Angels Fall First is a vast Lucasian universe creation project, begun as a set of short stories and now encompassing a variety of games, mods and art projects created by an international team.

AFF: Naval Combat Operations (NCO), is a standalone Homeworld 2 modification project that seeks to bring the universe of AFF alive for lovers of strategic, space-based warfare.

AFF: NCO seeks to both rebalance and re-invent the gameplay of Relic's award-winning RTS title. Featuring new units, weapons, and a brand-new, totally original universe, AFF will redefine strategic gameplay.

Story:
"The United League of Planets, the greatest peaceful union mankind has ever known, lies in shambles. The once proud coallition of humanity's greatest super-powers now wage bitter war across the cosmos. Now, a devestating war threatens to tear apart all that has become of nearly two centuries of peace.

In grand, imperial fashion the Antarean Empire and its allies seek no less then the utter destruction and domination of the spaceways. Having grown disillusioned with the stagnant pseudo-democracy of the ULP having been disgusted by the League Navy's treatment of so-called "rebel-factions" (The Massacre of Tuatha Rigel, Blood March of Covington), the Antarean Empire seceded from League. This precipitated a split, and eventually dissolution of the ULP as a single entity. As such, the Antareans see themselves as the rightful heirs to supreme galactic power and regard their fellow former League members as guilty by consent, and thus criminals.

Now, the scattered remants of the ULP are now locked in bitter struggle with the Antarean Alliance, the single largest "empire" in all known space. As the massive armadas of the depleted but still sizeable United Space Navy and Antarean Allied Navy grappled at one another, the rest of the galaxy watches with alarm, praying that the winning side will not turn its gaze outward once again. However ten years of war and tragedy have begun to take their toll as new galactic powers begin to emerge along with the discovery of new technologies.

Alliances are formed and broken, conspiracies hatched and foiled, all of this in the shadow of the longest recorded battle in mankind's space-faring history. Both sides have prepared daring and desperate bids to attain victory, but the question is no longer who will come out the winner, but rather how many will die ere the last battle is fought. A famous keeper of past knowledge put it best "In a war on heaven, angels fall first".

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Official Forum Post for download info, pics & more!
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Yes ladies and gents, hell has indeed frozen over! AFF: NCO Alpha version 0.8 has finally arrived! Oh, did I mention a name change? AFF: Total Conversion is now AFF: Naval Combat Operations! There are a bevy of changes in store for those brave enough to kick this puppy into the nearest PC!

AFF: NCO Features over 15 new craft, a new resource system, [semi]
working AI, new fx, and music, 0.8 is a whole different kettle of fish from the last release. As always, this is an alpha release. This means that there are alot of things that are potentially broken, crashy, unoptimized and unfinished. I decided to release this build primarily to get the testing under way for the beta, as most of the main art assets have been created. Now on to scripting and fx creation, yar!

Playing this new version is not particularly stable for online play lotsa desych errors when combat gets heavy). Hopefully we'll be able to squash a lot of these as the mod progresses. Also, new ships, fx and updates will trickle in as they get finished from now on, no more year long waits for content (lord willing). I've included some info on the new systems as long as a critical primer for players to get a handle on whats changed, so make sure to check out the official forum post for more detailed information. Enjoy!

 



 

Official Image Post: Affuniverse.com

What's new in 0.8?

- 15 new ships including one "Hero" vessel (INS Morningstar)
- An uncountable number of new/tweaked weapons and fx
- New building/resourcing system
- And a couple themed battle missions (coming soon)

New Ships:

Generic
Fuel Depot
Shipyard

USN
Olympiad [Defense "Wall"]
Gemini II [Defense Platform]
Light Platform Controller [Station]
Viper [Fighter]
Heimdall [Destroyer]
Alfazard [Frigate]
Muninn [Light Cruiser]
Tyr [Pocket BB]
Ragnarok [Dreadnought]

AISN
Horus [Fighter]
Ti [Corvette]
Vladimir [Frigate]
Khamun [Frigate]
Shu [Frigate]
Everstar [Light Cruiser]
Pride-C [Battlecruiser]
Osiris [Battleship]
Morningstar [Experimental Command]
Naqada [Battle Station]

New Maps:
Deep Space (online Now!)
*Greater Tricholid Wastes (coming Soon!)
*Battle of the Empyrean (Coming Soon!)

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Xarxemas
Xarxemas Oct 27 2008, 10:17am says:

Is any further work on this planned on, in the relatively near future? I love it, little laggy and dark (well thats what I get), but I love it and would like to see it finished. Great stuff.

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AStepIntoOblivion
AStepIntoOblivion Sep 26 2008, 10:33am says:

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Battlecruiser
Battlecruiser Sep 11 2008, 2:47pm says:

HEy i love you're work I'm wondering do you get to land on planets and battle on them?

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AStepIntoOblivion
AStepIntoOblivion Sep 26 2008, 10:34am replied: +1 vote     reply to comment
freestalker.fr
freestalker.fr Sep 7 2008, 2:21pm says:

My note for this mod: 20\20

Good work!!!!!

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Zerroh
Zerroh Aug 19 2008, 7:23pm says:

Nevermind, fixed it...

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Zerroh
Zerroh Aug 19 2008, 7:20pm says:

Help! I'm having problem playing it, i put all the files and did the target thing, but when I play I just get the original races. BUT i get all the maps and stuff. anyone know what's wrong?

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ivory_guard
ivory_guard Jul 10 2008, 2:07pm says:

Is this gonna make the release date? I mean, it doesn't look like it will. Seems like all the effort is going to AFF for UT3.

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75
75 Jun 25 2008, 3:10pm says:

been watching this one for a while... it's really grown up haha.

i have a trivial question. HOW do you get custom decals you make to have a alpha channel using photoshop...

ive been everywhere looking for this information, just how do you do it... ive made my own mod for this game, but i never managed to get any custom decals because i was plagued by a terrible white square...

this mod is still jus as epic as ever...keep goin

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Gear305
Gear305 Jul 2 2008, 10:31am replied:

No, I know how to get to downloading, it's just that I don't know where to install it in my files

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