[Mr Carrot]

Ok the E3 trailers out, and its quite obvious this is a Sierra organised affair. Its using an old build of the game, the music is **** (not the orchestral score weve been promised will be in the full game), the cuts are so ludicrously fast that they will induce epilepsy and the whole thing is just cheesy and poo. Which is a shame.

http://www.divx.com/movies/

http://download.divx.com/showcase/HomeWorld1024.avi

for the DECENT gameplay movies try this link:


http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?threadid=11514

[DragonClaw]

Maybe I'm just weird, but I like the trailer... the gameplay stuff is bad res and too short for me in that other link however.

Definately looking forward to this game, hopefully it won't have chopped features like most of the games being developed by lazy people are like

[Nuclear1]

Me get that game.

[Unknown Target]

i thought the trailer was awesome!:yes:

[Stryke 9]

What, you were expecting the Second Coming of the Messiah? Give it a break, it's not gonna be friggin' perfect, and the more you expect out of it the worse it's gonna be when it finally comes out. HomeWorld wasn't compared to some nostalgic idealized version of some other game when it came out, or it would have been deemed crap.

Now, if I can get back to panting over Earth 2160...

[Mr Carrot]

Actually if you remmber the original HW trailer then you can see what should be expected (or even their IC trailer).

They have builds of the game which are about 5 times better looking that that trailer, it just comes accorss that Sierra wanted it done and done NOW!!!

Some people on the official forum did some mixes with bab 5 music, the original score or free stuff on the net and it sounded a lot better than that 1995 casio keyboard ending.

The game itself is going to be ****ing awsome thats not in question (as can be seen by the various gameplay movies around the net).

[Ashrak]

 i see bits and peaces falling off but no actual model damaga (which SUCKS) hope they got animated textures like Galaxy andromeda

[Mr Carrot]

IG3 is going to have a max of what 15-20 ships at any time? HW2 is going to have a few hundred, the fighters blow up in a pretty spectacular fashion, from what weve been told and from screens ships show scorch marks and the hull plating becomes "battred" but they dont have bits of the ship being cut off (i wasnt aware that IG3/Andromada had this?)

http://well-of-souls.com/homeworld/hws/hw2/images/display.htm?h_screen008.jpg

here you can see that cap ships will trail smoke/debris if their engine subsystem is damaged.

[Ashrak]

Andromeda has a subsystem style kill thing.

[Mr Carrot]

Yeah but i meant that did Andromada have advanced damage texturing above what HW2 has, which is scorch markes and "battred" hull plating.

[The Claw]

The hull scorching isn't new- it was in Homeworld: Cataclysm if you look carefully. The only games at the moment I know of where you can chop bits off is some Star Trek games, though the interview I read from PC Gamer did mention targetable sub systems so there's always hope.

[elorran]

Haegemonia supports battle damage.  Though not specific sections of a ship you can target and blow off.  The sections are blown off at preset stages of damage amounts.

Still, HW2 promises to be a damn good game.  Though I feel sorry for the people who are falling into the pit of hype as Stryke has already pointed out.

[J.F.K.]

Originally posted by Mr Carrot
http://www.divx.com/movies/

http://download.divx.com/showcase/HomeWorld1024.avi

Thank goodness. I hate it when they roll out their stuff on Quicktime... it runs and skips so many frames, it's ridiculous. DivX and XviD, on the other hand, are smooth like silk. Don't know why anyone goes with QT in the first place.

[elorran]

Because quicktime already has an established user base.  It is a proven format and has been around for several years.  Previously it was the only format that could handle moderate quality video previews and trailers at a managable size when many people where still on dial up modems... so 63 meg files where a bit out of the question and still are in some respects.  Not everyone has the luxory of a decent connection.

And at the time windows media player was a primative piece of junk that couldn't handle many compressed formats.

Mpeg video formats (the decent ones) were around shortly following quicktime and were used, though quicktime took the main line due to it's promotion (something Mpeg video didn't really have at this point).

And now you know why quicktime is used