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[Neyvn]

Try and have 6 Salvage corvettes by the end of the second mission, that way you can have grab all three gifts that the AI leaves for you, it is 3 right, not 4. None the less they will make up for their cost...


Just remembered my 'fav' mission in 1. Took me forever to pass,

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

it was the Garden mission with the Mushroom Mothership, after working out where to drop my Ships though to have them waiting I was able to clear the thing with like a few minutes each port in that the damn warpy ship did. And grabbing those Ion Cannons were fun...

[Orb]

Try and have 6 Salvage corvettes by the end of the second mission, that way you can have grab all three gifts that the AI leaves for you, it is 3 right, not 4. None the less they will make up for their cost...


Just remembered my 'fav' mission in 1. Took me forever to pass,

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

it was the Garden mission with the Mushroom Mothership, after working out where to drop my Ships though to have them waiting I was able to clear the thing with like a few minutes each port in that the damn warpy ship did. And grabbing those Ion Cannons were fun...

About scuttling, you have to give the order twice in quick succession. Either tapping S twice or using the right-click menu really fast. Helpful to prevent accidents, or if you get confused about the Stop order(the ` key).

ORB WILL DO IT HIS OWN WAY! 

Kidding, but thanks anyway for the tips. To tell the truth, I already knew that. 

"Edit" Oh, and Sheb you can switch if no one else wants it by the time I get to the next update.

[Burnt Pies]

Ooh. Homeworld. Played Cataclysm and 2, but never the first one.

Also, I never got past that mission in 2 with the hyperspace dampeners and frigate spam. That was a damn nasty mission.


If it fits in with your tactics all right, I'd quite like a squad of Attack Bombers. Hunting down and destroying frigates and capital ships!

[Orb]

Ooh. Homeworld. Played Cataclysm and 2, but never the first one.

Also, I never got past that mission in 2 with the hyperspace dampeners and frigate spam. That was a damn nasty mission.


If it fits in with your tactics all right, I'd quite like a squad of Attack Bombers. Hunting down and destroying frigates and capital ships!

You should play Homeworld. A lot better than Cataclysm and in my opinion better than Homeworld 2. If there was an improved graphic/AI version of Homeworld, I would buy it. You can probably get Homeworld at Amazon for 10 dollars.

Anyway, I probably wont be able to squeeze in an update today. Too busy. Then again, I planned the next update to be fairly short. But who knows.

Oh, and in the last update I didn't say that one formation was the sphere formation, it is now fixed.

"Edit" Oh, and sorry if I seemed a tad hostile(somehow) about replying to the tips. I'm fine with it, and often will implement whatever you say.

"Edit2" I want to say "Oh" here, but then it be redundant. Oh well. Anyway, I didn't notice you wanted a squad. Its fine. I actually use attack bombers on the ghost mission(whether that is a bad idea or not, it works....barely). I don't recall when we get attack bombers, but it should be soon. Maybe 10 updates from now.

[MonkeyHead]

Burnt Pies, its good to meet another attack bomber fan. However, why blow up what you can steal?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Ooh. Homeworld. Played Cataclysm and 2, but never the first one.

Also, I never got past that mission in 2 with the hyperspace dampeners and frigate spam. That was a damn nasty mission.


If it fits in with your tactics all right, I'd quite like a squad of Attack Bombers. Hunting down and destroying frigates and capital ships!

You should play Homeworld. A lot better than Cataclysm and in my opinion better than Homeworld 2. If there was an improved graphic/AI version of Homeworld, I would buy it. You can probably get Homeworld at Amazon for 10 dollars.

Anyway, I probably wont be able to squeeze in an update today. Too busy. Then again, I planned the next update to be fairly short. But who knows.

Oh, and in the last update I didn't say that one formation was the sphere formation, it is now fixed.

I actually liked Cataclysm a lot more than the original Homeworld. It had a little more flavor, and a little steeper difficulty with its ship-defiling Beast that you couldn't capture (or even ram attack) properly at first. Also, repulsor shields. Also, huge Kuun-Lan-mounted cannon. The visual style of Homeworld may have been superior, but Cataclysm isn't too bad in that regard either.

Oh, and it had that (incredibly useless) pilot view option. I can only wonder why it never made it into HW2, watching a massive capital ship skirmish through the eyes of an acolyte pilot in the middle of it is quite fun.

[Burnt Pies]

Playing Homeworld 2 after playing Cataclysm made me rage at how useless the guns are on the mothership.

The Kuun-Lan is, in my opinion, the best mothership. That Siege Cannon, combined with the decent turret coverage/damage and its more horizontal profile (I prefer horizontal ships. I do not know why.) just combine to make it much more awesome than the Homeworld 2 mothership.

And I loved watching my acolytes making strafing runs on Heavy Cruisers with the pilot view, too. That was pretty damn cool.

[Orb]

Ooh. Homeworld. Played Cataclysm and 2, but never the first one.

Also, I never got past that mission in 2 with the hyperspace dampeners and frigate spam. That was a damn nasty mission.


If it fits in with your tactics all right, I'd quite like a squad of Attack Bombers. Hunting down and destroying frigates and capital ships!

You should play Homeworld. A lot better than Cataclysm and in my opinion better than Homeworld 2. If there was an improved graphic/AI version of Homeworld, I would buy it. You can probably get Homeworld at Amazon for 10 dollars.

Anyway, I probably wont be able to squeeze in an update today. Too busy. Then again, I planned the next update to be fairly short. But who knows.

Oh, and in the last update I didn't say that one formation was the sphere formation, it is now fixed.

I actually liked Cataclysm a lot more than the original Homeworld. It had a little more flavor, and a little steeper difficulty with its ship-defiling Beast that you couldn't capture (or even ram attack) properly at first. Also, repulsor shields. Also, huge Kuun-Lan-mounted cannon. The visual style of Homeworld may have been superior, but Cataclysm isn't too bad in that regard either.

Oh, and it had that (incredibly useless) pilot view option. I can only wonder why it never made it into HW2, watching a massive capital ship skirmish through the eyes of an acolyte pilot in the middle of it is quite fun.

It was harder? I found it quite easy. Don't remember why, I only played it once. Maybe abundant resources.

It also seemed to have less creativity. Probably due to it being a sequel(or expansion?) but still. You are mining, you "unlock" something pure "evil" from "another world" and have to set whats "right".

There is not really a lot of gray area that I come to like. Homeworld has that. I mean, were the Taiidan justified in their actions? Weren't the Hyrule(however you spell it) tyrants? I'm trying to be kind of vague because I don't want to ruin plot points. Please use spoilers if you are specific.

Anyway, it just didn't really have what I come to expect from a Homeworld game. Kind of set the bar high. Its a good game, but I would rather Homeworld.

/opinion

[Burnt Pies]

I found cataclysm pretty easy, too. Especially compared to Homeworld 2.

[Orb]

Since I didnt do an update yesterday(mostly because I got lazy), here is something to discuss.




What is that from? Its pretty easy, but I couldn't think of anything else at the moment.

[SHAD0Wdump]

Sierra logo.

[Orb]

Sierra logo.

Congratulations! You win a late an update!

Spoiler: Mission 2: Outskirts of Kharak System - Update 4 (click to show/hide)

So this missions starts off with some introductory information(basically like a Mission Prep., most missions have this). I'm just going to copy it word for word.

MS = Mothership(technically Karan Sjet)
FI = Fleet Intelligence


MS: All Hyperspace systems operating at full power.

FI: If the hyperspace targeting system is accurate, we will emerge in close proximity to the support vessel Khar-Selim.

FI: This ship has spent the past 10 years travelling on conventional drives to reach the edge of the Kharak system.

FI: The Khar-Selim will monitor the quantum waveform as we return to normal space and assist in tuning our drive control systems.

FI: If the hyperspace module malfunctions, the Khar-Selim will provide assistance and re-supply.

FI: Mission objectives will be to dock with the support vessel in order to complete adjustments to the Mothership and her drives.


....and that ends the prep. After this we go to the "game screen" and exit out of hyperspace. One picture of note during the prep. was this:



This is what the designs and the "rendered" model of the Khar-Selim looks like.


Anyway, we exit out of hyperspace. We are pretty far away from our beloved sun.



From the opposite direction we can see the galactic core(I just noticed this actually, its in the first mission too).




Ships start undocking and dialogue commences.

MS: We made it. Hyperspace jump complete! All systems nominal and the quantum wave effect has dissipated.(she obviously didn't believe that it would work, or at least had doubts)

FI: We have mis-jumped. The support ship is not here. Fleet Command will signal the Khar-Selim while we confirm our current position.

MS: This is the Mothership calling Support Vessel Khar-Selim. Come in please. We have mis-jumped and are requesting your beacon. . . This is the mothership calling Support Vessel Khar-Selim. Please Respond. . .












FI: Send a probe to make contact and re-establish communications.

The bolded part is our mission objective. Sheb you get the interceptors. Any particular orders before I send the probe?

Also, if you guys want to suggest stuff, go ahead(as long as its not boring stuff like waiting 10 minutes to harvest everything and THEN send the probe).

Oh, and we have the same ships, so I don't think I need to update that.

This was sort of a mini update. I will update again in about an hour.

[Orb]

Oh dang it. I was almost done with the second update, but one of the pictures wouldnt load all the way. I refreshed my browser, without thinking that it would erase my post. 


Not doing that again till tomorrow.  *



I still have the pictures, but I lost the links to where I had them uploaded.



*If I cant find anything else to do, I might squeeze in the update again before going to sleep.

[MonkeyHead]

request/experiment:

use the interceptors as a kill squad (claw, evasive...) and ordervthe scouts to gaurd them with a g-dragbox... same settings (claw, evasive)... just too see if it does anything interesting... never tried it.

[Sheb]

Oh dang it. I was almost done with the second update, but one of the pictures wouldnt load all the way. I refreshed my browser, without thinking that it would erase my post. 

I cannot recommend too much the use of Textarea Cache: a firefox add-on that save anything you type in a form, so you don't loose it if you refresh.