[Thorn]

I have almost completed work on the Kushan Firelance Frigate (just need to do engine glows and fix the textures).
I have a few shots posted here

[edit] We plan on making our own weapon effects later on, that BFRed is waaay to big for that ship [/edit]

[This message has been edited by Thorn (edited 11-09-2001).]

[jonskowitz]

That looks great.  I've always liked the ships and thier interactions in HW.  My only beef with the game is I think they downplayed fighters too much.

[LAW ENFORCER]

Ok who let the smoke grenade go

P.S the top one looks like it in HW at the mo.!!!

[Nico]

cool   but the shivan beam is different than the one one the top pic (on purpose?)

[Unknown Target]

Don't suppose you need some help?
I'm too lazy to do all my campaign work (hint, hint, nudge, nudge), and nothing much is going on at the RT MOD, so I'm free.

[Thorn]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
cool   but the shivan beam is different than the one one the top pic (on purpose?)

The top pic is a render, like it says...
But we plan on making our own weapon effects...

[Nico]

As I've never played HW, I'm really looking forward this mod so I can discover that universe  
But I've heard many times fighters were useless in HW. I expect some big balance change I suppose?  

[Thorn]

Definitely, fighters/bombers are going to make a huge difference in ship battles now, I'm not sure about this one, but I don't think corvettes are going to be player flyable. They will still be dangerous to fighters, but they wont eat them like in HW. The missile destroyer wont be able to take out wings of fighters in 2 seconds, but it will still offer enough deterrent to make you think twice before hitting it, or a ship its gaurding. The ramming friagates and mimmics are going to be the hardest ships to do. We may just end up making the mimmic a stealth ship (but still kamakaze) instead of trying to figure a way to make it cloak, change shape etc... The ramming frigate will have to be scripted into every mission :/
The multi-beam frigate is gonna be fun though  

[Thorn]

 

Originally posted by Unkown Target:
Don't suppose you need some help?
I'm too lazy to do all my campaign work (hint, hint, nudge, nudge), and nothing much is going on at the RT MOD, so I'm free.

Once we finish the ships and weapons we could use someone who can do some fairly advanced mission scripting...

[Ace]

Fighters in Homeworld ineffective? Support vessels with fighters docked as carriers can bring slaughterfests to most enemy formations if reinforced with a few corvettes.

For a Homeworld to FS conversion, I would have corvettes as player craft, just make the main guns turrets. (and have a key SEXPTed to lock down and unlock the turrets, the guns themselves fire at your current hostile target)

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Staff member FreeSpace Watch
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[LAW ENFORCER]

That would be ACE! (ya see what ive done there?)

[Nico]

a bad joke (one I could have said)?
 
"notices something in law enforcers eyes, and quickly runs away"

[jonskowitz]

 

Originally posted by Thorn:
...but I don't think corvettes are going to be player flyable...

I agree with Ace.  Give them some normal gunz and have the AI run the turrets as normal.


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I told you that It would be done by November, well, mostly anyway...

[Alikchi]

Personally, I think the IW2 engine would be better for this, but this is not unwelcome. Well done, I was wanting to do this  

[Thorn]

 

Originally posted by jonskowitz:
I agree with Ace.  Give them some normal gunz and have the AI run the turrets as normal.

Hmm, a fighter(more like a bomber) with 4 turrets and 2 primaries..Hmm I guess that wouldnt be too bad, wed have to modify it a bit so it wouldnt kill every fighter in  range  

[jonskowitz]

But I thought that's what MG corvettes were for   (j/k)

You're right of course.  If you make the MG corvettes to godawful powerful then that's all people will use...

Of course, there's the fact that the things were pretty pathetic against capships so even if they were mean as all hell they're not always the right weapon for the job.

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I told you that It would be done by November, well, mostly anyway...

[Alikchi]

Ya know what's going to be fun? Attack bombers.

[Thorn]

Hehe..
yeah, slow, ligltly armored, only one weapon (but powerful), hehe, yeah.. fun..

[jonskowitz]

Ya'know, the way the FS engine handles turrets I'm not so sure it's such a hot idea to have the attack bomber lightly armored... not if it's actually going to go after capships.

That reminds me, are you going to have the sideslip capability enabled in this conversion?  

[Unknown Target]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:

But I've heard many times fighters were useless in HW. I expect some big balance change I suppose?  

You must be thinking of HW: Cataclysm, the sequel.
The fighters are well-nigh useless.
However, in HW, the fighters are the most important class you have  


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