Homeworld 2

Hehe. After I took over the first enemy assualt assualt frigate I thought "man, its good to be back!"


Good good game so far, I'm only on mission 3, but my impressions are all positive.

The 4 biggest changes:

1)fighters are semi useful in the long run! when you build a fighter or corvette, you get an entire squadron...as long as one of them can make it back to a hanger to dock, when it leaves, the entire squadron will be there again at no cost...also they can target subsystems of ships now, meaning a quick strike at a important ship part is pretty useful

2)new interface...there is something of a blizzard type interface now, its not as intrusive as you'd think. If you played the first homeworld or the expansion, you wont even need the tutorial

3)much much harder...I actually lost on mission THREE. I went through cataclysm on very hard without building anything but workers too, so this increase in difficulty was a surprise. I seem to have a constant lack of money. Various reasons, but a big part of this is attributed to....

4) Cant stay on a mission forever anymore. After the last goal is done, you auto harvest all resources and hyperspace. This was a dissapointment actually because you can no longer rebuild a fleet at the end of the mission, and research everything availible. I'm finding that salvage is a huge part of the game, because you're often cash strapped AND have a lack of ships.

er whats the pause key lol


yeah its not so much mothership blowing up, its more like a long long war of attrition on both sides, and you cant really make your ultimate victory fleet because there's no break in the enemy waves

oh THAT pause key

I pressed P, a la homeworld and cataclysm and nothing happened so I thought they took it out because it made the game too easy.

this one is more of a fair slug it out war thing i think

the other two were more of a ragtag army vs evil empire setting

ok any suggestions for the 4th mission?

I'm just jacking their frigates as they come to me at the start and building up a fleet that way. The first time around, I built up corvettes but they got plastered. Then I built up torpedo/flak frigates, but both of them seem to suck ass against everything.

The only decent frigates that are availble seem to be the enemy ones so....hence my strategy 3rd time around.

the one where you're supposed to blow up the hyperspace inhibitors on the asteroids and then the base


the problem was the 20 frigates appearing out of no where

anywhos I beat it with pulsar corvettes and bombers...dem pulsars are the pwn



I learned from the boards that there was a 'dynamic difficulty going on'. It takes your total armor value, and give the enemy cash flow and ships accordingly. Unfortunately its a bit off, because for every one destroyer you have, they get like 3. I read that one guy had a big fleet and on mission 12 he was immediately rushed by 28 destroyers and killed, and then he went back to the previous mission and scuttled everything but fighters and 2 battlecruisers, and he was only rushed by 2 destroyers.


The first time I did mission 4 I had an entire fleet of jacked ships from mission 3, and that was making it really hard. Afterwards I just used full pulsar corvettes and bombers. Frigates suck anyway. Not fast enough to dodge any fire, not tough enough to take any fire...worst of both worlds. I retired the mission 3 carrier too, to lower my armor count. Those things are useless considering the armor and money they cost.