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Title: Favorite non-freespace mods
Post by: Beskargam on September 28, 2012, 02:10:17 am
went on a downloading spree on moddb. Got to wondering what are all your favorite mods and what are some must plays?

Additionally are there any mods that serve as just graphical updates for the original homeworld's campaign?
Title: Re: Favorite non-freespace mods
Post by: Scourge of Ages on September 28, 2012, 03:22:36 am
I loved the Tactical Fleet Simulator (http://www.moddb.com/mods/tactical-fleet-simulator) mod for Homeworld 2, especially since it works with the regular campaign. It's hard, but very very fun.

There's the Mechwarrior: Living Legends mod for Crysis Wars which is awesome.

And the FakeFactory Cinematic mod (http://cinematicmod.com/) for HL2 which greatly, hugely upgrades the graphics (though last version I tried didn't have a decent Alyx so I reverted her to vanilla).
Title: Re: Favorite non-freespace mods
Post by: spaceranger on October 10, 2012, 08:16:43 pm
Moviebattles 2 for Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Academy  :yes: :yes: :yes:

ONLY multiplayer team vs team online 5 minute matches on maps w/objectives. The team/community has modeled basically every significant SW character and set piece from all the films.

The only point of this mod is to make a game that plays as much like a Star Wars battle scene from the films as possible.

Each team has different characters available to play from the other team, with slight correspondences (i.e. the Reb team 'Hero' and Imp team 'Bounty Hunter' characters are essentially equivalent in role, but differ in specific capabilities). Once a character type has been selected by the player, you buy abilities  for that character from a fixed pool of points. You can save your selections as presets.

You can play a Droideka. You can be a Mandalorian with jetpack, flamethrower, wrist blaster, EE-3 (Boba) or Westars (Jango). It's first or third person perspective, and they modded the first person perspective to move with the character.

The entire sabering system has been overhauled from the basic JKA game so that it's no longer even a close comparison. You have to manually block and position your saber to counter an opponent's saber. There's force powers. You can wield a single saber, dual sabers, or staff sabers (i.e. MAUL).

Honestly, it's generally just balls-out, no holds barred, action action action packaged in 5 minute rounds. Max server cap. is 16 vs 16. Playing an MB2 map with 16 vs 16 is extremely intense, especially if every player is actually trying to play well.

The learning curve is steep and the skill cap is really high. I've been playing MB2 for about 6 years now and I'm still not sick of it, it's my go-to "quick fun" game.

You just have to buy the JKA game (for like $5 online, steam or GOG) and download/unpack the mod files. If you buy the Steam version, you don't also have to install the one and only official game patch (maybe the GOG version has this too now, it didn't used to).

http://www.moviebattles.com/
 (http://www.moviebattles.com/)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_Battles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_Battles)

Screenshots and Youtube vids don't do it justice by a long shot, the beauty is in the gameplay, you just have to experience it firsthand.

:cool:
Title: Re: Favorite non-freespace mods
Post by: General Battuta on October 10, 2012, 08:59:13 pm
minerva
Title: Re: Favorite non-freespace mods
Post by: Beskargam on October 10, 2012, 09:29:27 pm
minerva
what is that?
Title: Re: Favorite non-freespace mods
Post by: redsniper on October 11, 2012, 10:11:22 am
An HL2 mod that feels a lot like Marathon. It's pretty cool.
Title: Re: Favorite non-freespace mods
Post by: StarSlayer on October 11, 2012, 10:42:54 am
I like the Roma Surrectum II mod for Rome Total War.

Its a pretty complete overhaul of RTW with really nice graphical updates and redone factions.  It's still under development and I think some of the interface stuff is a little chunky at the moment but you can actually deploy a specific Legions and Auxilia which is awesome.

(http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/9421/geminaxiii.jpg)

THIRTEEN!


Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q7UMwm4vmw)
Title: Re: Favorite non-freespace mods
Post by: Pred the Penguin on October 11, 2012, 10:54:27 am
Phoenix Rising mod for Star Wars: Empire at War. The vanilla game itself has plethora of problems, as anyone whose played it probably knows, Phoenix Rising does a good job of fixing them while sticking to canon.

I'll try out mods for the Total War games I play. Roma Surrectum II is definitely one of the better built mods IMO.
Title: Re: Favorite non-freespace mods
Post by: kev11106 on October 11, 2012, 05:22:01 pm
Wulfen 2.0 for Doom 3. Go check the footage on Moddb and have your mind blown...
Title: Re: Favorite non-freespace mods
Post by: Sushi on October 11, 2012, 06:18:27 pm
minerva

I commend your good taste, sir.

Title: Re: Favorite non-freespace mods
Post by: General Battuta on October 11, 2012, 06:20:28 pm
I also like Battuta's Enhanced AI Mod for Crysis 2
Title: Re: Favorite non-freespace mods
Post by: Sarafan on October 11, 2012, 07:23:06 pm
Thrawn's Revenge for Empire at War is good. I also like CornCobMan's Fun Mod for DoW Soulstorm.
Title: Re: Favorite non-freespace mods
Post by: Nuke on October 12, 2012, 04:41:22 am
mwll
Title: Re: Favorite non-freespace mods
Post by: RVR72G on October 12, 2012, 05:54:23 am
Allied Intent Xtra mod for Battlefield 2.