God damn this is easily my most anticipated game right now.
It's so fucking Homeworld, even when it was Hardware it was so obviously Homeworld and I'm so happy Gearbox let them use the license for it.
Man I just love how everything sounds like homeworld.
There's something so appealing about the little bleeps, the voices, the music and the way everything meshes together and I'm excited to have more of it.
kinda liked the old trailers more, back when it was Hardware: Shipbreakers
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGax_UYXDUI[/media]
this one built a great atmosphere
[sp] Rachel S'Jet huh? Mother of Karen? [/sp]
Jesus the homeworld universe has so much potential.
If only homeworld 2 was declared non canon, since the Dust Wars story was way more goddamn interesting than the McGuffin plot of Homeworld 2 was.
That unit design.
That fucking aircraft carrier.
I've never played homeworld but I'm on board with this.
[QUOTE=mastermaul;49331733]That unit design.
That fucking aircraft carrier.
I've never played homeworld but I'm on board with this.[/QUOTE]
You're super ultra missing out. "Modern classic" is an often overused label, but in homeworld's case it holds true. I'd recommend playing the original over remastered, since HW1 remastered uses HW2's engine and due to the way strike craft work in each game, breaks the behaviour of those ships and they still haven't rectified it. HW2RM is still great though.
God damn they [I]still[/I] haven't fixed it jesus
[QUOTE=Morbo!!!;49331794]You're super ultra missing out. "Modern classic" is an often overused label, but in homeworld's case it holds true. I'd recommend playing the original over remastered, since HW1 remastered uses HW2's engine and due to the way strike craft work in each game, breaks the behaviour of those ships and they still haven't rectified it. HW2RM is still great though.[/QUOTE]
I agree with this, but since Remastered comes with the originals you should get Remastered anyway (or pre-order Deserts of Kharak, since it comes with Remastered!).
[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;49331807]God damn they [I]still[/I] haven't fixed it jesus[/QUOTE]
As far as I'm aware, I shouldn't state that as fact actually. From what I heard though it's essentially impossible without basically re-doing HW1RM from scratch bar the art assets. I've not played RM in a while and don't have it installed, can someone confirm? Regardless, HW1C still holds up just fine imo.
[QUOTE=Morbo!!!;49331833]As far as I'm aware, I shouldn't state that as fact actually. From what I heard though it's essentially impossible without basically re-doing HW1RM from scratch bar the art assets. I've not played RM in a while and don't have it installed, can someone confirm? Regardless, HW1C still holds up just fine imo.[/QUOTE]
They've made a lot of improvements and fixes, but it's still """broken""".
[QUOTE=Morbo!!!;49331794]You're super ultra missing out. "Modern classic" is an often overused label, but in homeworld's case it holds true. I'd recommend playing the original over remastered, since HW1 remastered uses HW2's engine and due to the way strike craft work in each game, breaks the behaviour of those ships and they still haven't rectified it. HW2RM is still great though.[/QUOTE]
I don't think the space combat interests me nearly as much as this does.
If i don't hear fucking Adagio for Strings with a chorus.....
I love homeworld. This is going to be great.
Thread music [video=youtube;fXRJBK8oJSA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXRJBK8oJSA[/video]
I'm a HW fan as much as the next guy but this looks really mediocre to me
Graphics are nothing special, the whole sand dunes and ship wrecks thing is a mildly interesting visual gimmick but that's about it. Unit design was just something I completely ignored in HW games most of the time and I can't see that changing too much. The whole aircraft carrier on wheels thing looks... eh.. weird. That's definitely the worst offender.
I've been wondering what had happened to this game since it was forever since the last bit of news about it.
Glad to see they pulled a HL2 and "re-announced" it 1 month before release, barely any waiting time.
[editline]16th December 2015[/editline]
Also was that bit at the end foreshadowing the events in Homeworld 1 where[sp]Kharak gets completely incinerated because it's inhabitants violated an incredibly old treaty about not being allowed into space that literally no one on the planet fucking remembers?[/sp]
They'd been holding onto it for a while just hoping that THQ would finally croak and die so it could actually be homeworld. At least that was what the main artist dude said at a conference.
This is pretty much built from scratch by the brains that did Homeworld Classic, unlike RM which was just a small project and they where brought in for some help.
Pretty sure I heard this fucker at the end:
[IMG]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/23/8b/49/238b49921e0b3f656ba76ee84ffeaf36.jpg[/IMG]
Ok just want to clear up the confusion of the Video and stuff. This has nothing to do with the destruction of Kharak or the attack of the Taiidan, the story of this game is possibly during the Heresy Wars.
The Heresy wars itself was a conflict between the clans of the Kushan on the world of Kharak, before they discovered the Khar-Toba. The War itself was mostly between the Gaalsien and the Siidim Kiithids. The Kiith Gaalsien was mostly responsible for causing the war since they wanted to take control of the minor kiithids of the planet. The end of the video where the person is talking is possibly a Gaalsien member or worshipper.
My bets on the story is that the kiithids have tried to create a spaceship to help explore the Kharak system, but this angered the Gaalsien due to their religious belief, which is this.
"Kiith Gaalsien believed that the Kushan people were left on inhospitable Kharak as a punishment by Sajuuk. They believed that eventually their sentence would be completed and Sajuuk would lift them up into heaven. It was because of this that Kiith Gaalsien created various dogmas and methods, which allowed them to survive in the harshest of conditions, such as when they were exiled by the Daiamid. The Gaalsien believed that every misfortune that happened to them was a punishment for their arrogance, this arrogance being the reason why they were banished from celestial paradise."
So the story itself is probably the rise of the Kiithid S'jet and their discovery of the Khar Toba.
And that laser at the end, that wasn't the Taiidan, since they used Atmospheric Deprivation Devices, which are equivalent to massive nuclear weapons.
The trailer states right at the beginning that it takes place in 1110 (Homeworld begins around 2210, about 100 years after the Khar Toba's discovery), which is the year the Khar Toba was discovered. Though the two ships that have been shown are clearly not the Khar Toba.
The whole southern desert thing in the description pretty much tells that this isn't immediately about the Khar Toba, since that was near the equator, but we know it will make an appearance, since Rob Cunningham made an off comment about the game ending where Homeworld's intro begins.
So we're not really going to know what these ships are yet. It is however stated that Gaalsien spent their time harassing scientific expeditions and outposts, and attempted to sabotage the Mothership's construction several times. So it makes sense they'd try hard to stop the other Kiith from discovering the ship wreck.
There is some room for extra ships too. At least 5 of the prision ships made it to Kharak (5 you can see in the cinematic), and it's possible they picked up a few other ships along the way, or attempted to construct new ones after landing on Kharak. The Taiidan were observing the Kushan in secret as well, so it could even be a Taiidan ship that made a mistake and crashed. We won't know until the game comes out.
There is a little bit of retconning going on though. The Kushan's tech level has gone up from what it was previously stated to be. There's a few energy weapons shown, which they didn't even have at the start of Homeworld, the technology was only in testing phases and incomplete when the Mothership launched. Most of the technology used for the mothership was reverse engineered from the Khar Toba, which included fusion reactors and drives, hyperspace drives (retconned to just be the core, but fuck that HW2 retcon), advanced their understanding of metallurgy and circutry. It even states what they found in the Khar Toba let them make technological advances that would have taken 500 years otherwise.
So it's a Homeworld game that's set on the ground. O-okay.
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;49331497]kinda liked the old trailers more, back when it was Hardware: Shipbreakers
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGax_UYXDUI[/media]
this one built a great atmosphere[/QUOTE]
Hardware had this whole espionage feel to it where profiteers and mercs with shady corporate allegiances were duking it out over scraps of derelict ships. I mean, this is great too, but Hardware captured my attention a little more
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Check this shit out
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G37cFbkArlw[/media]
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmcSMAuo8OI[/media]
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kqNp1fZ9xQ[/media]
[QUOTE=Squad1993;49331517][sp] Rachel S'Jet huh? Mother of Karen? [/sp][/QUOTE]
Not at all. S'jet is one of the clans that exist in the Kushan culture. Usually members of the clans have their last name as the name of the clan, so Rachel is likely just some S'Jet.
wat's better than a helicarrier? a fucking land carrier! suck it shield
Yeah, most's last name is the clan they belong to. Though Kiith S'jet is the one that led the expedition to the Khar Toba and many others, seeing as they're the main science Kiith.
You know, they didn't even have to go with Kharak, they could have just kept hardware and thrown it on some other world. But it is true that some of the early relic people wanted to make a prequel.
[QUOTE=Gunner th;49340815]Yeah, most's last name is the clan they belong to. Though Kiith S'jet is the one that led the expedition to the Khar Toba and many others, seeing as they're the main science Kiith.
You know, they didn't even have to go with Kharak, they could have just kept hardware and thrown it on some other world. But it is true that some of the early relic people wanted to make a prequel.[/QUOTE]
Even Hardware was originally written as a Homeworld prequel, the writer was always hoping they could buy the rights when THQ shut down, and when Gearbox talked to them about making it a Homeworld game it took him like 5-10 minutes to adapt.
I think I prefer the Shipbreakers name. Deserts of Kharak doesn't quite have the same ring to it
Man there is something so awesome and so mysterious about the homeworld universe.
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