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Iowa Class Battleship(US Navy 1943-Present)

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Recreated model of the Iowa Class Battleship used by the United States Navy from 1943-Present, only 4 of these ships were ever completed.

"The Iowa-class battleships were the biggest, the most powerful, and the last battleships built for the United States Navy. Four were built in the early 1940s for World War II; two more were laid down but were scrapped prior to completion. The four were decommissioned, then recommissioned in the 1980s, and decommissioned again in the 1990s." ~ https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/

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Preamble
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Thank you all for the popularity of my last ship, the Yamato, I will leave a link for anyone interested in looking at that later on.

I was going to build this ship on top of the old Yamato base and then change it up a tiny bit, but I decided you people deserve more, so I spent the last couple days doing a complete redesign of the ship, everything down to how the ballast is placed! I really hope you enjoy and am looking forward to the comments!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2490728956

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Information About Model
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Weapons:
-1 Rear Gun Large Caliber Gun*
-2 Front Guns Large Caliber Guns*
-8 Anti-Air Small Caliber Guns*

*Servos built into every gun to control angle of fire (Change angle of servo to change angle of gun [default 90 degrees]).

Engines:
-Two Main Boilers*

*Unrealistic to model but built according to game limitations

Other Features:
-Realistic Communications Wires (Not that the Iowa class had many)
-Ship Floats Independently
-No Frozen Parts
-Ship stabilized with gyroscopes*
-Working Propellers

*The ship may sink without them, I haven't tested this yet

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How to use
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Numpad:
* - Fires all main guns, front and back
/ - Fires all Anti-Air Guns

All the servos angles can be changed to fire the guns at a different angle.

Keyboard:
Enter - Turns on propellers

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Cons
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The ship unfortunately does not sink no matter how much damage you do. This is because of a game limitation(barrels will always float) and not because of anything I did when building this ship. You can make the barrels weightless to make the ship sink dependently.

Can on occasion lag quite a bit.

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Settings
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I have not needed to change any specific settings to get this ship to work
My current settings (no issues).
-All main features on except expanded gore
-Discrete collision
-64 iterations

N.B. THE SHIP IS CREATED WITH VANILLA PARTS ONLY, MOD ERRORS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SHIP!!

I imagine the ship could be quite laggy on lower end PC's or if multiple are spawned in