Bentus Phased Cannon Test

[theaznfishy]

Note : Cataclysm wasn't considered cannon to the homeworld storyline. It's just assumed that the Bentusi died out over time [but it's never explained what happened to them].

[kaipakta]

I love the music, 100% I LOVE IT! I think through irony it perfectly fits the situation.

[LianellEsorrasilome]

I thought some of the Bentusi fled to other galaxies in Cataclysm, I know we saw at least two go through the portal thing.

[Vredan12]

Why would the Bentusi not colonize a planet like the Exiles (Hiigaran) did when THEY were sort of "exiled"? the "beast" is gone, so why are they still running?!

[Crossroadsinc]

IMA FIREING MA LAZORRR!!!

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AA

[merdaporrenta]

OH, look a giant Donut that have lasers! R.I.P Banana Ship.

[Speekerful]

this was epic. Nice to see people still modding HW the best games ever..I remember picking up HW for 99c when I was over in america, then I sent an email to Rob Cunningham to say how awesome I thought homeworld was, and bless his heart, he signed a copy of HW2 and sent it to me...Sierra/Relic were such nice people =/

[Speekerful]

This was epic.

[SuperHaloStarwarsFan]

Vaygr Flagship

Pwned.

[VaygrX]

I MHA FIRING MA LAZOOR

[lazerbeamer9]

@50LightSabersInAPackk Ok, before the Higarians (becoming the Kushans) were exiled they ruled most of the inner and outer rim. The Bentusi then confronted the Higarians about how they were abusing the power of their hyperspace core. The Higarians then attacked the Bentusi, and were pwned allowing the Taidan to mop them up, and then exile them. After the Khar Toba landed on Kharak and the kushans settled there, the Bentusi felt guilty for, in a way, helping the Taidan exile the Kushan.

[lazerbeamer9]

@lazerbeamer9 They then decided to adapt a peaceful existence, and helped the Kushan on thier way to finding Higara, trading with the Kushan, calling the council to help them. Then afterwards, sacrificing themselves to help the Pride of Higara get the 3 cores and find Sajuuk. Now, everything in my previous post (this is a continuation of it) was about what happened before the first game. You get it now?

[MarkFidelio]

Excellent !

[50LightSabersInAPack]

ye what happened to the bentusi? Because they owned everyone lol, so how could the great harbour ship of Bentus be the last one? did they all get infected and self-destruct because of the beast or something?

[Lapt0pGuy]

@50LightSabersInAPack

alot of them left fleeing from the beast

im guessing the rest of them self-destructed from the beast

or just i dunno died XD

its a good question

[50LightSabersInAPack]

@Lapt0pGuy lol, ye and also you would have thought the great harbour ship of Bentus would have some sort of defence lol, e.g. loads of really powerful weapons

[lazerbeamer9]

@50LightSabersInAPack, fter the Bentusi pretty much all but destroyed the old Higarians and forced them to exile (then they were Kushan), they felt guilty for what they did and lived a peaceful existence. Obviously a peaceful ship would have a huge arsenal of weapons ;)

[50LightSabersInAPack]

@lazerbeamer9 lol why would they destroy the Kushan? The Kushan Traded with them? And the Bentusi helped summon the Galactic Council for them?

[jaspertheking4life]

@50LightSabersInAPack many bentusi have gone to join the progenitors, there where only like 8 harborships left, 7 of them got destroyed during the turanic invasion, and the last selfdestructed to save the second mothership from the keepers, and giving the Hiigarans there core, to save Saajuk from the Vagyr, if you would like to know more, give me your E-mail address, so I can send you the entire history.

[BNPisFTW]

@50LightSabersInAPack

It is not known what their ultimate fate was. It is assumed that the Bentus was the last Bentusi in that galaxy, while the rest fled when the beast came.

[ZSedlacek]

@50LightSabersInAPack They all left the galaxy

[ZSedlacek]

@50LightSabersInAPack They all left the galaxy except the harborship

[GrifMoNeY]

Doesn't the Bentusi cannon just fire without the chargeup? I recall pissing them off in Homeworld 1 and there was no Sajuuk-like wave cannon.

[Lapt0pGuy]

@GrifMoNeY ya on the tradeships

but this is bentus

and i thought a charge up would give it a bit of drama

and that chance for the enemy to say

f**k we're screwed

[JeradGray]

@Lapt0pGuy Instead it just gives the enemy time to build up a huge swarm of fighters and rofl you.... on wait its homeworld 2, so the fighters suck, damn.

[jaspertheking4life]

@GrifMoNeY the tradeships have much less force in there beams, bentus' cannon is just as powerfull as Saajuk's

[Lapt0pGuy]

right no more hw2 modding questions

if you want modding help go to relic forums

[pokemonfreakz]

hey, one question...

i'm trying to make the keepers playable in player vs cpu matches by them being buildable in the mothership, bentus.

now, i've added build lists, hod files, etc. etc. but whenever i try to start a match with it, it loads a bit, i see the level, but then it crashes in less than one second after i saw the background, any help?

[Lapt0pGuy]

@pokemonfreakz i got that soo many times its untrue

if you successfully started the level then its highly unlikely to be a script issue

if i was you i would check the hod file you are using and the names

like if you copyed and pasted the bentus hod into another folder you have to rename it so like ben_bentus you need to make sure you renamed your hod file. also check to see if the hod file is damaged or currupt.

could even be something like the shaders

have a good dig into it

[pokemonfreakz]

@Lapt0pGuy the names are Kpr_... to make things somewhat easier, and i renamed all the stuff right.

i don't really get what you mean about the shaders, but i didn't do anything with the events file, just a bit with the ship file to make it easier to test stuff before utting it in as a complete

[Lapt0pGuy]

@pokemonfreakz well make sure in your ships file you dont have any weapons or any hardpoiints at all on your bentus as the stock bentus model has no hardpoints. so if the ship file asks for a hardpoint which doesnt exsist then it will crash. shaders wise, im shocked you dont know what im talking about. google the term.

well prehaps open up the hod file with the tools from relic forum and resave it.

i dunno just have to keep poking things till it works

[pokemonfreakz]

@Lapt0pGuy well, i used the guide on relicforums, and in it you clearly say you create your own hardpoints, but even before that stuff and all, just after i made it the Kpr mothership it crashed... i thought it'd be solved in time but it didn't, now my game crashed, i re-installed it, and this notice of wrong cd inserted wont go away...

[Lapt0pGuy]

@pokemonfreakz well if you made new hardpoints on the model then fair enough link them up in your ship file.

and as for wrong cd issues.

update hw2 to the latest version

and prehaps get a no cd exe

but only if you are a good person and bought the game already.

my advice would be to learn how hw2 scripting works.

read through the stock files and get a feel for lua

and play around a bit with cfhoded

having lots of modding tools helps too

[pokemonfreakz]

@Lapt0pGuy um... i learned pretty much basics of it already, and if you'd be willing to teach me all the stuff (the forums don't make sense or don't provide help within 4 months) please send a PM to ExiledSajuuk on the relicforums.

[whatewer23]

btw... whats that song on background?

[Lapt0pGuy]

@whatewer23 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Marriage of Figaro / "Duettino" Sull'aria

[whatewer23]

thanks

[FireBenderKwyna]

I never saw that phased cannon...

[GokuSSj5KD]

actually in cataclysm the Bentusy uses this kind of technology (yellow ion cannon)

[5MinuteEarth]

very nice modification. I think the PCA is firing from the right place; the old Bentusi Exchange from HW1 fired Ion Beams from that point, rather than the "Hanger Entrance"

[Riael1111]

would be cool to be able to play as a Bentus

[ScottZirpolo]

I would have pointed it the other way (ie it would have come out of the hangar area, making the whole thing look like a great big railgun).

Good job anyway? Who's the passive merchant race now, eh?

[amitakartok]

Did I see it right that when the weapon fired, the Dreadnought's side mesh appeared in the middle of the giant "hole"?

Anyway, did anyone tried to mod Sajuuk so that the PCA is a bit weaker but fires continously until the target is dead?

[ertyqwer]

it looks like they forgot to remove the Sajuuk's "powerup particles" pattern

[Lapt0pGuy]

i diddnt forget i left it there as its going to be replaced with one bentus shaped

[DemonSlayerThe3rd]

oh yeah, they never seem to finish their test trials, that makes sense.

[dokaw]

Speaking of LUA files, is there a tag you can use in the mission files to give yourself Vaygr ships in the campaign and have them fully upgraded as well?

[DemonSlayerThe3rd]

how come all the other motherships have massive firepower, but our mothership doesn't?

[cookiehead2]

Because the Hiigarans always have to launch their's early.

[CryptoCanedv2]

lol well the first one they didnt they just got attacked on the second mission and their planet got pwned :P

[diamondboy9]

lol that looks alot like the hyperdrive thingy from mass effect

[AgentNick42]

I would agree. The designers at Bioware might have liked the designed of Bentus and incorporated some of its shapes into the mass relays. Design driving design, as they say.

[beeferstew2]

how u get it to fire the fased connon

[Lapt0pGuy]

well you need to have some knowledge of LUA script language which the game is nearly all written in.

make a new weapon profile in lua

make a new ship file in lua

put the bentus model on it

place the hard points for the weapons at the front

tons of effect points all along the side

and then script the animation in lua

if you want to know more on how to mod the game then go to

relic forums

[beeferstew2]

but how would you download it

[Lapt0pGuy]

i wouldnt

i am writing it

as in "making it" or was making it

nothing downloaded

i lost intrest in it

i might go back and work on it again

but that will be sometime in the future

[beeferstew2]

were did you get this mod

[Lapt0pGuy]

by writing it

[beeferstew2]

wat mod is this

[Lapt0pGuy]

Homeworld Resurrection

says at the start of the video

[skycaprob]

omg lol lol lol love the coment

[MaxChallie]

I sooo love this. The Bentusi would definitely listen to opera and classical in a huge concert hall somewhere in their ship. Like they're a high class society living in space. They'd blast out a corrupt empire while listening to the Four Seasons. Totally awesome.

[guyincorner]

they bentusi are part of there ship like whats-her-face is >.>

[enforcer182]

Sjet

[guyincorner]

thats the name

[patchhacker]

P3W PEW!!

[PawciopPL]

I can see dreadnought in the center of Bentus...

At least its phase signs

[Lapt0pGuy]

yeah well its not finished

it wont be finished for a loooong time

tbh i think im just going to leave it till HW3 comes out

if it ever does......

[EliteProtector]

very nice mate, great work, any mod this stuff is implemented in??

[sodiumhyro]

Y does the Bentusi have progenitor classed weapon?

[Lapt0pGuy]

because the bentusi have an understanding for the phased cannon technology that the progenitors developed

in the game they help the hiigarans by repairing the phased cannon on the dreadnought

[anipussirhc]

I pick this game to be my first game ever to play since 1983....I'm getting wiped out like on a daly bases

[MrZombieChild]

Is this mod still alive?

[reichfuhrer1942]

Holy shit...

[KadeshSa]

Cool!

[Zatch010]

GJ! :D

[sniperFred976]

how the __________ did u get Bentus?!!?

[Helge129]

modding

[AlexF1508]

Very impressive,incredible actualy but you could improve it in my opinion! In cataclism the bentusi exchange (a hell lot smaller ships and less important) had 3 fast recharging ion cannons which were decimating fleets in minutes so in my opinion the harbour ship should have more ion cannon turrets (as an animation idea those could be positioned along the charging line of the ship and when the charging reaches them the beams go) able to shoot down lighter ships along the 2 main canons you made!

[amitakartok]

even better: about 8 continously firing ions as point defense? that would beat Sajuuk too. poor Keepers...

[AlexF1508]

Imagining.....WOW...you're right....like a supped up version of the Tradestaions!! As for Sajuuk.....that ship would go down just with Super Acolytes (they appear in Cataclysm)! Well in fact any capital ship would go bye bye against those damn fighters!!

[amitakartok]

are you so sure? Sajuuk has the strongest point defense in the whole game, not to mention that it's escorted by lots of flak frigates...

[AlexF1508]

In cataclysm the Super Acolytes were the fastest/strongest fighters in the game so i think they can manage and being in fact Bentusi fighters it means you would have Bentusi Tradeships around that can take out those flak frigates fast enough and soak up damage from Sajuuk! (i'm not crazy enough to attack Sajuuk whitout serious firepower)

[giggsth]

Nice mod, but i hate the music

[RanaRandom]

Dude, I love the music. Name of the Artist/Song please.

[popis2012]

Look good, but I prefer one phased beam, not two. Can anyone give link to mod's download?

[coldstar07]

very impressive, i loved the harbour ship and im glad its being made into a kick ass warship by you!

[whatewer23]

where i can get this mod? and is it free?

[RanaRandom]

WOW

[CaptainPengu]

Great. :D