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[cmatthews]

well i will start off by saying i LOVE the mod, its better than the actual game! and i cant stop playing. OK now onto the topic at hand, the covenant! after playing some i found out there are covenant in the game! and i love them. what i love to do is to get a hcylon refit and take over the covenant ships. i will get fleets of them and act as I'm playing only them. does any one else do this?

[Defender0]

there are some people that do that lol personally, i think its a waste of resources, since these covenant ships are usually easily destroyed, and a well balanced UNSC fleet can take on a rag tag fleet of captured covenant vessels and easily win. when the covenant release comes out though, things will be different

[cmatthews]

Yhea thats a good point. but i love me some covies, so its worth it! lol

[Defender0]

thats ok, theres nothing wrong with what you're doing, just be aware of the risks

[cmatthews]

well for some reason i cant play online, so against the ai its fun.

[Defender0]

oh, AI get creamed by those things lol

[Unikraken]

well for some reason i cant play online, so against the ai its fun.

Try to update the game.

[MasterOfShips]

there are some people that do that lol personally, i think its a waste of resources, since these covenant ships are usually easily destroyed, and a well balanced UNSC fleet can take on a rag tag fleet of captured covenant vessels and easily win. when the covenant release comes out though, things will be different

True but I do it sometimes. Captured covies make good cannon fodder.

[Defender0]

True but I do it sometimes. Captured covies make good cannon fodder.

This is a valid point, but when you have a fleet with 5 orions, each with level 3 smart AI abilities, your entire fleet turns into a several hundred barrel sniper rifle lol i dont think cannon fodder makes a difference here.

Note, this tactic is NOT perfect. If the enemy has enough ships, they can get you within their firing range and counter attack

[cmatthews]

That's all true, but its also a beautiful thing to turn on theater mode and watch them fight.

[CanadaMan7]

That's all true, but its also a beautiful thing to turn on theater mode and watch them fight.

Makes me glad to read posts like that.
All too often, I get so tied up and ultra-focused on the unfinished things and bugs that I need to fix within the mod, it takes away from my immersion. I always think of it like managing a Disney World.

[cmatthews]

Makes me glad to read posts like that.
All too often, I get so tied up and ultra-focused on the unfinished things and bugs that I need to fix within the mod, it takes away from my immersion. I always think of it like managing a Disney World.

Well i will say this, YOU are running one HECK of a Disney world, with moments where i will jump in terror and some where i will laugh with pleasure. so from the deepest of my heart. THANK YOU!!!!

[Emberblaque]

Well i will say this, YOU are running one HECK of a Disney world, with moments where i will jump in terror and some where i will laugh with pleasure. so from the deepest of my heart. THANK YOU!!!!

This is why we mod.

[Moo Cow Banshee]

This is why we mod.

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that and the lol's

[jorgea]

I agree it's a blast to take over these fleets

[damn_tall_marine]

That's all true, but its also a beautiful thing to turn on theater mode and watch them fight.

How do you turn on theater mode?

[sloosecannon]

How do you turn on theater mode?

Button on the top bar (cinematic mode is ingame text I think?), looks like one of those movie clippy things... do that along with ctrl-shift-z and all the 2d and UI stuff goes away

[damn_tall_marine]

Button on the top bar (cinematic mode is ingame text I think?), looks like one of those movie clippy things... do that along with ctrl-shift-z and all the 2d and UI stuff goes away

Thank you sir going to go test that out right now, going to warp some refit halcyon's and watch them capture some Covie bastards

[damn_tall_marine]

I just had a thought, will you guys be implementing the great schism at a release down the road? So you can choose to play elites or brutes? I know they would be flying the same ships but maybe have different costs and abilities that reflect the brute way of fighting and the elites way?

[Emberblaque]

I just had a thought, will you guys be implementing the great schism at a release down the road? So you can choose to play elites or brutes? I know they would be flying the same ships but maybe have different costs and abilities that reflect the brute way of fighting and the elites way?

In Rebellion, factions are split into two, so the two Covenant factions when we move to Rebellion will be the Covenant Separatists and the Covenant Loyalists. So to some effect, yes.