Armed Support Frigate image - R.E.A.R.M. - The Unofficial Classic HW 2 Expansion mod for Homeworld 2
R.E.A.R.M. - "Rearmament Expansion And Redesign Mod" is an unofficial Homeworld 2 expansion and it adds number of new interesting and various units.
Armed Support Frigate
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The same thing, but with weapons.
In the moment I've made the nose of the unarmed version, I knew I want to see the lasers inside of it. So yes, it was planned to be this simple from the beginning. The proper laser frigate will be next -the last Vaygr frigate and then this class will be finished for them. (I finally know how it's going to look like.)
Huh. Interesting. Not at all what I'd imagined it to be, but I think I like it better like this. How I imagined it would be better for the laser frigate proper than as part of a support frigate actually. I bet it's fun to watch these things in-game, probably looks like a laser machine gun from a distance. Well, when compared to HW2's other weapons anyway.
This isn't the final version is it? It looks a little rough to me, especially with the instant transition from hull to recoil blocks. Don't know about the location of those sensors either. I would remove them from the front, and place them behind the docking bay (facing backwords).
I dunno Hell_Diguner, sensors should be at the front, facing forward surely.
I never understood how antenae could act as sensors. I always though of antenae as devices used to recieve communication data being transfered between ships. And even if they were sensor devices, I've seen them in other places on ships (most prominently on the top, facing upwards). Take the command corvette/frigate, they both have their main sensors/communication array not facing foreward.
Or, it could just be removed period. It's a support frigate, meant to repair friendlies. How many times do you think it's going to be alone, and needing to use its own sensors equipment?
But there's the image of Vaygr frigates that I can't shake. Every frigate has yellow antenae on or near the front. Changing the frigate breaks that mental image.
And I doubt Pouk will decide that the antenae being so close to the weapons are that big of a deal. I still won't like it, but big deal. We have a frikkin six laser armed Vaygr support frigate. How awesome is that by itself?
I just follow all the Homeworld facts, no matter how illogical they are, so if antennas acts like sensors, they'll be sensors everywhere else.
There is still one possibility: to remove bottom pair of lasers.
But I have no problem with all those things fitting into this limited room, because there was a hangar before, an empty space and the sensors. Now there are lasers instead of the empty hangar plus the sensors.
Only thing, and probably the one you are talking about, is that those two things are too close together, that damage of one can be damage of the other, overheating problems etc. But remember there is no room for this in any other part of the frigate, Vaygr had to place it to the front, because they've already had to sacrifice a lot of space by making a hangar in the middle of the ship.
Yeah, I thought you'd already thoroughly thought about the placement of the antenaes and the weapons, and that what you did was the best that you could come up with. I can tell you put too much time and thought into your ships to have not thoroughly thought this one out.
To be honest, I don't think that I would have done any differerent than you ended up doing. I wouldn't want to have any less than six lasers, and I would have to have the antenae on the nose. Those would be not be compromisable, and so, I would have had to do exactly as you have done.
hey Pouk these frigates do not shoot. i build one in game and told it to attack just to see how it would attack and it doesn't it just gets real close to the enemy and sits there, i know ur no done with it, so i was just letting you know in case u didn't.
You're the second person telling me this. My frigates work, it's an interresting problem.
And yet this AI(Hard) Support Frigate is getting right amongst it.
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Weird. I observed all my Support Frigates working nicely, I tested docking, healing, launching, staying docked, shooting at bad guys, all good.