Man i love this game so much and i cant wait to get back to it once life isnt so busy! Its hard to just sit down for an hour. Its just not enough time to get immersed in a project 😆 good content, keep it up!

Thank you, love the Instant tutorials. They have been a giant help as I play FTD :)

I've been testing and putting a flak head on one of the simple weapons cannons is surprisingly effective against small missiles without taking any space. A faster firing one is better but I like to make my ships minimalistic and small 👨‍🦽 and it's possible to have many so you can synchronise them to fire more consistently 🫡

use some he, like a 3/2 flak/he ratio, so when not shoting at clusters it deals more damage to a bigger misile, i go recomend more slow firing higher caliber, or multiple guns in 1 mantlet for more damage per shot, as firerate is not that inportant if the firing time is not higher than 5 seconds excuse my english, its my 3rd lenguage

Very awesome Gmod! I like the "regular weapon controller" backup option so you're still getting DPS and not standing idle. By the way, I'm using your hovercraft tutorial to good effect - I have a scary little beastie taking shape!

Just tried 500mm dif kinetic CIWS, each shot does over 100k damage and only costs 3k, can be used as a short range large/huge missile destroyer.

Thank you for the video. I didn't know the CWIS aps can have such slow bullets and still be effective. That is rather cool. I do recommend putting over armor over your mantle. (Your barrel goes through the blocks). The game only recognizes clipping/failsafe at the end of the barrel.

8:31 barrel speed scales with caliber much more than the barrel variants u can use heavy barrel without big changes in speed at around 250mm in caliber

You come into my house? and bring forth FLAK CIWS!? GARRR! Lol, I'm just messing. Real talk though, i've done a ton of (CIWS)testing and never really did much with flak CIWS(ikr, how does that even work?) I came to an early conclusion that it needed to be bigger gauge to affect a useful area with enough damage to be practical. Problem is that makes it slower firing so i either needed a larger weapon system or to accept on smaller units that a bunch of missiles WILL get through(assuming no back up defense such as LAMS). The closest solution i came up with was a faster kinetic style for multirole without stacking a ton(you need 20AP to do full damage to Missiles and CRAM) Hard part is finding a good balance for various weapons mounted on different crafts. Easy solution is making multiple kinds for different factions and such and simply tailoring to each target(or you know, not relying exclusively on chemical CIWS for defense). But making a cost effective model that works on everything... Something to try out(It's gonna sound crazy. Like a lot) is 18mm Kinetic CIWS. I know what your thinking "Wut" I made a AA/CIWS turret with 8 beltfeds, 1 clip each 4 intakes a piece(5x5x4H footprint with the corners missing, beneath the armor throat) it shoots for a whopping 14 seconds, then reloads in 3.3(set the post firing reload time real low). And if a loader blows up. It caresses' its neighbors fondly for 16 damage in a 2.3m radius. It's chemical not Rails(16 segment round, 12 powder, some kinetic stuff with a Heavy Head, 20AP) Despite what that sounds like it works great. Each bullet only does 90 damage, but its fires 2000+RPM(if it could actually fire for a minute) it works out to like 30 shots a second(or about 2.7k dPS) 1177 mps muzzle velocity lets it shoot things farther away. My operational has a supercav base on it for tagging torpedoes as well. Note: Cant have more then one cause of shell count per frame, and if you want something for larger engagements, i recommend doubling the gauge to 36, it increases the damage near 4x in exchange for decreasing the firing rate on the same piece to 600rpm. Also, because its Kinetic it struggles against large numbers of incoming(no AOE).

I was in the process of making one of these, and found out that if you have a 3×3×1 rubber layer on top of the turret, anything that is below the rubber won't get hit by emp.... I tried a 10 mil emp and I was bypassing the controller under the rubber layer to move onto the main construct

You could fit more ammo inputs beneath the coolers. Or put the ammo customizer and the laser there and put ammo inputs where you put the 3 on the top.

Can you do a kinetic CIWIS tutorial as well? I struggle with making a pure railgun or even half rail CIWIS for kinetic

oh thank god you noticed the ammo intakes missing in editing, I was losing my mind

Is it better to have bigger caliber but low rate of fire CIWS or smaller caliber CIWS that just spam unholy amount of shell untill either your enemy or your pc died first ? I made a 30mm CIWS with 1500 RPM and that ship can survive everything DWG throws at me but I'm not sure if it's the CIWS or thousands of poles inside my ship that saved me.

Tank tutorial pleas3

I see. I'm trying to use 30mm autocannons as Anti-Missile xefenses, though it seems they are not well suited for it.

I do have a question on your controls with building; how did you move in a different direction than your camera while placing those blocks?

how do make CWIS fire at projectiles only and not the enemy craft when there's no projectiles incoming?

Hey I'm having trouble making my CIWS work. The gun seems to only engage once the projectiles are very close.