They should add smoke rounds to the firework launchers, they look exactly like smoke launchers on an mbt.

@LastStandGamers

7 ай бұрын

Smoke shells would be cool, as well as buckshot.

@giorgichachua11010

7 ай бұрын

​@@LastStandGamerstechnically proper flack in game would be great. With few limiting factors such as high damage against missiles and light armor in close proximity.

I feel like that rotating flare launcher room could be converted into a last man standing type minigame.

@LordDragox412

7 ай бұрын

Would you perhaps call the participants of such game... last stand gamers?

@Facet_5_CUT_8XM

7 ай бұрын

@@LordDragox412good one!

@Eggmayor

5 ай бұрын

​@@LordDragox412 and the winner could be called "Aaron"

it's not warfare... its warflare.

Firework launcher, flairs for amo and stick it onto a custom turret made to track enemy players, have them between to rover wheels and have them auto active when the suspension or wheels take a set amount of damage

It’s similar to the creation of the firework and gunpowder a creation made for celebration but turned into a weapon of war

Im wondering if they have any effect on missiles, could maybe use them as a kind of flak defence or chaff.

You could use a sensor to start a timer block countdown that waits a short time before closing and locking the first door and activating the flare-go-round

I want to see many flare launchers setup to fire staggered and from an aircraft to get the look of modern military decoy launches. Also if these are WP flares they would totally be this lethal.

A Flare/Firework turret seems useful to have with it distracting the enemy along with turrets that target missiles with them being unable to tell what's what when being shot at.

i'm really thinking about whether you could use them to build an Anti-missile defence system if you set them up stagnant

Fireworks would be better in the rover set up, because getting the away is mor important than killing them in that situation.

You could also use this for breaching buildings/large ships by ramming the launcher into a door or hole in the building and launching flares inside, then sending a group of people in after, ensuring that nobody can surprise them at the entrance

The Cleaner/launcher combo can be used to clear a main hallway in a base or on a ship spinal if designed with one. If there is any IFF tagging you could have them just ping pong back and forth ready to fill the entire hall with some flares.

lockheed martin take notes, this is how you do it

The three guys riding it like a merry go round sent me😂

Also you should try and make a anti missile defense shield with the fireworks and try it on standard missiles and modded tracking missiles

Depending on the damage the flares do to armour blocks maybe you could do some form of breach drone to help board ships as an alternative to a grinder, it latches on to the enemy vessel makes a hole then either player can rush in and/or it releases some smaller drone to cause chaos inside

a blast door casing would hid these well til its too late; but at that point you might as well have like 3 of these in a room and have them cut the room in half when they deploy. confused, separated, and facing 3 turrets that have rng on their side. its not their ship so if they brought missiles and are on the ball they might all survive.

@LastStandGamers

7 ай бұрын

Great idea about hiding them.

Finally! A new weapon! And this one is probably the most fun yet.

To prevent anyone standing on top of the floor trap from surviving you just need make it rise to the height of the ceiling. Anyone on top would either be knocked off or crushed. I also think as an anti personnel weapon it would be best to use the firework/flare launchers in combination with interior turrets. The ricochet ability of the flares means that even areas out of the turret's line of sight are dangerous and makes finding cover much harder for an enemy.

I wonder if Keen knew what they were doing to combat with the flare gun...

This seems lije a brilliant tool for shooting into blind corners. Get a couple launchers to fire into an angled corner and a sensor and youve got a deathtrap without return fire. Assuming it gets enough distance after the first bounce to still kill a player.

Now that’s a lotta damage!

and i thought interior turrets were unstoppable killing machines

An interesting thing would be to do an offensive antipersonnel weaponry like if you have an enemy base you could send a fast drone in there covered in flare launchers and have it just go off

i love how comedically small they are you could basically have a death roomba

Equipped that fireworks launcher to an ai drone, linked to defensive ai. When the defensive ai triggers "locked on by enemy", it shoots the flares. Just to imitate decoys.

Okay, here's an idea: How about a firework/flare artillery? It gets welded up, and launched towards the enemy that are far away, running around their base outside. It's a disruption weapon. It'll cause trouble, but won't decimate their base, thereby slowing down their progress, and giving your team more time to progress ahead or catch up. Just set the artillery piece on auto-fire.

The fix on the hall clearer is easy, if it dispensed from the ceiling you could lower it to the floor and that would crush anyone beneath.

This is again one of the things why i love soace engineers all those genarotions of traps and other things to some times just annoy people

I personally recommend using a large grid armor plate in a set position over the hole then put a magnet on top of your tower, then remove the support for that armor plate and let the magnet keep it, perfectly aligned.

You’ve given me an idea for airlock security system

Or, hear me out here, put a few interior turrets in the room. Maybe even behind some hidden panels if you want to keep the aesthetic. It'll be 10x more effective and won't need a player there to run.

maybe a custom turret with firework launchers could be quite effective, though probably only in close quarters

these are interesting i like that the need to manually reload adds a sort of balance but i do think maybe giving them a bit more ammo would be good i made an anti personell turret for ship interiors and a sort of flack cannon turret for attacking fighters which works by layering small firework launchers to increase ammo capacity

"nothing personnel kid * kills everyone in the room

A firework launcher with flares would be good on a rover for night time navigation

The flare gun has illuminated (heh) a long standing issue with Space Engineers: The player character cannot take physical impacts very well. Whether it be flare guns or just jet-packing around one's base, there is nothing more hazardous to a player than running into something too fast. I feel as though they need to rethink how much damage the player can take from said impacts, as well as how quickly the player character can get up to those deadly speeds.

@Valkyrie9000

7 ай бұрын

Or just add code to the dampeners so it slows you down you before you hit something. Jetpacking should be hard but it's just annoying right now.

@AlanGChenery

7 ай бұрын

​@@Valkyrie9000Anything to reduce damage from jetpacking into things at high speed unfortunately absolutely will encourage hydrogen-men.

@mandrakejake

7 ай бұрын

​@@Valkyrie9000with lag on a server it's often fatal!

@ToaDrakua

7 ай бұрын

@@AlanGChenery Slower acceleration, coupled with slower DEcceleration, might make hydrogen men unfeasible around erratically moving ships.

@CMDROldDuck

5 ай бұрын

I was going down some stairs the other day, banged my head, and poof, I was dead!

I would love to see someone make a modded turret that just wails these things out. Either for anti-missile or anti-personnel reasons.

I'd make it extend all the way to the ceiling to force players off the top.

you could make a little remote controlled car with a turret on top that you can drive around your base/ship/rover to take out enemies without leaving the comfort of your home

Next you should try to make offensive weapon systems with the flare/firework launchers. Like maybe a bomber craft where the whole bomb bay section is just the launchers aimed down and you fly over an enemy base and just rain fireworks down on them.

Don't flares also distract turrets set to target missiles? Could be useful on a drone/missile that spews flares on approach as a force multiplier for missiles.

can the flares/fireworks perhaps act as a sort of APS? I have no idea how much they really impact other grids

if someone instanced this Flare launcher, set the accuracy of the Gun to straight and increase the firing speed. One could mod a Laser Flare. could you imagine the carnage.

Seeing Flares and Fireworks makes me think they might bring in Heat seeking rockets. Also what if you took the spinning flares and put it under the center of the vehicle to keep roach's away lol?

ancient solutions to space-age problems.

What do you get when you use flares for war Warflare

1:40 Is there a way to detect enemy players so that you could automaticly activate that defense if enemies appear in that corridor?

Could use lauchers for countermeasures

Do flares and fireworks damage rockets? If so they'd be great as improvised Flak

Now I’m gonna put flares in firework launchers on my ships for when they crash. Also I wonder how effective flares would be at screening missiles🤔 Edit/update: the flares, as far as i can tell, cannot hit fired missiles from launchers; but can hit and detonate armed warheads. So it’s not entirely off the table in terms of space combat countermeasures.

@Dagonius.

7 ай бұрын

It would be so cool to have actual countermeasures as ammo... and grenades...

I feel like the fireworks would be better for the rover one due to the blast shoving them out the way

I feel like the flares and fireworks are too overpowered, but I don't really want them removed, I hope that keen turns it into a setting that you can turn on or off rather than completely getting rid of it.

Do the flares do any considerable damage to your interior?

Bullet Hell players: "Is That A Challenge "

Bro... I was going to use the firework launchers as chaff but ok

you supersized my Claymore mine idea (I'm sure I was by far not the first to think of it)

@LastStandGamers

7 ай бұрын

You invented the Claymore mine ?

Now they just need to make F-launcher pipeable! 😅

Hey can you please help me? I cannot play SE, for some reason the damn thing will not launch. i did everything that was said in a Steam discussion board about the matter... I went to keen software house website and reported the problem... But it seens the game just don't want to run on my PC... Thoughts? Please

Do flares get attention from turrets, like decoys would get?

@LastStandGamers

7 ай бұрын

If you have the target missiles setting on.

First, Also only space engineers can get people to weaponize flares lol.

I think the rover design would muuuuuch prefer fireworks

i remind you that custom turrets controlers exist (:

THE FLARE CLAYMORE ROOMBA

@LastStandGamers

7 ай бұрын

Deadly

Getting Rim World vibes over here. Maybe 100s of hours spend on building kill-boxes have something to do with this?

Do an area where everyone has a flare gun and can one shot other players but the arena has some cockpit blocks scattered around so players can take cover and hide then get the jump on other players

@LastStandGamers

7 ай бұрын

That sounds like madness I love it !!

Will this be able to stop missiles?

@LastStandGamers

7 ай бұрын

How would flares be able to stop missile ?

@SnowNinja

7 ай бұрын

Not fast enough and too sporadic on trajectory to accurately hit them. He did a video showing even multiple gatling guns required to take down a missile, both head to head

that is going to get modders making some awesome booby traps or weapons i can see

This just doesn't seem flare

Release the flare roomba

I stepped away from Space Engineers earlier this year. What on earth updates did I miss???

So It's a lil conspicuous and if you stand on it ur safe hmmm, AH yes! Ez, Have it pop Down from the ceiling instead! no safety and they'll be less likely to see it coming >:]

Cant you put the launcher around a corner and have the flares bounce into the corridor you want to protect? Making the launcher literally UNABLE to be shot seems like a gigantic win.

how do you spawn killable characters ?

@K-Anator

7 ай бұрын

2:08, you just use the replay function to add characters.

@LastStandGamers

7 ай бұрын

Use the replay tool.

I will make a freaking firework launching ship with a panel on the front with a big "UWU" on it, and it will traumatize the enemy.

I would prefer if keen removes the instadeath and adds a 1% chance of breaking lock per flare. Hopefully they're just memeing until the next update

@Valkyrie9000

7 ай бұрын

When loaded with flares, the launcher can only be fired for 10 rounds before overheating, slowing down with each shot, and each shot lasts progressively longer and longer. The last flare burns brightly for 1 minute, and each flare has a 1% chance of spawning a temporary "flare launch" global hud marker, revealing the users position for 50km.

@Valkyrie9000

7 ай бұрын

Obviously servers would need an option to remove or limit the number of flare launchers per ship/per person, and remove the marker or lighting functionality.

Leave to you to give me ideas on how to weaponize the most innocent things😂😂

Will fireworks /flare kill players in seats? 🎉😮

And when they nerf the flares and fireworks in the next patch, this will all be for not.

@LastStandGamers

7 ай бұрын

Well they haven't nerfed the missile launcher so could be a while.

@EngiRedbeard

7 ай бұрын

Why would they nerf the rocket launcher? It launches rockets that explode. Seems like it is doing what it should.@@LastStandGamers

What a weird direction this game took. I remember the early days, long before planets or AI, when the game was actually good. The devs were hesitant on adding more weapons or hostile AI as it wasnt the direction they wanted to take the game, where they wanted a game based on engineering in space, not a space combat game. In the end they caved to the demand, and here we are.

@Valkyrie9000

7 ай бұрын

2010s space engineers was literally all about making weapons though. It was all gravity guns and piston drive stuff. There's not much else to do in space but build ships to mine or blow things up. KSP added science and SE tried economy, but there isn't much fun or risk involved in either of those. There's a reason sailors were always drunk or fighting back in the day

The first one could pop up far enough for the people on top to be crushed