Long ago, when the word 'Hiigara' rang only as a hollow dream, the kiith of Kharak never imagined they would walk the Path to Victory. But, when they reclaimed their Homeworld and proclaimed themselves 'Hiigaran', they believed they had reached their goal. How wrong they were. 150 years after Hiigaran landfall, conflict rages across the Galaxy... Path to Victory is a multiplayer and skirmish mod for Homeworld 2 that adds new units to both Vaygr and Hiigaran Races as well as enabling the Keepers, Raiders and Kadeshi as playable races.
The last of the Kadeshi Swarmer updates, this time the Advanced Swarmer.
The design is based on the original adv. swarmer save the fact that it's built off the normal swarmer chassis with an advanced weapons pod built on rather than a new chassis.
Perks of this design are:
- The improved engine which is needed to lug the quad Splinter Cannons and the internal cloaking device.
- The quad Splinter Cannons mounted in the weapons pod which give the Advanced Swarmer a good chance against any target up to the size of frigate. However the downside of the splinter cannon being mounted fixed on such a small chassis is the lack of accuracy against smaller targets meaning the Advanced Swarmer underperforms against other fighters.
- Internal Cloak Generator which allows the advanced Swarmer to render itself invisible to hostile sensors and set up wonderful ambushes.
So, that's that really. Hope you like the design. I'd like to add that the pod below could be integrated into the chassis better but that's not my real priority now.
I'll miss the tri-gun, but this is more accurate to the original, and I think it looks better overall. My complaint would be the look of the guns from the front. They seen small and boxy. Everything else looks good, I really like the two engine trails. I've already mentioned the first versions upper tail looking better, but that would be a change for all the swarmers.
Yeah, changing the top tail would be simple but not quite the highest priority. I'll miss the tri-gun design too but maybe it will find it's way back.
As for the guns, what would you suggest? I was working off the original adv. swarmers guns, though I agre they could use some improvement - just don't know what really.
How about more octagonal or hexagonal in shape, so the two guns on top of one another would look more like an eight instead of a rectangle? And maybe move the top two outward a little (meaning the two guns would appear a little slanted), which would allow you to make the barrels slightly larger.
Great idea! Will get to it tomorrow. Too late today I'm afraid.
Thanks :)
I'm with Hell_Diguner...
Change made as suggested, nothing big but you'll notice the difference ingame.
im not sure if this is a feature or not, but the 2nd to last picture looks like the whole lower 1/2 of the ship is recoiling to the shot fired. (nice)
because of this im only wondering, does the advanced swarmer fire its guns all at once, or more like a machine gun?
The bottom doesn't recoil. All it does is spray steam when it fires. As for the guns, they fire in pairs of two either synched or after each other, depending on how the ship is facing its target.
this is a really nice model but i think that it would look more like a heavy swarmer if the gun module was more attached to the top half of the ship, that would set it apart from the rest of the swarmers
While that would be intersting, it wouldn't really fit the kadeshi swarmer model set up so far. It would stray a little too far to the uniform shape I've been working with so far.