Homeworld 2 Campaign seems very difficult (Looking for tips)

[taffer]

Can't seem to handle levels in Homeworld 2. Even with constantly restarting the level, and re-designing my entire fleet to try and counter what's coming my way, I always seem to find myself out numbered.

How do people finish the story mode because the difficulty just seems unreasonable.

[Paranoia_Inc]

Just in case you're not aware, the 2.3 Player's Patch is a thing which at the very least will let you tweak difficulty as well as comes with additional options

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1190476337

[taffer]

I've downloaded that, I'm assuming the difficulty is tweaked through values that I cannot directly interact with? I couldn't see anything in the menu.

[Paranoia_Inc]

There's a difficulty slider in the gameplay tab of options. For some reason the game defaults the UI tab IIRC.

Also make sure the patch is enabled via the mods part of the exe popup. Took me a while to realize it's not automatically applied.

[Jeslis]

^ Also note that you have to restart the mission for the difficulty change to kick in.

Lastly, be aware that the 'remaster' has a dynamic difficulty AI... thing.. where it scans what you ended the prior mission with and the new ships it has in the next mission will be enough to counter/be difficult..

This supposedly was brought in because otherwise using capture/salvage corvettes would let you breeze through the campaign, but its overtuned and makes things incredibly difficult in the remaster.

[Herp McDerperson]

if you are over normal capacity via captured enemy ships, you're probably going to ♥♥♥♥-rekt

[taffer]

Alrighty, I noticed I hadn't actually turned the mod on, it seems that it need to actually select it before I launch the game each time. I now see the difficulty slider, and I can probably adjust accordingly. Any suggestions on what I should change it to?

[Paranoia_Inc]

Guess just half it for now? See how you're doing against the first enemy groups or so compared to previous attempts and go from there.

Also kinda depends what mission you're currently on.

[Тривиум]

The meta composition is Bombers, Pulse Corvettes, Torpedoes for half the missions - the ones where you fight movers/aliens etc.

[Herp McDerperson]

to add to what the person above me said, I've found that standard Gunships and Flak Frigates are kind of useless. I did tend to use interceptors but I don't know that doing so is efficient.

[ʍolɟ ǝɥʇ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ]

can I use that mod and still play for achievements?