Drop pods from helldivers are actually very doable... A little well placed gravity generators... A nice rotor with small head so you can plug a small cryo chamber... A nice will placed parachute if you like. If you are not a parachute guy, use gyro plus hydros for fall control

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"...a very standard-looking SciFi ship..." That's the thing about any kind of genre worldbuilding, it's mostly about stacking tropes on one another. The difference between _good_ and _bad_ genre media is how well those tropes are stacked. The worldbuilding of Helldivers owes so _very_ much to Starship Troopers, as do a lot of other games. It is a very nice stack of tropes, though.

Missed opportunity to use 'Cup of Liber-Tea' in introduction.

This is just the DESTROYER, mind you. There's rumoured plans that they're going to design Frigates, Cruisers, maybe even heavy Battleships or Carriers as well. If this trend keeps up, maybe we'll be able to play larger teams, or TWO teams, on the same planets, maybe even get space battles. Personally - I love the CONCEPTUAL ideas here, but maybe only some of it is added to Helldivers 2, and a more complex take on what I just wrote is used to make a Helldivers RTS game. Base building, fleets above planets, able to invade planets, build up more bases... a little bit Empire At War and Command and Conquer based, so we can rotate buildings and such to design the ideal base and maybe planet-based shipyards to build the lighter ships, and orbital shipyards for Cruisers and above. Either way, I have high hopes for the Helldivers franchise. I have none left for Star Wars right now, so Helldivers is starting to become my go-to dopamine hit. As for the ships you can see in Helldivers, you're correct, people are correct. Each ship represents a player. Ships can be solo, or grouped up to 4, you can tell as the ships are clustered together facing the same way, which means several regions on planets can have up to 100 ships up in the sky, most of which you can see from the command bridge. It's a way for the game to show just how many players are actually playing the game, and in that region of any given planet. It adds loads to immersion, I love it.

i don't think it's literally 1:1 the numbers of ships you see over an area, but it's true that if you're over a planet, the quantity and density of ships increases the more players are over or on the same planet

This ship blows my attempt out of the water, but its given me some ideas of how I can improve mine.

It really seems like Helldivers 2 can be achieved in Space Engineers.

That bit about the ships belonging to other players, that's actually true. If you're in a fireteam, each team member's ship is near yours as a small flotilla. Sometimes they are spaced further apart, or in another section of the sky, but the vast majority of the ships you see do belong to other players and fireteams.

Space engineers needs more npc mods. Helldivers as a concept would be awesome to play in this game.

Just a slight correction, the Pelican is the VTOL craft that pics you up at the end of missions. The Strike Eagle is essentially a Sci-Fi A-10 Warthog.

Do a big event using orbtial strikes and players shooting the bugs on Pertan!

I really like the design, because it is exactly what I imagine a standardised, mass produced space ship would look like. You're not flying a one-of-a-kind cutting edge design, you're flying the workhorse of Super Earth, a jack of all trades destroyer, fielded by the dozens and considered fully disposable. Super Earth must be stomping these out by the hundreds.

If you look closely at the hanger floor underneath the eagle you can tell it opens up and the eagle enters/exits from there, also super destroyers have 15inch(380mm) battleship guns underneath the bridge, but this was a very good build nonetheless

I love that the guns arent disproportionately large or numerous, and the design is 100% focused on launching troops and bombardment. No landing, no space to space weapons or defenses.

I have to (super earth) salute the effort made to be faithful to the source material while also fitting it to space engineers gameplay. I can totally picture using this for a playtrough with friends. The blast door compartimenting of the ship is very nice. Pressurisation not being a thing in the game since its just a hub, having this hidden in the layout is really well done.

“It’s so beautiful yet so simple” best words to describe it as! I love it!

I knew someone would make one pretty quick. My personal destroyer is called the SES Spear of Destiny, still the best name I've seen for a ship (though I've seen one or two funny ones like the "Fist of Family Values")

Use the cryopod model for the drop pod with an event controller to arrest your falling speed to

That’s funny, my ship is also named the herald of wrath

what i love most is if you are on a mission you can see other player strategems when they are on a different mission

I've been spending HOURS on trying to design some viable pods, and yeah I had a look at many ships earlier and the only one that had some sort of pod was one my friend made. It is very tricky but I WILL get it eventually. I've also been testing a horizontal chain mechanism like in the game so that the pods aren't just welded where they're launched from because that'd be unsightly. I have had good progress on both, and hopefully by using small and large grid in harmony can make a proper decent attempt at the super destroyer.

This is fucking INCREDIBLE. it really is quite accurate to the in game ship. A lot of Helldivers 2 reminds me of space engineers aesthetically, I knew you'd make a video on the subject and I was not disappointed!

Can confirm every other ship you see in helldivers 2 is another player and you can see the stratagem they use in mission drop from them too

I have been waiting for this video, someone to cover this ship in Space Engineers, thank you for providing sir.

it'd probably be either infeasible or too bulky, but the jolt cannon could be used to give the drop pods the high-speed launch effect.

Ahahaha thanks for the showcase! Btw you missed the upper decks inside the ship. It has a full interior for crew to use long term.

I would love it if they added ships we could fly with interiors like star citizen

Absolutely can incorporate them into this build. would need to enlarge it a bit just scale it up a little.

Lol, this was exactly what I gave thought to do when I first saw the ship.

This might actually be a good planetary invasion ship. Imagine a navy Roleplay, and you have these as troop transports. It’ll be really cool.

Nice ship, only change would be the placement of the weapons, the main canon is under the bridge with the fire power in front being first two twin canons, followed by rocket bots and then gatling guns

*This is the method I used to build a large cargo container drop pod, capable of landing within 10 meters of target:* Start with "Easy LIDAR Homing Script" by Alysius. We are going to be using this in Mode 4, GPS guidance (instructions for use can be found on the workshop page). This will work with pretty much any pod configuration. You put parachutes on the drop pod and set them for autodeploy. Basically, we're going to be treating our drop pod like a missile, homing to that spot on the planet. At a certain distance above the ground (you will need to fine-tune it yourself as it affects precision) the parachute deploys, but the thrusters stay on. This has the effect of driving the pod to the coordinates at low speed. At a certain altitude, a sensor turns off the thrusters and programmable block, allowing it to touch down gently. If you calibrated the parachute deployment height and thruster cutoff correctly, you can get extreme accuracy.

you missed most of the interior, if you stand in the hangar and look up there's another deck there, it can be accessed by a ladder on the starboard side, it's got servers/cargo/living quarters and a medbay.

Yooo this is awesome, keep up the great work!

You consider this a SMALL ship?! hahah you must be building giant motherships . Great video. love this design.

Ah man would love this ship design for Avorian.

It's always both encouraging and really discouraging trying to build ships lol. "Yes! My ship looks great!" *sees another ship*...😢

Ah, so it seems super earth hired space engineers to manufacture ships for them.

All ships in the background are in fact helldivers playing missions, they will also blow up whenever someone fails a mission

helldivers 2 pods is possible but you need to heavily use subgrids and it can barely fit in a non chunky setup but you have to do some "sacrifices" with oxygen

On your part about the other ships in orbit I believe it’s a representation of the amount of players on a planet, not that those other ships are literally other players ships, I’ve also heard that when you see a ship explode that signifies a squad wipe in the region.

5:48 the starboard entrance is kinda in place of the cryo pods, it looks like.

The super destroyers we see in game seem to be almost purely ground attack craft, with no indication of forward or top weaponry. The Eagle (possibly 2?) they carry might be capable of acting as space superiority fighters, but they seem to more so be atmospheric craft that can reach space to dock. (seeing as the Destroyers have a limited deployment period in 'low orbit' and the eagle leaves with it.) The outside is impeccable, and with the scale and level of detail afforded in SE the interior is pretty impressive, clearly reworked to make it actually viable in SE as a useable ship, and I am curious how awful it would be if it was more directly dedicated to replication, not compromising for such trivial things as "working as a ship" like can I fit a cryo magazine in the ship, even if its impossible to have them hooked up to oxygen? Both the Eagle and Pelican seem pretty reasonable to make in the small ship scale (though far less iconic) and I think that a support drop with a container for a weapon or even a tiny turret might actually be survival viable with some auto pilot that go to waypoint.

Funny as hell that my Super Destroyer is also named herald of wrath lol

When you go in orbit and are ready to launch helldivers etc, there are tons of other super destroyers around, yes... However, I am fairly certain none of them represent player ships... As none of them leaves to go to other systems, and none of them are arriving either. Another detail that can be hard to spot is that if a Super Destroyer is close enough to where you can see it's name, it does not show the typical name you'd expect to see on a player Super Destroyer. No names like "Steward of Injustice" or "Democracy of family values" or "Fist of war" or "Blade of Eternity". Instead it has a one word name, "SES Liberty" I believe.

That's ship definitely can existed in Star Wars as part of SITH like SITH Infiltrator

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I think the easiest way to go at creating the pods would be to mod a cryo chamber. That already has the functionality to put 1 player in it, just need to change the mesh and bam, easy breezy..

Very nice build I’d say they have captured the essence of the in game ship especially the interior. 👌 I had a go at building one on ps5 so it’s very much vanilla (it’s close I think but far from perfect lol), struggled with the interior at first until I just went with functional for SE. It’s the first time I’ve tried to replicate or at least capture an existing sci-fi ship, if people do happen to find it on mod*io I’d appreciate any advice on how I can improve my building etc as I’m still learning.

I saw this coming as soon as I saw the ship in helldivers

This is fricking amazing

You may be able to super grid the drop pods. Making them small grid so they fit nicely

The stairs are where the cryo tubes are.

Prepare for FTL jump to the Melavelon Creek system

Also I'd add the orbital entry mod for friction visuals.

Thanks for the target practice.

Now we can spread managed democracy in SE!!!

I would love to see a helldivers 2 space engineers rp!

The ships in orbit fact about helldivers 2 is true, they are in fact other players ships who are in orbit above the planet and you can see when players shoot their bombardments or launch pods. You even see when they get destroyed after failing the mission

The people that play this game are insane. This is beautiful.

A bit late to the party but I’m working on a super destroyer more designed for the functionality and hellpod deployment over the looks of the ship itself

yep, deffintly "supplies" stored there

For a fun game while watching the video, take a shot every time Arron says "detail." haha

Tried making Helljumper pods and launch tubes back when planets were released and it was a pain.

There’s already a lot of pod designs out there

Hey, I named my ship Herald of Wrath. Nice.

We might be able to make a vanilla and a mod hellpods for the moded we make it a 1 block wide 3 blocks tall.

Ngl the ship from HD2 looked like an SE ship

How does one get a sky box like that? It would be truly epic to at least simulate a real sized planet in SE, even if it were somehow masked over a 'real' [in game] planet.

Would’ve been perfect if it had the hellpods and the eagle hanger

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Good. good for SE!!!

I made the drop pod for this

Now im curious about how such a ship would look like if it was taken over by the automatons

Might just be me, but the ship kinda looks like Darth Maul's ship (the Scimitar) turned into a larger ship

The artillery can actually be upgraded with more guns (dual gatlings, dual rocket pods, dual machine guns)

Outside look perfect inside look bad but it’s a good effort

I will build a ship with both helldiver pods and cryo storage. Might be a bit big

Joke Theory: Space Engineers was used to assist in constructing super destroyers

to get the pods it will probably be bigger in size to incoperate them in. as well as the bays need to be bigger for the pelcan and fighter overall... i need to kill bugs

What’s the block in between the two white control seats in the mid ship interior

You should put it in the in game workshop

It was only a matter of time.

Who ever did the ship I’d love them to do a tutorial on how they made it

Spreading democracy one space pirate at a time

You should have better look at these look like a Great build.

I need the pods

I’m building a drop shit that can launch 50 pods. It’s essentially a brick but god dammit will it be a beautiful brick.

So the other ships in orbit around the planet are supposed to represent players, as well as all the stratagems and such you see on planet, it is to give the illusion of a active on going conflict you are just a simple peice in

The lighting of the ship depends on the planetary system it is at. Something space engineers did a bad job at

It is beautiful.

what skybox is that? where can I find it?

There is something that kind of bothers me about the ship (not the one seen here, but with the design in general seen in Helldivers 2), why would the drop pods be in the bridge? Unless that is just part of the deck and not actually the bridge. If that is the case, then where is the bridge?

TBH its way bigger than the original

Star wars kind of imperial fighter

I think I can build a pod that will fit, does anyone have any pics of the pod (I would find them myself, but I don't play helldivers)

I love the overall recreation, but it bugs me that the wing-engine pods and rear engine cluster are all wrong :(

I was wondering how long it was gonna take for someone to build this.

Wait... there are bugs in SE... WE MUST SPREAD DEMOCRACY!