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Offline An4ximandros

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YES (Homeworld)
on: March 05, 2014, 07:41:33 pm
 

Offline StarSlayer

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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #1 on: March 05, 2014, 07:52:13 pm
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #2 on: March 05, 2014, 07:58:45 pm
This is a great idea! They should take it one step closer to perfection by cutting HW2
 

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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #3 on: March 05, 2014, 08:32:54 pm
Quote from: General Battuta on March 05, 2014, 07:58:45 pm
This is a great idea! They should take it one step closer to perfection by cutting HW2

hater :P

Though the original was by far the superior game.
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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #4 on: March 05, 2014, 08:36:57 pm
At first I thought it was about the soundtrack.
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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #5 on: March 05, 2014, 09:11:43 pm
I had some fun with HW2 :(

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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #6 on: March 05, 2014, 09:31:23 pm
Best part of HW2 is probably the Complex Mod. I haven't played in a while, though; I wonder if there'll be a version for the Remastered edition?
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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #7 on: March 06, 2014, 05:42:51 am
No Cataclysm! :( :( :(
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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #8 on: March 06, 2014, 05:52:37 am
Pity, Cataclysm is by far the game that would most benefit from a cosmetic overhaul.
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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #9 on: March 06, 2014, 11:12:06 am
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Offline Luis Dias

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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #10 on: March 06, 2014, 12:12:21 pm
:yes:


I am also sad viz a viz Cataclysm. But my hopes on that were exactly nil anyways.

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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #11 on: March 06, 2014, 01:45:37 pm
I don't have anything solid to point to on this, but -rumor- has had it that their remastered/HD will be "Comprehensive" to including Cataclysm rather than it being it's own "Standalone", since Cataclysm was originally intended to be installable as an expansion to the original.
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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #12 on: March 06, 2014, 02:19:42 pm
Heh, looks good, and I'd be tempted to pay $100 for the Collectors edition with the larger Mothership model in it.
 

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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #13 on: March 06, 2014, 04:30:40 pm
They seem open to feedback, so if you ask about Cataclysm enough, I'm sure they'll give a definitive answer (if they haven't already)
 

Offline Luis Dias

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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #14 on: March 07, 2014, 04:50:43 am
Cataclysm IP was owned by a different company IIRC. Asking them would be ok I think. (I'll try via twitter)
 

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Reply #15 on: March 07, 2014, 06:22:33 am
i just had a horrible, horrible thought

what if they decide to 'rebalance' hw1 and make salvaging less hilariously overpowered
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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #16 on: March 07, 2014, 09:37:06 am
Quote from: Phantom Hoover on March 07, 2014, 06:22:33 am
i just had a horrible, horrible thought

what if they decide to 'rebalance' hw1 and make salvaging less hilariously overpowered

Then I, for one, won't buy it.

The beauty of the original Homeworld was precisely that kind of flexibility instead of the artificial restrictions placed on you in the second game.  It made perfect plot sense that - if you were clever - instead of beating your way through the enemy forces, you could carefully and tactically take our some of their forces and save the most valuable ships for your own use.  If a civilization is making its way across the galaxy, you have to expect their fleet is going to expand beyond artificial limits.

HW2 got this completely wrong by enforcing fleet limits on salvage, and was much the poorer game for it.

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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #17 on: March 07, 2014, 09:48:14 am
Well, I don't think he means "arbitrary cap on salvaging." I think he means "AI will respond appropriately to salvage corvettes and blow them up instead of shooting at them for a while and then getting confused."

Maybe a short period in which the target ship can shake off the salvage corvette if it's big enough? I don't know. Either way, there's a lot of ways to make salvettes less OP.
 

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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #18 on: March 07, 2014, 10:01:10 am
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Re: YES (Homeworld)
Reply #19 on: March 07, 2014, 12:27:21 pm
If I can't play Grand Theft Starship, I don't want to play the game.
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