Official HWU Release
Mar 8, 2013 Full Version 20 commentsOfficial Homeworld Universe mod release as of March 8th 2013 and this will be the last update from me as i will no longer be working on mods or anything...
A Homeworld Universe Mod
Homeworld 2 mod | Released Mar 8, 2013
The idea of this mod is to allow you to play as any given race from the series and also from other existing mods out there, which was started by chris some years ago, many people have helped the mod get it where it is right now, and there isnt much left to finish up other than bug hunting and possible replacing of ship models. I would like to see this mod make MOTY at some point but i need to focus on stuff that needs to be done. Currently the few remaining teams are being worked on me, right now im focused on cleaning up the mod to make it as friendly and enjoyable as possible which is why i would like people to play test the mod and help me find any potential problems with the mod itself and get them taken care of. Also to determine what needs to be balanced, nerfed, buffed etc is also another role i would like testers to help out with by giving me their opinions, inputs etc. You can contact me here or via my Email HomeworldLegacy@yahoo.com
Sites of interest:
Hwu.homeworldaccess.net< - Main Web Site: The site also contains a large group of HW2 modding tools from 4e543b and some links to some excellent tutorials. (Page links only work in Internet Explorer, or Firefox using IE tab, sorry.)
Forums.relicnews.com - The majority of our work in progresss can be tracked through the RelicNews Forums.
Xfire.com - Come join the group at xfire.com, this is a site where you can come and play HWU with friends for some intense multi-player battles.
Hwu.homeworldaccess.net< - Main Web Site: The site also contains a large group of HW2 modding tools from 4e543b and some links to some excellent tutorials. (Page links only work in Internet Explorer, or Firefox using IE tab, sorry.)
Forums.relicnews.com - The majority of our work in progresss can be tracked through the RelicNews Forums.
Xfire.com - Come join the group at xfire.com, this is a site where you can come and play HWU with friends for some intense multi-player battles.
Current downloads of this mod are up on sourceforge.
Sourceforge.net
I update the mod every now and then so be sure to check the sourceforge page for last updated to get the current working variant. In addition i post what changed have been done from the last on a facebook fan site for homeworld 3.
Facebook.com
The only races that arent fully done as of now are Tobari, Bentusi, those 2 teams are in need of more ships in order for them to be fully completed.
Here is the link for the manual - it's also still in progress but should help the first time HWU player: Sourceforge.net
Other information not in the manual:
Not mentioned in the manual is the CPU Attack Priority Option - use this option to add extra difficulty when playing a match, there are five settings our testers have told us that the "More Often" choice is the best for a good hard match. Note: these settings are independent of the standard Easy to Expert choices for difficulty giving the player 15 choices for AI gameplay.
Homeworld2 must be patched to version 1.1 for the mod to work correctly.
Your data folder (usually c:\program files\sierra\homeworld2\data) must not contain a different deathmatch.lua - as it may override the deathmatch.lua that is within the HWU big file.
If you want your badges to display properly on the homeworld 2 teams aka Hiigaran and Vaygr you need to have shadows disabled otherwise they will be displayed as a white box, this is due to shaders being used from HW@ to display their cruiser correctly which seems to be conflicting with ours.
The deathmatch_test game mode can be selected in the options menu, this will allow you to check out some of the more work in progress stuff as well as load the map of HWU's donated but unused ships.
Donated materials and a full list of credits can be viewed in the Credits menu from the main menu in HW2.
Lastly i did create a video tutorial explaining how to set up your in game races correctly so you can avoid desktopping, so here is the link to the video hope it helps out new players.
Moddb.com
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I think that's it for now, feel free to ask any questions, and have fun!
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5 comments by LeviathansWrath on Feb 13th, 2013
If anyone that has played HWU that has windows 7 and got the mod to work finally please post on this thread what it is that you changed in your windows 7 settings in order to get the mod to work finally. Moleman has rejoined the mod scene and has been crashing non stop with HWU due to problems with windows 7, so any information from anyone with win7 will help us figure out what has to be edited in order to run HWU for him so we can get back to work on the mod.
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My game crashes at the loading screen when it says universe..
Hello! me and a friend are trying to play on LAN (via: hamachi / tunngle) And TCP/IP, we have the same version, same of evrything, the game says when connecting ~wrong version of game.
solution?
regards Puzzuke
The only instance's I have had this issue with if everything was the same is when someone is using a cracked .exe file
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No offense... But that's a terrible idea.
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Ok, that's what I wanted to know, thanks. I'll probably start by re-downloading the .big. Chances are it's a corrupt download.
If not... well, I hope I can get this mod working. It's great to see this much effort in a Homeworld 2 mod nowadays.
hmmm try running the icon as Admin see if that does anything. Win 7 is very anal OS.
That didn't work, and I now know why.
Just re-downloaded the .big file... and it's about 400mb bigger now. ...Yeah, I think my computer got shut off during the night. Thanks for taking the time to help, even if it was a silly problem.
no biggie just let me know how it works out.