Interested in a Homeworld Mod?

[Fyron]

EaX said:
...some sort of lifeform wich assimilates ships & it's crew (similar to the borg, but using nano mechanical viruses i think)...

Isn't that precisely the Borg?

[wake_of_angels]

Homeworld is a good game which can be used to make SE mod!
But why didn't think about it sooner?

[Combat Wombat]

People have talked about it before but no one has ever stepped foward to make it.

[RudyHuxtable]

*steps forward*

I shall make this. You shall love it.

Of course, by the time I'm done it'll be time to mod SEV.

My initial idea sets are implementable, although I'm working on making the warp point/hyperdrive reconcile at the moment. I'll post some solid features in the next few days once I get my head screwed back on.

[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

[narf poit chez BOOM]

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[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Tiny little problem; I only did one and a half hull sizes, then thought better of it and deleted the entire thing..... but I would be most willing to help you. What do we say, I do the comps? I've got some great ideas for those..... though I must warn you, I have only got HW2, so anything from 1 or Cataclysm will have to be done by you or someone else.....

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

No, in HW1 you find out that your Homeworld is not in fact your Homeworld but a planet you were banished to. In HW2 you are back home and you must fight to defend your Homeworld from an extremely dangerous threat. I don't know about Cataclysm.