so i am making the largest cannon in this game. ever.

[Mr Blue]

this cannon inspire by the largest cannon in real life (i forget the name)

but its was useless, the explosive damage wont reach more than 570 damage.

for kinetic power just add more barrel. but it seems pointless (only instan kill 1 block)

the AP can get up to 9.99 (its ok by me)


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=362043403

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=362043518

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=362043489

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=362043452

tested on kingstead, need 5 round to break that armor.

is cannon hopeless ? what is the ultimate weapon beside this cannon?

we will find out

[Ryashon]

Try a no guage all explosive round cannon. It'll shred a Warden in seconds.

[Foresh]

Then there's lasers, oh boy.

[Hansuki]

The biggest cannon still pales in comparison to a medium sized laser. Ballistics are getting a buff in the new year tho.

[Foresh]

Then there's lasers, oh boy.

[Mr Blue]

Originally posted by Hansuki:

The biggest cannon still pales in comparison to a medium sized laser. Ballistics are getting a buff in the new year tho.

hope so

[Eckard]

If we can only get so much spread/pen on one round, what about making a bighueg array? Nice to see someone doing some experimenting, though.

[Mr Blue]

what the meaning of bighueg?

[Eckard]

Big/Huge. For our purposes, stupidly large. I mean, if we're already going that way with the gun, why not, right?

[BaconofWar]

Guage is capped out at 20, but I have no idea what that really means other than the first guage increase block is 1, while those after only add 0.8 however I've found you can add more guage blocks for like 8-12 more kinetic damage per block. I've found ap great against wood, ok against metal but since missles seem to be more powerful than most cannon.... I just rack up 8x3 mixed torps and ir missles onto a shielded turret and party with that.

[SoulTechnology]

so.... i could rant, or brag, or just casually state some things... or better yet, ill let you all find out for yourselves

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=368597413

[SoulTechnology]

best part, its cost effective and since extensive testing has the longest range missiles I can produce (with 4 payload slots) is about 500 to 1600 metres with a speed of little over 20, this cannon kind of makes itself useful for being able to kill a kingstead at 1900 metres (longer if you control it instead of AI) and attacked stuff going way faster as they get closer (ai has limited aiming ability)… I’m not BRAGGING like some people do, I’m just showcasing how to break ‘limitations’ as well as this canon is the panicle of examples on how I always pack more punch into what looks like a small weapons system (you ever wonder why ‘realistic’ ship designs have so much spare space underneath in this game?).

[SoulTechnology]

and now that there patched, lasers have to actually dig through armore, whiel this cannon can destroy a 10x10x10 area of solid metal beams (the hardest to kill block in the game) in one 'shot'.... while a lser could possibly beat that in armore chewing, the neecsary cost to get that accuracy, (while AI may not, the cannon has LITERALLY PERFECT ACCURACY)... range of around 2 kilometres, and can chew through 10 metal beams in 2 seconds (the rate of fire for this gun)... not to mention the power needed... while maintaining a cost similar to this gun (laser systems and large engines get really expencive), so these methods of contruction are BRINGING CANNONS BACK!!!!

[Ryashon]

Wow. I tried this cannon out and this thing can put giant holes in a Kingstead. Very impressive!

[Mr Blue]

Originally posted by Ryashon:

Wow. I tried this cannon out and this thing can put giant holes in a Kingstead. Very impressive!

please refer the ammo, defence and cost problem. can that thing pass 2 layered shield lvl 10?

[SoulTechnology]

ill test it out, i know one layer only slighty deflects damage, but the shot still hits its target, i will runa test against sloped metla armore with metal beams behind, a layer of 10 shields on reflect, and another layer ontop of that on level 10 distrupt (that should be the highest deflecting setup) although the AP on the thing is around 13 if i rmemebr (large shells) but the way the cannon is set up means it behaves uniquly and counters allot fo methods fo shell destortion (such as sloped armore, shields, and the spinning armore on a coffinm anil)... basiclaly, all deflection %'s should be devided by 5 (so a 50% chance the shell will deflect will turn into 10) with this cannon, not to mention its 2 second reload time... i will get back to you with test results.