Interested in a Homeworld Mod?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Multi-beam frigates, can be done EaX. The (HW2) Battlecruiser already has 4 ion beams (2 turrets which each fire 2 Ion Beams IIRC, but it could also be one).

So the Bentusi have warships in Cataclysm? Ah, that's great..... In 2 they only have Bentus, some sort of super-mothership, we could make that the largest ship in the game - provided there aren't bigger ships later on..... (Please note: I've only managed to get to mission 12 (Thaddis Sabbah) of 15 in HW2, if anyone has finished all missions and encountered a larger operational ship (NOT the Progenitor ship where you find the Dreadnaught, as it is clearly broken apart, unless you encounter an intact one later on), please let me/us know!)

[Akula]

Technically the acolyte fighter is a bentusi design with Somtaaw weaponry so that one could also be regarded as a bentusi ship, there's also the bentusi cargo barge and trade station.


The Bentusi is really a paradox, from what I've been able to piece together they disarmed every ship around the time the higarans where forced into exile, but in both HW 1 and cataclysm they happely use their tripple rapid fire ion cannons

I think Bentus is the largest ship I've seen in homeworld, I'm not sertain about the T-mat mothership (seen in the end of homeworld)or Naggarok (cataclysm) but my guess is that they're both about half the size of Bentus

I think the only ship larger than bentus is the progenitor mothership, but no it's a wreck and you won't see it intact. Many of the progenitor ships and technologies could be included as unique techs though.

I really find cataclysm ships to be a break from normal homeworld ships, they're too versatile, it's not like in homeworld where you can wreck a heavycruiser with a formation of bombers, the Somtaaw dreadnought is really the ultimate ship in every way, and really find that irritating.

Indeed ion cannons is a videly used weapon in homeworld I don't even want to try and find all the ships that use them, but I think all factions in HW 1 and Cataclysm use them.
I really find it strange though that the vaygr don't have any ships using them. After all they got hold of a lot of the old taiidan empire.

[EaX]

Yes the Bentusi give the Super Acolyte fighter, on the last mission of HW Cataclysm.

On HW1 & Cataclyms the bentusi only have very few ships, the Huge ships, (bentusi trade stations i think their name are), the super acolyte fighter, and other ship wich i don't know it's name, some kind of cargo ship i think.

I don't know if the bentusi appear on HW2, since it doesn't run on my computer

[RudyHuxtable]

Just to update...

I've begun on the shipsets (have to play through the games again, poor me), and Strategia is starting on the data files. I've also been building a map, and I'm going to make it capable of three eras of play.

It's going to be a relatively small map. I think this is a good idea because of how much violence there is in the Homeworld series Let's get enemies together early and let the beatings begin, I say. Anyway, there it is.

Mod status --- .0000001 % completed

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

If anyone got further than me in HW2 (currently at Thaddis Sabbah (mission 12) where the damned Vaygr Battlecruisers keep creaming my Dreadnaught in some inexplicable way) and spotted new ships/technologies, please let me know?

I looked into the Homeworld2 Forums some time ago, and I saw a mention of some object called "Sajuuk", if anyone can provide info about it/him, it would certainly be appreciated. Couldnt login to the HW2 forum though, bloody thing wont accept Hotmail as an email provider.....

[Akula]

Okay a bit of plot spoiling

Sajuuk is really just a dreadnaught on steroids, it's armor is almost twice that of the mothership and it's beamcannon is the most powerfull in the game, it can slice a vaygr cruiser in 3 hits (if the armor isn't upgraded) the only problem I can remember with it is that it can't target fighters.

It's what you and Makaan is searching for throughout the game

For the ultimate spoiling try
http://well-of-souls.com/homeworld/hws/
You can find information about all HW 1, HW 2 and Cataclysm ships here, as well as a few outtakes, some HW 2 ships are a bit vaguely detailed though, I think it's made before the official release of HW 2, there's also a lot about the plot

[RudyHuxtable]

Good call on this webpage, Akula. I've got some great shots for ships thanks to it.

I've also decided that in addition to the traditional shipsets, I'm going to make a few kiith specific sets. They'll probably use the same graphics as either the Taiidan or the Kushan, but the AI will be different. I'm sorry I don't have artistic skill or I'd draw a few ships myself Maybe I can beg AT to join in?

Okay kids:

Homeworld Mod: .01 % completed

[zircher]

Were you planning to extract the assorted ship models from the HW/HW:C/HW2 games and render them as SE IV shipsets? I was poking around the various HW mod sites and that seems like a real possibility.

I've got HW/HW:C somewhere, never found the time to get HW2 so I don't know if they used the same pack file technology, etc.
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TAZ

[zircher]

I found the disks and installed HW, I'll see if I can confirm that capability as time permits tonight.
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TAZ

[RudyHuxtable]

What programs would I need to extract the images? If I can do it without having to screenshot EVERY single ship, I'd prefer that.

I'm still going to need to make some custom artwork for troops and the like... Stick figures are always good right?