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This mod adds a new ship - The Federation Carrier - to the game, that is largely based on drone warfare! Based on original hull design by R4V3-0N.
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This mod adds a new ship - The Federation Carrier - to the game, that is largely based on drone warfare!
Using an edited version of R4V3-0N's federation ship hull based on one of the ships that can be seen in the background of the last stand sector.
A few events there mention carriers, and while they are probably meant to be larger scale than the in-game ships and carry manned fighters, I cobbled together a playable ship that carries drones. It can house up to four of them and only two weapons, which might hopefully lead to more motivation to use high power weapons that are normally pretty bad because of their high cooldown, and actually using drones, which I would normally never pick up.
My goal was to make a ship mod that has vanilla quality so I spend a lot of time on the assets. I changed quite a bit from the original asset from R4V3-0N, including completely recolouring it, adding a type b and type c colour scheme, making gibs (the parts you see when your ship explodes) and I even managed to find a workaround to add my own thruster glow. (That workaround is now only included in the no hyperspace version, as hypercode allows adding thruster glow)
Type A: This ship features a custom ion drone, that can pretty much constantly ionize one shield bubble, and a fast firing Gatling laser that fires only one shot at once. With this weapon setup, it can bypass the normal problem with drone and ion based warfare, as you are able to still fire your laser at at room of your choice, instead of the drone shooting at an empty room.
Type B: This Cruiser doesn't feature drones, but instead has a unique chain ion artillery that can be upgraded to shoot pretty quickly once spooled up. A quickly charging custom Sarissa Beam can use the window of opportunity to deal heavy damage! It can hold up to three weapons, instead of two like the other ones.
Type C: This version comes with a dual laser and relies on a powerful heavy laser drone that deals two damage.
Update 1.2: Changed a lot of stuff, buffed all the ships and changed Type C quite a bit. I'm too lazy to update the screenshots however.
Note: https://www.subsetgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=117696#p117696 according to this post R4V3-0N has given permissions for everyone that his FTL assets can be used.
Using an edited version of R4V3-0N's federation ship hull based on one of the ships that can be seen in the background of the last stand sector.
A few events there mention carriers, and while they are probably meant to be larger scale than the in-game ships and carry manned fighters, I cobbled together a playable ship that carries drones. It can house up to four of them and only two weapons, which might hopefully lead to more motivation to use high power weapons that are normally pretty bad because of their high cooldown, and actually using drones, which I would normally never pick up.
My goal was to make a ship mod that has vanilla quality so I spend a lot of time on the assets. I changed quite a bit from the original asset from R4V3-0N, including completely recolouring it, adding a type b and type c colour scheme, making gibs (the parts you see when your ship explodes) and I even managed to find a workaround to add my own thruster glow. (That workaround is now only included in the no hyperspace version, as hypercode allows adding thruster glow)
Type A: This ship features a custom ion drone, that can pretty much constantly ionize one shield bubble, and a fast firing Gatling laser that fires only one shot at once. With this weapon setup, it can bypass the normal problem with drone and ion based warfare, as you are able to still fire your laser at at room of your choice, instead of the drone shooting at an empty room.
Type B: This Cruiser doesn't feature drones, but instead has a unique chain ion artillery that can be upgraded to shoot pretty quickly once spooled up. A quickly charging custom Sarissa Beam can use the window of opportunity to deal heavy damage! It can hold up to three weapons, instead of two like the other ones.
Type C: This version comes with a dual laser and relies on a powerful heavy laser drone that deals two damage.
Update 1.2: Changed a lot of stuff, buffed all the ships and changed Type C quite a bit. I'm too lazy to update the screenshots however.
Note: https://www.subsetgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=117696#p117696 according to this post R4V3-0N has given permissions for everyone that his FTL assets can be used.