Sir, I think you have cracked the algorithm. Maybe not UA-cam's algorithm, but definitely mine. Binge watched the 5 episodes and definitely will watch more.
For upgrades, I would do some reading on ship armor setups. Just from a cursory glance it looks as if the One and Only is running purely heavy armor (or just metal?). Homogenous armor is fine for smaller craft, but for more advanced and larger craft, especially those with extra space, more exotic armor belts are recommended, generally. Combinations of sloped, spaced, ERA, and other armor setups are the standard. I'd also add a smaller cannon or pair of cannons with a fast firerate and high round velocity. Equipping those with disruptor conduits would allow you to shut down shields; the high fire rate and high round velocity would allow you to use them as CIWS (which is actually fantastic against medium or larger missiles if the bullet velocity is fast).
Glad some part of it was good, I actually had a lot of back and forth whether or not to cut out a large part of the 2nd half, just because it was so uneventful. I decided to keep it in anyway because if I did end up cutting it, it would destroy the flow of progression. Still confused why the Grey Talons slapped me down hard and then disappeared off the face of the Earth.
@@Austilane Bigger fish to fry up north, I imagine. They sent the One and Only packing, captured some territory as a buffer, and got right back to their war with the Scarlet Dawn.
Btw. You have 4.6 Million materials in commodities. You just need to press a button to get them. You can also install refineries on the cubes to get more commodities. Then you never need to backtrack again. In the E menu, with active resource view, there are three buttons with a hand and a present in it. Thats where you can teleport the commodities to your vehicles.
Don't worry, I know. I'm actively trying to avoid using commodities because I feel that it will make things way too easy. Since you get millions of them as a byproduct through the diplomacy stuff, it kind of feels like cheating, at least to me. So I'm trying not to use them.
@@Austilaneyou could have just went with war with everyone or less rewarding options, and i think campaign difficulty affects amount of resources gained by diplomacy
OOOOOOOH MY LORD HE POSTED AGAIN, dude i just finished the last 4 episodes and another is here. Seriously this is some great content, thankyou for making it!
Unless I'm missing something, I don't think you realized that you just waltzed into the Gray Talon's territory without permission. That's why they were on your ass. Edit: Nevermind, that Extinction just came out of nowhere.
Its so easy to see the Robbaz inspiration in this series from the way its edited together to even the thumbnail design, but it works so well. I've honestly been missing some From the Depths content like this so I'm excited to see where this goes and what you do to the ship in the future.
Dude, a new FTD content creator is an instant sub from me. Pleasent voice, nice builds, focus on the right details. Not a harsh critic, but your cinematics have room for improvement. A little angle asjustment makes some views way more dynamic, at the cost of some details. But im allready sold so keep going :P Edit: I have zero experience with making content, and know as much about the editing and post production of vids, but some kick ass slomo's would be really cool.
I'll take any and every bit of criticism, it brings my attention on things I can improve on, which I appreciate. I'll see what I can do about the cinematics.
@@Austilane Wow, first time i've left a comment like that and you respond in no time at all! :D And tbh, I dont know your intentions on making these videos.If you're just sharing your hobby with us, I shouldnt complain. Keep em coming :)
If you wanna get more captured ships, go for rail guns or more accurate weapons that target ai or other thing like ammo or just the cannons them selves with just solid ap rounds, aphe guts most ships same as emp and frag shells/ missile
Interesting in seeing how you counter the late game Enemy Designs from SS & GT. I've played the game with only 1 ship a number of times. It's really interesting in trying to counter the late designs they throw at you. I usually end up building a hover craft type of flyer. Frontsider is the only design i can make that beats everything.
Hey, happy 700 subs! I just started watching the series and you only had 600, congrats! Edit: Btw, at some point you should do a size comparison in the build mode showing how the ship has evolved!
If you want to capture enemy ships, go EMP. A 2x2 missile will cripple any ship in short order, so long as they hit. Also If you need to upgrade the One And Only again you may want to get a catamaran style ship. It'd have more space for propulsion weapons, and redundant systems. You could put the cram cannons and shields on the port while the starboard side could contain Lams and missiles.
Well my reasoning for subsribing and maybe part of growth (from as you said earlier in series from 0 to 100 to now almost 1000) is that series for FtD is a rarity and espeically ones taht just plays straight out like yours and does the realistic battleship asthetic. Also found your channel via a FtD fren on discord sharing one of the vids of this series.
I just have to say congrats on 1k subs! I've been watching your series since day one, and I've been really enjoying it. I've been waiting until you hit 1k subs to comment on your video, but I guess that time has come, however, I've commented a few times on my personal account ;). I'm sure your channel will pass mine in both subs and views soon. I understand how difficult it is to upload this game consistently because recording and especially editing just take so long to do. I hope you continue to make FTD content for a while.
Kipalo! Safe to say I recognize you, the FTD community is pretty small it seems haha. I think I may have an idea as to what your personal account name is, maybe. But yeah, FTD is quite the difficult creature to make videos on. That combined with my general inexperience with everything, its easily
This was awesome! Wonder why they're attacking you for no reason? I didn't know whether you had declared war on LH and GT by mistake alongside WF or if you somehow had diplomacy off which would've been cool. And are you going to do something similar with AotE? Maybe call it "The Lone Wanderer" or something
I'm thinking I declared war on the GT alongside the WF accidentally, which I wouldn't have thought was possible but I don't think it could happen any other way. As for AotE, I've never even played it before. The only thing I know about it is that its a land-based campaign. I probably won't make a series on it unless an unholy amount of people want me to.
@@Austilane Gotcha, if you do end up playing the AotE campaign there is an option to turn off the volume limit for your craft. I think it'd be interesting to see you roll around the desert with a land crawler littered with guns They're still overhauling most craft in that campaign and some of the remasters like the Steel Empire Scarab are borderline terrifying.
The Gray talons attacked because you declared war on them, you can declare war with multiple factions, though you can make alliances too, when you look over an option, make sure you read the acronyms, here’s a bit of a guide: Name in red: enemy Name in green: ally DWG: deep water guard (starting pirates) OW: onyx watch (Castle ship guys) LH: Lighting hoods (Green laser guys) WF: White flayers (Melee cultists) GT: Gray talons (Black airships) SD: Scarlet dawn (Red space faction) SS: Steel striders (Mostly conventional navy) TG: Twin Guard (Annoying robots)
I can't believe you just smashed through some of the Grey Talons' most powerful vehicles like nothing. The One and Only must be really powerful at this point.
@@Austilane, its a bit mad but they're here because they like your style so just keep doing what your doing I guess, it seems to be working nicely. Might be worth doing some polls at some point to see what people want after this series, your burning through it fast at the moment.
actually surprised your ship managed to get damaged heavily by a goshawk, it IS quite the tough enemy craft, but you outcosted it 2-1 which in most circumstances where the enemy isnt specifically designed to counter your craft, is a win for the more expensive one. if specifically desgined to counter an enemy however, and if the enemy isnt exactly the toughest, you can go like 4-1 or even if you super optimize against 1 craft, you can go higher up into the 6-1/10-1 ratios. plus you have dirty repair bots, they're the most OP thing in the game afaik, and to be fair your ships should have zero like enemy craft. Also, soon enough your craft will be able to fight anything and win, its already at 1.8mil mats, at about 2.5-3mil it becomes essentially immortal against most fleets, around about 2mil if built really well. building big& expensive is usually the easiest way to win in FTD
I was pretty surprised as well, I think the constant swaying of the Goshawk made it so it dodged most of the shells, and maybe I got unlucky with the enemy shells too. In terms of repair bots, I should only have about 5-10. I'm just interested in the ability to repair outside of battle, and not too keen on actually exploiting them to become unkillable during battle.
@@Austilane Grey talons and scarlet dawn are immensely difficult compared to every other faction, especially for singular naval vessels as GT and SD have a lot of frontsiders are quite optimized. Also they use fast firing kinetics which are quite the powerhouse vs almost everything.
iirc the grey talons are allies of the onyx watch, so you going to war with them pissed them off, also i like to think of the grey talons as the onyx watch of the sky which is why i think they're allied
Pretty sure someone else has already pointed this out somewhere, but your deck and belt armor are absolute trash, my guy. If you do not bulk up your armor, and fast, SS and SD are going to swat your like a fly.
The extinction didn't disintegrate when it hit the sea floor, it died because it was below 80% health and it was under water. The large cost of the GT airships is the use of CJEs and heavy armour, as well as PACs and railguns. Regarding you demolishing everything in your path, I think that you've got a bit of Ragnarok syndrome. That is to say, you've built a very large and imposing warship that probably outclasses most things that you'll meet in terms of material cost, similar to the massive battleship "Ragnarok" that Robbaz built in his FTD series years ago. If you want to keep things interesting, I'd say that you should try and min-max whilst keeping yourself below a certain cost limit, such as 1.5 or maybe 2 million materials. Someone else in the comments has already talked about cost relating to how OP you are, so this is something to bear in mind. No-one is really interested in a campaign where everything is steam rolled. Another thing to make it more interesting would be reducing the number of repair bots that you have at your disposal; none of the campaign craft have them for balancing purposes, and they can seriously add up to plug holes in your ship. Anyway, this has been fun so far :)
You keep declaring war on people and then wondering why they attack you. Maybe don't declare war on other factions if you only want to fight 1. And it looks like you got lucky to ally with the TG who pulled the GT and WF off you so you could go after the Gorgon without a fight. I have to admire your dedication to this playthrough. The number of hours already put into this, even if they were mostly at 10X speed, would have left me reconsidering such a challenge. This does raise the question of how the SS and SD are doing. If they've been fighting, then they'll be drained and have nothing left by the time you get to them. If they've been passive then they've just been building up this whole time. As for retreating. If you are blockaded (the enemy got close to you and forced the fight) you can't retreat. And I think there's a thing where if you take x damage in y amount of time you are suppressed and can't retreat.
I would say allow resource ships to exist in the challenge myself, just to allow the main BB to get resupplied quicker
Sir, I think you have cracked the algorithm. Maybe not UA-cam's algorithm, but definitely mine. Binge watched the 5 episodes and definitely will watch more.
For upgrades, I would do some reading on ship armor setups. Just from a cursory glance it looks as if the One and Only is running purely heavy armor (or just metal?). Homogenous armor is fine for smaller craft, but for more advanced and larger craft, especially those with extra space, more exotic armor belts are recommended, generally. Combinations of sloped, spaced, ERA, and other armor setups are the standard. I'd also add a smaller cannon or pair of cannons with a fast firerate and high round velocity. Equipping those with disruptor conduits would allow you to shut down shields; the high fire rate and high round velocity would allow you to use them as CIWS (which is actually fantastic against medium or larger missiles if the bullet velocity is fast).
The One and Only laid low! The end was anticlimactic, but the middle was nail biting.
Glad some part of it was good, I actually had a lot of back and forth whether or not to cut out a large part of the 2nd half, just because it was so uneventful. I decided to keep it in anyway because if I did end up cutting it, it would destroy the flow of progression. Still confused why the Grey Talons slapped me down hard and then disappeared off the face of the Earth.
@@Austilane
Bigger fish to fry up north, I imagine. They sent the One and Only packing, captured some territory as a buffer, and got right back to their war with the Scarlet Dawn.
@@Austilane were u scared abaut an icbm??
Btw. You have 4.6 Million materials in commodities. You just need to press a button to get them. You can also install refineries on the cubes to get more commodities. Then you never need to backtrack again. In the E menu, with active resource view, there are three buttons with a hand and a present in it. Thats where you can teleport the commodities to your vehicles.
Don't worry, I know. I'm actively trying to avoid using commodities because I feel that it will make things way too easy. Since you get millions of them as a byproduct through the diplomacy stuff, it kind of feels like cheating, at least to me. So I'm trying not to use them.
@@Austilaneyou could have just went with war with everyone or less rewarding options, and i think campaign difficulty affects amount of resources gained by diplomacy
OOOOOOOH MY LORD HE POSTED AGAIN, dude i just finished the last 4 episodes and another is here. Seriously this is some great content, thankyou for making it!
Glad you're enjoying it so far! Hopefully events that are a bit more exciting are coming with the Grey Talons
Unless I'm missing something, I don't think you realized that you just waltzed into the Gray Talon's territory without permission. That's why they were on your ass.
Edit: Nevermind, that Extinction just came out of nowhere.
Its so easy to see the Robbaz inspiration in this series from the way its edited together to even the thumbnail design, but it works so well. I've honestly been missing some From the Depths content like this so I'm excited to see where this goes and what you do to the ship in the future.
Dude, a new FTD content creator is an instant sub from me. Pleasent voice, nice builds, focus on the right details. Not a harsh critic, but your cinematics have room for improvement. A little angle asjustment makes some views way more dynamic, at the cost of some details. But im allready sold so keep going :P
Edit: I have zero experience with making content, and know as much about the editing and post production of vids, but some kick ass slomo's would be really cool.
I'll take any and every bit of criticism, it brings my attention on things I can improve on, which I appreciate. I'll see what I can do about the cinematics.
@@Austilane Wow, first time i've left a comment like that and you respond in no time at all! :D And tbh, I dont know your intentions on making these videos.If you're just sharing your hobby with us, I shouldnt complain. Keep em coming :)
Been binging this series and realized how small your channel was until you said it last video! Awesome production value; please keep it going.
Very interesting series. The editing is concise and action is always there ! Good job !
If you wanna get more captured ships, go for rail guns or more accurate weapons that target ai or other thing like ammo or just the cannons them selves with just solid ap rounds, aphe guts most ships same as emp and frag shells/ missile
Interesting in seeing how you counter the late game Enemy Designs from SS & GT. I've played the game with only 1 ship a number of times.
It's really interesting in trying to counter the late designs they throw at you. I usually end up building a hover craft type of flyer. Frontsider is the only design i can make that beats everything.
Really enjoying the series. Keep up the good work. Miss FTD content.
Hey, happy 700 subs! I just started watching the series and you only had 600, congrats!
Edit: Btw, at some point you should do a size comparison in the build mode showing how the ship has evolved!
If you want to capture enemy ships, go EMP. A 2x2 missile will cripple any ship in short order, so long as they hit. Also If you need to upgrade the One And Only again you may want to get a catamaran style ship. It'd have more space for propulsion weapons, and redundant systems. You could put the cram cannons and shields on the port while the starboard side could contain Lams and missiles.
Well my reasoning for subsribing and maybe part of growth (from as you said earlier in series from 0 to 100 to now almost 1000) is that series for FtD is a rarity and espeically ones taht just plays straight out like yours and does the realistic battleship asthetic.
Also found your channel via a FtD fren on discord sharing one of the vids of this series.
How does this dude not have more subs?
Hallo! Always great to see another upload!
Love the evolution that this ship has gone through
I just have to say congrats on 1k subs! I've been watching your series since day one, and I've been really enjoying it. I've been waiting until you hit 1k subs to comment on your video, but I guess that time has come, however, I've commented a few times on my personal account ;). I'm sure your channel will pass mine in both subs and views soon. I understand how difficult it is to upload this game consistently because recording and especially editing just take so long to do. I hope you continue to make FTD content for a while.
Kipalo! Safe to say I recognize you, the FTD community is pretty small it seems haha. I think I may have an idea as to what your personal account name is, maybe. But yeah, FTD is quite the difficult creature to make videos on. That combined with my general inexperience with everything, its easily
Nice video. just found your channel and I like your content. keep it up my dude.❤
Love the series
Amazing gameplay !
Such a good video I love it
Don’t worry about retreating, it’s not scummy to want to survive
Also, you should reduce the required accuracy to fire of your guns. The first volley always misses.
Bro reallly ripped half the value off the goshawk without batting an eye lmao
underrated channel
This was awesome! Wonder why they're attacking you for no reason? I didn't know whether you had declared war on LH and GT by mistake alongside WF or if you somehow had diplomacy off which would've been cool.
And are you going to do something similar with AotE? Maybe call it "The Lone Wanderer" or something
aote with volume limit would be ROUGH.
I'm thinking I declared war on the GT alongside the WF accidentally, which I wouldn't have thought was possible but I don't think it could happen any other way. As for AotE, I've never even played it before. The only thing I know about it is that its a land-based campaign. I probably won't make a series on it unless an unholy amount of people want me to.
@@Austilane Gotcha, if you do end up playing the AotE campaign there is an option to turn off the volume limit for your craft. I think it'd be interesting to see you roll around the desert with a land crawler littered with guns
They're still overhauling most craft in that campaign and some of the remasters like the Steel Empire Scarab are borderline terrifying.
Love the videos man!!!!!!
Can't wait when you reach 10k subs
It absolutely kills me that you never move 😂
The Gray talons attacked because you declared war on them, you can declare war with multiple factions, though you can make alliances too, when you look over an option, make sure you read the acronyms, here’s a bit of a guide:
Name in red: enemy
Name in green: ally
DWG: deep water guard (starting pirates)
OW: onyx watch (Castle ship guys)
LH: Lighting hoods (Green laser guys)
WF: White flayers (Melee cultists)
GT: Gray talons (Black airships)
SD: Scarlet dawn (Red space faction)
SS: Steel striders (Mostly conventional navy)
TG: Twin Guard (Annoying robots)
And yes the TG are your allies
keep the good stuff up
I can't believe you just smashed through some of the Grey Talons' most powerful vehicles like nothing. The One and Only must be really powerful at this point.
13:55 I guess it's not invincible.
Hey do you hink you could upload the ship to steam so others can use it?
I can, but it would be at the end of the series I think.
@@Austilane OK thanks I am loving the series and the progression.
503 subs? Wasn't it like 100 when the last video came out?
Haha yeah. It's cool to see this much growth but I'm terrified at the same time
@@Austilane, its a bit mad but they're here because they like your style so just keep doing what your doing I guess, it seems to be working nicely.
Might be worth doing some polls at some point to see what people want after this series, your burning through it fast at the moment.
you really need to move more when are in combat than standstill like a sitting duck
A piece of good advice, build small transport ships to haul your goods to you.
actually surprised your ship managed to get damaged heavily by a goshawk, it IS quite the tough enemy craft, but you outcosted it 2-1 which in most circumstances where the enemy isnt specifically designed to counter your craft, is a win for the more expensive one. if specifically desgined to counter an enemy however, and if the enemy isnt exactly the toughest, you can go like 4-1 or even if you super optimize against 1 craft, you can go higher up into the 6-1/10-1 ratios. plus you have dirty repair bots, they're the most OP thing in the game afaik, and to be fair your ships should have zero like enemy craft. Also, soon enough your craft will be able to fight anything and win, its already at 1.8mil mats, at about 2.5-3mil it becomes essentially immortal against most fleets, around about 2mil if built really well. building big& expensive is usually the easiest way to win in FTD
I was pretty surprised as well, I think the constant swaying of the Goshawk made it so it dodged most of the shells, and maybe I got unlucky with the enemy shells too. In terms of repair bots, I should only have about 5-10. I'm just interested in the ability to repair outside of battle, and not too keen on actually exploiting them to become unkillable during battle.
@@Austilane Grey talons and scarlet dawn are immensely difficult compared to every other faction, especially for singular naval vessels as GT and SD have a lot of frontsiders are quite optimized. Also they use fast firing kinetics which are quite the powerhouse vs almost everything.
PLEASE USE EMP MISSLES. They're really satisfying to watch and they're better against metal armor.
you should try cluster missiles they are really fun
Not gonna protect the missiles?
It'll only autokill your ship if you're blockaded. Retreating if you aren't isn't cheesy at all.
iirc the grey talons are allies of the onyx watch, so you going to war with them pissed them off, also i like to think of the grey talons as the onyx watch of the sky which is why i think they're allied
I needed this. Good vid me like 😐👍
You Should add a rail gun
Pretty sure someone else has already pointed this out somewhere, but your deck and belt armor are absolute trash, my guy. If you do not bulk up your armor, and fast, SS and SD are going to swat your like a fly.
The extinction didn't disintegrate when it hit the sea floor, it died because it was below 80% health and it was under water. The large cost of the GT airships is the use of CJEs and heavy armour, as well as PACs and railguns.
Regarding you demolishing everything in your path, I think that you've got a bit of Ragnarok syndrome. That is to say, you've built a very large and imposing warship that probably outclasses most things that you'll meet in terms of material cost, similar to the massive battleship "Ragnarok" that Robbaz built in his FTD series years ago. If you want to keep things interesting, I'd say that you should try and min-max whilst keeping yourself below a certain cost limit, such as 1.5 or maybe 2 million materials. Someone else in the comments has already talked about cost relating to how OP you are, so this is something to bear in mind. No-one is really interested in a campaign where everything is steam rolled.
Another thing to make it more interesting would be reducing the number of repair bots that you have at your disposal; none of the campaign craft have them for balancing purposes, and they can seriously add up to plug holes in your ship.
Anyway, this has been fun so far :)
You keep declaring war on people and then wondering why they attack you. Maybe don't declare war on other factions if you only want to fight 1. And it looks like you got lucky to ally with the TG who pulled the GT and WF off you so you could go after the Gorgon without a fight.
I have to admire your dedication to this playthrough. The number of hours already put into this, even if they were mostly at 10X speed, would have left me reconsidering such a challenge. This does raise the question of how the SS and SD are doing. If they've been fighting, then they'll be drained and have nothing left by the time you get to them. If they've been passive then they've just been building up this whole time.
As for retreating. If you are blockaded (the enemy got close to you and forced the fight) you can't retreat. And I think there's a thing where if you take x damage in y amount of time you are suppressed and can't retreat.
yo
that was fast
Second like
I love your videos its great
Dude So its a on ship only so maybe you could get some air ( figters, maritm bombers, resosrce transport, hecopters, satelites)