[Colonol Dekker]

Argh I just played a FOUR hour lan game as the good guys against my brother who was Vaygr. I won by using super nukes and my hand is swollen.
 
 
WHY WOULD THEY MAKE IT SO ENGAGING?
 
I just couldn't stop. . . . .

[Locutus of Borg]

I love that mod

My only criticism is that the superweapons make it too easy.

[General Battuta]

Do you prefer Complex or PDS?

I remember back when I was with PDS, Complex was kind of looked down on as the retarded little brother, but seeing how PDS turned out I'm not sure that was particularly accurate.

[Colonol Dekker]

You used to work on it? That's neat.
 
I never played pds past one of the betas. Don't know why,i just fell out of the Homeworld 2 mod ting and focused more on my Freespace.
 
 
 
I only got Complex yesterday and spent the first three hours without building additional officer barracks, I just forgot to scroll down and ended up with tonnes of crew and ten poor Ruperts who were terribly strained.
 
I was in danger of losing til I built a jug and hyperspaced it into the middle of my brothers advance and blew a chunk out of his destroyer line. That allowed me to come back with a battle ark and hold him off til my fortress managed to spew out my first mega nuke which took out his mothership. Yeeeehaaaaw! 

[Titan]

sounds cool

[asyikarea51]

Hard, hard, HARD!!! DAMN!!!

I'm practically forced to play as a turtling tank every single time, and playing at ~5fps when tons of junk from destroyed ships is strewn all over the map doesn't help things either. I'm simply not good enough for the strategy genre.

That said, I did get some fun out of it on the few occasions where I didn't die, I had one game go on overnight but it crashed out at 4am when I was planning a second attack with a strike group that was heavily outnumbered and horribly outgunned (but would still survive because of what I was doing + heavy dependence on luck). Damn crash T_T

And then another game where I accidentally killed my AI teammate off the game with a nuke (his last shipyard was being hammered but I couldn't build anymore ships to help, and I didn't even realise that the previous attack from 2 enemies dropped him all the way down to Ensign). That one sucked... and I lost the game eventually because money ran out and I didn't have any supercaps on defense.

Juggernaught is something. Can't shoot it? RAM THE #@$%ER INSTEAD!!! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAH... had enough yet! TWIN NUCLEAR LAUNCH WHOLE SCREEN TURNS WHITE... BACK OFF LOL!!!

[Colonol Dekker]

 


It's good innit.





When fighting the CPU, constant save is key!

[SpardaSon21]

Are you using Complex 7.4.4?  Hiigaran Vortexes get a crapload of guns in that version.

[Colonol Dekker]

Yep 7.4.4, Remind me what a vortex is again. I just spam Interceptors and heavy bombers. Then lean towards  sentinels and scangers with Sweepers til i can pump out Artillery destroyers.

[Locutus of Borg]

The giant circular battleship.

[Colonol Dekker]

 





How did i miss that...........I was obsessed with Jugernauts.












 

[SpardaSon21]

It actually isn't giant, its a lot smaller than a battlecruiser.  It actually reminds me a lot of the Hoshiko Robotics Cruiser in Sins of a Solar Empire.

[Hades]

It actually isn't giant, its a lot smaller than a battlecruiser.  It actually reminds me a lot of the Hoshiko Robotics Cruiser in Sins of a Solar Empire.

Yeah, they do look very similar.

Anyway, I tend to just skip the Vortexes because they seem to die quickly, even if you have all the guns, upgrades, etc.

[SpardaSon21]

The Vortexes have a major problem in that they are reluctant to follow orders, and their weaponry is radially-mounted, so it is hard to focus fire with a Vortex.  Hiigaran Battlecruisers are even worse, as their captains believe all their guns fire in the rear arc and will turn their ship accordingly.

[asyikarea51]

I was mildly miffed with the battle cruiser not looking symmetrical,

But I kind-of like the upgrade path of that ship more than the Vortex + I think it looks cooler. At the time I didn't know what exactly you could fit on a Vortex so I randomly installed the light arms set and then I realised things the "hard way" when I saw it using the small guns against a group of Vagyr dreadnaughts... well at least it could swat the fighters before spending the next 30 minutes or so draining the hitpoints of each Dreadnaught veeeeeeeery slowly... in a game of capship warfare even max upgraded fighters seem to suck against enemy fighters... take too long to kill when a light arms Vortex can just pop off a Flak round "bang ur dead" just like that... haha...

liek omg i is small gun PEW PEW PEW still can drop your MEGA BEAM CANNONS

Juggernaughts are fun... skeleton crew RAMFEST...!!! but when I discovered the nuke I think my already-weak tactics changed even more... XD


You spam fighters too Dekker? Same here... Idk I guess the FS way of doing things sorta carried over for me, too bad the bomber guns still suck even at max upgrade (but look at the speed!!! teh enemy scouts cant catch me bomberzzzzz LOL XD)

[Titan]

That's the first thing about HW2 that pissed me off. 8 less fighter wings then frigates? What the hell?

[asyikarea51]

? The campaign CPU ship spamming based on RUs (or heck, complex mod AI for that matter with its big ship spamming tricks), or you meant something else?

I never really bothered with the original game campaign anyway, if that's what you mean; were it not for complex and the hiigaran side being crazy-strong for all that *CENSORED* fun I probably would have left my game disc alone for another few years or something since I'm not good at strategy games...

[SpardaSon21]

The Vaygr aren't all that bad in Complex either.  They have no requirement for research points, their crew and officers instantly replenish, they can get their best fighters as soon as they have enough RU to research, and they get Progenitor Dreadnoughts with their massive beams of doom.  Oh and they get perforation pods and nuclear perforation pods.

[asyikarea51]

Getting kicked aside by 2 easy Vagyr AI is already saying something about how bad I am.

The funny thing, before getting into Complex I was having moderate fun with TFS (crude RU injection code-slapping kitbash really lagged it) and that mod kept telling new players to play as Vagyr (I can see why, the tech tree isn't as stressful), but then I play Vagyr in Complex and I get stunned as to where the hell all these fancy unkillable Hiigaran ships were coming from and I had nothing of the sort, dying I-have-no-idea-how-many times...

At least they don't need a Barracks...???

[General Battuta]

Is TFS still alive? They had a short-lived partnership with PDS which disintegrated in horrible drama.