DefenseField Frigate duration increased, unit cap lowered to 2 to reflect their effectiveness.

Gunship Corvettes now have less banking to allow their turrets to more properly do their job.

Race specific changes and improvements (not comprehensive): Vaygr, with their particularly expensive family-wide upgrades benefit from this. For HW2 races this frees up Resources that can be used elsewhere. HW2 base stats for ships are higher than Classic and when upgraded ships usually fall close to where they would have been at the level 2 upgrade.

Yes, there was a definite strategy between the original HW2 races that is lost but now there are two races without upgrades who must remain a viable play option.

New defense weapons on capital ships to help counter strikecraft swarms.

In Homeworld 2 Classic these ships would frequently perseverate on targets well outside their weapon ranges leading to them not utilizing their defense weapons on attackers.

Retaliation ranges increased on all Motherships, Carriers and Shipyards.

Weapon and Accuracy accrued cap lowered from 40% to 20%.

Fire Control Tower/Vaygr Command Corvette weapon accuracy and damage boost lowered from 15% to 7%.

Previously cloaking tech was expensive while cloaking detection was cheap.

Cloak Detection and Cloak technology cost normalized.

Base probes were never worth their cost compared to the utiltiy of the scout. Frigate health has been increased across the board while Destroyer and Battlecruiser health have been lowered to more appropriate levels.

Frigates are a more viable option and are not just exploding armor for your Destroyers/Cruisers.

You will have to play to really feel it out. It will not and can not be an exhaustive, comprehensive list. The complexity of the interactions the changes have on the game would make itemizing every change lunacy so instead I'll speak to some of the general changes that affect the game as a whole and include individual sections on races.

The Balance Mod contains edits to about 627 files. This mod will break your campaign save progress and is not intended for SP testing yet. Changes and updates to the mod are also documented here.īIG NOTE – DO NOT run this mod with a campaign. The Official GBX Balance Mod is packed full of new and improved ship stats, behaviors, AI, abilities, feedback, and mod support. You can download the mod here.

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