A Halo mod for the critically acclaimed Sins of a Solar Empire, that aims to capture the fast paced intensity of the Halo series.
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Thanks to ManSh00ter's volumetric explosions mod
wow vary nice you can see the concussion around the blast vary nice keep up the good work
ps: i see the Cristal icon in the top right has changed whats that about
It looks like crew
It would be a little better if the trajectories were randomized a little bit instead of straight lines. The FXs are BEAUTIFUL!
A little change in the UI would be something I look forward to.
one thing that would really help this mod be closer to the halo games is if the archers didn't go up and then straight but rather just a straight line from the hull like a subs torpedo
Actually, in Halo the archers would go in arcs
actully they do go straight because they are unguided
Actually they are guided, if a covenant ship can dodge a MAC thats going 0.2 the speed of light, its going to be able to dodge some missiles moving at subsonic speeds. The archers have to be guided, otherwise they would simply NEVER hit.
they are guided and they go strait, the missiles only guide when the target moves, AND when they are arching, human ships always go head on because that is where their mac is, if they broadsided they could shoot missiles strait.. the launchers are on sides and mac is on front if it wuzn't guided the missile would simply fly blankly sideways into space and obviously hit nothing, so they have to be guided or else they would have to turn to shoot missiles then turn back around to shoot the mac, so it makes proper since to be guided unless u just want a firework show from the guy next to u exploding lol
Lol and sry for long post
Canada Let's keep it up.
btw was crystal changed to a person icon like population available for service?
yup
my bad canada cos i remember an awesome halo space machinima where the archers go straight not in arcs
I like it but I do have two small tips. One; I'd tone down the Archer's trail a bit because it seems too thick and too bright, it'd distract players and you'd loose sight over the battlefield too easily I think. Two: I think you should make the explosion five times that small. In the books the missiles basicly did no damage. The best way to show that would be to have small(er) explosions. But that's just my two cents.
@chakotay02: That's the explosion of the SHIP dying; that explosion would be large no matter what killed it due to the fusion reactors and all the explosives and oxygen inside.
@nickzz22: You're right, maybe one explanation could be that those are the finer debris particles being expelled.
Archer missiles ARCH! OH-D-S-T got it exactly right. UNSC ships present their front to the enemy in order to fire their MAC's and present a low target profile. The Archers are mounted on the sides and thus must fire perpendicular then curve around towards the target. After that, though, they go mostly straight except for tracking and evasive maneuvers (if any).
There are numerous times in the books where the writer would mention the "exhaust plume" from the missles being the only visible thing in space streaking towards their enemy so it would seem right that theyre nice and pretty looking :P. OH and canadaman, two questions. 1- Do MAC rounds pack the punch they do in the books? and 2- Are you including the super MAC cannons mentioned in Fall of Reach and shown in H2? (if so, those things are covenant ship killers...err obliterator is more like it >:])
MACs are kinda like snipers curretnly. Packs the big punch and can do it from across half a gravity well. I'm definitely going to add in SMACs though. Just a matter of time...
I also plan to replace the MAC bullet with a scaled down version of the Novalith Cannon' bullet.
nice! :D i wonder what the hell the covies will have considering there was very little mentioning of any covie planet, let alone buildings/defense platforms. Only thing we really heard/saw was High Charity
canada, it would be good if you could mabye just not have the archers go up as far cos it looks a bit silly
Thats only for the marathon and capital ships. The frigates only curve a small amount.
sounds cool. Keep up the good work all my friends are pumped for this mod
archers still go straight
thank you Lycanion! Someone who backs me up!!
it makes no sense that archers go "straight" they fire out from the sides of the ship, so unless the ships turn sideways whenever they want to fire archers (which clearly they do not due to the placement of the MAC cannons in the ships) so it only makes sense that the missles would fire away from the ship THEN alter course to its intended target. YES they go straight AFTER they ARCH towards their target...
hey one thing... in space there would be no cuncussion waves because there is no air. but it does make it look cool 0/0
If I could offer a suggestion. Why don't you have the archer's curve out horizontally instead of vertically? Thats how I always pictured them launching. Just my opinion though.
thats what i was kind of getting at, so i agree with you there
These are much better than the ones from the vid, but I always got the idea archers arced off to the side, not to the top. But either way it's a good job.
the missels should not be so bright and they should shoot out the side, like in this video.
uk.youtube.com/watch? v=d11sPGVB5Uc&feature=related
can you also give me a ships list. keep up the good work :D
awsome!!!! they need more cure to them
*Curve*
dude yall argue over some crazy ****! haha! but keep up the good work jus went out and bought the game yesterday, and i love it, cant wait to do a little bit of fighting with a UNSC space fleet!