70 RAILGUNS VOLLEY FIRE TESTING - Space Engineers

Lets put the volley fire mode to the test and find out just how devastating 70 railguns firing in a staggered file can be.

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[LastStandGamers]

Is a wall of lead (one big shot) better than continuous fire ?

[elitemook]

'Open fire, destroy his framerate'
'Enemy ship returning fire, captain. Frame rate dropping.'
'If we have to crash to Desktop so will he. Prepare for ramming speed!'

[mediocreman]

Now we need to see the gravity runway in action. 😁

[RibbonsR]

"i want every gun we have to fire on that man"
"but they cant all point there"
"so put em on the front"

[Tallacus]

When the UNSC saw the MAC gun was their most effective weapon against the Covies, they went overboard with it

[crysisrevelation]

Shipwright: “How many railguns do you want on your ship?”
The Space Engineer: “ *YES* ”

[patrikhjorth]

And there it is. Very impressive.

I think it could be even stronger if the railguns were replaced by artillery, and the "artillery pods" were replaced by turrets with maybe 4 railguns.

Firing the artillery cannons in sequence like this, particularly in these numbers, would hammer through just about anything, and overwhelm anti-missile defenses. They would also be ready for another volley faster than the railguns.

When you need immediate penetration, that's when you switch to the smaller group of railguns.

In an otherwise even fight, I suspect the Rex Mortis has a slightly better chance of winning, simply because it can aim its railguns in different directions.

If the supercarrier gets the first shot, that will probably decide the fight, but if the Rex has time to begin shooting before the carrier has turned fully, it's likely a win for the Rex.

[ubj_skywalker]

Ngl I’ve always loved space engineers battles
Just wish there was more diverse battles on YouTube

But overall absolutely love this video!!

[amedeo]

To quote Major Payne" if he's in there he ain't feeling good "

[pavelsvacha]

I feel like the railgun volley will rarely disable/destroy a ship (unless you aim it at a great spot) but the amount of holes they make will make it difficult for the crew to operate effectively.

In my eyes it fits the ship perfectly, it is a carrier after all. The railgun volley will cripple the target and then with the Gravity runway the smaller fighters can finish it off.

[theempireofthepeople]

Maaan, it's so nice to see you actually cared enough about the comments to make an entire video ;)

[Erik_Ice_Fang]

Explosive tanks is just another good incentive to use ions or atmospheric engines as well. I go with the hybrid thruster setup in most of my ships

[MonkeyPirateKing]

All I have to say is....

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: DNT

[MiggyManMike]

Rex mortis, hands down, turreted railguns give way more versatility than a fixed forward array.

[TheVoice]

This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth.That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton's First Law?

[Drako]

Thanks for going back and testing out those rail guns!

[wolf]

Rex Mortis would win if there's only one player in the carrier. The main reason is the sloped armour plus the turrets for the railguns. Also not as rough on sim speed. I'd say if you got 6-12 players per ship then hell yeah that's a good fight for both, especially the carrier. After all, without fighters it's incomplete. Final note for the carrier is I'd say it works best as a projection of power. I'd probably remove most of the railguns, reducing it to 2 columns rather than 5 and swapping a good portion of the hydrogen for ion. Then again I just prefer the less explosive option.
Last thing of note, the space usage in the Rex Mortis leaves more empty internals that you aren't necessarily supposed to see, while the carrier has almost none with most empty space being hangars. One is a space battleship, tho other a mobile station. On a sufficiently beefy server, I'd say the carrier alongside a sufficient escort would be preferable, while the Rex would be better off with support of something not too much smaller, and only a few.

[VeromcaHughes]

The tumbleweed refused to tumble but was more than willing to prance.

[annkoehler]

Wow, what fun!!! Thank you for posting this!

[SoreonBrokeIt]

Damn, all your ship testing and reviewing video's make me want to refit and update al my older ships, if it weren't for these video's I'd barely know what's new anymore 😅