Homeworld 2 Demo Out

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: lchyi
So no one thought the original HW was really weak? I bought it cause it said GotY and I was pretty disappointed. Though I was thoroughly impressed with the graphics. Maybe I put it down too quickly. I'm going to give it another shot tonight. It should run even smoother now (upgraded a ton since I bought it).

About the only thing I don't like about it is that it lacks a time acceleration feature like Cataclysm has. A patch for Homeworld to give it that feature would be excellent.


Homeworld 2 - man, just got pounded by the CPU. Again - in Standard mode. It just overwhelmed me with torpedo frigates and a few ion frigates. I tried a strike on their harvesting operation (2 carriers and resourcers) by hypering a carrier in and launching a few squadrons of pulsar corvettes and lots of bombers. It was crushed in about 3 minutes by another fleet of torpedo frigates. They knocked out the carrier's engines right away, then took care of the fighters and corvettes. Then they headed straight for the mothership. The 4 ion frigates it had didn't last long; all production facitilities were then neatly removed. Boom. Time to try again I guess.
Almost 1hr45min later - finally did it. It was my turn to overwhelm the computer. 20 ion frigates with a good escort of various strike craft makes short work of just about anything.

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: Mitzi
Anyone elses machine choke on this?? My Athlon 2400 with GeForce4 4600 (with 4x AF enabled) is pretty slow when zooming in or when theres lots of action of screen!

Runs nice and smooth here at 1280x960, high detail settings, 16x AF with an XP1800@1.7, 128MB Radeon 9100, etc.

Sweet game. Took 20mins or so to get used to the controls fully (never played the original), but now that I have I rather like the control setup.

 

[FluxCap]

I am sold after playing the demo many times. This game is probably going to be GoTY again.