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[MOD] Sins of a Solar Empire: INVASION (new screenshots, May 28th, 2012.)

[MOD] Sins of a Solar Empire: INVASION (new screenshots, May 28th, 2012.)

Previously known as "The Last Stand"

 

 

Sins of a Solar Empire: INVASION is an addon project aiming to expand upon the existing universe of the Sins of a Solar Empire, providing original and high-quality content on top of the original game. Aside from the new content, the addon will also include multiplayer-friendly gameplay changes as well as reworked or new visuals/sounds.

ETA: To Be Announced

Planned changes/content will include:

  •  A new playable race, created to the highest quality standards. The Xin are a race of utterly alien origin, and the massive fleets of their living, semi-sentient ships have been ravaging the galaxy for millenia. Countless races have perished under their onslaught - and now TEC, Advent and the Vasari will have to face this terrible enemy and win - or die trying.
    Assume the role of the defenders and try to stem the tide of death and destruction, or take command of the invading armada and destroy the impertinent insects wherever they choose to make their last stand. 
  • Volumetric Explosions & Damage Effects, providing not only greater excitement to your space battles by transforming all explosions and persistent damage effect into true 3D affairs, but also better visual cues as to how the battle is going, enabling you to spot at a first glance the hotspots and even the level of damage on particular ships.
  • Dynamic Battle System, where each ship class' strenghts and uses are not determined only by its stats and abilities, but also by its flight characteristics. Certain ship classes will be able to move during fleet battles, which, coupled with the reworked stats of all ship classes should prevent "cookie-cutter" or "spam" strategies.
  • New Ship Classes for the new faction, ranging from specialist ships such as the Warmaster or Emperor Battlecruiser all the way to Titans acting as mobile superweapons capable of facing down an entire fleet on their own or even destroying an entire gravity well in one powerful surge.
  • Reworked Balancing, aiming to further focus various ship classes on their roles, removing any overlapping advantages which ultimately make one ship type or the other the ship to produce. Changes will also include increased gravity wells as well as greater class difference in turning rates and top speeds in order to further accentualize fleet placement, strategic positioning of forward bases and other such details which a great admiral make.
  • New Planet Types, which will also be visually enhanced, primarily by increasing their size in order to make them a true centerpiece of a given sector. New planet types will provide greater variety without providing game-breaking advantages to players.
  • Enlarged Gravity Wells which, coupled with the dynamic nature of space combat, will challenge players to an even greater level, requiring careful placements of planetary defenses and orbital structures, as well as fleets.
  • Unique Structures for the new faction, ranging from formidable Heavy Defense Batteries to deployable Outposts which will be capable of guarding even sectors around otherwise uninhabitable astronomical bodies such as stars or gas giants.

==MEDIA SECTION==

 

==SCREENSHOTS==

 

==TRAILERS==

DRONE SPOTLIGHT I

A short ingame exposition of the Scout, Assault and Siege drones.

 

 

 

==BACKGROUND LORE==

Pangalactic War Timeline 

Clicking the above link will lead you to the download of a .pdf document detailing the rich and dynamic history of the factions which will play a major role in the Last Stand mod, so if you are into background lore, be sure to check it out!

 

==UNIT INFORMATION==

 Pending.

 

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Reply #951 Top

You have to take into consideration the overall damage and toughness of individual fighters. Xin carriers will typically have a below-average number of fighter drones per squadron, but those drones are going to be really annoying and difficult to take out. Number of squadrons is usually going to be an uneven one - three for carrier cruisers and probably starting with five for the Overlord Carrier.

All these values are going to be further tweaked out during beta when I get proper feedback.

Reply #952 Top

Fine agreed, but i still want to see more ships. Is it possible to increase thre fleet cap and the cap ship cap for each faction so it would be balanced, but you can still build way more ships for ppl lik eme with monster comps.

Reply #953 Top

I don't know if you are completely decided on the mothership's name, but I think that Chimera Hiveship or even Chimera Spawnship (I prefer the former)  sounds good, and it keeps with the theme from wyrm i.e. mythological

Reply #954 Top

if it's going to have a mythic connatation, it should probably relate to a replicating mythic creature, like a hydra, myrmirodon, pheonix, or something like that. i would suggest calling the ships that are spawned myrmidon, and the spawnship a myrmidonic spawnship.

Reply #955 Top

Is anything Kraken-Class yet??? <3 The Kraken

Reply #956 Top

i was thinking it could spaw a mix of shpis like a chimera is a mix of animals

Reply #957 Top

great mod i would have to say from what i can see here. Im aware that it has to of been asked already but is there any ETA on the releasedate?

again i have to say your doing a great job

Cursed

Reply #958 Top

Quoting Admiral_Kiernyc, reply 5
Is anything Kraken-Class yet??? The Kraken
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He could rename the Sovereign Siege Ship to the Kraken since it has those Kraken-esque tentacles and make the colony cap the Sovereign.  ALthough having a ship named the Sovereign committing genocide is too tempting to pass up for me.

Reply #959 Top

Quoting SpardaSon21, reply 8

Quoting Admiral_Kiernyc, reply 5Is anything Kraken-Class yet??? The Kraken
 

He could rename the Sovereign Siege Ship to the Kraken since it has those Kraken-esque tentacles and make the colony cap the Sovereign.  ALthough having a ship named the Sovereign committing genocide is too tempting to pass up for me.
End of SpardaSon21's quote

Word.

 

hmm an interesting design

 

i look forward to the release of the Last stand, im already thinking of the most Epic match possible (my CRF vs. DANMAN's Altantians VS the Xin)

Reply #962 Top

Please ManSh00ter, can we have some more? :pout: :pout: :pout:

Reply #963 Top

name the soverign the kraken and the hive-thingy the soverign :pout: :pout: :pout: :pout:

Reply #964 Top

An update is coming soon, got busy with a paying project so work slowed down a bit.

Reply #965 Top

ok enough smilies. we wait in the name of the last stand

but please hurry! this mod is to awsome.

Reply #966 Top

ok enough smilies
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NEVER!!!!! :pout: :pout: }:) :pout: :pout:

Reply #970 Top

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Ninja'd! :ninja: :ninja: :ninja: :ninja: :ninja:  

Reply #971 Top

Manshooter!!! they are everywhere and they are hijacking your thread.

O god they got me!! AHHHhhh!!8C X( :erk: -_- :drool: >_> :grin: :grin: :| :hrmph: XD :(O :rolleyes: :rofl: XO :star: :snowman: :sun: :O

Reply #973 Top

resistance is futile

:borg:  :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :beer: :D B) B) B) B) B) B) :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :cylon: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg:

Reply #974 Top

lolz @ Mr_Blunt3d

I guess with enough ranks of BLUFF, that Cylon Centurion will be safe.

Love the work so far Manshooter.  I can't wait for final release and the eventual battle between your races and those of 7DS.  Maybe Star/Clad will up some hardcode limits just to make it possible.  }:)

Reply #975 Top

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