Post by StephenlsPost by Louis Nick IIII had some chop when ships are arriving or departing via hyperspace, but
upgrading to the latest nVidia drivers solved the problem. That said,
we all need better computers; I hope this PC will make it through
another season of holiday games before I have to upgrade something.
My video card is a GeForce4 MX 420, so I'm not exactly running top of
the line hardware. Also, this computer doesn't have an AGP slot, so
it's PCI.
Okay, well, you know what needs doing.
Post by StephenlsOne of the advantages of buying a new PC at the moment is that I can rip
components out of my old one -- there's nothing wrong with my 111 GB
hard drive, for example, or my TV card. But I really don't want to
spend multiple thousands of dollars until I have multiple thousands of
dollars to spend. I need to be able to pay for college.
And as long as you're saving for college, it's best that you don't get a
new PC, because it'll be harder for you to spend all of your studying
time playing new games. Instead, you'll play the classics like Half-
Life, X-Com, Dune2. That should cover the important genres.
THE REST OF THIS POST TELLS HOW I BEAT LEVEL 3, AND IF YOU WANT TO KEEP
THE CHALLENGE FOR YOURSELF, SKIP THE REST. IT DOES NOT, HOWEVER, SPOIL
THE COOL ENDING OF THE LEVEL.
Post by StephenlsMy "forward resource area" is thoroughly defensible, thanks to my set of
three squads of two interceptors and one gunship, plus my squad of five
bombers. I managed to collect EVERY SINGLE crew transport ship in the
previous level, so they gave me elite stuff.
It's more the carriers I'm having trouble with.
Ditto. Okay, I just got through this a minute ago, and I'm happy to
report that the end of the level gives you something spectacular, which
will draw your chin to the floor.
That said, I found it useful to sprint to the Forward Resource Area
(FRA) ignoring my previous advice, or more importantly moving the Mobile
Refinery to the FRA, which will trigger your ability to build mobile gun
platforms-- I found that sending 5 (or 6-- I lost track of one) of those
to the vicinity of the shipyard help to deter the fighters while corvs
could attack the infiltrator frigates and assault frigates. Gun
platforms are like probes-- once you send it somewhere, it goes there
and says there.
Even though the infiltrators didn't get much time to work on it, the
shipyard still fell to the Vagyr and required recapturing. It took all
4 (odd artificial limit!) Marine Frigates most of 4 minutes to recap, so
don't be sitting on your hands when the time comes to start building
those thing. Queue many, and it'll keep building until there's 4, and
start building again (I think) if one ship expires.
I don't know how I got all this together, but I used interceptors to
cover bombers, which attacked the carrier's frigate facility (center
carrier has fighter facility, other two have frigate facilities).
Bombers (5) destroyed one carrier in the process of attacking its
frigate facility, and quickly destroyed the other's frigate facility.
By this time, I ahd other thigns going on, and they started getting
messed up by fighters.
All this time I built groups of gunboats and pulsar gunboats,
alternating groups (or, say, two each and two). Lost all of my bombers
by the end of the level.
Also, I think I triggered somethign prematurely, because I didn't get to
build anything at the shipyard before jaw-dropping event started.
Post by StephenlsI don't remember that level, but I do remember the nebular level with
the damn multibeam corvettes. I stole six of those. They're fun.
Oh, I had one of those once, but it got schooled on a later level.
Post by StephenlsThe major problem with Homeworld is that levels have more enemies the
more ships you start the level with.
Level 14's the one where you have to capture all-you-can-eat Ion
frigates, and Level 15 has basically one enemy. After that, 16 (final
level) is a piece of cake, as long as you split your forces a bit.
Considering I had a so-so good frame rate on a TNT card, you're probably
way ahead of the game with your GF4.
Also, worth noting that unofficial relic fan site www.relicnews.com has
"Walk-Thru" forums, containing one thread per level per game, for each
HW and HW2 (as well as Impossible Creatures, another Relic game, and
possibly but not certainly Cataclysm, which wasn't Relic's game.
-LAN3
Level 4 looks scary, tellyouwhut.