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Cythereal posted:Playing through Homeworld again myself thanks to these LPs, though I'm playing as the Taidann. Toaster mothership aside, I think their ships generally look better and more like a fleet of exiles versus the smooth and rounded Kushan. Raygereio fucked around with this message at 00:28 on May 16, 2015 |
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Raygereio posted:while the Taidani designs were more elegant (for want of a better word). They were also much more warlike, insectoid and plain evil-looking to me. And red and yellow's rarely the good guys' colouring scheme, is it? E: I mean, when comparing it to blue and white. THE BAR fucked around with this message at 00:32 on May 16, 2015 |
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The red and yellow also looks like the backgrounds in the Galactic Core.quote:Come to think of it, was it mentioned anywhere how long after the end of Cataclysm this is? IIRC, Cataclysm is 15 years after HW1, and HW2 is 100 years after HW1.
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THE BAR posted:They were also much more warlike, insectoid and plain evil-looking to me. Kushan ships look much more smooth and rounded to me, a lot like the Federation, while I think Taidani ships look distinctly lower-tech and crude, built for functionality rather than looks. As it is, my Taidani exiles journeying to their lost homeworld of Hiigara against the Kushan Empire use green and white as their color scheme.
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Cythereal posted:Kushan ships look much more smooth and rounded to me, a lot like the Federation, while I think Taidani ships look distinctly lower-tech and crude, built for functionality rather than looks. Smoother, sure, but the Taidani has all kinds of nonimportant stuff clamped unto them, like wings and ornate frontal pieces. Maybe it's the yellow that makes it look more industrial?
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RBA Starblade posted:The red and yellow also looks like the backgrounds in the Galactic Core. Has the 100 year gap been retconned by Gearbox? Because I don't recall seeing any references to it in HW2:R, and them bringing back the HW1 Fleet Intelligence voice actor for Remastered seems to imply it's the same character, which would be impossible if it really was 100 years after HW1.
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^^^^ She's like half computer and so functionally pretty much immortal.Cythereal posted:Kushan ships look much more smooth and rounded to me, a lot like the Federation, while I think Taidani ships look distinctly lower-tech and crude, built for functionality rather than looks. I'd say it's really only the Kushan frigates that look like that, or even look good period (well I guess the mothership and their corvettes are also good). The basic Kushan assault frigate is still one of my favorite designs in the series. Their capitals look like lumpy garbage, though. Indistinguishable from a broken down sofa in a trash bag. The Taiidan on the other hand have trash (but very military looking) frigates, corvettes, and mothership, but great capitals and strike craft.
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nine-gear crow posted:Has the 100 year gap been retconned by Gearbox? No, they just got the original actor to voice both guys. quote:The Taiidan on the other hand have trash (but very military looking) frigates, corvettes, and mothership, but great capitals and strike craft. The Taiidan Ion Cannon Frigate looks rad as hell.
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MadHat posted:What are you having trouble with exactly? I have gone through the Campaign several times, and even did it again recently. Now I tend to stick to a vary similar Fleet Composition fro all the runs but but the game is not that difficult unless you are running into Scripting Bugs? Nah, just my tactics. I'll explain what I was doing wrong/poorly in the video. I did beat it this morning, so I'll be working on it over the weekend.
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Is Fleet Intelligence's origin's tied at all to the Bentusi? I recall them mentioning how similar she was to them during one of the Cataclysm cutscenes, but don't know the lore that well. Considering how good the kith's are at copying foreign tech, I can picture an engineer saying "I bet we could do that" after first contact with a Bentusi.
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thiswayliesmadness posted:Is Fleet Intelligence's origin's tied at all to the Bentusi? I recall them mentioning how similar she was to them during one of the Cataclysm cutscenes, but don't know the lore that well. Considering how good the kith's are at copying foreign tech, I can picture an engineer saying "I bet we could do that" after first contact with a Bentusi. The lady in Cataclysm was introduced as the Kuun-Lan's tactical officer, and Fleet Intelligence in HW2 is a different person. I could believe Fleet Intelligence is a computer, though, given how incredibly the voice acting is.
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thiswayliesmadness posted:Is Fleet Intelligence's origin's tied at all to the Bentusi? I recall them mentioning how similar she was to them during one of the Cataclysm cutscenes, but don't know the lore that well. Considering how good the kith's are at copying foreign tech, I can picture an engineer saying "I bet we could do that" after first contact with a Bentusi.
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Internet cookie and LP immortality to the person-or-persons who writes a poem about how awesome the Ion Frigate is that I can put into the dead space of the video. Because I have about 10 minutes of dead space to fill up, and my own appreciation of the Ion Frigate won't cover all that.
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THE BAR posted:And red and yellow's rarely the good guys' colouring scheme, is it?
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anilEhilated posted:A very nice thing about the HW1 campaign is that you can actually make your own color scheme. What? And break canon?!
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THE BAR posted:What? And break canon?! You can also play as the Taidan and fight against the evil Kushan Empire with their mad emperor, so... yeah. Personally, I think it works well from a lore standpoint: it could just as easily have been a victorious Kushan empire exiling a defeated Taidan people to Kharak.
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Toaster is the true Mothership. berryjon posted:Internet cookie and LP immortality to the person-or-persons who writes a poem about how awesome the Ion Frigate is that I can put into the dead space of the video. Have a few haikus, the Ion Frigates: The Ion Frigate is ded killy guys, and also does not explode easy Kith Somtaaw's Ions: A beam of blue light brings light to the darkness of a forgotten kith Multi-beam frigates: With a dancer's grace She spins and twirls amongst The twinkling bright stars Multi-functionality: Useful to find ores Pressed to service in defense By Karen S'Jet Fleet Intel: Fleet Intel had seen The Precision and Grace of The Ion Frigate Research: Crystal blades of light Helped focus down ions Into brilliance
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Let's horribly mutilate some classics in here. much firepower resides in the ion frigate glazed with Vagyr remains orbiting the mother ship --- I have murd'ed the ships bearing on collectors and which tactical sent a wing of bombers Forgive me they blew up super good so bright and so colorful
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Once we knew the vast Desolation between stars gently caress you too, Relic
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Ion. Like a lion. In Zion.
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Koorisch posted:It kind of makes sense when you think of it, they didn't want to get singled out as the ones who released a horror from the past that converted a lot of people into goop to make more goop. "Our engineers have devised a way to neutralize the threats posed by the intense heat of a sun. Recommend commencing research of Tactical Star Slinging technology immediately." edit: ION FRIGATE here I come, devastatin' the map drinkin' an ICEE, got a dozen shorties waitin' in back hey, ya'll! there's some empty seats near the main screen I got a six of Dew, ya'll can watch some Vaygr burn with me GOTTA STAY FAI fucked around with this message at 16:27 on May 17, 2015 |
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Such beautiful works guys! I'll be working on the update this evening, so feel free to think of more to add to the pile!
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I can do doggerel! Ion! Ion! Burning bright! In the Endless Depths of Night What immortal hand or eye Can frame thy fearful symmetry? or how about... But soft, what LIght from yon frigate breaks? It is the East, and Ion is the sun. Arise, fair Ion, and kill the envious (Taidanii/Beast/Vaygr), Who is already sick and pale with grief
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Ion frigate Will their starboard fusion chamber breach first or will ours? Do I even care?
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Ion frigates. They're kind of crap. I guess there's a certain charm to that, in a weird way. (It's free verse.)
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Video processing, no more poetry!
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Poetry in motion: "Meh. We can do better." - Kiith Somtaaw.
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Ion beams glitter in the dark Near the Gates of Tenhauser All those frigates lost Like tears in rain Time to salvage more
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*slow synthesized voice* I AM ION BEAM *heavy guitars*
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The Casualty posted:Ion beams glitter in the dark "You look ahead and you see a frigate moving toward you.." "Frigate? What's that?" "You know what an explosion is?" "Of course!" "Same thing."
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I can now empirically determine that you all suck at poetry. And that I need to build more Frigates. *shudder*
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berryjon posted:
Couple things that would have made that easier on you, Noticing just how many Frigates you could have built is the obvious one On Dust Clouds, Proximity Sensors give you full visibility in them. Also you were ignoring the Missile Plats for quite a while at the end there, lost you a couple more Frigates, I do not think your ships even saw all of them for awhile from the Dust and pretty easy to miss since they are not clustered with the Shipyard but more off to the side to protect Oracle Rock You can actually technically just ignore this entire missions gimmick by rushing a Marine Frigate with Fighter Support down the central Dust Trail and gong right for the Objective from above as long as your Fighters go ahead to blast the Platforms.
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Y'all just failed to grasp the all-encompassing magnificence of my poem. Phillistines.
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Karan S'Jet has been troubled ever since The Pride of Hiigara made for open space. She's forgotten something. But what? The keys are right here. The spaceship is on. It can't be her keys. The hyperspace core is installed and operational. They've jumped several times. It works great. The engines work this time. That's really cool. She makes vroom vroom noises, alone in her tank, where Fleet Intelligence can't hear. But what has she--oh. OH gently caress. Her face flushes crimson. "Ion cannon frigates are available for construction" she blurts onto the fleet comm line.
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Well, those last couple of lines for that mission just spell out something SPECIAL in out future, don't they. You would think that Karan S'jet would be smarter than to immediately hyperspace jump after detecting an anomaly in the Hyperspace Core, wouldn't you. What the gently caress is she even thinking?
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Ashsaber posted:Well, those last couple of lines for that mission just spell out something SPECIAL in out future, don't they. You would think that Karan S'jet would be smarter than to immediately hyperspace jump after detecting an anomaly in the Hyperspace Core, wouldn't you. What the gently caress is she even thinking? You'll actually find out next mission but: the Oracle hijacked the Hyperspace Core and is taking them to a certain location. It was "foreshadowed" by her comment about an irregularity in the Core.
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E: I guess it's a spoiler.
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It's a little weird not being able to build ships the rest of Hiigara is apparently using.
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RBA Starblade posted:It's a little weird not being able to build ships the rest of Hiigara is apparently using. Well, that's loosely explained in that they're still bringing the construction facilities online. They get the equipment needed to build one type of ship ready and then move on to the next.
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berryjon posted:
And so the Oracle left the entire strike craft fleet behind. I forget is it ever explained what the Oracle is?
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