Homeworld 3!!!!!! Well kinda.. :)

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Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak

http://store.steampowered.com/app/281610/

Link to the devs (blackbird - http://blackbirdinteractive.com/ )



Its now been renamed to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Release date 20th of Jan 2016 and is up for pre order on steam. If you don't have HWRM collection then you get that free by pre ordering, if you already own it then instead you get 20% discount instead.


About This Game
HOMEWORLD: DESERTS OF KHARAK

A ground-based RTS prequel to the classic Homeworld games. Assemble your fleet and lead them to victory on the shifting sands of Kharak in this compelling strategy game. Crafted by Blackbird Interactive, a studio founded by veterans of Homeworld and Company of Heroes, Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak takes players to the deserts of Kharak where danger lurks over every dune.

EXPERIENCE AN ORIGIN STORY
In Deserts of Kharak’s campaign, an anomaly is discovered deep in the southern desert. An expedition is sent, but the story is not that simple. Discover the story of Rachel S'jet as she leads her people on a quest to find their destiny in an exciting campaign.

HEAVY DUTY HARDWARE
Take control of fleets of land and air vehicles – from nimble light attack vehicles to massive heavyweight cruisers – built to conquer the desert.

MASSIVE ENVIRONMENTS
Fight your way across massive dune seas, deep craters, and hostile canyons in sprawling maps – all in unprecedented fidelity and scale.

TACTICAL COMBAT
Position your fleet to take advantage of the high ground or create ambushes across dune lines in terrestrial combat. Attack your enemies’ resource operations, or assault their military head-on.

STRATEGIC DECISIONS
Meaningful choices in resource management, fleet composition, and technology research directly impact your chances of survival.

ONLINE MULTIPLAYER
Compete online solo or with friends in a variety of game modes, including ranked play, to rise through the ranks and become the most powerful Fleet Captain on Kharak.


Before you can find your Homeworld, you must first unlock the secrets of the desert.


System Requirements

MINIMUM:

OS: Windows 7/8/10
Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 (3.1 GHz) / AMD A10 5800k (3.8 GHz)
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GT 440 (1024 MB) / Radeon HD 4890 (1024 MB)
Storage: 8 GB available space


RECOMMENDED:

OS: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel Core i7-950 (3.0 GHz) / AMD FX-4300 (3.8 GHz)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 770 (2048 MB) / Radeon HD 7770 (1024 MB)
Storage: 12 GB available space

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This is a great move by gearbox who has the IP now. They have basically went to blackbird who has most of the talent from past homeworld games that was developing a hw type game called hardware which looked a lot like homeworld but on ground instead of space tbh, has gone and done the impossible. They have loaned them the IP and gave them a big wad of cash to finish Homeworld: Shipbreakers (formally Hardware: Shipbreakers).

So in essence this basically IS Homeworld 3 now. :)

GET IN!

Also i had a crap opinion of GB but this has gone a long way to fix it. They have done what no other dev or publisher has ever done. Given homeworld a big chance to come back to the fans. I for one approve of this.

One thing tho, i hope they dont get to touch the code. While giving the ip and money to blackbird is great news and all i just hope they leave the team to get on with it and leave it to the pros of RTS gaming and GB stick to borderlands which seems to be the only game there good with. Maybe harsh but after Duke and Aliens who can blame this opinion?

Update 14th Jan.
Gameplay videos have now been released.

https://youtu.be/ZyN-Nl-SaDA part 1

https://youtu.be/VG_G5I_d72Q part 2

Dev diary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVh_E657bFA
 
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It looks and sounds like a hw game just on ground. I duno about specifics but it was gona be a kinda mmo i think but that might change now.

Regardless rob cunningham the art guy who made hw look the way it did is at blackbird, as well as other core team. I think some of the voices from hw1 are in the team or they have access to them so another good thing there. Tbh even tho its ground i still would play it as it looks and feels so homeworld like. If they can get a space section on now with the additional funding then great. If not i hope they allow modding and dont hardcode it so its impossible to add in a space aspect to it.

If this is susscessful it could open up to a proper space based hw3 in a few years time. :)

I have a strange feeling after this games out gb might absorb them to be their rts arm of developers. I hope not tho it be nice to have them seperate but work together on hw games.

Edit - Added a link to OP for the developers website.
 
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Well its a homeworld game now so u could say it could be "considered" hw3. Hell its the closest we fans have ever gotten to hw3 news.

Since gb gave the ip and cash injection to BBI they have changed the game there making in a few ways. Its going retail instead of f2p. They changed the name and probably the lore and races etc in now to how they probably really wanted to do but couldnt as they didnt have the ip at the time. Plus probably more changes we will see as time goes by to go more towards a hw universe game.
 
Meh picky arnt we. :) Ok then its the third homeworld game if u dont count cata as it was technically a standalone game if i remember the history.

Anyhow i did say in the title "well kinda". So. :)

Anyhow lets not squable over that lets just be happy its officially homeworld now and that hopefully it will transform more into a hw game as time goes by due to the ip and cash they got.
 
ChrisJSY said:
Gearbox getting their hands on this worries me + Randy Pitchford.
The whole process has been bizzare, people have paid for it like kickstarter without knowing anything about the game, they get interviewed tons but never give any actual information. I'm very skeptical about what they're trying to push.

I smell f2p cashshop wannabe-sub mmo.

As much as I really love homeworld, prove me wrong gearbox.
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Its now a retail game and no longer planned for f2p. Also not a mmo i believe.
 
A ground rts game by the devs of homeworld fame that recently changed from a none homeworld titled game to a homeworld titled game due to gearbox. Or did you mean you were confused with something else?
 
Has very little to do with gearbox other than funding and sharing the homeworld ip. Afaik they are having nothing to do with development at all with homeworld shipbreakers.

Also BBI have thrown away all the story and stuff because they have the homeworld ip now so thats all getting rewritten to use homeworld lore. So whatever was known about shipbreakers i.e the planet, the units, whatever thats now being redone.
 
Plus there's a big rebalance mod by the devs I think its on workshop ATM. Also they ripped out the old movement code and wrote a new one so that hw1 movement and formations work more like the original instead of using hw2 movement code for hw1 gameplay. Will affect hw2 but dunno to what degree yet. Due soon they say.
 
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