Is this compatible with other mods

Just wanted to pop in and say, you guys are still awesome. Found this mod >10 years ago. I see that your forums are no longer active, but even so it makes me happy that this mod exists.

@Typhoone, honestly, most of us that do the campaign with mods, use them SPECIFICALLY to unbalance the shit out of it to see just how one sided we can get it, so honestly "balanced gameplay" not that big of a priority to be honest, something working is a bit more important

also id settle for something that makes the Mothership a PROPER armed fortress like they should have been from the start. i mean seriously? that MASSIVE hull and all there is, is a few tiny point defense guns, that dont even do decent point defense

damn all i want is a mod like this for homeworld 2 remastered campaign. I just wants more pds turrets and hardpoints.

i appreciate the heads up!

Hi William; unfortunately, this version is mostly designed for skirmishes and Player vs. CPU; there's limited support for campaign since different scripting was required in the classic re-release unfortunately. Playing campaign would also be a bit un-balanced, but we're considering support in future versions!

question, dose this work for the campaign for homeworld 2 RM?

hello it will be to know when I subscribe the mod does not appear in the selection of mods is it normal? if not will he have a solution and the mod well for HW2 classic or for HW remaster?

Yeah the tutorial mission always was something I just skipped over.

yeah, a feature because ive read in the forums that PDS 7 only had the campaign covered till mission 6. to give it a "big bang" i would not be suprised that it was decided to make the last modded mission impossible. sadly in the pds 6. whatever version of this mod, the fightercraft are fairly inpotent in fighting aircraft, making the first few missions quite unenjoyable.

A feature, in the sense that the mod never was intended to be used in the campaign?
A bug, because at least in the original game I remember going through the campaign and manually fixing the mission files when something broke.

i was playing the campaign with this awesome mod (i dispise the lack of secundary weapons on the vanilla ships, rock paper scissors my behind) . Mission 5 however, the mission failed to load the dustclouds, making the mission (at least for me) impossible. is it a bug or a feature?`

What's the differences between the three version? Should I just install v11?

Ah alright, I appreciate the reply. I still love the mod <3

No unfortunately - still in slow and steady development and standby as people are working on it and waiting for Homeworld 3 as well!

Did the newer version ever have a release? I'm gonna assume not.

There was a question to developers. Do you have plans for Homeworld 3 (assuming all goes well)?
And then I recently stumbled upon this mod (before that I was mostly familiar with the Complex mod) and was very pleasantly surprised (this mod won my heart). And I would like this mod to be embodied in Homeworld 3.

I remember playing some of the story missions with some version of pds back when it was the new hotness, it was quite unbalanced and crash-prone if the mission went on too long. Especially the second one where you had to get the transports, I actually modified the transport ships in the files to have slightly more health and some weapons to defend themselves.

I understand.
But what about scenarious? Or i should play different version of PDS for that?

Unfortunately, this version is mostly designed for skirmishes and Player vs. CPU; there's limited support for campaign since different scripting was required in the classic re-release unfortunately. Playing campaign would also be a bit un-balanced, but we're considering support in future versions!

Can't play scenarios or campaign, the moment i click on them game instantly crashes.
Is there a way to fix it?

Hey everyone, just remembered this mod from back in the days, but unfortunately it crashes to desktop when I try to launch it. Any idea what is going wrong? I crave to see the lasershow! ;)

where can i download mod guys. New bie fan

This mod is not for the story mode, only for skirmishes.

Any chance you lot could upload the fixed file somewhere? XD Im trying to fix mission 2 but i keep getting "Not valid big file"

@Nerding Around: If reinstalling the mod (unsubscribe; then delete all folder 502339668 in your PC's steamapps folder; then subscribe again to reinstall) doesn't help. You'll have to dig into the HW.log to see what's causing the crash.

@RealGecko: I had to download the Archive Tool used by modders to unpack the pdsclassic732.big file and edit the affected .ship files. Then repack the files into a new .big file that replaces the one steam installed.

@Neutrino: I didn't have that problem. I played that mission just now before posting and it was ok - I still can't save Bishop 2 :( But the mission completed ok without technical issues (I did lose that free destroyer transport). I'm playing on MSI-GS63 with GTX1070m card. That reminds me... If you're using a NVIDIA card on a laptop, don't forget to set up homeworld2.exe in the NVIDIA Control Panel to use your graphics card. The default is to use the IGfx card. That might fix your problem.

@josephi how do I fix it?

Was there a fix to getting the mod to sop crashing on start up? just goes black screen then closes.

@josephi , Thank you for the fix 1, it acturally works, and I successfully loaded mission2. BUT when the bishop 2 went down, the screen froze and keep flashing, sounds went normally. I'm wondering if you have met such problem,or how you solved it.

Hi everyone, and thanks for your continued love and interest. While incredibly slow, and in following the news of the HW3 development team, the long term development, planning, and testing of PDS for HW2: Remastered continues at a slow pace. The new PDS web forums and the PDS Discord server have more information about how to follow along for news or to contribute, or try test builds, information is available at this link! [ https://www.pointdefensesystems.net/ ]

As an original user of this mod back in the day.. was wondering if this was still being worked on for the remastered edition as searches have shown nothing new really in years.. (from what I could find)

any updates to the remastered collection?

This mod will be great for me it adds some stuff i was hoping for in the real game, thank you

mod wont work

@Josephi How did you get it to work? Every time I select the mod from the launcher it crashes for me. ANy help would be appreciated

@TYPHOONE. Thank you for keeping this mod alive.

I tried it out and found 2 issues so far.

Campaign mission 2 crashes.
Cause: ship\sp_tanker3\sp_tanker3.ship file has invalid lines.
Fix: sp_tanker3.ship should be a clone of ship\sp_tanker\sp_tanker.ship

Player vs CPU crashers
Cause: missing build.lua and research.lua for "Random" player.
Workaround: Always select a faction for the computer player.

I am having issues with the mod. The game crashes after I load the mod is there a work around or an update in the works?

mod not showing in my mod list for the launcher

PDS for remastered? Hell yeah! That's my favorite mod. I think it adds up what was always lacking in Homeworld. Actual warships with loads of weapons onboard.

One of my favorite mods of all time. Would love to see it come to Remastered.

我们正在努力!

希望作者能够把point defense system mod 做到家园2重制版里去

On that note, if you have any other name ideas, let me know.

That was a Tel thing from way back in ye olde days, before my time. I can't speak to his rationale since he hasn't been seen or heard from in like 10 years.

Homeworld in general has a lot of obscure central-Asian/Middle Eastern/Indian naming conventions, so it's fits that scheme. Some are lifted right out of the Bible (Kadesh, Gehenna,etc), and Middle-eastern history (Abbasid).

Hey I noticed that you guys use alot of Islamic terminology/names for the Vagyr ships why is that? This is an honest question I find their use to be quite interesting I am just wondering what the inspiration behind using them was.

omg a PD is coming for remastered finally?!

So happy this mod hasn't died. It's been my favorite back in the day.. I always dreamed of a PDS-styled campaign. Maybe one day...

This was the basis of my own mods to Homeworld back in the day, many fond memories. Made me get the remaster after seeing it is available.

Hey Typhoone! Great to see that 7.3.2 is alive! -Yasotay