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.
I just took this screenshot about a half an hour ago and I instantly liked it. The colors and composition surprised me enough for me to let it almost unedited (I didn't do anything but added a little bit of black in the bottom left corner and the REARM logo). Well it doesn't have the same effect on monitors with lower saturation and maybe I'm the only one who like it, but I still do.
But I guess it happen to have some purpose after all. It has the Nassar frigates in it, so it's a recap of the ally system. As a Hiigaran you can call for help to Nassars and as a Vaygr you can hire the Turanic raiders.
oh so they have a name now i must have missed that update
There was a poll and at the day I needed it to be decided the poll was for Nassar.
those ships look.... interesting like mobile weapons platforms
That's almost what they are. Technically they are frigates, but they have a lot of health and they are quite slow.
And have about twice the mass of other Frigates. Their height is double that of a Hiig frigate, but the other dimensions are about the same.
the one on the left looks like a face
when's the next release coming out?
Working on it. You know I won't give you a specific date.
So how do the Allies work? Is it like a separate subsystem or do you just say "help me" and they show up with a set force?
I don't know what you mean by the subsystem, but they are the extra ships of a different race under your controll. The details are still being worked on and it may still change a little, but basically you hyperspace in an ally production ship, that costs some RU initialy and a certain amount of RU every minute. And that ship (For example a Turanic carrier) builds it's own units into a separate ally unitcaps. Some better unitcaps system is still in progress.
It still needs to be properly tested and the whole ally system won't be exactly finished in the next release, because it requires a few new ships. But anything which will be missing in 0.0.3c will be finished in 0.0.4.
Yeah and later it might be possible to have a gametype where you can play the game as any race, not just the big Hiigarans or Vaygr with allies, but all the present races next to each other, big and small. So you could start for example as a Turanic raider against anything, another raider for example or Hiigaran, Vaygr, Nassar, Kadeshi...
That makes sense and sounds pretty efficient. What i meant by subsystem was something like a special hyperspace module that would allow you to call in the ally ships, but I like the idea of getting the production ship.
Well there are still going to be some prerequisities for calling that ally production ship.
Their shape reminded me of bones
yeah
Vaygr get Turanic help and Hiigraran get Nassar help? That's actually pretty cool.
Yes that's how it goes. Thanks.
i love this model, i dont know why its just got a strange "alien" vibe to it as opposed to the other races ships that have a more "terran" feel to them. overall great model. love it.
I think it's because it has something lizard it it.
These guys look so good in the game! the textures really stand out a bit more to me! plus they are very fitting for the Hiigrarans :D
Thanks.
Just played the mod. I thought when you said "ally system" that you could spawn Turanic Raiders or the Nassar and they'll attack the enemy but you oculdn't control them. Wow I'm an idiot. =O Great release. Hopefully we'll see some story behind the Nassars and some more ships for the Hiigarans in general.