i would assume that most personnel are in crash couches for most of the battle and are probably stimmed. even then, i like to think that after every battle a few of the crewmen stroke out.
Lightning crews have an average combat lifespan of 2 minutes. Not because their ships get destroyed easily or anything, it's just that they all die at the first maneuver, which is also the last maneuver since the pilot passes out instantly and dies from brain hemorrhage.
I’m imagining this lightning with its 20% fuel zooming back to the Sevastopol with two haphazardly fixed cables attached to the prize ships…totally worth it
@@WiseArkAngel Nah, as someone with chronic migraines who throws up once or twice a week I can tell ya that it's way more comfortable, if one indeed can use that term in this regard, to throw up with something inside. Or as my uncle put it: "Better to fire with ammo."
Pilot: "So you're telling me I'll have to fly a 1.5 ton bucket with thrusters on steroids and armor as thin as paper?" Recruiter: "You get to fire 100mm cannons as fast as machine guns Pilot: "Sign me the f*ck up!"
At first I was like this is nice but mostly because proximity fuse is OP so it's nothing too impressive, but then the man dodged 4 guided missiles in the span of 10s and my jaw dropped. What a legend.
The lightning is pretty OP if used right, because shells and missiles are so slow. I wish there was some mechanic that punished you for pulling overGs too often like in Warthunder, the screen just becoming black is honestly an advantage because it makes seeing shells and enemies easier by removing all the clutter.
@@glockinmyrari445 I know, but it's not like you need that to dodge projectiles with the Lightning. It should completely black out your screen, if not stop you from controlling your ship for a second or two. Would require you to actually manage G forces and would prevent you from spamming it.
@@JohnDoe-jp4em then all the fun will go away, since it is single player game, you just can don't buy Lightnings to your fleet, but the idea is realistic, maybe this can be a toggle in options menu
It's a good thing in this universe they invented Hyper Tensile Materials, since the sheer force of whatever those engine mounts are made of is evidently hideous. Props to that crew for spending their entire lives in the equivalent of the centrifuge at NASA testing facilities
One helluva pilot! Also, watch carefully where the missiles that are launched at 0:39 and 1:48 land… great job making sure your bullets not only miss the enemy but hit your own guards XD
@@DesertsOfHighfleet Deathbricks with 100mm as main batteries will be banned. I have seen so many people abuse it's high dps and arm their doombricks with nothing but 100mm and the screen is just clogged with explosions.
@@DesertsOfHighfleet I remember playing Crossout a lot, something like Highfleet with the same strategic map where players have to battle it out in massive battles is very attractive to me.
If you are a massive supplies frigate and your escort of 8 ships gets decimated by a tiny locust in under 3 minutes, you KNOW surrendering is your only option
@@justanabramspassingby You do not actually need all that thrust to pull of similar gameplay. You can comfortably avoid most of enemies' projectiles with a thrust/weight ratio of like 4.0, add to that some armour and quad (or even sexpartite) 130 and you're golden. The best ship I've ever flown.
Nuclear driven. Of course. As with all shipcrafts - let us begin with fire. Free axes of movement - wonderful design. I will highlight that. Great acceleration -but can be improved. Speed is war. Feeble combat skills. Treatable. Those Gladiators may be of inspiration.
Я просто похлопаю. Я провел первые два боя в игре на своих самых слабых кораблях, так как сдвинул самые сильные вправо по списку. Я думал, что список идёт именно справа налево. И я воюю машинами с самым сильным вооружением. И я был так в этом уверен, что вполне справлялся этими стартовыми аппаратами. Меня не смогло переубедить даже отсутствие того колличества ракет, которые я ранее поставил на свои флагманы
@@WHEELES круглое нести, квадратное катить. Но в этой игре хрен проссышь что лучше :-) пока будешь ремонтировать крейсер, прилетят злые люди, засыпят ракетами :0
Who needs nukes with piloting skills surpassing 5 aces, and G-Force numbers higher than the cost of your own vessel? I'm not a great pilot myself, usually taking some damage in the firefights, but even I know this was some bonafide masterwork.
Fought off a strike group with 3 lightnings (I ran out of fuel as I tried to fry away) which I had upgraded with zenith’s and bombs. It took me spamming the main menu button to reset about a dozen times but I eventually pulled it off. You on the other hand are very skilled, good job
Lightnings are super fun but just over a hundred hours in the game have seen me become so old and feeble from the constant stress that I literally cannot handle piloting one anymore, If only they had told me about the health risks.
In my first walkthrough, I brought my interceptor team of Lightning and it's deranged custom cousin Thunder (with 4 additional manuever engine that blacked out on acceleration) to catch Typhoons... and instead running into endgame SG of 8 ships with 5 of those being heavy cruisers. I won on 8th try with IRL massive nosebleed and 2% fuel left in Lightning. That was pure insanity.
Lightning is just the finest ship in HighFleet. Its so maneuverable you dont need any flares. The damage output is great and all this for a dirt cheap price. Just dont use it against a strike force. Lightning deserves better then that.
I used a one 130mm canon instead 2 starting guns. Surprisingly it was far better because could easily penetrate armor and was highly accurate from close distances. Additionally it could be used against flying fortresses
У меня была тактика простая до безумия, создаём обвешанную бронёй в два наката избушку на курьих ножках, доводим боевую мощь до 24-26 на 100мм снарядах, Летаем ей одной и караем предателей, мутантов, ксеносов и еретиков!) Ибо всё остальное лишнее и от лукавого.
И ремонт днями в ангаре. Толи дело истинное мастерство и красота маневра. Если ты любишь свой корабль он вынесет тебя из любого ада и заставит тебя воспарить в свете сияния его.
The lightning is such a cool ship but its insanely stressful to fight with it. I built a smaller version thats basically a lightning jr. and it works much better with less stress.
I'm actually curious on how crue members cope with the amount of maneuvering you'd do in those flying bricks. Do they strap themselves down to seats? Or do they stand around like in battleships hoping that they don't get flung around when the ship starts swinging left and right?
One time I had 3 prize ships in a city that I didn’t expect. I tried to spare the 3 when I killed the escort but unfortunately the game didn’t count it as victory since they had 1 small escort after the last transport. I sadly killed the smallest prize ship :(
making a ship spinout and then pushing them into the ground is a risky but incredibly OP strategy, if you're mad enough you can take on a sg with a few lightnings that way.
