Destroyers: Restored to their former glory

[Khaos]

I, for one, miss the good ol' days of Cataclysm, back when Destroyers fired Advanced Ion Cannons, not these puny Kinetic Burst Cannons! I love Ion Cannons...watching them fire, hearing them charge up, and seeing them stretch across the battlefield is just lovely. So I was kinda sad *sniff* when I found out the Hiigaran Destroyers didn't have Ion Cannons. Well, guess what? They do now! Eat this Vaygr!

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Aaah, much better methinks! The "Ion Cannon" look is definitely in this season. I so prefer the Ion Cannons over the Kinetic Burst Cannons!

Odd thing is, though, that the Kinetic Burst Cannons still fire too! Although I did completely replace the "Hgn_KineticBurstCannonDestroyer" from the weapon mounts in hgn_destroyer, they still fire after the Hgn_IonCannonTurret does. But hey, I ain't complaining. Though it can be strange to see 2 ion cannons followed by a few Kinetic Burst rounds come out from the same turret.

Every ship should have Ion Cannons. I love Ion Cannons! Don't you?

Having so much fun making overpowered ships and watching them wreak havok. For my next trick I'm gonna mount some Vaygr Heavy Fusion Missile Launchers on the Hiigarran Interceptor. :)

[DmD666]

Yes, watching immensely overpowered ships is just so damn fun!!
I made a frigate with an everlasting defense field, 10 big pulsars 2 missile launchers and a health regen time thats small..
and the pulsars have an emp effect..hahahaha!

[chami]

Khaos> the reason that is happening is because you haven't changed the events file to display the right FX and animations for the turrets. Once you have done that, the muzzle flashes shoudn't appear anymore :stick:

[rc2080]

i sure hope those aren't BC ion cannons they are packing there.. coz the DD DOES have one more turret then the BC..

[chami]

that would be surreal... Destroyer > BC because of ion cannons :grin:

[NovaBurn]

Omg nice, and THE SHADOWS LOOK GOOD TOO

[Avatar Terminus]

actually, you've made it lose firepower. <and i think the kinetic burst cannons look so good in hw2, they're on a par with ion cannons>

[Khaos]

rc2080: Those are the Platform Ion Turrets, not the BC (though that would be awesome).

chami: Uhh, yea, that's right! What did I say? :iws:

Avatar: Not if I put the BC Ion turrets on there...I think I might :)

[Avatar Terminus]

true. but i like the way the cannons looked. in hw1 and cata the cannons were useless, although on the HC they were supposed to be crucial and on the Dread in cata they were supposed to be the primary anti ship weapon.

[Khaos]

I put the BC Ion Turret on the Destroyer...shear ownage o.O;

Oh, and rc2080, the Destroyer has two more turrets than the BC; there's one on the bottom and three on the top :)

[-V-]

?! BC has 4 turrets, DD has 4 turrets. BC has 2 ion turrets, DD has 2 missile launchers....

[Khaos]

? I've only seen 2 turrets on the BC. One top, one bottom. Where the hell are the other two? :wtf:

[-V-]

on the sides....under the little winglets infront of the launch bays...

Look Hear: http://well-of-souls.com/homeworld/hws/hw2/images/display.htm?screen_2.jpg (Linkey)

[TyrealMathias]

BC has 4 turrets, 2 ion turrets, 4 pulsar turrets.... DD has 4 turrets and 2 missile launchers.... :)

people should look into HWS a bit more...

http://well-of-souls.com/homeworld/hws/hw2/hgn_battlecruiser.htm

[Amur_Tiger]

I've got one set up so that it fires fixed from the missile laucher, the Burst canons are replaced with plasma canons. It's actually a seperate ships too with reasearch and everything, I just need a place to host it.

[jpaugh78]

I would host it for you, but people keep complaining about not being able access my site from Freeservers.com :(

*Edit: Could you sent it to me via e-mail so I could have it?

jpaugh@woh.rr.com

[Amur_Tiger]

ack..... found a bug must troubleshoot, will send once debugged.

[jpaugh78]

Gotta love bugs.....at least once you find them you can rejoice while you squish them.

I'll be looking forward to it....I love DD's

[Deathjam]

send it to me, i'll host it

webmaster@mindview.co.uk

i got way too much bandwith which i'm not using atm

[Amur_Tiger]

Thank you very much for those who wish to check it out go Here (http://mods.mindview.co.uk/hw2/).