Highfleet 1.16 - Kodiak Battlecruiser 

If you shatter everybody's eardrums while they sleep, technically it's silent now

Жаль что в этой игре нет возможности стрелять орудиями не заходя на поле боя. Уверен его пушечная батарея уничтожила бы врага ещё на подлёте.

Wait so u do a beefed up moon lander style then just fight forever? Try to understand the concept of the game

So, I really want to use it but any time I replace the Sevastopol my game instantly ends. Got any solution to that?

@@minimurder2832 Uh, that shouldn't happen. Are you replacing the Sevastopol's file or? Because you can just load it as a standalone ship and it'll be marked as a flagship for you to use.

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Highfleet gods: "Launch the alert fighters. Set condition one throughout the fleet. Rig for flight quarters." Highfleet is best enjoyed as a carrier admiral simulator.

​@@jamesharding3459 So wait, endgame Highfleet is a Battlestar Galactica run?

@@TheNapster153 That's how I play it. A massive, well-built carrier, shepherding a fleet of support craft, with a few small attack ships leading small raiding task groups.

​@@TheNapster153some dude did build the pegasus on this game, so yes

Hey free glass

I'm just thinking damn how much fuel would that actually eat up irl just to do that

@@hourglassesandphatasses it's likely nuclear-powered impellers or something similar on scale of power output.

@@EllAntares Nah the game clearly states that we use fuel. It is very abundant on this planet though.

“ENGINE OVERHEATING”

"Copy, proceed to landing bay 12" "Uhh yea. About that. I didn't say we wanted bay 2 OR 12. I said we wanted bay 2 TO 12.

"Which landing pad will you be using?" "Yes"

Isn't Sevastopol a not very good ship to start with? It's a half oil tanker I believe, Nomad can easily surpass Sevastopol

@@dyingember8661 That is until you modify the shit out of it and it becomes flying death on steroids

@@cyrolocker1229 That just breaks the whole convention, my guy, anything can be modified, so there is no point to compare things anymore.

@@dyingember8661 Its still the same Sevastopol, I’ve just slapped enough armor and guns to commit several war crimes on strike groups

@@cyrolocker1229 Sigh... you just don't know what I'm talking about.

This is recorded in 1.16 where not only does the AI use more ASM's, both missiles and shells become harder to shoot down with CIWS to the point that it's better to save your 37mm bursts for a higher chance of taking a missile out rather than trying to neutralize incoming shells(since the hit/destruction chance post-patch is incredibly low). I've purposefully included the fact that im selecting incendiary CIWS ammunition before combat shown here, as the special ammo increases the damage against missiles and shells significantly which has a major effect on survivability.

Simply Clever.

@@PineCone227_ Wow you even know the motto!

@@DamazViccar Who doesn't haha

Coincidence, but I guess yeah.

@@PineCone227_ Coincidence?

@@adamofblastworks1517 I had not known about the C&C's Kodiak while making this, so it's a coincidence that I happened to make a battlecruiser named "Kodiak" that's sort of similar.

tbf that general shape and design has existed for a long time in scifi well before C&C.

@@carterstrain9951 Yeah, it's essentially sized up Nostromo

If that's a behemoth, then how about this?: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--xIAhSJM9Do.html

GDI are salivating

Imagine being the technician trying to troubleshoot why the fuel quantity isn't displaying the way it should.

Airman?

@@HPMlangdale imagine going through 5km of piping just to find the leak 💀

Yeah the docks do *slightly* catch fire upon touchdown, just the effect of having a fairly high TWR on a ship as large as this

​@@PineCone227_ bruh, I'm pretty sure you just burned a quarter of the city!

Well to each of their own - I classed it based on it's relative tonnage aswell as speed and armor.

@@PineCone227_ Wait, this thing is fast?

@@Mariner797 Well it outspeeds all strike groups and transports, and strikes fast enough for enemy garrisons to not have time to raise the alarm if under the cover of night(it's spotted visually during the day most of the time), so I would say yes, relatively speaking it's quite fast for it's tonnage. It also has to be utterly terrifying for the crew of enemy ships watching that thing catch up to them.

@@PineCone227_ Nice. Well done for building that. Is the armor (comparatively) shite though?

@@PineCone227_ Well half its tonnage is engine and a further full quarter is made up of maneuvering thrusters

If they requested "Yes" amount of guns on this, how many did they request to end up with this superdreadnought?: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--xIAhSJM9Do.html

@@PineCone227_ "YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!...". That is amount of guns that've been requested. Also that is how loud they are. Also that is my reaction. And also that is the answer of "how low is the FPS on that video".

​@@PineCone227_ "How many?" "Dakka."

Thanks!

Considering the lightest ships in this game weigh around 1000 tons, it better have weight behind it.

Hey free crisps

and giving the other half a lethal dose of radiation

Could easily fit more.

So many C&C references in these comments when during the making of this ship I had no idea lol

@@PineCone227_ Did you use some kind of reference image when building this ship? Because it is even shaped (from the side) just like the Kodiak. Instantly recognizable to CnC fans, which is why you re getting so many references.

@@darthamarr I did use the following images for inspiration while building: www.reddit.com/gallery/vw9qyi ^ Credit to u/Edelweiss_88 on Reddit Aswell as steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1635359997290926050/DC573ADD4F8C96D82B7FADF3644E6F41110E3111/ ^ Credit to Emerald on Steam

@@PineCone227_ static.wikia.nocookie.net/cnc_gamepedia_en/images/d/d1/Kodiak_CC2_Cine1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180801164724 ^ That's how the Kodiak from CnC looks, you can instantly tell the similarities between the small bridge sticking up in the middle, and the large thruster sections on the side. That's why so many of us old CnC players are instantly thinking it's a Kodiak reference, especially when you've accidentally given it the exact same name XD Heck, even your described role for the vessel fits the CnC Kodiak.

Also, most Kodiaks lounge around in the upper atmo where even Nod Missles have a hard time tapping. Yes, they can but any missle that is capable of doing so also instantly ends up on GDI's hit list. A-SAT system makes surface to orbit strikes worse as you can expect near immeadiate Ion Cannon retaliation doing so.

It’s from Tiberium sun

Nearly done - the savefile where I have it as my flagship has the fleet nearing Khiva with a strong complement of other ships picked up along the way and over 150k gold in the bank.

The Governor's Varyag never stood a chance with that monstrosity of yours. Its basically a space battlecruiser it's got a hangar bay for interceptors, CRAMs for missile warfare and the damn 180's dispensing freedom tree's towards the enemy

The Sevastopol is a flying turd.

Kodiak, Alaska

@@casuspacis3196 true

Just expensive enough to take all your money at the start of the game, but you actually get to use it in campaign mode.

I wish so too.

@@PineCone227_ The game breaks or overhauls every custom design every update though

Highfleet is ridiculously immersive with the way its UI integrates with gameplay. The few parts of the UI that could be artificial are still very believable - such as the green lines over the landing gear and landing pads looking like the holographic displays many military aircraft have.

The game's linked in the description so yeah, definitely worth checking out.

I am the author of the ship, built it in one sitting from scratch - took around 3 hours for the general design and about 2h for tweaks (I remember it being around 8pm-1am).

@@PineCone227_ Dedication man, dedication 🎉

Nuclear on a flying machine... And under what power do you intend lifting all the lead/concrete shielding? Also, you could only power turbines which created lift from compressing air because nuclear is mostly a glorified steam generator, burning gas on that front is way more efficient. Airfoil designs are much more plausible and they have been tried IRL, but the issue of weight remains.

@@cdgonepotatoes4219 all of the ships in the lore use air breathing nuclear ramjets, the methane is just propellant

they *are* nuclear, the methane is just propellant

@@cdgonepotatoes4219 the larger it gets the better nuclear would be from a fuel weight standpoint alone. Just how much fuel you think an aircraft carrier would burn staying aloft hmm?

To be clear, no computer configuration(both videos were recorded on an OC'd I7-9700K and RTX 3080Ti) changed here. The ship's just smaller.

Sounds like a worthy flagship to me :p Support ships are still useful to have with you though. You never know when your carelessness puts you between 2 strike groups in missile range and you need a second carrier as the Kodiak's complement of aircraft can't intercept every strategic munition thrown at you from 2 different bearings.

Using maximum reheat thrust with the fire suppression system acting as additional engine cooling allows for a much higher rate of deceleration or even aborting descent outright, but is unadvised by maintenance crews for the strain it puts on the Kodiak's engines. As such it's only utilized when performing evasive maneuvers in combat when no other option will suffice. Besides, the crew tends to complain when they get pushed into the ground at several G over standard gravity

Missiles have fairly narrow tracking cones, so if you dump a lot of flares and then use the ship's high TWR to quickly dodge, the missile can be left tracking the flares where the ship once was, rather than the actual ship. (Im not really utilizing that here as im focusing more on directing the guns and CIWS - with a ship this large you need to be wary of colliding with other vessels and also keeping your firing arcs optimal, which leaves your typical evasive flying you'd do with a lightning out.)

Definitely worth checking out. It's linked in the description

The engineers can't give a more detailed damage report because their vision is obscured by the fire, so they report what they see.

If Starsector's anything like this I guess I gotta play it

Now how do you explain to them that the Kodiak is just the forward scout for the heavy carrier group consisting of Nemezida, Imperiya (800 meters, 310k tons each) escorting Drakon (1700 meters, 750k tons)

True that. (Also replacing the crew quarters with an additional engine and swapping 2x AK-100 for 2x D-80)

Skip to 1:44 in the video, lots more than landing happening there ;) Highfleet is a strategy game at the core, but recording the strategic map wouldn't serve well to demonstrate the capability of a ship design, so my videos focus on the parts where you control the ship directly - during combat and landing sequences. The reason so many comments refer to the seemingly banal act of setting the ship down on the ground is because it's very much an inside joke within the community that getting your ships into the docks without damage is exceedingly hard. I never found this the case, but someone not used to flight mechanics in simulation games might struggle.

The immense amount of debris left after the fact will pay for the repairs.

If you liked the feeling of the game from this segment you should probably try the full experience as it's all this and much more.

I mean hey, Highfleet is by all means a great game and definitely worth a try ;)

Так вот из за кого цены на бензин такие высокие

FTL's ASB gives you a while of warning before your ship is hit. First you detect it locking in, then you're warned about a successful lock, and even after it fires you have a handful of seconds of "shells incoming" to get out of the way before finally it punches a hole in your hull. Not so much with the Kodiak - automatic 180mm's give no warning and the travel time to target is not very long.

@@PineCone227_ Yeah it's way hotter, uhm 'cooler' i mean. How much did it take to build?

@@Mik-hm9tb As I mentioned in another comment, it took me around 3 hours for general design work and another 2 hours for tweaks. Although the Kodiak emerged from the 3rd or 4th attempt at building a battlecruiser based around these specifications so add to that an undeterminate amount of time spent on previous prototypes which were scrapped due to lack of time, motivation or creative inspiration.

She sure is. Thanks!