Shotgun LAN

Posted: **Sat Jan 03, 2004 12:24 pm**

Well, after being a wuss (well, studying, surprisingly enough), and not getting round to completing Homeworld 2 single-player, I have had to put in a good few hours the last few days on skirmish missions to acquaint myself with all the units etc..

It rocks! It really does

Make sure you turn NLIPS off in game options though, it gives everything much nicer scale.

I look forward to seeing huge fleets of battlecruisers and destroyers pounding lumps out of each other :E This could well be my game of the LAN..

Posted: **Sat Jan 03, 2004 1:14 pm**

Glad you like it

I'm going to be giving my poor on-board GFX chip something to cry about this LAN with that game.

K

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:04 am**

It's an improvement on its predecessors, but as buggy as a big buggy thing...

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2004 8:33 pm**

Bugs? I've not encountered any..

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:24 pm**

Turn all the graphics options on and it crashes. It's not exactly a massive 3D render problem to run in the first place...

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2004 11:43 pm**

I dunno if you zoom in close on a battlecruiser formation things can start to get a little shaky

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2004 11:46 pm**

I'm talking about a clean install. Running game, increasing graphics from default then crashing. I have no problems now I got it going, just can't have LOD on etc...

Posted: **Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:55 am**

HomeWorld 1's source code has been released... I'm very interested to see what modifications this will mean

Posted: **Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:23 pm**

Homeworld 2 will probably be my game of the LAN too, I've not put much practice in though

Posted: **Thu Jan 08, 2004 6:09 pm**

Homeworld 2 is the most unbalanced yet imo.

The Vagyr don't stand a chance against an 'equal' Hiigaran fleet. I expect the weekend to be nearly all Hiigaran vs Hiigaran.

RE: buggey as hell,
I've not had a single issue with the game and I run it with max settings at 1280*1024. P4 2.53, 512 pc1066 RD, 5900 Ultra det 53.03. Dunno if you use an FX the det 52.16s made performance slow but it was fixed with the most recent release.
Only problem I ever had was completeing the game and having fun at the same time when the AI has 10+ times your fleet. I think I felt relief more than fun when I finished it.

Posted: **Thu Jan 08, 2004 7:46 pm**

Why is it so unbalanced? There's not a lot of difference between the two.

One thing that needs changing is the sensor ping...bit *too* useful. One ping and you know where all the enemy's resourcing operations are. Kinda negates the fact that you have a lot more 3D space to play around in.

Posted: **Thu Jan 08, 2004 10:11 pm**

Shifty is on the scene and is ready to kick ass...

Posted: **Thu Jan 08, 2004 10:13 pm**

oh, and if any of u lot wanna make ur own decals.. info here:

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread. ... hlight=tga