The game was dynamic. Had you finished the level with a full fleet you still probably would have gotten spanked on the next level.
The enemy spawned at the start of a level to reflect your starting strength.
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The game was dynamic. Had you finished the level with a full fleet you still probably would have gotten spanked on the next level.
The enemy spawned at the start of a level to reflect your starting strength.
And it was awful. I hope they've changed it or at least tweaked it. It prevented me from getting further than level 4.
There was a way around it, you had to recycle your vessels to get the RUs and then you started the next mission with more RUs than the enemy. I've only just found that out though.
It was an imperfect solution to the previous game where you could just load up your units before you ended the mission and overwhelm the next mission.
I quite like the idea that there is no inherent difficulty options but that if you were better at managing your units and saving them the game bred more units to compete.
It was an imperfect solution to the previous game where you could just load up your units before you ended the mission and overwhelm the next mission.
I quite like the idea that there is no inherent difficulty options but that if you were better at managing your units and saving them the game bred more units to compete.
Turin Turambar
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What prevented you from getting further was the difficulty level, which was high, no the fact it was dynamic.
It was up for a good many months. At one point I had cancelled it and re ordered it some time later.
With the $30 price on Steam, I honestly asked myself if I valued the Pride of Higaraa at $70...
But then I remembered there is an artbook included, and I'm like "Oh yeah, you keep that $99 pre order!"
99 USD?
No wonder why its still available in Europe.
99 GBP.
If it wasn't for that extreme hike in price I would have bought it immediatly.
I never really had problems with HW 2 difficulty and I don't consider myself a master of strategy. It was tough, no doubt, but that was good because it kept you on your toes. I honestly didn't feel a drastic change with the patch
I couldn't get beyond the third level, the shipyards I think it was. Just couldn't build up a decent enough fleet fast enough. Think I gave it 4/5 tries, gave up and never went back to it again. Looking forward to trying it again with the remaster though.
Yup, here are the patch notes.
I guess I quickly realized that being (literally) a space pirate and salvaging everything that moves like in HW1 was not going to work. Once I adapted to that I went past that level.
I admit I did had to restart more than once in many missions though.
Edit:
Basically this.
Vigilant Walrus
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Homeworld 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. FUCK. YES!
99 USD?
No wonder why its still available in Europe.
99 GBP.
If it wasn't for that extreme hike in price I would have bought it immediatly.
Its not a full price hike in this case as they are not digital so need to be shipped to the UK. Given the size of of the box and the extra fees they need to pay to trade in the EU, a higher price is understanderble. I do think it should be lower though as we are paying a full $50 more which is no where near the extra cost they need to pay to get it to us.
I have it ordered in anycase because i know i'll kick myself later if i dont.
Corvettes were a bit overpowered, it is true, but it was compensated with other ships.
The only real unbalance I found in both games was the salvaging in 1, after many replays it became a fine art for me, I literally didn't destroy a single capital ship of the enemy, they were all salvaged, and it was actually not that difficult, specially with support frigates and corvettes guarding your salvage corvettes. I felt 2 gave a little balance to that.
Besides that, the series is one of the few RTSs without that magical unit that takes lots of research and lots of resources but once you have an army of them you are invincible. Your majestic fleet of ion frigates can be taken down by a well managed wing of bombers, but if you only build bombers missile destroyers will obliterate them. No type of unit is dispensable.
Eduardboon
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My god I hope this still plays well on an old hd5850 and 4gb of ram.
Lest we forget that £20 of the UK figure is VAT alone.
I'm in a similar boat. I've got a 6950 clocked to a 6970, but I want it to drive my 30" dell at 2560*1600. Got bless the scalable UI.
Ragnorok64
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All these years...
I feel the same way. For the fleet fights it was all about preserving your heavies. For many other missions it was about properly using the ship that's obviously being emphasized.
Gehenna was my favorite mission in this regard. A stealth mission in space :]
Probe Golf and Probe Bombing were a lot of fun, but it really made some people rage. Good times.
exmachina64
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Fucking A, man.
chrominance
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Salvaging in Homeworld 1 is right up there with the Infinite City Sprawl strategy in earlier Civilization games for game mechanics that are incredibly satisfying to execute but totally break the game in unintended ways. When later games fix the mechanics I miss them terribly, even though I know on some level they're better games for doing so.
Also, did anyone else feel like the mothership should have moved a tad faster so it felt more a part of your fleet rather than a giant space station? I always liked how in cataclysm you could make the mothership into an actual giant capital ship that would be formidable in fights.
br0ken_shad0w
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Just think of it as a remaster of a Relic game instead.
Vigilant Walrus
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Is anyone making an OT for this?
Speaking of the OT I don't have a clue of anything funny/witty to put in the title so I may have to pull from the group. So far I'm just thinking of stuff like "the mothership is underway" but I'm under the impression that it is an unspoken rule to make them funny/witty instead of bland.
Probably some play on Gamers Gate.
Or BSG -> HW -> BSG.
We'll workshop it a bit and see what sticks.
Space Banana Rides Again
Homeworld Remaster |OT| Yes! Just Without the, Yes.
Karak. Dessert Planet. Bananas.
She'll Get Us There.
Kind of like that last one.
Anyways. Music.
Hmm, I see some that are neat. Especially the Yes one since I'm a big fan of the group (that was a double bonus with their music getting used at the end). Also liking the references to the lineage from the game. I'll have to dig out my manual when working on the thread and see if anything jumps out too.
Homeworld Remastered |OT| The Time Of Prophecy Is At Hand
Homeworld Remastered |OT| The Mothership Has Arrived
Homeworld Remastered |OT| Hyperspace Coordinates Locked In
An aside, but I feel that Bear McReary could do some excellent music that fit the Homeworld IP, should for some reason he need to.
Homeworld Remastered |OT| The Mothership Has Arrived
Homeworld Remastered |OT| Hyperspace Coordinates Locked In
An aside, but I feel that Bear McReary could do some excellent music that fit the Homeworld IP, should for some reason he need to.
Now flip that around and realize Paul Ruskay probably influenced Bear's score for BSG.
Oh if he heard it I have no doubt. EDIT: Though in an interview he claimed to have never heard of Homeworld or Paul Ruskay.
What I'd LOVE is for a BSG mod that is you have the BSG OST, it uses that.
BSG -> HW -> BSG
Acutally Minorty Report, but where did Minority Report get it from? HAHA!
Also, RIP Campbell Lane.
Original Cylon Hybrid.
Voice of the Bentusi.
Yeah that is something that I'm curious about. I have a feeling that the multiplayer being released in a beta state has something to do with that.
Also, RIP Campbell Lane.
Original Cylon Hybrid.
Voice of the Bentusi.
Homeworld Remastered |OT| All of this has happened before and will happen again
Homeworld Remastered |OT| At last, they have come for me. I feel their lives, their destinies spilling out before me. The denial of the one true path, played out on a world not their own, will end soon enough. Soon there will be four, glorious in awakening, struggling with the knowledge of their true selves. The pain of revelation bringing new clarity. And in the midst of confusion, he will find her. Enemies brought together by impossible longing. Enemies now joined as one. The way forward at once unthinkable, yet inevitable. And the fifth, still in shadow, will claw toward the light, hungering for redemption that will only come in the howl of terrible suffering. I can see them all. The seven, now six, self-described machines who believe themselves without sin. But in time, it is sin that will consume them. They will know enmity, bitterness, the wrenching agony of one splintering into many. And then, they will join the promised land, gathered on the wings of an angel. Not an end, but a beginning. The Age of S'jet.
Probably a bit too long.
Probably a bit too long.
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