.As for the forgettable sjett in Deserts, I had figured it was just a case of sjeet being a Kith.Every explorer is sjett like every asshole is soban but they're unrelated > every village having some guy named smith3 was retarded to anyone with eyes from the trailer only, it's not worth discussing or considering
>>98766398Look into the phage ships from Infinite Space
>>98865809That's precisely the point, she wasn't that important in the original game. The entirety of her backstory was contained in the game's manual, otherwise Fleet Command was as important as a character as Fleet Intelligence - they're just voices providing context for the story of the six hundred thousand surviving Kharak evacuees. It's interesting lore that S'jet was the cyberneticist responsible for designing the Mothership's core systems but it had no bearing on the campaign or any of the missions.Fast forward to Homeworld 2 and she's on the cover of the fucking box, and the act of interfacing herself with the Mothership's systems has inexplicably made her immortal kindred to the similarly "unbound" Bentusi, and a figure of prophecy because the nearly unique farjump drive that the original exiles somehow smuggled off of Hiigara despite the fact that they had just lost a war against the Taiidan Empire and if they were known to possess one of only three religiously significant progenitor hyperdrives in the galaxy they never would have been permitted to slink away with it after being expelled from their own homeworld.Notably, none of the writers for Homeworld are credited for Homeworld 2.I don't know what the fuck the plot of Homeworld 3 and I don't care. Call me a chud if you must but I don't need four fucking games about the bitch and her extended family all being the Girl Who's the Key to Everything.
>>98867829>She's on the cover cause it's 2000s and there must be a girl on the cover anon, it doesn't even matter if there's a chick in the game. It means nothing.>The drive in 2 is the exact same drive that's in one, how do you think they figured out jump from scratch to even get to Hiigara in the first place?>Unbound just makes sense, go in the cumputer become the cumputer; simple.You could complain about the McGuffin pile up and McGuships to win, you could point out the inconsistencies in places, you should've mentioned the dumbed down tactics and death of carrier gameplayBut no, muh girlboss while sounding like a loreletYou need meds anon this ain't healthy
>>98868017You're out of date, you're supposed to tell me I'm a LARPer who's only pretending to have played any of the games. Not a real fan like you.
Space bump
>>98874569>Space bump
>>98874964Shit shit shit! That oil driller guy said he was going to handle that! He said his team was the best of the best!
