They're even smart enough to avoid routes that are already jammed with other people.
Your crew are smart enough to figure out what controls need operating, what systems need ammo or power, and how best to get around your ship. When a weapon wants to shoot, the crew go pick up ammo or batteries at an ammo factory or reactor and bring them to the weapon-all simulated in real-time.Ĭrew are pretty smart and act mostly on their own, which is a good thing since there can be so many. Crew not only operate its controls, but they also carry supplies such as ammunition and power batteries to weapons and systems. Intelligent Crew SimulationĮvery starship is operated by a crew numbering from half-a-dozen to hundreds-sometimes more than a thousand-of individually-simulated people.Ī ship's crew is its lifeblood. Painting your ship is free and has no effect on gameplay.
The exterior of a ship is like an artist's canvas, but it requires no drawing ability to make your ship look great! Simply pick a color and texture to customize your ship's basic appearance, then optionally add decals such as shapes, symbols, and letters to give it extra visual flourish. Best-In-Class Starship Designerĭesign the greatest starship ever made using an interface that is easy-to-learn yet incredibly flexible.īuild your ship by placing individual modules onto a grid-weapons, shields, engines, reactors, crew's quarters, and more! Few restrictions and no pre-defined, creativity-limiting hull shapes mean you can create almost any ship you can imagine. A dynamic crew and combat simulation makes every design decision important and interesting. Battle other starships to earn bounties and use that money to expand your own ship. Design a fleet of ships by laying out individual rooms and corridors, including cannons, lasers, shields, and thrusters. While Railguns are the major new feature in 0.14.1, there are also a ton of more minor improvements, bug fixes, and modding features, all of which you can read about in the changelog.Cosmoteer is a starship design, simulation, and battle game. Additionally, if any single piece of a Railgun is destroyed, then the whole thing chain-reacts and explodes, possibly causing collateral damage around the Loader if it is containing any shells at the time. Crew must deliver power to every Accelerator segment individually, and if a single Accelerator is out of power, then the entire Railgun can't shoot, meaning longer Railguns can have a lower rate of fire unless their crew are highly efficient at powering every Accelerator. For every Accelerator that is added, the Railgun requires that much more power to shoot. Long enough Railguns can even penetrate through enemy shields!īut very long Railguns aren't without their downsides. Every additional Accelerator that is added increases the fired slug's speed, damage, and penetration depth.Īs can be seen in the above screenshot, extremely long Railguns (such as the one on the newly-redesigned Archangel) can reach incredible damage and penetration, often shooting all the way through enemy ships, wreaking havoc in their path. Every Railgun has both a "Loader" (where the cannon shells are loaded and where the crew operate the controls) as well as a "Launcher" (where the slug exits the Railgun at high speed), and they can also have any number of optional "Accelerators" placed in between the Loader and Launcher.
And, like the Ion Beam Emitter, the Railgun is a fixed-direction weapon that cannot aim independently of its ship.īut perhaps what makes the Railgun the most interesting is that it is actually constructed using three different kinds of parts and can be built in various different lengths. Because the railgun uses magnets to accelerate the slugs, it requires both cannon shells and power to fire. These slugs can reach extremely high velocity, allowing them to inflict great damage and penetrate deep into enemy ships, often destroying vital enemy systems in the process. The Railgun is a projectile weapon that uses magnets to accelerate an explosive slug down a pair of long magnetic rails.
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