The new game picks up some years after the events of Homeworld 2 and sees a new mothership, the Khar-Kushan, launched to deal with a new galactic threat.Ī huge number of games have recently been delayed from 2022 to 2023, most notably Bethesda's epic SF RPG Starfield. The game is being developed by Canadian studio Blackbird Interactive, which spun out of Relic Entertainment (who created Homeworld and Homeworld 2), which many veterans of the original games working on it. Homeworld 3 has been eagerly awaited by fans for many years and was crowdfunded through the Fig service two years ago to success. The original two games were also revamped as Homeworld Remastered (2015).
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The series kicked off with Homeworldin 1999 and continued through Homeworld: Cataclysm (2000), Homeworld 2 (2003) and planet-bound prequel Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak (2016). There is definitely more planned, with the dossier we were sent mentioning a co-op mode with a "roguelike twist," but Blackbird won't be ready to talk about it until closer to launch.The game is actually the fifth title in the long-running science fiction strategy franchise. We also weren't able to extract much intel on the multiplayer modes, but there will definitely be a classic skirmish where you take your fleet to beat up your friends' fleets in 1v1, team-based, or free-for-all set-ups. "As opposed to being a live feed of what takes place immediately after." "We wanted to put a bit of time after Homeworld 2 because we wanted the story to be about the consequences of Homeworld 2," Cunningham said. We can see Homeworld 1 and 2's protagonist, Karan S'jet, in the trailer, and she's apparently become a mythical and religious figure, but we're not sure yet what exactly her role in the campaign will be. Blackbird was conspicuously tight-lipped about how much time has passed exactly, and it seems that answer might be part of the larger mystery we're meant to unravel. The main story campaign will be comparable in scope to Homeworld 1 and 2, picking up "generations" after Homeworld 2 when the hyperspace gates are starting to catastrophically fail and continuing many narrative threads from that game. And in fact, in almost all cases, the introduction of space terrain actually makes it easier." "The way you deal with how the camera works, how you issue move orders – we've simplified a great number of things and made it easier to get around. "We want it to be as seamless and intuitive as possible," Cunningham explained. Homeworld 2 was already a tricky game to get your head around, since deploying your fleet in only a single, two-dimensional "slice" of space could leave you vulnerable to attacks from above and below and the movement controls took some getting used to. You'll even be able to place turrets on some of these surfaces to create a static defense, and gathering resources will require control of specific physical features.īlackbird doesn't want this added complexity to hurt the approachability of Homeworld 3 though, especially considering there will be a fair few people trying it out who weren't even alive when the last one released. You'll be able to use the terrain to hide ships and stage ambushes. Mines can now be used on chokepoints and are no longer simply a sphere that causes ships passing through it to take damage. Some openings in an asteroid might be too small for larger craft, for instance. There's going to be a big emphasis this time around on space terrain, such as ruined megastructures, and the need to maneuver your fleets to take advantage of it. The unit caps will be larger, and the largest structures will be truly gargantuan.
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With the benefit of modern PCs, Blackbird is able to create both larger-scale conflicts, full ballistic modeling, and battle spaces where there's more going on.
We can expect similar interactions with characters and emotional moments told with presentational flair, but that's not the only way Homeworld 3 will be raising the stakes. "The cinematic execution was where we really evolved the franchise.
"The major evolutionary element was in the storytelling," Cunningham said.
While we're headed back to space now, some things the series picked up on that sandy world will be carried forward. In the meantime, we got the excellent Deserts of Kharak, a prequel that shared a lot of gameplay ideas but eschewed the series' signature, fully 3D combat by setting its story planetside. It's a bit hard to believe how long it's been since Homeworld 2, which felt very ahead of its time when it came out.
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