Can we talk about vidya spaceships?
>>745883015Turians had the best ship aesthetic. Humanity was lacking in that area
still the king
>tfw>has seen this thread since the beginning>all ship look like a ugly mess of metal>most make no sense>some seem cool in some aspects>starwars ship are always the most retarded and have the worst feelAfter 28 years of looking at aircrafts from all movies, videogames, concept art, anime, I still like the atmospheric jet from Neucom, Delphinus r103 the most pleasing, it feels like my own soul, but nobody can render it properly, less modeled/animated it into a game (no game engine support), this world is truly a nightmare. Nobody understands.
>>745884623Post an image of themLearn Blender
>>745882919Reminder the Falcon Millennium was originality meant to be a space-tug a cargo pusher. Explaining its beefy engine yet lack of internal cargo space.In my book fictional spaceship are shit if they are just art-deco sculptures and tropes with no design consistency.>look at me! I've made another space boat>WWII in space fighting at visual range>sensors are dog shit an human with a scope would actually aim better>space fighters of course, because space is just like Earth surface ok>glass cockpit
>>745883462>engines bigger than the shipthat's my shit
>>745883368I have seen literally every one of these designs before
Is X4 worth playing
Niggas.
>>745882919Apogee my beloved.
Spaceships that will never enter atmosphere should just be giant bricks, there's no reason to give them any other shape, especially for utilitarian vessels.
>>745882919The gap on the right makes this the ugliest thing ever created.Solo dumps on dash rendar
>>745884698>blenderThe new world order criminals trashed my hdd and later my computer>post them>pic related
>>745884914They have retconned it. That part in the front is where the escape pod goes, but the millennial falcon lost its pod and Solo can’t afford to replace it
>>745883015>entire space cruiser full of hunky turianswhy can't it be real
>>745885410I wish this game wasn't 2dOr at least had higher quality sprites
>>745882919My only problem with this thing is it's complete reliance on escorts for protection. It's fucking massive yet doesn't even have the most basic point defense, let alone cannons or missile launchers.
>>745885764They didn't retcon it, they plain forgot about it and when they wrote the script some guy felt super smart "explaining the hole".
>>745882919Outrider is ugly as shit.Knock off millennium falcon.Never post this trash in my presence again.
>>745885328I love EVE shipsToo bad the actual game sucks to play
>>745884914>The ship originally had a more elongated appearance, but this design's similarity to the Eagle Transporters in Space: 1999 prompted George Lucas to change the Falcon's design.[2] The original model was modified, re-scaled, and used as Princess Leia's ship, Tantive IV.[3] Modelmaker Joe Johnston had about four weeks to redesign the Falcon, and Lucas' only suggestion to Johnston was to "think of a flying saucer".[4] Johnston did not want to produce a "basic flying saucer", so he created the offset cockpit, forward cargo mandibles, and rear slot for the engines.[4] It was also said that the shape of the ship was roughly based on a hamburger with an olive-on-the-side cockpit. The design was simple enough to create in the four-week window. Johnston called production of the new Falcon design one of his most intense projects.[4]>It has been noted that the cockpit with its greenhouse-style window was likely inspired by the cockpit of the American B-29 Superfortress.[6][7][8]You've been sippin on too much wookiepedia
>>745885948It was never intended as a warship, it was an expeditionary vessel that only had lightly armed scouts to start.that's honestly the whole charm for me, and why I love the Somtaaw so much.>we're not warriors>we're not flying in a war ship>but we're also not just going to lay down and die so I guess we're now warriors and this is now a war ship
>>745884623>>745885705>Nobody understands.Cynthia understands!
>>745885948To be fair, it was just supposed to be an exploration mothership with production capability if they needed something, and escort job also including drawing the fire away.If the Hyperspace core was as divine as the lore made it out, the ship would be moving with the fleet over any distance.
>>745886006Do you mean the Solo movie? It showed the missing piece, but it was much smaller than the pictures here.
>>745886118>forward cargo mandiblesMeaning it was meant to grab cargo.It doesn't make a difference if they thought about using a whole other desigh.Thought, the engines of the MF really made it iconic.
>>745886173>tfw you reach it for the first time
>>745886331Yes, they just forgot what it was, or at best "didn't give a shit because consistency is for nerd and if they complain we'll just make shit up later, our public are retard anyway".
>>745883462>giant engines>still slow as fuckHercbros...
>>745886265hyperspace core shit only starts in 2, they make no mention of that shit in 1 or CataclysmI maintain that Homeworld 2 and 3 are the Prequel and Sequel trilogy of this universe, you can enjoy them if you like but I'm going to think you're kind of stupid for it.
>>745884914>originality meant to be a space-tug a cargo pusher.Is that why you posted some bullshit fanart that didn't exist until after disney bought the franchise? The falcon looks like the falcon because the guy who was in charge of designing it went out to get a burger. It had a toothpick with an olive in the bun, which he removed. He took a bite of the burger, set it down on the plate, and the shape of the burger with the bite removed, and the olive sitting to the side of it is what made him go "THAT'S OUR HERO SHIP!"
>>745884623>no good rendersLiterally two seconds Googling.https://3dgo.app/models/cults3d/ace-combat-r-103-delphinus-3
>>745883368For me it's Ward.
>>745886749I've seen the original story they had planned for HW2, (before crashing down because 50% of their content couldn't load on the computers of the time)The hyperspace cores may be retcon, but they brought something interesting to the "franchise".Let's just say that Homeworld is another proof you shouldn't force yourself to reuse the same content non-stop.
>>745885328what are those giant hunks of shit supported bythis flimsy thing looks like it'd snap apart in a second, it's shit
>>745885328based Rifter chad. my favorite design in EVE.
>>745887246Vaygr would have been a cooler enemy faction if they had the aesthetic of picrel.Forget re-using content, the fact that they made content only to use it as background terrain in a single mission is the real travesty.
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>>745887625Still in love with this bitch all these years later...
>>745886881It was imagined as a cargo pusher from its beginning. You are just a young contrarian mindlessly defending whatever is now the current product.They don't give a shit, if they felt the need to make a rework they'd change it as they please.Starwars may not have been a particularly coherent setting to begin with, but your kind is to blame for publishers thinking your memory don't go past 2~3 years.
>i want the millenium falcon!>you already have the millenium falcon at home!>the millenium falcon at home: caspian explorer
>>745888218i actually really like the design of the caspian. it's comfy.
>>745886960>dolphin dickHeh, lines too thick, wrong shape, etc...
>>745887560>Vaygr would have been a cooler enemy faction if they had the aesthetic of picrel.Are you crazy?The Vaygr aesthetic was perfection!Almost all of their ships are like blade or daggers ready to slice you. Except that destroyer which still look like a blade.Their only weak design was the mothership, but destroying the cruiser-making part of the Vaygr shipyard was pretty.The Hiigaran ship and your pic are built horizontally like the usual space boat, bit flatter than usual.In total contrast with their mothership, actually the Hiigaran mothership and its round form really don't follow the same design code.
What's the point of land combat in space games? Why not just glass everyone every time?
how do we feel about the Ebon Hawk?
>>745888879love this nigga like you wouldn't believe
>ships that are more gun than ship
I love the luminous hangar exit of Homeworld.
>>745888879"We have Outrider at home"
>>745889043The progenitor Destroyer is literally shaped like a gun, and the Sajuuk full length is a spinal gun powered by 3 of the most important artifact of the setting.I'd post Alien's Sulaco as a space gun but there's no game about it.
>>745888592>wrong shapeNigga you blind?https://acecombat.fandom.com/wiki/R-103_Delphinus_3
I sometime like spaceships so big they are their own battlefield.
>>745889261I wish I had a webm of the firing
>>745888879It's neither Ebon nor a Hawk but I still think it's pretty nice.Shame there was no bonus minigame where you actually fly it around a space battle.
Hail humans, and take heed- this is the carrier Shadow of Intent. Clear this sector while we deal with the flood.
>>745885678This is why no one likes you.
Most of HW3 may be a failure that couldn't ever live up to the hype anyway, but the design were okay
>>745889979the covenant always had such sick names for their ships
>>745889283>1999 videogame engine limitationsYou don't understand (my head version), not even this vector thrust mod gets it righthttps://youtu.be/3rHGvV_j5O0
>>745886006
It's surprisingly hard to get a good screenshot of it online.
>>745885678>no reason to give them any other shape>bricks>constraining your design with right angles & flat surfaceFFFForm Follow Function.Even with fictional physics, the technologies would have practical need:- mass isn't free,- neither is structural stress, having front thruster that pull mass actually give benefit,- you'll want docking bays with cranes that can move thing around,- you'll want sensors on mast, maybe the sensor is so big the mast is more like a bridge,- maybe your reactors are radioactive so you want them spread away from everything else- maybe your propellant tank can be exchanged so you want room for multiple size- or you'll want to maximize the number of turret that can look in a directionAnd don't get me started on realistic physics, armor is essentially futile and you are better spreading redundant subsystem.Ironically I can still justify a realistic warship that look like a gigantic brick.
>>745890403Lose most of the context and the joke tho
>>745889043If you're making a warship in space there is absolutely no reason why you would not make an axial rail-gun.
>>745891497i wonder if it'd be very difficult to aim, since you have to be facing your target head-on at all times.
>>745890289You're on your own then. Like the other guy said, make your own 3d model if nothing else is good enough for you.
>>745884914Excuse me, but it's Transparisteel and not glass.
>>745891561Dead ahead seems easy enough. And it doesn't need to be your only weapon, just the big one. Also space-combat wouldn't be like star wars, or old ship of the line combat, engaging a ship within an AU of you would be close quarters combat. You're sniping with hyper-kinetic kill vehicles and particle beams from the oort belt, and dropping rocks on planets until they surrender or are pacified. It would be more like submarine warfare than anything else, but with no element of stealth since its virtually impossible to not stick out like a sore thumb because you're using fusion drives that leave a glowing trail of plasma thousands and thousands of kilometers long, or you're using a warp drive that would send up an absolutely massive spray of highly charged particles that were crossing the warp field when it generated and just got sling-shot out in every direction and blue-shifted into gamma and x-rays. In order to make space combat exciting you've got to create excuses for why things operate like that (like why everyone is sword fighting in dune). I remember Master of Orion 3, a piece of shit game the dev's abandoned because they got defense contracts to program smart bombs. I remember the "tactical combat" screen was cool. You could design and arm your ships, and you had fighters, beam weapons, and indirect fire weapons. You didn't directly control them, but you designed the ships, and the combat would render with the two fleets at a distance unleashing fighters that would slowly fly and either be point defense, anti-point defense, or bombers, while beam and macross missile spam spewed out of the different fleets until the enemy withdrew or was wiped out. Was fun to watch your overpowered shitkicker fleet annihilate some random pirate encounter.
>>745888879>Ebon HawkHomehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrqc18Dd5zg
>>745888879making out with Bastila while HK is watching never felt better
>>745887625WHO IS YOUR MOMMY
>>745888845>mfw plebs around me don't likes watching their battalions of cybernetic shitkickers with gundam steamrolling over the 2 local infantry garrisoned on agrarian world cumbucket VIIIts also easier and faster to genocide the unruly locals and deport the pacified resident population to another world where their skills could be put to better use while your superior race moves in and takes over the infrastructure.
Concordia, my beloved.
>>745888845What's the point of land combat after planes were invented? Why not carpet bomb everyone every time?
>>745888879Why does a freighter have a huge gap that they could've used for more cargo storage?
>>745893503Wing Commander II had some of the coolest ships and I was convinced that it was a last-starfighter situation and the only thing stopping me from being a fighter pilot in space was a high enough score.
Privateer 2 was the first space-themed game I ever played and Heretic was the shit, literary formed the base for what I consider to be a cool looking spaceship.
>>745891379Well here's a function for you: curved structures are significantly more expensive to manufacture and repair, the cheapest most utilitarian design would be a rectangle big enough to fit everything you need inside, with R&D better spent into how to package everything more tightly within the given hull rather than slapping random shapes on it just to house every individual module you can think of.
>>745885764The pod's an aftermarket add-on by Lando, who treated the Falcon more as a personal speedboat (with cocaine-smuggling capabilities) than a freighter.
>>745888180It never occurred to me before, but they totally based the Olympus's design off the Nebulon-B.
>>745888180What's the big organic looking one?
>>745882919I still have the Outrider toy, wish Starwars was still cool.
>>745894264Phazon shit.
>>745884914>disneywarsFan fiction doesn't count.
I got into sins of a solar empire entirely because I loved this ship design
>>745890028I actually liked the way the resourcing was handled, having a single micro-carrier with four all-purpose resource collectors attached to it. It's just a shame they hamstring you into only having a few of them at once. Also shame on them for what they offered for the DLCs, the Somtaaw got a decent upgrade in looks for the Acolyte, but none of the mechanics. I guess combination mode is too much to ask of a team that couldn't even keep units in formation.
>>745892712If it's not stronger than actual armor & sensors design, it's out.If it's stronger, it should not be wasted on a sightseeing room.
>>745886435This will be a piece of cake with my mantis raiders!
>>745886173>I am on a high stakes mission to reach the federation to warn them about the rebel cruiser and to tell them its critical weakness >you get there after the flagship is there and its weakness is just shooting it a lot I never understood it
>>745896313The plot is an excuse to give the gameplay some context. Like getting a Zoltan ship and suddenly every single asshole in the universe can now "somehow" teleport right through your impenetrable Zoltan Shield if you stumble into an event with forced boarding.
>>745896313One theory is that they are talking about the flagship AI
>>745893836That's not a function, that's manufacturing limitation and it doesn't answer even half of >>745891379More angular & flat surface, sure.Big dumb rectangle? That's contrarian-level retarded.The function of not forcing everything in a rectangular form is to make the ship more efficient.It's plain retarded to believe everything will neatly fit in (square) "module". All you are doing is pushing the 10% overcost of outer armor, into a 200% overcost of everything inside, which is the hardest part to manufacture.Realistically mass is crazy costly, worse any expense to get rid of it.
>>745894562Good news then >>745884914 is canonical dating back before the prequel trilogy was even considered
>>745885678Gay and boring.Spaceships should be cool and look like they are fun to fly in a battle.
>>745882919I found my old kenner outrider recently. It was in bad shape, but I thought about listing it on ebay. But honestly I dont want another manchild keeping this cycle going, so I put it in the fucking trash instead
>>745899687Then everyone stood up and clapped.
*dreamy sigh*
>>745899541One less old toy for you to masturbate to /toy/fag
wait a minute. Aw fuck I posted the wrong ship. Shit ... ah, you know which one I mean.
>>745886173I wish there was an FTL game that was more of a sandbox game with you patrolling the galaxy to protect civilians from space pirates and rebel remnants.
>>745886506This design just screams some autistic art director couldn't stand the asymmetrical aspects or open gaps in the design and then set out to "fix" it.
>>745885678>Mon Calamari in star wars were renowned ship builders who specialized in making luxury cruise vessels >war starts >they decide to join the rebellion >they just start strapping guns to carnival cruise ships aesthetics counts
>>745888218I would have said it's a tinier squished up Voyager.
>>745900229it's clearly an akira with the bits filled in
>>745900229It looks like a hunchback.
>>745900229>>745900418It's definitely >I'm designing ships and the only thing I have ever watched is Star Trek!
Anyone got tha a-wing copypasta from like a decade ago? Its basically lost media at this point but I think of "thinking mans suicide note" too often. There's apparently one for each wing but ive never fucking seen the others so that might be bullshit or someone else.
>>745900202>We'll leave it the way it is, and wait for us to come back home
I believe names are a crucial part of the coolness equation and I believe Halo has the best ship names in fiction>Pillar of Autumn>Spirit of Fire>Truth and Reconciliation>Forward Unto DawnPure and utter SOVL on a level I can't even fathom
>>745893737My favourite thing about darkening is that I am part of a select special group of whoever fucking played it before watching any of his films to see clive owen in a film and go "its that fucker from privateer 2!"
>>745900936>Two for flinching
>>745893737Im like that about the saker mk III
I fucking love Ork ships I love the idea of junkyard space fishes.
>>745901119Conversely, strap a bunch of engines to an asteroid.
Any good games that let you build and fly around a custom starship?
>>745901119Equivalent of when you don't know what delta v, imp, or what the fuck a gimbal is in ksp and just keep sticking parts together and trying over and over until you get something that works.
>>745900703The A-wing is so bad its propensity for being the fastest coffin money can buy survived a canon revamp through sheer will.The A-wing, or "How to look cool and die fast" is what happens when A Kuat Engineer snuck into the back of Sienar systems to see the assembly of the first TIE Interceptor and thinking "A cheap fast and basic starfighter with the survivability of wet paper, great! Let's make it faster, let's make it not cheap, let's make it even faster, let's make it without the numbers that TIEs are built around" and his Rebel friend, hearing all this, decides "Yeah we aint got Empire pilot numbers but I sure do like going ing FAST"Fast but not easy, you're basically flying two engines strapped to your when its just seen two twileks kissing. In a navy that is just full of "I'm the best pilot ever but discipline" jocks there's only one way to compensate for the missing inches of limp- decent piloting and "Well I can fly an A-wing and not die" is there for people who have a hopelessly high rate of optimism and a will already written.The most famous victory of an A-wing pilot is driving himself into the bridge of a Star Destroyer.This is actually remarkable as it did come at the end of the war between the Empire and the Rebel alliance, since it is frankly ing AMAZING a-wing pilots survived this long. In the new canon they are given a fresh introduction, and promptly do nothing but ing explode.A-wings are the thinking man's suicide note. In a desperate struggle to be the slickest spacer this side of Duros young hotshots sign up for a one-way ticket into either ploughing into the ing ground, being the first into the frey and into fire in the wet tissue paper tiger, and just generally being the coolest guy in the dogfight because they're already exposed to the vacuum of space.(The fucking hearts are not my choice but I found this on a steam comment)
>>745900936Fart unto Shart
>>745898909what game?
>>745901334>>745901313One thing I like about Battlefleet Gothic is how Ramming ships is a thing and is quite a valid tactic. In fucking space getting rammed sounds like a insta kill even if you're a huge ship thanks to decompression and other factors
>>745901804Infinity Battlescape?
Wish Star Citizen was a real game
>>745901859In the first farsight book the tau get jumped in the gulf, and they manage to damage an heavily damage an imperial cruiser, and when it starts veering towards them they assume the the navigation went out and and ignore it until they realize its changing course and heading straight for them and they're positively baffled by a ramming action since it would destroy BOTH ships.
>>745889786The Q2 ships were cooler.
>>745901570didn't this opinion only really come up because they are the standard expendable mook ships of Rebels?
>>745902496Yeah like I said ramming tactics in space seem very effective but barely show up anywhere. I never been a fan of "slick" ship designs, you dont need it. There's no friction in space you should should not aim for aerodinamic shapes.
>>745900078Technically it's still asymmetrical. It's just a lazy "let's just fill the hole" without wondering what the hole was for originally
>>745901804>>745901907Star Citizen
>>745901334>something that works.moar lieksomething that Orks
>>745903151Anon i have no fucking idea it isnt mine, its just funny. It does point out the guy who pulls a nip n duck on the uss star destroyer though.
>>745885328
>>745902473Can't argue it isn't.It will never remotely live up to the promise, or even reach a decent balance, but it's an alpha where you do more than fully released spaceship game.Also that "not X-wing" is simply superior to the inspiration for me.
>>745903357That and all the other little bits along the top where there were exposed pipes and engine parts. The Falcon had lots of little rectangular holes all over the top, that the Solo movie filled with the newer finish.
>>745903151Pretty much. No one ever thought much of the A-Wing at all except it was a little known, lesser used ship seen among the many many others in ROTJ. Then Disneywars decided to make it the stormtrooper of rebel ships that was totally ineffectual against anyone else, and routinely popped like balloons in fights. Darth Vader just went 1v20 of them and killed them all in one episode. In a TIE fighter.
>>745882919ummmm that's not aerodynamic, how the heck does it fly?
>>745903163You would still want to minimize how much of the surface area is facing forward because you're going to need the heaviest armor there.
>>745904945True,Technically, the Solo movie pretend that was the original state of the ship, and the hole appeared later.It reminds me one reason given for the Y-wing being so (lewdly) exposed is that the mechanic had to constantly remove the panels to get to the parts and ended up not putting them back. Given how the Alliance would have to escape the Empire quickly, I would easily imagine them not bothering to pack the cover.
>>745884961BASEDAlso Heat-Death
>>745888218i have a love hate relationship with elite dangerous but that ship rules
now that was a ship
>>745885251wait 10 more years when they stopped working on it and there's a community patch that fixes most of the retardation
>>745886118>Space: 1999's Falcon>Princess Leia's shipUh, neat to know.I got to see Space 1999 as a kid way after Star Wars because it was re-diffused, never gave a thought about the fact that it was *older* than SW.
>>745885251I played X2 for a long while.X3 and X4 are installed and never launched.
You may not like it, but this is what peak space ship design looks like
>>745887246>I've seen the original story they had planned for HW2,>(before crashing down because 50% of their content couldn't load on the computers of the time)Any place where I can read about that in more details?
>>745885678Space debris are still a pretty big concern in inhabited space, and a brick would have bigger surface area for a pebble to tear through the hull when going at sub light speeds. The most optimal space ships are probably like the ones depicted in the Expanse, just giant skyscrapers with multiple floors pointing towards the main thruster at the bottom so that the inertia of movement simulates gravity. At the 50% point of a journey the ship flips for gradual deceleration. Because of the long skyscraper shape, there's minimal surface area at the front/top, and you can slap 360 degree auto turrets or rail guns all along the sides for no blind spots. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DhsBnmZla-M&pp=ygUUZXhwYW5zZSBzcGFjZSBiYXR0bGU%3D
>>745885410I'm more of a Diable avionics enjoyer myself.
Posting my obscure shipfu.
>>745908019I'm having trouble opening the linkIt should be this onehttps://www.assam.studio-gepard.pl/listfiles.php?m=3At worst, here is one of the file.There's multiple PDF but we can't upload them anymore
>>745890721MP2's design was close to the original. Then 3 and beyond fucked it up
W I D E posting
2026 Still no good space mmo.
I don't care how silly or impractical it is, this will always be my favorite. It's just cool as fuck to me. I love the post ww2 retro-future aesthetic of the earth ships in Star Blazers. As for vidya Im looking forward to this whenever it gets finished, we need more games where you just get to be a fuck off super battleship fighting aliens like a reverse Gradius.https://youtu.be/gVC7newtrjM?is=2HM3-5dDltruld7R
>>745908019Basically the original idea, was that while your mothership was on an expedition to save Hiigara, you have another front, fighting Gate after Gate to stop the Vaygr.This, of course, meant fighting around the gigantic structure (seen >>745887246) that appeared in a video shown at E3 if I remember correctly.But at the time, the gigantic structure was straining all the computers of the time, if I had to bet, the AI likely also couldn't follow.This pic, is supposed to have been among the concept art.So basically, the feature that only made it into HW3.
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>>745889043>ship is straight up just a fucking gun
>>745912484Cosmo Navy
>>745893703then you need bigger engines which require more fuel thats need to be stored somewhere but it adds weight so you need even bigger eniges which require even more fuel
>>745886006Do people pretend notes don’t exist? Or are these motherfuckers really that bad at organization?
>Ship isn't expected to enter enter an atmosphere>Still build along aerodynamic principlesWhy don't we see more borg cubes in games?
Anvil Aerospace Hawk Light Fighter
>>745883462Move the fuck over, Herc. Erinyes coming through.
>>745913848
>>745889043>ships that are just guns stacked upon more gunsThrough the power of semicircles
>>745885328Hell yeah Rifterbro
>>745882919Is Starfield a top teir spaceship game?
Best general scifi ships are from Star Citizen. Shame the game is ass, so those cool designs will die on that trasheap.However you're all faggots and need to take a look at hard scifi ships. Their fights are also much more interesting than naval fight recreations in space. There's not many hard scifi games tho.
>>745913848Space isn't empty. That shit would constantly get degraded traveling fast.
>"This is the Kiith Somtaaw warship Kuun-Lan"
>>745913752>implying you'd write notes about the genealogy of the act 3 bossCan be as simple as "no one said he was an only child".
>>745914085I genuinely want to actually murder "people" who hold this retarded attitude.
>>745910883The ship in MP3 could do more than just...act as a save station.
>>745903163>There's no friction in spaceEh, depends on the speeds and duration of travel. Space isn't empty, and the closer to light speed you get, the harder loose hydrogen atoms hit. Or, even at slower speeds one wants to minimize the ship forward vector area to avoid collisions with micrometeors and such over centuries of travel.
>>745913415Something about slapping ww1-2 era naval guns on anything makes it instantly cooler. Space ships, robots, buildings, dinosaurs, anime girls, food it doesn't matter.
>>745914245As much as I like hard-SF, I believe that those ships are more a case of applying cold-war naval warfare with a NASApunk design.There are reasons to think we won't have conventional warship in a space war, it's more likely to be interplanetary spam of cheap missile spam, using space-tug whose only job is to give the initial velocity, detach the missile, then cancel its acceleration and go back to base.For a genocidal war at least.There's a way to justify warship, but it's tricky and make their into glorified police ship.It is if everyone is so afraid of debris they'll put all the money on weapons meant to safely neutralize targets without starting a Kessler effect.
>>745915392>As much as I like hard-SF,You don't. Real science fiction doesn't have stupid shit like spaceships.
>>745908019I uploaded the .rar file, download valid 3 daysHope it work because I didn't see anywhere else you could still access all the files at oncehttps://limewire.com/d/u3WvJ#gs6SJO9hM7
>>745889261I don't even think Sajuuk is special from the ancient civilization POV. Wasn't it just a line battleship and the other progenitor super ships we fight aren't even built for combat?IE Sajuuk is big but not ultra special.>>745889353The final mission of Homeworld 3 was very cool, story aside.
>>745890028>mission where you break Karan out of the ice>mission where you open the ancient gate while facing impossible odds and it's just objective: survive>final mission where the enemy ship is the map you fight on>stealth mission in the ice canyonIt had its moments. I honestly believe the story and character writing is the main issue now that it's been a bit and I can think more objectively.
Its technically a space ship
>>745916587That is a fucking train. The fact Honkai Star Rail is popular at all despite it be predicated on the concept of space trains is intellectually offensive.
>>745916305Most of the content was cut. No one know if they had a special ship for the progenitor.But if their foundry ship is any indication?If the RUINS they left behind are any indication? Yeah, they likely had even bigger ships.Remember this ship we see as a final weapon of the Vaygr?It was supposed to be a whole different species.https://homeworld.fandom.com/wiki/T-MAT
>>745903687>>745902473The state of the game is sad. This day last year SC was a much more fun game with less bugs. Most new content is FPS stuff too so not even flying ... aside from the ace combat tunnel mission which is a group raid tbf. Fighters are total bullet sponges in current SC but the devs said theyre changing it in a patch or 2.>>745903954It helps that the Scorpius is meta-ish and has been for a while as long as you have a turret gunner.
>>745916587This is also a spaceship
>>745915362
>>745916928That's a fucking truck. This shit was retarded when Bebop did it. Stop that.
>>745909802>so that the inertia of movement simulates gravity.That would cease working the moment the ship stopped accelerating. It would have to accelerate perpetually at exactly the right speed to "simulate gravity". You dont feel the back of the cars seat pushing you if you arent accelerating.
>>745916721>If the RUINS they left behind are any indication? Yeah, they likely had even bigger ships.Yeah that's what I mean. I always figured Sajuuk is just one battleship / battlecruiser they built. No different to them than the mass of the things we or the Vaygr build by the endgame.It's also interesting to me that they refer to the newly created cores in HW3 as synthetic cores. despite showing no limitations vs the "real thing." Are they really? Are the originals not just manufactured? It would seem S'jet is too humble in their achievements.
>>745916928Of course, why would it not be?
>>745917132Well, as HW2 was balanced, the progenitor Keepers are RIDICULOUSLY powerful.>jump without the big hyperspace core >a single one can erase your entire fleet>Kill the Bentusi harbor ship>can regenerate>can launch infinite supply of fightersPart of how you know HW2 was a broken product with only a third of the content.>>745917132>It's also interesting to me that they refer to the newly created cores in HW3 as synthetic cores. despite showing no limitations vs the "real thing." Are they really? Are the originals not just manufactured? It would seem S'jet is too humble in their achievements.Depends of what you consider the cannon, the original concept of the core >>745910774 essentially allow people linked to it to transcend.
>>745916928the cockpit/bridge looks pretty comfy
>>745915037Nobody is preventing you from making your own super cool cube spaceships, you know. May I suggest getting a few lego kits?
>>745917132>>745917598The Keepers are so broken I'm pretty sure they'd solo the Sajuuk itself, it has no point defense and weaker armor.
>>745894814>I actually liked the way the resourcing was handled, having a single micro-carrier with four all-purpose resource collectors attached to it. It's just a shame they hamstring you into only having a few of them at once.My favorite aspect of those collectors, is using them as a capture unit. It's just perfectly fitting.And quite broken, almost miss HW2 where you needed to defend the fragile capture frigate for the whole duration.
>>745917856>"You should play with literal toys."May I suggest you commit suicide?
>>745914060Move the fuck over? From where? While Myrmidons, Hercs and mkII's held the line Erinyes wasn't even a blueprint.
>>745882919https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsM3o0Vk0Js
>>745918624Herc are old and busted.Erinyes is the new hotness. Or would be if we had ever gotten a FS3
>>745917598>>745917943Well, yeah, but that's also gameplay. Sajuuk is player-controlled. If Sajuuk was a live enemy instead of a derelict I'm sure it would be god level.Same as JRPG bosses who can easily party kill you with crazy boss moves that become regular, balanced party members later.
>>745914314That's why all Trek ships have a permanent shield up for that.
>>745917016The ships are constantly accelerating in the Expanse, the author was a physics nerd who accounted for that stuff. When the ships flip to decelerate all the crew turn on their magnetic boots so they can still use the facilities like normal even though the ship has flipped and gravity isn't being simulated anymore.
>>745921117That's not a spaceship. That's a metallic sperm.
>>745882919Dralthi will always be my shipfu.
>>745921281
>>745914245Hard sci fi is just a list of cool things you aren't allowed to do.
>>745921117as much as I dislike warframe's art design i have to admit that i kinda like the landing ship
>>745922368Subverse is scifi that makes me hard.
>>745921117Pretty sure there's lots of stuff like this living in the sea.
>>745921514Is that the Orbiter? I don't think you ever see it from the outside in game.
>>745922368Hard sci-fi is real sci-fi, because it actually cares about science.
>>745922729The Science that says nothing can exist that we haven't already discovered.
>>745918371Lead by example, you coward.
>>745916661bitch ass
>>745921117>doing the wave with the boys in the loading screen
>>745916587>>745916928space choo choo and space truckin' are both romantic in their own way.I also like the Treasure Planet form of space travel, where it's solar sails and laser flintlocks on this wooden space galley.
>>745924913>The Nigger Force Fuckshit KKK Smasher of Faggots Alpha Version V133.7bit on the nose with that name methinks.
>>745910738i just want to explore the far fringes of space and take survey reportsis that so much to ask?
>>745885251kek I remember getting X2 in a video game magazine, I looked at it and said I'll try it during one big summer vacationthat was ~15 years ago? perhaps I'll play it during retirement
>>745886943I knew someone who was chewing some gum when a mild car crash happenedRIP Jamal you were a great school clown but a dumb fuck
Why does shit need to be so big?
>>745882919i love u taiidan heavy cruisercapturing these made me feel safe in cataclysm
I wish more games gave you extensive custom options of your ship.
>>745928161>Libera Me from Hell starts playing
The Privateer box art from my childhood is always the first thing I think of when it comes to game ships.
Asymmetric is king. Fuck your soulless boxslop.
any organic or half-organic spaceships?
>>745921117sea creature ships are pretty cool
>>745922662Last time I played it only ever appeared once in some quest-line, and even then it was half buried.I think very early on the devs were planning to have a cutscene showing it, but it didn't make it into the game
>>745929257this is the aesthetic true 90's nerds were rollin with back in them daysI call it the Babylon 5 look
>>745929257I love Privateer, but the ship design is so chunky. I like base WC's stuff better.
>>745930287Privateer came out a year before the trash that was B5. Call it the Privateer look.
My ship has a church, a train station and a crypt in it.
>>745889043>In Amber Clad>Forward Unto Dawn>Shadow of IntentSome of the names Bungie gave their ships are pretty cool
>>745929221Start playing Space Engineers
>>745885251It's jank but for the wrong reasonsAnd then you realize the whole economy/production systems are rigged and it's not actually simulated
I love the amount of starship that exist in STO that isn't just Saucer Ship. Some Saucer ships are great (Shangri-La and the World Razer comes into mind), but I love how the dev at STOwiki would make alien ships. Sadly, this is gacha/lockbox/cashshop tier unless you do the annual event.
anyone here looking forward to this one?https://store.steampowered.com/app/3102780/CBeams/
>>745931114>STOwikiSTO, remove the wiki part
Always loved the providence freighter in eve online
>>745931162Never heard of it before and not really feeling those ship designs, but seems cool enough to follow for now.
Who cares about spaceships?Give me spaceplane
People are playing Aurora 4x
>>745885410I really want to try this game but the ship/ mount and blade esque management seems overwhelming.
>>745931570sir, a ramjet will not get us to the moon.
>>745884914For me it's the YT-1760.
>>745901335It always irked me just how much wasted real estate there is on the battlecruiser.
>>745933413I prefer the YT-B01.
>>745913848Because they're fucking lame.
>>745913848The bulk of aerodynamic ships in scifi are aerospace capable.
>>745916928I gave this game a shot. Unfortunately it really is just Truck Simulator In Space, and Elite Dangerous was always better for the vibes of space trucking without being literal trucks.
>>745889786Lol did they really just copy wh40k's homework and change the livery?
>>745930771
>>745914816"So... the miners have become warriors?"
I'm currently playing Star Wars Dark Forces. I think its cool whenever the ship flies in or out real time during the mission.
>Let me guess, you need more?
>>745901859bro lots of space games have ramming mechanics and playstyles that encourage that shit
>people wondering why ships don't just become massive squaresSetting aside the physics side, of which I have no understanding, you end up making your ship a larger target on its front by doing this. Seems better to me to slim down the front face as much as possible so that anyone firing on your front will have a smaller target.>but this makes other side (much) larger targetsYes, but engagements where enemies get good firing angles into your flanks probably shouldn't be comparable in number to engagements where the enemies are in front of you.
>>745929221Same. Picked up Cosmoteer recently for this feel.
For me, it's building a ship between two huge guns
>>745892317>You're on your own thenYeah, pretty much my spiritual regresion plothttps://youtu.be/yPUWwl0vLwIToo late by now but I always wanted somebody to understand, maybe next specie https://youtube.com/shorts/wuWaXQ-orfc
>>745885764That's just a separate module.
>>745896313To FTL's credit, there is one starting ship you can pick that can counter the flagship stock in which case it makes perfect sense why you're so important to the effort.
>>745888218>"How much can we make this look like a Star Trek ship without getting sued by CBS"
>>745927310Oh would you stop whining and awaken the ancient evil already so the real plot can start
>>745913848The Borg Cube is barely a ship, it's a space station with an engine strapped to it.
>>745889043The fact UNSC spaceships are giant guns with engines strapped to them helps set them apart from all the other Space UN box-ships.
>>745934565That's what I thought too, it's a 40k ship with the parts that make it look cool removed.
>>745918667>tfw Dash managed to survive the Mouse purge but not Kyle
What's cooler: a ship with guns mostly at the front that wants to point straight at the target, or a ship with big turrets that wants to broadside the enemy?
>>745928498taiidan ship designs other than the shoebox that's the mothership were smexo
>>745920330>Same as JRPG Both are retarded.A JRPG boss don't simply forget his skills, and while technology can be used wrong, here it is a plain matter of armor or activating extra gun. Even if you were to imply Progenitor tech only apply active armor and they didn't find the ON switch.
>>745939253Broadsides are coolerThe coolest is ships built around a single, crazy powerful mass driver that takes a long time to charge but rips shit apart when it fires
>>745929221>I wish more games gave you extensive custom options of your ship.StarsectorΔV: Rings of SaturnWayward Terran Frontier (thought it's kind of dead as a indy game)
>>745930356>My ship has>a train station>in it.Remind me the planned interior for the Bengal carrier does have a train.
MY ship is the best vidya spaceship
>>745882919Shit day at work. Thanks OutriderCHAD.
that's not the mandy, cmdr.
>>745922662>>745930146You can switch your base of operations now after a certain story quest. You can see some of it submerged, with your landing craft hovering above it, very cool. Also if you want to switch back, now the players can see the orbiter's model in orbit.
>>745941765This place looks stellar at night time but I get the feeling that the thread won't last that long until it switches so... Might update it if the thread is alive though.
i love space ship cutawaysthis is from exodus, supposed to come out next year
Ships built around giant guns are cool.
>>745941210Your ship is a lame copypaste of the originalI would prefer to pilot an actual piece of cheese.
>>745943597But anon the cheese would melt, and what kind of cheese? Anon youre melting in a stars orbit.
I like my retarded space vampire ships from endless space
Whats a good alternative to Elite Dangerous, other than NMS or Star Citizen? Idealy a first person cockpit space sim.
>>745944425X4
>>745945025Is that good?
>>745882919Bro don't just show me the Outrider like that so suddenly, I wasn't ready to spontaneously cum all in my pants
>>745939189Kyle being the main character of Rogue One would have made the movie 10000x better. That's the alternate reality I dream of.
>>745945048It's very German; in other words, detailed and autistic. You go from single seat fighters to commanding capital ships, all in first person.
>>745882919
>>745935049The games are so cozy and grandiose, they really wanted everything to feel huge and sprawling, and I actually think it shares a little bit of DNA with Turok in that regard, and the verticality and scale was far more incredible, plus the combat systems and totally nailing the Star Wars atmosphere, the Dark Forces series are just the perfect Star Wars games
>>745941210das like da ghost
>>745888914>actual scalefucking NLIPS.
>>745922872That is correct. Sorry reality doesn't agree with your asinine childhood fantasies. >>745923714Leijimoto is an overrated hack. Feel free to have a point.
>>745946164Im angry about how good the Ghost looks
>>745945940I miss darkorbit..
>>745943897The cheese is made from space cow milk, it doesn't melt.
>>745921196That's retarded. Why not flip the ship? Then no need for stupid boots and you can piss without it going up. The author sounds like a dipshit.
For me, it's the Otana.
>>745885410Did you mean to say Tempest?
>>745930994>And then you realize the whole economy/production systems are rigged and it's not actually simulatedQRD?
>>745943897You just need really old cheese
>>745947750Where's that copypasta about how A-wing pilots are suicidal adrenaline junkie maniacs or similar.
>>745931446Looks like the GR75 slimmed down
>>745883462>>745914060*teleports behind u**bombs ur mothership*
>>745950363https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgBELaqle7s
Make way
>>745882919>navy ship but in spacekino
>>745954703whatabout>samurais and navy ship but in spacehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE_oCVa1dx8
>>745931446fucking based
>>745954703That shit makes 0 sense. Unless lower half of the ship is made of unobtanium or has a massive plasma/EM field shielding from thrusters and point defences and retracted/covered weapon nacelles, its lower part is vulnerable and a blind spot. Space is multidimensional, not planar like surface of the sea/ocean or land. Shitfucked design.
The Expanse game is coming out. There will be so much ship kino
>>745955634I guess the lower half of the ship is made of unobtanium or has massive plasma/EM field shielding from thrusters and point defences and retracted/covered weapon nacelles. Pretty good design.
>>745954703Real space ships will never be setup like this. They will be oriented like skyscrapers with floors perpendicular to the long axis. That way they can provide some artificial gravity during accelerations. A ship like yours and the crew would just fall to the stern as soon as the engines started
>>745954468
>>745958307How do you know whether or not the internals aren't set up as you've described? Who says you can't have an aesthetic design AND have it be practical in a hard sci-fi setting?
>>745958157Dude, its just plasma thrusters and maneuver thrusters. Its a shit design.
>>745947641>what if millenium falcon but with a dick in its mouth.Gay.
any really classy aristocratic space ships?give me the rolls royce of vacuumboatsgive me the escaflowne of rocket safehouses
>>745959467https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4BCukdyXqg
>>745959751Might as well post everything I got now that I started.
>>745959820
>>745959751>>745959820honestly looks like a weapon an alien would hold
>>745959865That's all the Romanov ship pics I got.>>745959898Yeah, I liked the video version of it better.
>>745959961>"upgrade" 4 just revert everything to basey
I like Vodyani ships.
I've always liked spaceships that look like giant whalesThat and ships that are just giant ion canons with a command unit attached to it
>>745931570>Take the F-22>Cut off its noseAnyway, love me Longsword.
>>745946164The Asp Explorer is closer to the Ghost, complete with the double-deck cockpit design.
>>745960635It's also roughly the same size, conveniently. Shame that ship interiors is a never-ever though.
>>745959467It's not vidya but close enough.https://legendofthegalacticheroes.fandom.com/wiki/Brunhild
>>745960284>someone on 4chan complaining about a smaller noseHm.
>>745960963What are you talking about?There's several LOGH games out there, plus the mods for Sins of a solar empire and Stellaris.
>>745961039The design was originally for the anime and manga; splitting hairs I guess
>>745961083Yeah, fair enough, still it's a solid design.
>>745954703I can't find a good image of it, but the UNSF Omaha from the game shockwave assault was great
>>745960284>Longsword>it's wide
>>745961586>Broadsword>It's narrow
>>745882919For me, it's the Walkyr
>>745882919https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_aLNeMVrF8
I always like the Anvil heavy fighter from Pax Imperia Imminent Domain
>>745949825The factions are not actually simulated, they just get random goods and production out of thin air.
>find cool space game with cool ship designs>it's RTS slopFUCK OFF
>>745963502Fuck you too
Can't hold em alone
>>745963502Meanwhile, I'm disappointed that so many good ship designs are stuck in No Man's Sky
Did no mans sky ever add big ships with turrets? i really hate dogfightslop.
>>745964021Oh and Scam Citizen
>>745887417That's the point. It is a running joke in the EVE that Minmatar build their ships from scrap and duct tape
the one thing I actually liked about starfield
>>find cool space game with cool ship designs>everything is on a 2D plane>>745963502Those are the best kind.
The classic
>>745964008Would've been nice to have it shoot ground targets in flight mode, and airborne targets in walker mode. Nope, not allowed because esports would not like that. Esports ruins everything.
>>745964927>everything is on a 2D planeYeah, that sucks and wont change anytime soon, unless 3D displays pop into existence tomorrow.
>>745964951>Sakurai fanfic versionAt least post a real Arwing
>>745965219Cheeky.
>>745947750>>745949938Literally in this thread you, you double nerfherder. >>745901570
>>745965381Dude it's literally just the SF64 version with better texturing. I like the Star Wars style dirty look.
>>745949835Why is it intimidating when its under a dozen lines.
>>745965549When i say 3D displays, i mean actual genuine three-dimensional displays - holographic displays, not the crap they do in movies with those glasses. Actual, genuine, three-dimensional image.
Opinions on House of the Dying Sun?On the game itself more than the ship design.
>>745967283I know what you meant. I also know that you know what I meant.
>>745968519>I also know that you know what I meantI genuinely dont. Please tell me.
> thread full of SSTO starwars sciemce fantasy shitOut of my way faggots, multistage launches are kino
>>745930356Is that Rogue Trader?
Onslaught (Mk.1) my beloved
>>745970335Yes. The dlc let you explore the ship more
>>745930356I feel like it was a mistake to give you a frigate, a train line and a hidden cathedral would be more believably in a larger ship than one that's just a little over a kilometer long.
Is there any vidya spaceship that comes close to the sheer coolness of the Galactica or its big sister the Pegasus? Yes I'm still mad.
>>745968837Most space games don't have a Z axis, especially RTS games.
>>745889043Yeah Halo just rips off the Sulaco.
>>745972041Homeworld.
>Infinite space HD version never everIt hurts so bad!
>>745965381What a weird thing to sperg out about
>>745972041Oh. Lol.
>>745883180Ugh, side by side you can see they just upscaled the wings section and extruded different parts from each.
>>745884623I also think the Neucom jets are sexy as fuck... but they're planes, not spacecraft. Right? Spaceships have a good excuse for being asymmetric, non-aerodynamic lumps, and they can look cool on their own terms with that in mind. A jet, even a fictional one, is supposedly designed to fly in the air and is thus a wholly different thing.
Worth?
>>745974387Yeah that seems about right.
