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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 #501 Top
do the titans have strikecraft? and will there be titans for all of the factions in this mod, even the vanilla ones
Reply #503 Top
You better include some more of that awesome Reaper music like you had in your video. Fits the Xin perfectly IMO.
Reply #506 Top
Xin. Vong simply don't have big enough starships. Besides, the Xin Hegemony has conquered an entire galaxy. This is just a probe to see how conquerable this galaxy is. I don't think the Vong can conquer an entire galaxy of Xin.
Reply #507 Top
the vong do have big shipsand who knows just a few big ships can beat the vong and rember they did conquer ther own galaxy and almost takeover the starwars galaxy what if it was all the races of starcraft vs the xin?
Reply #508 Top
the vong do have big shipsand who knows just a few big ships can beat the vong and rember they did conquer ther own galaxy and almost takeover the starwars galaxy what if it was all the races of starcraft vs the xin?
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You don't seem to get it: Xin>Everything
Reply #509 Top
Yeah. With the Xin, resistance is futile.

Yes, Xin > Everything, so Xin > Borg.
Reply #510 Top
untill someone makes a "halo like "superweapons and kills everyone lol
Reply #511 Top
That would be the Xin making that.
Reply #512 Top
weeell the xin cant beat ever race out there think about it i beat that in the end of the last stand the xin lose the war
Reply #513 Top
Well, the nice thing about Sins is that the wars have no end.

Oh, and ManSh00ter, you should release a "ManSh00ter's Graphics Enhancement Mod" with all of your beautiful new effects here, especially the explosions. Really, they make Bailknight's explosions look like crap.
Reply #514 Top
untill someone makes a "halo like "superweapons and kills everyone lol
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you really don't seem to get it; not even halo could kill the xin. they'd create a shield world like onyx and survive to repopulate the galaxy without resistance.
Reply #515 Top
untill someone makes a "halo like "superweapons and kills everyone lolyou really don't seem to get it; not even halo could kill the xin. they'd create a shield world like onyx and survive to repopulate the galaxy without resistance.
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Exacly and THAT would be just one galaxy, I believe the xin are spread out among several
Reply #516 Top
So yeah, good luck stopping the Xin. I mean, several galaxies have fallen already to them.

Wow, ManSh00ter, how much Reaper stuff have you stolen for these guys? Still though, I like that. Its kinda like, well you know the feeling. Its cool.

Last Stand: Episode 4 - The Return of the Reapers. Xin versus Reapers: bets are now open!
Reply #517 Top
*whistles*

Pretty impressive trailer. Carmina Burana helps ;) but still ... very nice.

I especially likes some of the weapon effects - the frontal turrets on the big hammerhead ship for example. Looking forward to this, keep it up :)
Reply #518 Top
All i can say is WOW HOLY CRAP! Can't wait to try. Ships looks arsom, and its orginal, never seen ships like that in design.
Only downfall, Xin.. Let me think of the Xindy alien race of a soap, don't know if it was Voyager or Deepspace9 or a game of that kind. But names sounds familiar to me.
Anyway, can't wait to try it out. Keep up the work dude! :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT:
Reply #519 Top
Well, Xin is similar to Xen, the name of that weird dimension that all those aliens in Half-life are from. Damn it, why did they have to run that anti-mass-spectrometer at 120% and cause a resonance cascade causing the end of the world as we know it by a massive invasion of weird aliens, who we don't even get to kill in Half-life 2.

Seriously. Half-life 2 has zero aliens for you to kill. It's all Combine, headcrabs, and zombies. Technically headcrabs are aliens, but they are more of a well, a head crab than a decent alien. No Grunts, no weird shockwave dogs, no tentacle aliens in rocket silos, no huge invincible guys with flamethrower arms capable of making waves of flam on the ground by simply stomping.

Has anyone played Gears of War for the PC? I swear they ripped how you kill the Brumak from the Half-life 1 scene where you have to restore power to the rail network.
Reply #520 Top
Oh, and ManSh00ter, you should release a "ManSh00ter's Graphics Enhancement Mod" with all of your beautiful new effects here, especially the explosions. Really, they make Bailknight's explosions look like crap.
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good idea, this would be the most wanted graphics pack on the web for sins, but this mod in general is already shaping out to be the best mod out there for any game ive ever seen :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: keep up the good work.

Reply #522 Top
Who are the Xin fighting in their main war?
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With Xin these cool, they don't an enemy.
Reply #523 Top
Who are the Xin fighting in their main war?With Xin these cool, they don't an enemy.
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Mansh00ter said they were fighting a main war against another Galaxy sprawling race and only sent an attack fleet here to expand
Reply #524 Top
Yeah I know that. But why ruin their awesome with a backstory? Can't it just be "They conquer galaxies for fun."