Best mod faction for melee damage?

[ZachTheInsaneOne]

I've been searching around the Workshop for factions with a lot of melee damage blocks but I can't seem to find anything with really powerful damage. The only thing I've seen in the normal game with melee damage is one specific cube in the Sentinal faction, I'm not sure if there are others but I don't see any.

[danny420dale]

GATC's 14th Colony has a 'Battle Ram' piece with +2500% melee damage. However, this is offset by EXTREMELY PAINFULLY SLOW thrusters!

[ZachTheInsaneOne]

Originally posted by danny420dale:

GATC's 14th Colony has a 'Battle Ram' piece with +2500% melee damage. However, this is offset by EXTREMELY PAINFULLY SLOW thrusters!

Whoa, I don't need that kind of damage... I'm just looking for a lot of different parts with melee damage. 500% on each peice will be fine, I just want more variety in terms of shapes

[danny420dale]

Yeah, these tend to be secondary weapons. 14th Colony has enough good guns that are cheap enough to spam on your ship for MONSTER DPS.

Shadowoids from z0mbiesrock have a 'standard' +500% melee block, but every block and thruster have an extra zero added to the mass and thrust, respectively, because Dark Matter. Otherwise the blocks are similar to Terran, Laporien, or Sentinel bits, just bumped up to First Ones level firepower. Oh and they're pitch black which makes the durn things hard to build with and F███ING SCARY to fight!

[ZachTheInsaneOne]

Originally posted by danny420dale:

Yeah, these tend to be secondary weapons. 14th Colony has enough good guns that are cheap enough to spam on your ship for MONSTER DPS.

Shadowoids from z0mbiesrock have a 'standard' +500% melee block, but every block and thruster have an extra zero added to the mass and thrust, respectively, because Dark Matter. Otherwise the blocks are similar to Terran, Laporien, or Sentinel bits, just bumped up to First Ones level firepower. Oh and they're pitch black which makes the durn things hard to build with and F███ING SCARY to fight!

Cool. I found a good melee damage faction but the thrusters are, well, annoying to build with. I think I may make my own faction with insanely good thrusters and all blocks (even guns) have a lot of melee damage.

[sumplkrum]

If you know even a little about modding, it would be pretty simple to duplicate any faction you want and 'meleefy' all the blocks.

In the blocks.lua it only takes one line to make a block melee:
features=MELEE,

If there are already features, just add MELEE to the end.

Then if you want to make the damage even higher, you'd add this to the block:
meleeDamage=somenumber,

... a number of 5 would be 500%.

You can even add the melee attribute to projectiles and drones.

If you want a reference, my Yuuzhan Vong faction has a long melee tooth block, and an asteroid launcher that does melee damage.
The Zombies in Space faction has spikes, teeth, and thistle lauchers that all use melee damage.

[ZachTheInsaneOne]

Originally posted by sumplkrum:

If you know even a little about modding, it would be pretty simple to duplicate any faction you want and 'meleefy' all the blocks.

In the blocks.lua it only takes one line to make a block melee:
features=MELEE,

If there are already features, just add MELEE to the end.

Then if you want to make the damage even higher, you'd add this to the block:
meleeDamage=somenumber,

... a number of 5 would be 500%.

You can even add the melee attribute to projectiles and drones.

If you want a reference, my Yuuzhan Vong faction has a long melee tooth block, and an asteroid launcher that does melee damage.
The Zombies in Space faction has spikes, teeth, and thistle lauchers that all use melee damage.

I know nothing about modding, I tend to leave games as they are but this one is an exception, and I'm gonna mod the hell out of it. Thank you for the information! :D