The Homeworld 1 historical briefing. The Cataclysm Manual. Homeworld 2's hint guide. Desert's of Kharak's expedition manual. Revelations RPG book. The tech guide for Homeworld 3.

Which of these is your favorite presentation of secondary Homeworld media and information, and why?

Is the austere, three-color straightforward document if Homeworld 1? The full color, full page art blasts of Homeworld 3's? The redacted in-universe document presentation of DoK? Tell us!

Hello,

I'm starting the HW3 campaign after buying a brand new 32" screen (thanks black friday). The game was sitting in my Steam library for months, I thought it would be the right time. I have completed the tutorial some time ago, I was just waiting to have some time to play the game.

I am currently having (very) bad time configuring shortcuts, to fit some of my habits from previous HW games. Like D for DOCK.

In the interface menu, D is indeed written as affected to "dock". But in game, it spans the camera right, and does not order dock at all. I also cannot find any way to disable camera spanning on ZQSD AE (azerty keyboard here). That's 6 keys locked away from possible shortcut asigning.

Is there any solution? Maybe delete a config file somewhere because it's corrupted by the recent update or something?

Thanks for any help :)

So, I happened to be browsing Woot, and ran across this:

Homeworld 3 Collector’s Edition $89.99

God... as much as I was sore at missing the HW2 statue, and missing this when it was first put out... I just am so sad to see it. Even with the accessories, I could never justify it with what I know now.

I'm curious, if the game runs on UE4, how difficult would it be for a person with little modding skills to start making their own campaign? Assuming that given enough time (5-10 years), I think if there are enough people interested it might be possible. Especially with all the new creative tools we have these days.

Myself, I'm a huge Paul Ruskay fan and I'd like to try going sound design route, but I can also program things. I have more than 10 years of web dev experience and a bit of knowledge how game engines work, mainly from Unity course. I'd be very happy if I can contribute to Homeworld community somehow, I think it deserves more than this.

The reason I didnt buy Homeworld 3 was because of Denuvo.

Recently I checked the steam page and the Denuvo third-party warning is no longer there.

What's going on guys...

Quick question for all the old dogs out there. In the days of Relic and Barking Dog forums I recall there was a community member by the name of Murphy who I think sadly passed away before his time - what were the circumstances? (e.g. holiday accident, heart attack, cancer etc) and if you have any other additional info that would be great to refresh my memory.

Back then one forum member made an animation which I came across (link below) recently, hence the OP question.

For those who don't want to download/open the old MPG file (dated 2005!) it shows an animation of 6 HW1 fighters flying across the sky, and then one of them peels off in a 'Missing Man' formation, while the rest continue on in space towards a nebula.

www.homeworldarchives.com/media/murphtribute.mpg
(copy and paste the link separately if Reddit doesn't allow you direct download acces)

Most of the gameplay videos for skimish map seems to have mega structure, so just wondering how's the skimish map these days, do we have options for open space like HW1 and 2 without mega structure?

I played the HW1, C, 2 as a child. I also bought and played the remastered. Suffice to say I love the franschise.

I was a excited for HW3, until I saw the review, and held off the purchase this long.

With 50% off, I still cannot decide. The price is no issue, but I'm not sure I can take the heartbreak. I have some hope that with 1.3 update and the modding community, it will be okay.

Could you all share some insight?

Put together this random scene when I was working on a few assets.

If my sole focus is on skirmish against AI, do you think HW3 is now solid enough to give it a go? I’m still playing HW Remaster theses days and waiting for HW3 to get better

Hey everyone, HW3 mission 12 is a headache & I don’t know what to do, I keep getting tossed around. Any tips on how to approach? Units? I’m awful at this.😑

I feel like Units don't feel janky anymore and the new units are so cool 😎

homeworld remastered refused to start if i try to launch it from the epic games launcher, but works fine from my files, it keeps telling me it requires a system restart to launch, ive restarted multiplle times, im just confused at this point

My uncle was a lifelong PC gamer. I still remember coming over to his house in 1999 and discovering a shiny new game box on his desk with the name Homeworld. It took more than six months for us to cheese our way through the campaigns, including that last mission with all the frigates, damn those were some great memories.

He passed away unexpectedly in May, just weeks before Homeworld 3 was supposed to release. To honor his memory, I decided to purchase another copy of HW3 and posthumously gift it to his steam account. I really thought he would be happy knowing another game finally came out after more than 20 years. Then I sat down and actually played the game.

From the very first few mission, it felt wrong. Everything feels clunky, restrictive. The factions are indistinguishable from each other, combat has no punch, tons of bugs and missing SFX. Then it hit me: they've "modernized" it. Made it more bland, more "accessible", and stripped away the soul of the game I love. This isn't HW, it's a corporate shill cosplaying HW for Halloween. And I felt incredibly sad.

This is how it ends. We don't deserve this.

I only played the campaign once, bought the game on release day.

While the antagonist really didn't work for me, the game as a whole was very good. The visuals are fantastic. Most missions were fun. Sound design was great IMO. I liked the music, but I want to play closer attention to it.

Now I'm really curious to see if coming back after months I'll feel a difference in gameplay. Also looking forward to not being thrown into the next mission, and just take some time to enjoy the looks!

Last but not least: I deeply appreciate the dedication from the Dev team. We know it's been a rough ride for HW3, but I have no doubt lots of people in the team love Homeworld just like I do. I just know it.

See y'all in deep space.

I am trying to do this mission but oh my God is this hard. I am completely new to the franchise. I completed homeworld 1 and now wanted to complete homeworld 2, but this mission is too hard no matter the pulsars or interceptors or gunships the enemy fleet is too big and it just keep spawning fighters and bombers which i can't keep fighting. I have watched some youtube tutorials but they don't have that kind of size of the enemy fleet. I apologize if this question has been asked before too many times. But any help is appreciated.

Copied from the Homeworld Universe Discord. Posted by [GBX] NoNoelleNo

On November 21, we are releasing a mothership-sized update for Homeworld 3 that contains a gargantuan number of improvements, fixes, and some entirely new features. We are grateful for your continued support and patience as we’ve worked to bring you this update!

Read our insight into Update 1.3’s biggest and most exciting gameplay improvements and new features in the Dev Update released today on: Steam and Homeworld Universe. Also included is a special message from the development team at Blackbird Interactive.

The full patch notes for Update 1.3 (spoiler alert: they’re HUGE), released alongside this Dev Update, detail every change both big and small. We recommend reading them on Steam or the Homeworld Universe website for the best experience. Steam | Homeworld Universe

The 1.3 Patch Preview is now available. Find instructions on how to access it on Homeworld Universe.

I kind of tapped out of HW3 discussions when the game came out and was, generally a disappointment. Was one of my favourite franchises but now the writing on the wall looks like the whole series will just be over. Has there been any comment at all from Blackbird on it, hard to believe they put out all these videos about their passion for the series and then nothing?