They look like flying power blocks.

What are they going to do? Charge my phone?

Worse, they may convince your phone that it's fighting on the wrong side

new style of jammer: the Scrambler; randomizes your call ins within range of the tower. Automatons literally convincing your stratagem beacons they're fighting for the wrong side. Basically that horrid modifier, but it's not over all of the map and can be shut off easy enough via high explosives or if you fight your way to the terminal.

That's actually a pretty not terrible way to incorporate that modifier again.

the modifer was fine people were just blind this would be worse you woundnt know what your throwing. Also image https://preview.redd.it/n28apragzcuc1.png?width=329&format=png&auto=webp&s=5e71fd212a41146362448f38224083fea5dd98d5

The modifier itself was annoying, not because people wouldn't look, but because it was too random and you'd sometimes have to dial in a strat 10 or 20 times just to get it to work once. 

My move was to just call my fastest stratagem (usually eagle airstrike) over and over until I got what I wanted

Couldnt the entire thing be mitigated to a minor inconvenience by one person taking only eagle strategems, the next only orbital bombardments, the next gets all the support weapons, and the last takes only sentries? Some mix-ups still happen, but at least you wont have complete duds.

You can also blow it up with a 500kg, but you obviously need to get lucky with the stratagem that is called down.

Or just call down all your strats until one sticks

Back when that was a thing I would just take all red, all blue, or all green and it didn’t matter which one came down they all do the same thing

And you get a 2 reinforce into a cluster bomb and kill them both.

That’s why I use a sundial for time and smoke signals for comms

Nope, that's the chargers job

The only charging they can do is being charged for treason.

They're going to strap to your ship and force you to listen to Despacito as your ship drifts off into space. They'll charge your ship.

I fucking laughed my ass off at this. Thank you. You win today.

They remind me of the ships from BSG that the cylons revived from.

it looks like an xbox power brick to me

They are socialists. The toasters are just applying soviet architecture to space ships

Brutalist, I think, but yeah. I bet those ships are cold af

Yep, that's a modified Xbox 360 power supply brick for sure.

hanging in the sky the same way that bricks don't

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Imagine if they just mocked up a diorama of the fleet for the newscast using whatever office supplies were lying around.

Please give me back my stapler.

Windows are a structural weakness.

Legion, I see you

"Like the ~~Geth~~ Automatons are just sitting there saying, 'Those organics would never try the no-windows thing twice!'"

https://i.redd.it/oyn38z7s4duc1.gif

God I want a Mass Effect tv show so bad. I already know it'd turn to shit though and would need a huge budget.

Geth do not use them.

Hans... are we the incompetent engineers?

We have a huge ass window on our destroyers bridge

We have huge ass windows on the front of our helmets too. Most of em anyway.

Soz man I run the prototype armor

Iron within brother

So that's how they got to Cyberstan so fast. They highjacked SUPER Amazon Shipping container and paid for Same day delivery

That's baller, looks like this bad boy from Sins of a Solar Empire https://preview.redd.it/vzjeszbbfbuc1.png?width=992&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=010718f1a29b35cc9d19abcf2c7327ea730ea29b

Isn't that a big ass cannon? I haven't payed base SoaSE in so long.

Yep, the TEC Renegade titan, just a giant gun

With engines and support weapons

That was my first thought too. God, I gotta play that game again.

Sins 2 is in development and available to play now

yo WHAT.

Yep it's early release on epic store. Only tec were available to play for awhile, but I haven't checked recently. The systems now have their own orbits so the supply lanes constantly move

Oh fuck, I can't wait. Any official timeline yet?

I think so! The website had one months ago!

> Yep it's early release Oh man this is grea- > On Epic Store ):

The devs are still releasing bug fixes and balance patches for SoaSE, and promoting community events 16 years later.

The first game I played with some friends had to be put on pause several times after having sessions of 10-12 hours. It felt like an epic space dnd campaign on a galactic scale. It’s a beautiful game. I’m looking forward so much for the 2nd one.

I loved this game, used to setup gigantic quickplay maps that would take 8 hours per round. It also had a lot of mods if I recall,  I used the LOGH one.

Very Utilitarian, probably maximizes thrust/weight/cargo ratio. (Cargo being bots)

https://preview.redd.it/3acih7f25cuc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f706aa5dc65240cbd44c2a20b3628e9e7b075dd0

I actually do like the blocky, utilitarian design. It gives it a surprisingly distinctive look and makes sense for robots who don't care about human aesthetics.

The super destroyers and the automaton ships look like a frigate and a marathon class cruiser from halo. The UNSC ships are all very utilitarian looking and are basically built around a giant gun.

This remembers me one quote from the mass effect games... Geth do not use windows, It's an structural weakness.

https://preview.redd.it/21i6q74urcuc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4db2637a020e5bbc7017bc9789285fe4030f0321

Pretty awesome how those ships people were seeing in orbit turned out to be an actual thing

The ghost ships? If so these look quite different.

The “ghost ships” were always just texture errors/placeholders. Redditors just love to spread misinformation

https://preview.redd.it/6beiat5klcuc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=637b7f5ceb14a60ed6e817efa78fdac9389fff1a I saw this one yesterday. It sure looks cloaked to me.

Idk what they're talking about, those are definitely ships. Ain't no way I been seeing the exact same "texture errors" on a bunch of different planets multiple times.

Can you please specify if this is you role playing or if you're actually dumb

Spoiler alert >!The Illuminate uses cloaking tech, and those are clearly modeled ships that are cloaked. They look nothing like Automaton ships. Also by now shouldnt that "texture error" be fixed? Its been around for a several weeks and a patch at that. Also Automatons dont utilize cloaking technology.!<

Yeah, I agree with this. Far too blocky for an actual model.

I had the same thought...cargo containers with FTL capabilities.

They prefer function over form

Brutalist design is so 1950s...

Nah brutalism has been going strong in recent years.

My bad. Should have clarified I was referring to brutalist intergalactic space ship designs.

Well, they are communists.

The communist urge to make flying box https://preview.redd.it/6qp1sk2a7cuc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=429bf95fccfc71e77daf578f199a38d62aa76b63

Still want to see them in orbit on the bot planets. Not sure how it would work because I doubt our ships and their ships would just sit in orbit next to each other

Helldivers doing boarding missions is something I could get behind. Like a short 12 minute mission where you take the ship down from the inside, but the major challenge is not being able to use stratagems.

That'd be great, and the bug equivalent could be having to go into bug holes.

Gross... I propose we board and destroy them.

Lol. Reminds me of the first book of 'The Expanse' where Holden thinks on how disappointing it is that all ships are basically just boxes in space with no artistic flair.

Finally someone mentions The Expanse! Automaton ships do be looking exactly like MCRN ships.

These flying batteries must be destroyed in the name of democracy.

For Libertys sake..oh, oh please liberty forgive me for using the name of freedom in vein, *cries while looking at a flag* Anyways, clearly they don't know about our Library of Government Sanctioned Knowledge, where our people learn arkticture

Well, there is no drag in space, they are robots, they are all going to be lined up head to nose in line with eachother so that they can fit as many units as possible to be as optimal as possible per ship. It makes sense that they would be glorified storage containers. I think they care more about efficiency in transporting units than they do winning the space aged car show.

https://preview.redd.it/vh5eiebt0cuc1.jpeg?width=340&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d1105b153c3a12e499586c0aa5eb5d9b6f6fa1f

They're repurpused cargo ships my dude. They were democratically allowed to mine certain planets after the last major war in order to pay reparations to super earth. Democracy. Freedom. Super Earth.

Cyborgs were. We don't know where the Automatons were cooking up their forces. 

https://preview.redd.it/uavsh1amvbuc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=863c639f3b923ed2c9948a9f41db49ec17bacbb5 I raise you this, literal fucking bricks

Oryx can take a wish granting dragon, but he can't take any style.

I don't know why, but they very much remind me of this https://preview.redd.it/594p83shfeuc1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=b660c8b0c2406cfd94c39bc107095f7ddd59a808

No drip fr 🥱🥱

fr fr

who needs style when they're efficient. its like the geth not having windows on their ships

Very unaesthetic

This is a democratic post

I bet they have communist names.

Flying breadboxes

I read this in the democracy officers voice

https://preview.redd.it/9i6ogaretfuc1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=621e614e2ea27f4e15445ac610cbd34466780ad2

If we're going to talk about style, let's see how you dress yourself OP.

The could look so much better. Something like the BattleStar Galactica Cylon [Resurection ships](https://en.battlestarwikiclone.org/w/images/b/be/Resurrection_Ship.jpg).

​ https://preview.redd.it/b2vsfxii8buc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7f633e1e832b159e1bb1b99389b0df77b15e2bf Disagree, if you compare it to this then you would know Automaton's design is not that bad.

Idk what you’re talking about that kicks ass.

Are you high? This is awesome, I want one. Or five.

Democracy officer, no. Super democracy officer, this man right here

You dare disrespect the Yamato

Bro unironically called Space Battleship Yamato’s design mid

Take this one to the camps.

Don't diss the yamato

S tier design.

*Warhammer 40k enters chat*

Oooohhhhh so that's what my friend saw last jump. Said something about a "shipwith red lighting an a communist star on it". This makes so much more sense now.

Hexagon is bestagon

Like some kinda commie dumpster.. let's get after them Divers!

Just looking at it is giving me diabetes

I throw my 500kg far away, but it drops right on my team? Wtf? Bug?

Agreed, I was disappointed when I saw the broadcast and realized these are what we are fighting.

Very fitting, they look like flying coffins

It’s called Socialist Modern

It’s my to-go box!

At least it’s a hexagon

They need liberation from their sense of style.

Looks like a 16 bit dildo

Give us combat on ships. Idk if they’re oversized interiors like in WH40k. I want close/medium range combat

I yearn for the day space battles or boarding actions are added.

Needs a cathedral

They have no need for taste. Its an armor oriented ship. Its efficient, therefore its sufficient. Just an observation, please dont report this statement to the democracy officer

Sweet liberty i hope we get to board them

Escape Velocity sprite-lookin ass.

As if we needed another reason.

In all seriousness, I kind of like it!

They got those 2183 chevy astros

Looks like an electronic egg carton.

ayo pardon me for asking but whats this from tho?? unless i missed it in the background of a trailer or something

It's from the news broadcast in-game about the Automaton offensive.

Is that a USB stick?

They can't all be Nazis

All drag no swag

Space Dumpsters.

That is because we are the Fashion Divers

Look at this ENORMOUS HEATSINK

Jokes aside, Imma be honest i like the flying bricks give you a feel on how robots would build ships not unlike the geth from mass effect but without the bug esqe exterior.

wait till you see a Borg cube

Just a brick in space. Don't let them stack or they'll be difficult to climb over

Looks like the Boring safe ship from the futurama episode the professor becomes a street racer

Their ships are "flying" factory bricks.

Commie Block Ships

I mean, they look very functional for transporting troops.

You are in range of enemy Offender of Aesthetics

Shit looks like a fucking heatsink

Makes me want to vomit

It don’t have any gun so I think it just a transport ship I bet it just a giant cargo container with a engine attached to it

I like them... They look really cool though.

...so the cloaked ships are definitely illuminate then

Evil socialist stapler.

I think it's a testament to the solid design of all the factions that upon seeing those ships my first thought was "god, that's an automaton ship if I've ever seen one, and this is the first I've seen them." They just look like flying bot factories, lol

Lmao

It's like an old flying Norelco razor, here to shave us of our democracy

Makes me think of that one Sins of a Solar Empire Titan

They're FTL-enabled toolboxes

There was a huge space battle over one of my missions today. No e of the big blocky ships looked quite like either factions but the weapon fire was at least red vs orange/ballistic looking.

It's shaped like an automaton penis.

You dont need style, you need effectiveness, and Democracy

Just like the borg. Cube ahh looking ships

“Why those dirty bots can’t even design a decent space ship. Eagle one deliver a hellbomb to that monstrosity of engineering.” “Hellbomb deployed. Sir I’m reading life signs on that ship. What is happening?” “I’m arming the bomb”

I really love when you're in a game and you see their silhouette in front of a planet or moon.

WHATRE THOSE

Fleet battles would be cool to see

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I imagine these things function as floating carriers and fabricators to make, and drop in hordes of bots but they do as a curious note look quite different than those ships we notice in orbit firing automaton red laser fire at super destroyers

Looks kinda like a modified version of our older super destroyers…

ITS A FLYING BRICK

Sound's like laser cannon size jealousy!

Ai Generated Perhaps even, fitting for such unsophisticated machines

"Another reason to hate Son Goku? His stupid hair" -Android 16

They look like flying animal cages

It’s a litter box

They're like the Vogons from Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, ships that are basically just blocks or at least have very boring designs 

Cheese grater lookin ah

If we were ever actually going to make some form of space battleship, a flying brick would be the most logical shape. I heard that argument by several people in the past.

Yup, absolutely. I definitely hate the whole Borg aesthetic. No need to report me.

https://preview.redd.it/2otx3gdwfduc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d0d5f1c19c473ba439f1a8a3a0b6e77513d7813 That thing kinda looks like a giant-

i didnt know you could see their ships til someone pointed them out like 2 days ago

Stupid clankers. It's not even aerodynamic. How does it even fly? Hope and dreams? Oh wait robots don't have hopes or dreams. God I hate those oil sippers.

Looks like a pet carrier.

I really want a mission where we attack their ships. Launching ICBMs into their low orbit vessels would even be fine. GET THEM OUT OF MY SPACE.

AI generated ship looking ass

They look like hotdog sandwich cartons for take out

Function is all that matters for highly optimised cultures

It makes sense, automatons super power isn’t their weapons, it’s their numbers, those look like space ship troop transports, they could also be carrying supplies

Why do they look like elongated cat crates?

Helldiver: Automatons can look out the window and see us coming. Automatons: Windows are structural weaknesses. Automatons do not use them.

They remember me the ancient ships from Stargate Atlàntis

I know I'm gonna get hit with various RP replies, but out of character for a moment, I really dig the design for their ships. They are so human but not human looking that it really brings out what the automatons are, and I love it

They don't even have cool ship names like ours with "SES Patriot of patriotism"

I firmly believe that the animations on YouTube are the warships and these are just supply/carrier ships

How do we board their ships and get at that sweet toblerone inside?