Homeworld 3
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Aazrael
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I saw this pop up and thought it was releasing any day now, but it seems it's in 2024.
Anyway Homeworld 1 and 2 remaster is free on Epic Games Launcher right now. Need to allocate some time into replaying them, don't think I got to play HW2 as my computer sucked back then.
Anyway Homeworld 1 and 2 remaster is free on Epic Games Launcher right now. Need to allocate some time into replaying them, don't think I got to play HW2 as my computer sucked back then.
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Intrinsic
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Yeah I have the original mothership on my shelf from that collectors edition. May even have the box somewhere but we've moved since. Not sure if I'm $175 in on this though if the game ends up sucking.
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Aazrael
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Homeworld is a game that I will remember forever, just like Diablo 1 and Warcraft/Starcraft.
I think I could barely play it on my PC way back when it released but I managed to beat it after a long time. I don't think I ever did play HW2, was that game more of the same or did they change stuff? Not sure how HW3 is compared to 1 and 2 as I have not followed this development process at all.
This intro was something that really stuck with me. Low tech but cool as hell.
I think I could barely play it on my PC way back when it released but I managed to beat it after a long time. I don't think I ever did play HW2, was that game more of the same or did they change stuff? Not sure how HW3 is compared to 1 and 2 as I have not followed this development process at all.
This intro was something that really stuck with me. Low tech but cool as hell.
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Sludig
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Reviews are pretty ugly./ Fuck
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I do not recommend buying this game. It wears the name "Homeworld" it has the story, characters, sounds, graphics, and amazing looking maps FROM Homeworld but this game sadly is NOT homeworld.
If this game would have been released under a different name everybody would have probably sung it's praises. However since it wears the name of "Homeworld" people expect a certain sense of "quality" to it. Some still exist but most of the "soul" of homeworld is not there anymore.
A few of the "Cons":
- Lack of Ship variety
- Sizes of ships doesnt make sense
- Unit AI is retarded (The AI insists on being on the same plane as the enemy when it comes to attacking them IN SPACE)
- Every single unit in the game has some sort of activated "ability" which most of the time boils down to "Push buttan to deal more damage"
- Directional armor is gone. There is no point in using the 3D movement since the damage is the same no matter where you shoot from and the unit AI is too stupid to take advantage of the difference in elavation anyway.
- The balance with ships is all wrong. Destroyers and Battlecruisers are now "Anti-Everything" (It's even in the tooltip) as such they'll just shoot down even your strike craft with ease. (I find bombers to be useless atm) Going back to unit AI. Fighters fly around really slowly sticking 100% to their formation and doing NO EVASIVE MANOUVERS AT ALL. (Dog fights are really boring to watch)
- Capital ship subsytems are gone as are cloak generators, gravity well generators, proximity sensors and sensors distortion probes. Anything to give an edge over the enemy in strategic gameplay is just gone.
- The skirmish maps are now really tiny and use a resource system similar to Deserts of Kharak and they run out really fast. This turns the game in to really fast quick brawls when atleast in my opinion HOMEWORLD should be more slow and methodical gameplay.
Oh yeah the megaliths.. While they do look awesome they're in the end really useless and just... There.
Since directional armor isnt a thing anymore there's no actual point in trying to skirt around using it as cover and yes it does have some cool tunnels your strike craft could use but it's a massive pain in the ass to try to get your fighters to navigate through it and since the skirmish matches are usually really fast paced you wont even have time to do so anyway.
That's just to name a few.
Now a few "Pros":
- The sound track yet again is amazing
- Maps despite their size look awesome
- No need to micro resource collectors and controllers. They now come in a single package BUT since resources are in nodes similar to DoK they just stop doing anything once that node goes out and are too dumb to continue gathering without new orders. (Unless the next resource point happens to be a stone's throw's away)
- The Wargames mode despite the games other flaws is some good fun in a tight 30 minute package and so far all the fleets are diffirent enough from each other to keep the gameplay interesting. (Atleast for a while)
TL;DR
I wanted to like this game really REALLY bad but i just cant. All it does in the end is make me want to reinstall Homeworld Remastered and go play that instead. So if you want to play Homeworld. Go buy remastered. That's where the true Homeworld experience is at.
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I do not recommend buying this game. It wears the name "Homeworld" it has the story, characters, sounds, graphics, and amazing looking maps FROM Homeworld but this game sadly is NOT homeworld.
If this game would have been released under a different name everybody would have probably sung it's praises. However since it wears the name of "Homeworld" people expect a certain sense of "quality" to it. Some still exist but most of the "soul" of homeworld is not there anymore.
A few of the "Cons":
- Lack of Ship variety
- Sizes of ships doesnt make sense
- Unit AI is retarded (The AI insists on being on the same plane as the enemy when it comes to attacking them IN SPACE)
- Every single unit in the game has some sort of activated "ability" which most of the time boils down to "Push buttan to deal more damage"
- Directional armor is gone. There is no point in using the 3D movement since the damage is the same no matter where you shoot from and the unit AI is too stupid to take advantage of the difference in elavation anyway.
- The balance with ships is all wrong. Destroyers and Battlecruisers are now "Anti-Everything" (It's even in the tooltip) as such they'll just shoot down even your strike craft with ease. (I find bombers to be useless atm) Going back to unit AI. Fighters fly around really slowly sticking 100% to their formation and doing NO EVASIVE MANOUVERS AT ALL. (Dog fights are really boring to watch)
- Capital ship subsytems are gone as are cloak generators, gravity well generators, proximity sensors and sensors distortion probes. Anything to give an edge over the enemy in strategic gameplay is just gone.
- The skirmish maps are now really tiny and use a resource system similar to Deserts of Kharak and they run out really fast. This turns the game in to really fast quick brawls when atleast in my opinion HOMEWORLD should be more slow and methodical gameplay.
Oh yeah the megaliths.. While they do look awesome they're in the end really useless and just... There.
Since directional armor isnt a thing anymore there's no actual point in trying to skirt around using it as cover and yes it does have some cool tunnels your strike craft could use but it's a massive pain in the ass to try to get your fighters to navigate through it and since the skirmish matches are usually really fast paced you wont even have time to do so anyway.
That's just to name a few.
Now a few "Pros":
- The sound track yet again is amazing
- Maps despite their size look awesome
- No need to micro resource collectors and controllers. They now come in a single package BUT since resources are in nodes similar to DoK they just stop doing anything once that node goes out and are too dumb to continue gathering without new orders. (Unless the next resource point happens to be a stone's throw's away)
- The Wargames mode despite the games other flaws is some good fun in a tight 30 minute package and so far all the fleets are diffirent enough from each other to keep the gameplay interesting. (Atleast for a while)
TL;DR
I wanted to like this game really REALLY bad but i just cant. All it does in the end is make me want to reinstall Homeworld Remastered and go play that instead. So if you want to play Homeworld. Go buy remastered. That's where the true Homeworld experience is at.
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Palum
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I remember beating HW1 by capturing everything to the point that I had an unstoppable fleet.
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CaughtCross
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Big Phoenix
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If 20 years ago you told me one of my favorite games of all time would descend into some 100 foot tall diversity monstrosity making cringe faces while rambling at an tranny sling blade I'd have committed suicide.
Painfully obvious the retards who made this don't understand why the original had no characters.
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Sludig
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I could almost overlook it and just power skip scenes, but per the review, the combat is retarded they make a big deal about 3d space yet ships don't act like they used to and have to come down to the same plane of other things it sounds like to fight. Not sure I'm a fan of also basically always having a ground just to justify them adding turrets and odd things.
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Big Phoenix
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So went ahead and watched the ending cutscenes.
Every bit as horrible and wtf as that clip above.
Every bit as horrible and wtf as that clip above.
Palum
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I know, imagine how much less productive I would be if all these games were good. It's a blessing MMOs have sucked since WoW.
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