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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 #676 Top

:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

 

happy happy joy joy. yet another unique idea from manshooter, when you finsh and decide to merge w/ 7ds will there still be a downloadable copy without everything else?

Reply #677 Top

wow, looks figgin great

Reply #678 Top

You haven't seen the mega-explosions yet. :p

Of course, the Last Stand mod will be available as a separate download even after any possible mergers in the future.

Reply #679 Top

wow

 

I can't wait till this comes out :drool:  

Reply #680 Top

Must have Xin. 

 

ManSh00ter, here is my ultimatum.  For every day you refuse to release your mod, I will kill one cute lovable puppy.  The ends justify the means.

Reply #681 Top

ManSh00ter, here is my ultimatum. For every day you refuse to release your mod, I will kill one cute lovable puppy. The ends justify the means.
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1. he is not refusing

2. THE MOD IS NOT DONE!!!!!

3 BUT PUPPIES ARE CUTE...u will never be able to do it

Reply #682 Top

Drat!  Foiled by cuteness!  I really am going to kill all the puppies in the world.  If only to stop them from being so damn cute.

Reply #683 Top

Dogs are not my soft spot so...  }:)

Reply #684 Top

I keep remembering that Alltel commercial:

"It's a puppy!"

 

Reply #685 Top

Yes, kill all of the worlds puppys }:)

 

cat are better and smarter B)

 

Reply #686 Top

all of you are heartless fiends, how can a puppy coverd in soft fuzzy fur and plaing in snow that is so deep you cant see them be a bad thing, i mean honestly, go to an adoption clinic, look at all the PUPPIES, not the older ones the puppies and say that they are not cute with the eyes and such... i shall kill all of u just because u dont like puppies }:) x_x :dog:

Reply #687 Top

I lve puppies and dogs!

Way more loyal and playful then cats...

Got 4 dogs here ;)!! And trust me nothing beats a dog coming to sit beside you while youre working or liking your hand in the morning to wake you up!! I love my dogs! And no one will kill a puppy while I'm alive.,..:D

Reply #688 Top

ya puppys are cute.....and so are there insides *_*

I ran over an puppy, and it made an cute red, and pink spot on the ground }:)

Reply #689 Top

And trust me nothing beats a dog coming to sit beside you while youre working or liking your hand in the morning to wake you up!!
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See why I prefer cats now?  Dogs are so needy.

Reply #690 Top

lol

cats are so smart, thay know what to do and what not to do,

for example- would an cat sleep in the middle of the drive-way?

I got it awace, but it stayd there, so i tried to use the horn but the puppy

did not move, so i ran over it :|

i rate that idea 5* and k6 on my good ideas list :grin:

Reply #691 Top

Look what you've created SpardaSon21!!! A bunch of spam about puppies!

Reply #692 Top

I love being evil! }:)

Reply #693 Top

Wow work on this mod must b a bit slow lately ppl r discussin bout cats and dogs here :P

But really man the screen shots look complete and awesome :drool: ... if ur r trying to tweak it or anythin hav mercy X( !!!! dont b a perfectionist...

Reply #695 Top

Here is the current state of the mod:

Ship models & textures: 80% complete

Structure Models & textures: 20% complete

Tech Tree & other scripting: 0%

Particle effects: 90% complete

UI icons: 0% complete

So as you can see there's still a lot of work to be done. The good news is that once the models and art is done and I have completed a skeleton structure for tech trees, there will very likely be a beta release because I'll need testers anyway to iron out the bugs which will probably crop up in the scripting. So its not about polishing, its about releasing a complete mod, without placeholder art, because I hate that, it wrecks immersion.

Reply #698 Top

I have a few funny screenshots from today's testing session:

This little frigate ended up so shot up by a Kol (its early game and weapons ain't that beefed up yet so ships get torn to pieces a bit slowly, heh) that you can hardly see her from all the smoke, fire and venting atmosphere... this was taken about 2 seconds before it blew up.

And this pirate ship is not going to make it back to shipyard either... bet the captain is cursing his bad luck and poor choice of targets. :p

Reply #700 Top

 Im sensing a 300 MG download and a 3 hour wait...  8C

But still looks and sounds completely awesome!