Homeworld2 v1.2 Community Patch mod for Homeworld 2

Looks good

Hm... I have no idea why it's called "Community Patch", it's just a mod, one amongst dozens...
and in this one I even dislike more features then I like... lol

I would be willing to incorporate my Gameplay Enhanced mod into the community patch (it includes the Defined Roles mod), as well as generally looking over the code to see if it needs any fixes.

PM me here or over at RelicNews.

Gentleman, thank you so much for posting a .big file for all of us mac users! I have looked forward to playing this excellent looking mod for at least a year now, and you have acknowledged our comments! Thank you all for your work!

But will 1.2.13 fix the problem with mission 9?

Load the last save of level 8. Retire your heavy bombers and complete the mission without them. Load level 9 and quit the game as soon as you can. Start Homeworld v.1.1. Complete level 9 and when you get to level 10 cancel and start v. 1.2 and play on....

Simple...ish

I think this problem arises because the speed of the Vaygr missiles has been increased. That way, they reach the Dread before the mission coding removes the missiles.

At any rate, my solution was to add a rule to the level file, which keeps the Dread alive during that bombardment. That most certainly works every time.

Hey guys, I have an Idea for your Mod.

Why not use a Corvette class ship as heavy Bombers for each race, instead of fighters?
For the hiigaran heavy Bomber you could use the design of the pulsar corvette, as example. Delete one of the turrets and let it fire with heavy plasma bolts or something like that, while flying arround the target like the other corvettes do (quick and dirty solution ;) ).
If you ask me, the Vaygr don't need an additional heavy bomber corvette. The laser crovette is powerfull enough (but that's my opinion not yours ;) )

Well, I thought about this the last days, because you only see strike bombers in homeworld 1 + 2 and nothing I would call a real Bomber ;)
But since I'm not very talented at modding, it would be nice if you think about it ;)

Greetings,
Urishima

Okay, so what you do is, load your mission 8 save, the one that is autosaved when the power units are located. Add a defense frigate to your build queue, and recycle/scuttle one of your frigates. Finish the mission off as per normal.

In mission 9, the cutscene should end with you able to click on the defense frigate immediately ( It should be right next to and on the right of the mothership.) Immediately click it, press M, move the cursor to the dreadnaught, press down shift, and select a point directy over the dreadnaught.

Now press T immediately to turn on the defense field! Your defense frigate's sphere should overlap the dreadnaught in time to stop enough or even all the excess torpedoes heading it's way.

Once the torpedoes are all gone.. enjoy the rest of the game in v 1.2! ;)

Well, we definitely have a lot of people with the exact same problem with mission 9.

I don't know what's going on, but i've tried running that mission with both 1.2 and the original 1.1. It seems the difference is that in the original all those little ships beside the dreadnaught don't fire their torpedoes, but in 1.2 they do.

It's possible to see the torpedoes from the battlecruiser/destroyer (not sure which it was), which are fired off both in 1.1 and 1.2, disappearing a few seconds later, above the dreadnaught, but the other torpedoes don't disappear, and strike and destroy the dreadnaught.

Evidently the original mission's scripting removes the 6 or so missles the battlecruiser/destroyer fires before they hit the dreadnaught. Unfortunately in 1.2 there are another dozen or so more missiles from the other enemy ships, and there's no scripting to remove them before they strike the dreadnaught.

I don't know how some of you don't have the problem at all, but I played through the entire campaign in 1.1 before, restarted the campaign in 1.2, and encountered the problem. Additionally, that particular mission produces no problems at all if i load it again in 1.1 (Apparently 1.1 can load 1.2 games, but 1.2 can't load 1.1 games.)