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Helios XR-5S Rotor Gun
   
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Helios XR-5S Rotor Gun

In 1 collection by Major Jon
Helios Defence Systems (Plug&Play Guns/Turrets/Clang Drives etc.)
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Description
[Vanilla|Survival Ready|Subgrids]

A simple and ridiculously overpowered rotor gun. Now with Timers instead of a script.

The XR-5S is a rotor gun with 5 stacked rotors shooting advanced rotor heads. It is run entirely by timers, no scripts are necessary. The gun only shoots in single fire, meaning you have to trigger the timer every time you want to fire. The fire rate is around 300 rpm, but you can already shoot during the windup for up to 900 rpm at a slightly lower power. You can spam fire it as fast as you want, the timers are set up so that you can't possibly break it. If you place several guns on your ship, triggering any timer block will fire all guns at once. You only need one row of timers and can remove the others.

As rotor heads are generated for free even in survival, it does not need any ammo.
Survival building instructions below.

I don't encourage anyone to use this in pvp, since it's an exploit and incredibly overpowered. Usually a couple of shots will incapacitate any ship. It will also lag your pc when you spam out hundreds of rotor heads

Some stats:
-Blocks: 15
-PCU: 654 (+1 per projectile)
-Mass: 7.6 t
-Projectile mass: 850 kg
-FireRate: 300-900 RPM (the faster you shoot, the less power; max power below 300 rpm)


How to use:
-Place it on your ship (see screenshots)
-Put Timer called Timer Block Rotor Gun FIRE in your toolbar with 'trigger now'
-Fire at will :D


How to build in survival:
-Project blueprint onto your ship and weld up the timers and first rotor
-Place 3 more advanced rotors on top
-Group them all under 'Rotor Gun - Accelerators'
-Place another advanced rotor on top
-Group only this one as 'Rotor Gun - Generator'
-Fire by triggering 'Timer Block Rotor Gun FIRE'


Tips:
-When mounting several on the same ship, triggering one timer will fire all guns at once
-The gun works on planets, but the rotor heads are effected by gravity
-You can stack them right next to each other
-If you want to make a doomstack of these, you only need one row of timers
-The rotor heads bounce off the ground, you can use them similar to a torpedo
-You can use the kickback of the gun to propel your ship
68 Comments
AnarchistDuck653 15 Mar, 2024 @ 9:40pm 
If you add another timer that activates the gun and itself it rapid fires
Unmade 27 Dec, 2023 @ 2:45pm 
A rail of welders on each side finishing the parts as they are fired might maximise damage.
DodoCZE3 21 Apr, 2023 @ 5:33am 
Could you share blueprint of that small rotor warhead launcher? Quite interested to see it :)
John Long 23 Dec, 2022 @ 2:28pm 
This is great! I just reverse-engineered your build to understand it and make a small-grid version of it. Quickly noticed that small rotor heads make bad kinetic munitions but a few sensors here and there, some tinkering with the timers and I now have an 15 RPM auto-loading, warhead launching system with timed and proximity fuses! Thanks again for sharing with us, very inspiring!
AnimaUltrix 1 Jul, 2022 @ 10:22am 
wow you have helped me a lot friend you are the best thank you very much
Major Jon  [author] 1 Jul, 2022 @ 7:10am 
timers have ten pages, you can only do a thing once per page, but on every page. You could also make ten groups containing the same blocks.
AnimaUltrix 30 Jun, 2022 @ 5:14pm 
:cozyspaceengineersb: How did you manage to stretch the rotors with a single tick?
Major Jon  [author] 14 Jan, 2022 @ 2:53am 
It never did and it doesn't matter. They still weigh the same and do the same damage.
TurtleHunter2 13 Jan, 2022 @ 11:05pm 
Survival doesn't spawn the heads fully welded anymore, can you please fix the timer sequence to add a phase for a welder to build the projectile?
The_rebored_octo 9 Oct, 2021 @ 7:48am 
Hey thank for the stupid over powered and compact gun now I can find a weapon to restore order in the AU#1 sever