An interesting proposition. Now you need to use a programming block missile script to automate it, and have patrols of these fly all around the planet to shut down air travel!
Nick Van Riper That’s a really inefficient way of shutting down planetary traffic, especially while you can bomb the planet from orbit making building on the planet completely useless.
This parachute trap could be installed on some of your own ships to stop people from stealing them, or in some ship cases can actually benefit the design. Could evolve into some new bizarre vehicles I'd say.
This is like one of those booby traps on NPC ships, if you don't hack the warhead hidden somewhere it will blow up the ship as you reverse thrust it with inertia dampeners. For people that isn't too aware of your ship's design it can be quite lethal.
Yeah that would be cool but also with putting it on a timer it could end up going off before it causes the ship to crash or lose control and do little damage amd it probably would make them think they are being shot at
This would be more effective if it were disguised as a miner/welder drone. Groups of 3-6 players working on a ship probably wouldn't even question the extra drone, assuming it belongs to one of their own guys. If you want to troll your own faction, you could also build parachutes and overridden gyros (but renaming them, to make them harder to find), and activating them via remote control. In addition to a few parachutes, maybe have one or two overridden gyros, a sensor and mine to blow it up if it's discovered, a program that activates once the vessel it's attached to exceeds 200m altitude...
r3dp9 if your gonna troll your own crew then why not just rename all of the important components of a fairly complex ship so the have a very hard time finding thrusters doors ect.
Here's a cool concept. You could have a system of those around a planet to assist any crash landing ships, like a heavily damaged ship that just took some fire in a fight that doesn't have the power to land can call in some assistance.
So basically if I'm playing on a server with you, I should make my rockets NASA style: multiple stages, with sections that drop off and stay behind.....
Just imagine this, but with that tracking system mod/script he show cased (or at least I think he did) in another video, so you could use it as a passive AA machine.
Something I did to my friend while he was trying to test a new ship to get into space, was I slowly filled every container on his ship full of gravel. Worked. Amazingly.
Darian Stephens yes but if it was part of a set up its safe to say you may already be under attack. Plus it may be hard to regain control once you spiral out of control.
Perhaps, but the best thing to do in this situation is hold still and let the parachutes disengage, even if you take some hits in the process; you won't be able to flee with those attached, so that's about all you can do. As for control, you're probably right. I still don't think it would be terribly difficult to regain control if you realize what's happening reasonably fast and slow down.
The trick would be realizing what's happening. A lot of people don't even use parachutes, and even those who do may not remember that the parachutes disengage at zero velocity... especially in the heat of the moment.
if they almost stopped moving they would start to fall and land because the thrusters are not that powerful. and if the ship gets flung sideways the second the parachute diploid and you were simply trying to get to space then you probably would have no chance of recovering.
First off, most people will panic why their ship isn't under their control instead of thinking "oh it's a parachute trap I can slow down and get rid of it", as well as creating stuff like a gyroscope going totally haywire and not allowing the ship to go to a total stop. Secondly, this trap can actually make use of the concept. Whatever this thing can and will target isn't going to be a tiny and weightless object, and that object will need time to slow down or just trying to man up and go through it, which buys incredible time for fighters/similar class ships to swarm that object down. Thirdly, as long as the parachute trolling trap isn't detached, it can still deploy again if you set automatic deploy.
One flaw in the design is Turrets will counter you pretty hard and any smart player builds turrets. Id Turret my main ship just to protect from this and the gear being the front probably get shot to much to attach.
You would be surprised how many look past turrets. I used to play on a server and would go around with a small ship just doing flybys with nothing shooting at me
Not if this thing is very very heavily armored. A single gatling has problems getting through heavy armor and missiles are expensive. And it's just a trolling design don't be so overly butthurt about it guys...
When out in space, its always funny to attach some gravity generators to make their ship spin on them. Its even funnier them trying to figure out what is going on. Its always funny until it happens to you.
I think a possible fix for this( besides turrets ) would be a jamming device, expensive, short range, and for blocking remote control blocks only; everything could communicate through the grid.
I started using these a lot in the past few days and my brother learned to send decoy ships up before launching the real thing so what I did was I hid it inside his massive ship by hiding it in a hidden empty cargo bay and when he launched and I activated the parachutes it went crazy and he had no clue what happened.
you could put a turret and a grinder on there. First jam them and make them land,then grind open the ship to kill the grew,then salvage the entire ship and build more jammers with the material
I got overwhelmed by the game today when i joined for the first time i thought i know what i was gonna do. To orrow when im up im gonna try again and actually try to understand the controls and the basics and then join some kind of server to just spectate and ask questions.
I found a method of using cameras parachutes and remote controls in a different but similar way. I was sneaking in to my brothers base through a tunnel which connects our bases and I kept slowly editing his massive carriers which he was preparing for an assault on my base (our bases are quite far apart but I use a quick sideways elevator to get to him) so I put parachutes in his big ships as well as control aerial things and cameras at the front. I set off the parachutes on the vessels one by one as they approached my base and then used my secret weapon. My secret weapon being an orbital cannon which launches a missile which spreads groups of warhead across massive areas. He is still super p*ssed off at me after 6 weeks
What would happen if you stuck a bunch of artificial mass on instead? Maybe a timer on it, sensing the grid it attaches to and turns on the mass? It would require less mats, I think.
Those ship reviews you did on those huuuge ships few months back. Yeah the really big ones. How many of these troll thingys are requaired to stop a huuuge ship?
but it wouldn't crash as much (when the ship goes down it would pull the nose up and when ship goes up, pull nose down) the ship would just be wobbling uncontrollably, which may be useful but crashing is as well (especially with the ground eating ships whole)
if you have a faction base on the planet and one of your heavy ships needs help do to engine,power, or overweight you could in theory to save alot of the ship or use it to salvage ships and take them down into the planet
dab nugget could just fly a cruise missile into their craft, or perform a strafing run with an anti-ship bomber, targeting engines. To build this in survival would be resource-taxing at best, if not impossible, since there simply isn't enough hydrogen produced by one oxygen generator to counter gravitational pull while proceeding at full thrust.
I tried this on a server with friends and forgot we had the speed mod and tiered thrusters put a t4 thruster on it and the landing gear drone became a sabot with a parachute
I'm thinking maybe you could make a really small rc drone that will seek the controls of the ship then it will latch on and drill to the controls then take over the ship
i did this, but instead of parachutes, i used clang (lots of rotors, pistons, and a grinder) it was bigger than this, but i was going after a giant mother ship that was about to break the atmosphere, I drill into the hull so i wouldn't be shot at by the turrets for longer than i wanted, then i activated the clang warhead...the ship spazed out, and it broke everything, and my game, it took 20 min to recover frame rate, but i got to see the debris of the once mighty ship, and my drone...XD...
Really trolly. Hahahaha. This can also be useful when capturing pirate amospheric cargo ships and landing them safely after disabling turrets and engines.
My mind went the opposite way lol what if you had a drone ship that used these to save other ships that get to damaged and start falling out of the sky... or use them to stop a disabled enemy ship from completely being destroyed so you can get more resources from them
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An interesting proposition. Now you need to use a programming block missile script to automate it, and have patrols of these fly all around the planet to shut down air travel!
Nick Van Riper That’s a really inefficient way of shutting down planetary traffic, especially while you can bomb the planet from orbit making building on the planet completely useless.
planet police doesn't sound that bad...
Last14 would take way to many bombs
Last14 He ment shut down air travel, not destroy the surface of the planet.
"That's a really inefficient way of shutting down air traffic" *manufactures enough warheads to destroy the surface of a planet*
You should “test” it on a server with a bunch of random people.
Better yet, Challenge Captain Jack or Ecto Sage to a air battle with frigates, and pull this out as a secret weapon.
Dylan Wilkerson I
YES!
i like the idea
I don't think there is such a thing as a "server with a bunch of people" in Space Engineers
I'm in one
Basically what happens when you screw up your parachute staging in Kerbal Space Program.
Exactly!
"cut the parachute"
"oh sh*t it's a different game"
"shoot it"
true dat
love you
:)
This parachute trap could be installed on some of your own ships to stop people from stealing them, or in some ship cases can actually benefit the design. Could evolve into some new bizarre vehicles I'd say.
Koldraxon Of the First Seven
Ever heard of our lord and saviour "access denied?"
Pilot seat can quickly hack.
Parachute is like a surprise trick.
This is like one of those booby traps on NPC ships, if you don't hack the warhead hidden somewhere it will blow up the ship as you reverse thrust it with inertia dampeners.
For people that isn't too aware of your ship's design it can be quite lethal.
Why not add a warhead so that you can blow up the dart so they can’t reuse it/don’t know what caused the crash.
preferably on a timer set to a minute or so, shold be enough to crash them
Frits wait, Mrs. Robinson's a man?!
GusCraft460 might not have the uranium
Yeah that would be cool but also with putting it on a timer it could end up going off before it causes the ship to crash or lose control and do little damage amd it probably would make them think they are being shot at
Just use a sensor to detct players nearby, if they get too close (grind it down and reprogram it), cause it to detonate, :D
This would be more effective if it were disguised as a miner/welder drone. Groups of 3-6 players working on a ship probably wouldn't even question the extra drone, assuming it belongs to one of their own guys.
If you want to troll your own faction, you could also build parachutes and overridden gyros (but renaming them, to make them harder to find), and activating them via remote control.
In addition to a few parachutes, maybe have one or two overridden gyros, a sensor and mine to blow it up if it's discovered, a program that activates once the vessel it's attached to exceeds 200m altitude...
r3dp9 if your gonna troll your own crew then why not just rename all of the important components of a fairly complex ship so the have a very hard time finding thrusters doors ect.
u should totally use that against jack when they try and go into space
The space police would have a lot of fun with this toy.
Woop woop das da sound of da police
Here's a cool concept. You could have a system of those around a planet to assist any crash landing ships, like a heavily damaged ship that just took some fire in a fight that doesn't have the power to land can call in some assistance.
Christian Hayes y u no plY diz gam
wow from actual trolling to emergency response..
Christian Hayes dang thats awsome
I play on a rp server where someone actually did this
Put a sensor on it, once it's 50m off the ground, the parachute deploys
And when the ground triggers the sensor after that the warhead explodes!
You need to actually test these things on real servers against unsuspecting victims
couldn't you also put a seat on that thing and use another players rocket to get into space?
That’s it, I’m doing it
I never thought I would see the day, where parachutes were weaponised
You can put a warhead on it to prevent the opponent from using it on you and to cause more problems for the guys ship
So basically if I'm playing on a server with you, I should make my rockets NASA style: multiple stages, with sections that drop off and stay behind.....
or make a ship and encase it with a disposable turret shell
so if it attached somewhere on your ship you can get rid of it?
dab nugget Basically. And nullify it. But that means I'm gonna have to design it in such a way that it isn't obvious I have stages.
or have a flight seat on a hydrogen tank with one thruster
no, just get heavy turrets
Just imagine this, but with that tracking system mod/script he show cased (or at least I think he did) in another video, so you could use it as a passive AA machine.
Something I did to my friend while he was trying to test a new ship to get into space, was I slowly filled every container on his ship full of gravel.
Worked. Amazingly.
The thing is, you can easily counter this by bringing your vehicle to a stop; parachutes automatically detach themselves once velocity is near zero.
Darian Stephens yes but if it was part of a set up its safe to say you may already be under attack. Plus it may be hard to regain control once you spiral out of control.
Perhaps, but the best thing to do in this situation is hold still and let the parachutes disengage, even if you take some hits in the process; you won't be able to flee with those attached, so that's about all you can do. As for control, you're probably right. I still don't think it would be terribly difficult to regain control if you realize what's happening reasonably fast and slow down.
The trick would be realizing what's happening. A lot of people don't even use parachutes, and even those who do may not remember that the parachutes disengage at zero velocity... especially in the heat of the moment.
if they almost stopped moving they would start to fall and land because the thrusters are not that powerful. and if the ship gets flung sideways the second the parachute diploid and you were simply trying to get to space then you probably would have no chance of recovering.
First off, most people will panic why their ship isn't under their control instead of thinking "oh it's a parachute trap I can slow down and get rid of it", as well as creating stuff like a gyroscope going totally haywire and not allowing the ship to go to a total stop.
Secondly, this trap can actually make use of the concept. Whatever this thing can and will target isn't going to be a tiny and weightless object, and that object will need time to slow down or just trying to man up and go through it, which buys incredible time for fighters/similar class ships to swarm that object down.
Thirdly, as long as the parachute trolling trap isn't detached, it can still deploy again if you set automatic deploy.
One flaw in the design is Turrets will counter you pretty hard and any smart player builds turrets. Id Turret my main ship just to protect from this and the gear being the front probably get shot to much to attach.
You would be surprised how many look past turrets. I used to play on a server and would go around with a small ship just doing flybys with nothing shooting at me
even if the landing gear gets destroyed you can still ram into their thrusters at a very high speed
Then you have to get sneaky and attack yourself to a blind spot.
Early game dude. early game.
Not if this thing is very very heavily armored. A single gatling has problems getting through heavy armor and missiles are expensive.
And it's just a trolling design don't be so overly butthurt about it guys...
Top griefing
Or you could just straight up launch a remote controlled missile.
Well it's trolling not straight up "screw you" though...
Just come out of nowhere haha bitc-BOOM
Guided Missiles
The name for that little things should be the leach
Phillip Boswell it’s spelled leech
@@zack__tech4465 ok zack
Another idea is some kind of ship that disables other ships and pulls them in to orbit ( assuming the are flying close to planet)
Mobile Gaming And How 2s so a ship thats ouside of orbit and it basically locks on goes and tries tp steer them into entering orbit so they crash
Wait. Let me get this clear: you pull a ship with only atmo thrusters into space so it can't move? Devious.
love the concept, unfortunatly, very vulnerable against turrets!
As soon as I saw the foot and parachute connected, I knew exactly what this was about :D
Imagine a whole fleet of these flying at you like anchors
When out in space, its always funny to attach some gravity generators to make their ship spin on them. Its even funnier them trying to figure out what is going on. Its always funny until it happens to you.
That's delightfully cruel... Nicely done!
I think a possible fix for this( besides turrets ) would be a jamming device, expensive, short range, and for blocking remote control blocks only; everything could communicate through the grid.
I started using these a lot in the past few days and my brother learned to send decoy ships up before launching the real thing so what I did was I hid it inside his massive ship by hiding it in a hidden empty cargo bay and when he launched and I activated the parachutes it went crazy and he had no clue what happened.
you could put a turret and a grinder on there. First jam them and make them land,then grind open the ship to kill the grew,then salvage the entire ship and build more jammers with the material
I got overwhelmed by the game today when i joined for the first time i thought i know what i was gonna do. To orrow when im up im gonna try again and actually try to understand the controls and the basics and then join some kind of server to just spectate and ask questions.
You do not know what power you have just gave us
"Parachutes for -emergencies only- *_or for fun_* "
Keep up the good work you guys are the best
I’d call it a “Leech” it doesn’t kill, but it does hinder you.
I found a method of using cameras parachutes and remote controls in a different but similar way. I was sneaking in to my brothers base through a tunnel which connects our bases and I kept slowly editing his massive carriers which he was preparing for an assault on my base (our bases are quite far apart but I use a quick sideways elevator to get to him) so I put parachutes in his big ships as well as control aerial things and cameras at the front. I set off the parachutes on the vessels one by one as they approached my base and then used my secret weapon. My secret weapon being an orbital cannon which launches a missile which spreads groups of warhead across massive areas. He is still super p*ssed off at me after 6 weeks
you could also set a self destruct, which, if the ship crashes, will eliminate the evidence that you did anything
You can also create a system on your ship to launch these at enemy ship in planets
It can be possible to use a tracking method or create a payload of a drone with grinders
What would happen if you stuck a bunch of artificial mass on instead? Maybe a timer on it, sensing the grid it attaches to and turns on the mass? It would require less mats, I think.
Add a warhead to self destruct the dart to stop the other player from reprogramming it and using it against you.
Those ship reviews you did on those huuuge ships few months back. Yeah the really big ones. How many of these troll thingys are requaired to stop a huuuge ship?
i'd say about 6 with 8 parachutes each per side
Or a lot of parachutes on bottom side of the ships nose- the chutes drag would yank the front into a surprise nosedive.
but it wouldn't crash as much (when the ship goes down it would pull the nose up and when ship goes up, pull nose down) the ship would just be wobbling uncontrollably, which may be useful but crashing is as well (especially with the ground eating ships whole)
Yeah, that parachute drone is for sure a ban flag 👌
if you have a faction base on the planet and one of your heavy ships needs help do to engine,power, or overweight you could in theory to save alot of the ship or use it to salvage ships and take them down into the planet
But the ship has hydrogen most likely it can use inertial dampeners and hover then the player can go and grind it off...
You could also strap a timrd wargead to the thing if youre feeling particularlx evil
what have you done?....you have forsaken us all.....
this is preety good troll, but you can use it as defense system for base, or fro attacking someone.
Impractical at best
Winston Washington But fun!
how?
dab nugget could just fly a cruise missile into their craft, or perform a strafing run with an anti-ship bomber, targeting engines. To build this in survival would be resource-taxing at best, if not impossible, since there simply isn't enough hydrogen produced by one oxygen generator to counter gravitational pull while proceeding at full thrust.
If an enemy ship is on your tail you can air brake with parachute and then remove the parachute and be behind the enemy ship
even if the parachute didnt knock the ship off course it will still slow it enough to not get into orbit
You could attach a warhead to blow up the prob after everything is finished so they can’t re program it
Or, you could just gyroscope the shit outta it and override their directional control?...
Hm true
I tried this on a server with friends and forgot we had the speed mod and tiered thrusters put a t4 thruster on it and the landing gear drone became a sabot with a parachute
The stun lock
This should be how to troll in space engineers
I'm thinking maybe you could make a really small rc drone that will seek the controls of the ship then it will latch on and drill to the controls then take over the ship
Countered with gatling turrets
What about a Death Star? We all want a vannila Death Star. Don't lie, we all want a Death Star.
Add a thing with a sneaky warhead and a sensor(or several for ultimate destruction.
i did this, but instead of parachutes, i used clang (lots of rotors, pistons, and a grinder) it was bigger than this, but i was going after a giant mother ship that was about to break the atmosphere, I drill into the hull so i wouldn't be shot at by the turrets for longer than i wanted, then i activated the clang warhead...the ship spazed out, and it broke everything, and my game, it took 20 min to recover frame rate, but i got to see the debris of the once mighty ship, and my drone...XD...
I have an idea for this thing.
A self destruction mode, so the enemy can't get the technology.
Why not use a warhead instead of the landing gear and chute?
A sinlge turret can ruin everything though. Nice concept, but easy to deflect.
Darkner maybe try to install a shield or something like that. Just an idea
Is it possible to be smaller to hide on larger ships so it is harder for it to be noticed
This video should be called paratrolling
checks LastStandGamers channel "Trolling With Parachutes" 19 minutes ago
oooooo boy
tgaw's big brother. R.I.P. tgaw.
could an explosive charge be made to go off like 30 seconds after the parachute, so the probe never falls into enemy hands
That is one pf the most cruel thing I've ever seen in Space Engineers
If this anti ship will prevent going to space, I will use turrets.
I wanna see someone try to fight against the drag
Oh, you should do this to Captain Jack! :D
Space piracy just got a whole lot easier
Hmm could you possible make a similar drone that leeches power from an enemy ship then detaches and gives that power to something else
Or you could add a "self destruct" and attach it near the engines, and detonate it
Did anyone threaten to launch you into the sun XD
I know a great thing simular to this, a missile.
Really trolly. Hahahaha. This can also be useful when capturing pirate amospheric cargo ships and landing them safely after disabling turrets and engines.
I wander if some one is going to build a giant shield around a planet
Stick a warhead to it so it can self destruct so they can't hack it and take it for themselves
My version clamps on, deploys 3 chutes, and then explodes, designed for hitting the thrusters do they can't recover
Blow up the reactor while its attached and wreck their engine bays
Do a Top Ten player creations!!!!!
That is _so_ EVIL! LMAO
Put a small warhead on it with a timer, even if they land it, there won't be anything left to reverse engineer.
Now put boom booms on it.
Can you release this on the workshop?
put a sensor to detect altitude and hide it inside somebody's ship, it would never get to space.
So very few of these ideas are ever actually tried out in a realistic scenario?
this would work better with a small explosive. Fly up to an engine and latch on, then detonate.
Or make a ship that spits those like missiles/bombs
Preferably after editing them a bit
What if you made them automatically lock onto ships
Wouldnt it be better just to use the ship as a torpedo...
haven't played se in a long while, is this a mod or are there parachutes in vanilla now?
Rikard Nilsson Mod.
you lying liar, they're vanilla
use it on captain jack when he takes off for the stars again XD
My mind went the opposite way lol what if you had a drone ship that used these to save other ships that get to damaged and start falling out of the sky... or use them to stop a disabled enemy ship from completely being destroyed so you can get more resources from them
That's actually a really good idea. This puts the troll thing into actual good and benevolent use.
Why not throw a mine on it?
Honestly if i were to use this i would instead replace the parachute with a dozen warheads and just detonate to be a troll.
Warheads are at the mercy of being shock and damaged a bit to blow themselves up. Parachutes don't.
my purpose is now clear