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What's Homeworld?

>>15250923

what game?

>>15250923

It's in my backlog. I want to play it only for the lore, because I hate micro.

>>15251965

Has any one else realized that it's more fun to fuck with serious posts than it is to make them? Picking up good posts, shitting on them and then raking in (you)s. Digging up really old threads and seeing how mad anons get at you for necroing.

It seems like I spend more time shitting posts up than I do making them.

Whats your current shitpost goal and what do you plan to use to piss off anons? What sort of memes have you put into it and what do you expect to get out of it?

>>15250923

This game kinda died slower than Battleborn. Still fucking hate Randy for buying the Homeworld IP.

>>15250923

is the game good?

Didn't they do some hack job on the remasters or something?

>Another RTS without base-building

I kind of can entertain the idea of having a mobile base and production facility, but static structures belong to an RTS like lichens on a sloth. Earth 2150 has a rather neat way to circle around this by giving you two battlefields - a main base in which you could research new tech and train units between (also during) the missions, and the respective mission maps themselves. Meaning that you usually had very little incentive to produce units on the mission maps because you normally wanted to fly in reinforcements from your main base (and the game encouraged you to be very economic with your resources, so building structures on a mission map usually was something you wanted to avoid).

>>15252224

> Earth 2150

Looks interesting, anon. Thanks for mentioning it.

>>15250923

>second pic

wait, didnt all the kushans had tanned skin and the kadeshi had white skin? or that was some headcanon i read in the relicforums?

>>15252224

>Another RTS without base-building

anon, homeworld didnt have base-building either, you could say that homeworld 2 did had something like it, but it was mostly choosing what modules to build on your araship.

>>15252224

>>Another RTS without base-building

So, like the original?

Bases in Earth campaign were kinda cheap, since nobody but ED would have them attacked, so they were mostly to look good, it didn't matter how you built them.

>>15252310

There was also the shipyard, which is more or less a pocket base, even more helpless than mother/flagship. I have to agree it's not comparable.

DoK wasn't good.

>>15252461

But it wasn't made by Gearbox, it was made by old Relic people. Gearbox just gave them the IP.

>>15252224

> Earth 2150 has a rather neat way to circle around this by giving you two battlefields

I don't remember any battle in your main base.

You just constructed pretty much everything in your main base and just build the bare basics in the remote missions.

I really loved how you could keep old troops, can't remember if you could upgrade them or just had to suicide them to free some supply limit (space Homeworlds had a nice "recycle" option which recovered a lot of the original resources from the unit).

I still think those chicks who lived in the moon were too overpowered. I wonder if 2160 is better.

Ah, I finished recently the Homeworld 1 remake. The original is too old for me, checked its guide and realized the original was way more tactical and had features that were absent in the remake (Don't worry about fuel, also the hitting angle is not that important.) To compensate from this omissions the remake now always rewards your enemies with double your troops, so if you did nice and stole every possible unit (stolen units aren't limited by supply limit) then you'll be facing absolutely impossible odds. I usually got massacred in less than a minute. Had to reload a saved game from the previous mission and recycle some units.

THE YES SONG IS NOT IN THE REMAKE'S ENDING CREDITS

>>15253035

But the remakes come with the classic version in them right? There HW1 is completely untouched or?

>>15252768

>2160

It controls a bit better, but you don't have 2 bases anymore.

2160 is interesting since it's an RTS full of neat new ideas and some improvements I'd really like to see in other games, but it does end up falling flat after a while.

For instance, I really like that you can set up automatic production of units, assign a control group they'll join once produced and even tell them to join said group once done. You can set Ctrl+1 for frontline troops, Ctrl+2 for infantry, Ctrl+3 for Artillery and Ctrl+4 for Aerial support for instance and once it's all set up, you pretty much just get reinforcements to those 4 groups, no longer needing to select units.

But then there's weird shit like how your units gain experience from combat and their stats improve. You can then put a basic infantry inside a vehicle as pilot and his stats will massively improve the vehicle, but the amount of micro required to keep squishy infantry alive and then put them inside a vehicle really doesn't justify the marginal benefit you actually get out of it.

There's also eletrical damage that disables vehicles or mind damage that kills the pilot and leaves the vehicle intact. Those are fun but can get annoying unless you're building around them.

The alien race was quite unbalanced from what I heard, especially with the aerial units, but their entire "base building" is a fuck load of micro to drain water and the pathfinding in the game really doesn't help this at all.

If you really must, you can just get Grey Goo since it's essentially the same game on a newer engine with slight changes, but it's pretty much the same factions too in terms of gameplay.

>>15253077

if you buy (or otherwise procure) the remaster it comes with afaik untouched versions of both games except cataclysm. I believe they're completely untouched so they're as good as they always were, lacking widescreen support included.

I actually did buy it (for a friend when he didn't have a PC) so homeworld 1 is 306mb but I've not played it. My friend just played the multiplayer on the remaster and destroyed people with cheese tactics, mass building defenders till pop cap and rushing for a HC. Man it was so unbalanced, I bet they haven't fixed it.

>>15252484

It doesn't matter who made it, it was still a complete fucking mess.

>>15253035

>because ships aren't taking into account collission paths on the asteroids mission, fighters will not evade those asteroids and will just crash into them

Oh, I remember that. Losing all my fucking fighters and bombers because instead of avoiding that fucking flying rock like in original, they just crash into the fucking thing. No idea how the hell did this even get past the QA-testing.

Are there any worms?

I hated this game. The combat is incredibly boring and the plot makes no sense. I gave up when I reached the ship graveyard mission. I understand that ship graveyards are pretty common in the series but you can't put that in a game set on fucking Kharak without making plot holes everywhere. I might have stuck with it but I was sick of the actual gameplay by then. I have no idea how they managed to make the game feel so bland when the original is still fun to play decades later.

>>15257790

The entire uninhabitable equator is full of ships teleported there by the big whoop engine the ancient hiigarans smuggled onto Kharak that interferes with subspace travel.

The desert is so thick that the shifting sands constantly throw a few of them up, except when the gaalsien go after the really deep ones and dig them out, which they have been doing for the past 400 years.

There's a whole .exe file full of background story that says this kind of stuff.

>>15257590

No, just anti-technologist zealots running around on floating grav craft, firing lasers at you.

>>15257590

Nah, just space muhammad.

>>15257396

The LC did get the Tunnel digger as of The Moon Project, though. The only thing they did not have were minelayers. And lightning/electro cannons could disable enemy vehicles while still being fairly effective against buildings - a far call from the ED laser guns that raped anything without a shield but were virtually useless against buildings.