Star Trek vs. Homeworld

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Authors: Nathanius, Captain_Freedom

Last revision: 7 Mar at 14:48 UTC (1)

File size: 220.41 MB

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Description:

Ever wanted to know who would win in a fight? The enlightened and mild-mannered upstanding men and women of Starfleet or the bloodthirsty battle-hardened species of the Homeworld universe? NOW YOU CAN FIND OUT!!!

This is a compatibility mod for Star Trek: Chronicles – 2310 and GOLIATH – Make Battlecruisers Great Again.

To play, you have to load the mods in the following order:

1. Star Trek: Chronicles – 2310
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1955009924

2. GOLIATH – Make Battlecruisers Great Again
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1516411170

3. Star Trek vs. Homeworld (this mod)

There’s a screenshot of how to do it in the description.

It seems like this mod would be totally easy to make, but it was actually kind of a pain in the butt. haha

My computer is pretty decent, but I have problems running more than 3 races in the same game with the video settings turned up. If things look weird or if you get an access violation, either play with fewer races in one game or try turning ‘Texture Size Limit’ down. I can play with all races in the game when that setting is turned down to 1024, which is the second from the lowest setting, but it probably depends on your computer.

I had to change a whole bunch of things in Continuum to get the balancing right. The Star Trek races could eat the Homeworld guys’ lunch the way they were, so the ship functions, weapons, build costs, tech-tree, etc. needed to be adjusted to be more like the Homeworld guys so that the game would be fun. This mod only has The Federation, but there are treaties in the research tree to get some ships from the other races too.

So I know that the ships aren’t all according to Star Trek lore and all that stuff, so there’s no need to tell me how dumb I am. Thaaanks. 😉

Unfortunately, the shields had to go because they were messing up the AI in big games, and some of the cool effects like warping in and the names on the ships didn’t make it in yet either because I want to make sure that the mod can be played online, and I’m afraid they might cause de-syncs.

Special thanks to Nathanius for letting me use his mod and change stuff around, I get it that a mod is your baby and you wouldn’t want somebody messing around with it, especially removing stuff like the shields which were obviously a LOT of work to get working, but Nathanius is a bigger man that that. Thank you very much, my friend!

So if you’re rooting for The Federation, tighten up your girdle, polish your platform boots, and go show those uncouth barbarian scum how to behave like civilized gentlemen.

And if you’re rooting for Homeworld, get out there and make those prissy thin-wristed techno-sissies wish they never set one foot through the dimensional rift!