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Pretty excited for this as it's one of my favorite franchises. Haven't heard much about what the story entails but I think we can all assume it'll involve some truly epic space fights.
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The date on the Amazon website is extremely far into the future, and also on a Friday. That makes me suspect that the date isn't an actual one, but is instead a date arbitrarily picked by Amazon so that they'd have something in their computers for a release date.
Yeah, it's been a long time. Just over eleven months. But I'm reviving this thread anyway, because this is the HW 3 thread, and I think this will be of interest.
Here's the video trailer for War Games mode. It's a rogue-like mode, and you can play it in co-op.
It looks like they're not implementing the old art style for cut scenes.
Gearbox appears to be making a major publicity push right now, as I've been seeing all sorts of Homeworld 3 videos turn up on YouTube from various individuals. For example, video channel 'The Templin Institute', which does videos on elements of alternate worlds (usually, though not always, science fiction - there's one for the movie 'The Patriot', of all things) has just started a video series called 'The Ships of Homeworld 3'. While I haven't watched the video, the title makes me suspect that Gearbox has given the channel an advance look at the ships in the game. There's at least one video on YouTube of someone playing the War Games mode I mentioned in my previous post.
With the announced release date of February 2024 six months away, it looks like Gearbox is starting up the publicity machine.
Kind of sad that they dropped a lot of the old styling in some ways as that was very much part of what made Homeworld, Homeworld.
I also still feel like the most faithful sequel to the original game we ever got was Cataclysm. HW2 went off on a strange religious angle that felt like it was missing a chunk of story at the start whilst HW3 is going for "you are 100% humans" whilst the original HW1 was more grey on that front and Cataclysm kind of hinted you were humanoid but not human.
That said I'm keen to get back to space, esp since there really aren't any other big games like this outside of games like the X series where its more FPS with some RTS on the side and such.
So yeah gotta spend the next few months avoiding too much preview info so I can get in fresh.
Kinda amazing that are getting HW3 - I just hope it takes after BG3 and not Dawn of War 3 in terms of "actually awesome"
Overread wrote: HW3 is going for "you are 100% humans" whilst the original HW1 was more grey on that front and Cataclysm kind of hinted you were humanoid but not human.
I have a vague recollection that you got enough of a look at Karan S'Jet's profile in the original to suggest that she was probably human, though it's been a while and I don't remember for certain. Deserts of Kharak definitely removed any doubt, though. Also, the mobile game - which I suspect Gearbox is keeping at least a loose eye on - makes it clear that both the Higarans and Vargyr are human. The leader of one of the races appears without a helmet (iirc, the only unhelmeted local we've met so far), and appears to be human. The implication appears to be that everyone's human - even, presumably, the Bentusi forebears before they went nuts with the cybernetics.
And keep in mind that the mobile game is set in a distant galaxy...
Seems pretty good considering the game was designed, what? During the end of the 2000 nvidia series/beginning of the 3000? I'm pretty excited that I can run it on nearly max settings judging by what the requirements are saying.
Spoilered the infographic because it's enormous.
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I'm on the low-medium end with my 2060, but that should still look plenty nice and chances are if I shut down a few things like shadows I can push a few other resolutions into the high setting and have it look good.
So very early thoughts after messing with the demo a tiny tiny bit.
Hud feels a little - cluttered. I'm not saying there's not important information there, but the icons are pretty big and it gets full of info bits here and there fairly fast. I think it feels more cluttered than standard RTS because they've got hud elements on all 3 sides of the screen. So you've got a top bar; a left and a right side bar. So instead of one bar you've got 3 cluttering in.
Combat and effects look great and its running pretty smooth even though I'm only using a RTX 2060
I'm running the camera in classic and it feels very similar to other Homeworld games. The maps using more 3D terrain features I think will take some getting used too and they are making a lot more use of 3D movement and attacks from different angles which can be a bit fiddly/confusing at first but I think it should prove to be a positive.
Overall it feels very classic homeworld and very true to the first 2 games, with some general fluid elements from years of advancing interfaces and so forth
Ships look great and explosions are pretty!
I might say that one negative is that it feels faster. That is damage and battles seem to be over in a flash of action whilst my recollections of earlier games were that fights were slower. This might just mean that they've got high damage settings. This likely leans into them wanting to have fast multiplayer matches one after the other with the game mode that's being shown off in the demo. So instead of slower damage taking we see super fast blazing fights.
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I look forward to game rips being released for 3D printing 
