KickStarter Homeworld 3 from Blackbird Interactive

[RobotSquirrel]

Every time game is announced you just start to think in what way they will fail.

Really we should be thinking about that with every game.

 

[Perkel]

At least homeworld 1/2 is in good shape now with remasters and modding community working on them.

 

[Quatlo]

At least homeworld 1/2 is in good shape now with remasters and modding community working on them.

Which is even more baffling, they have whole code sitting there made by modders, just repurpose it, jesus christ. Paste it into chatgpt or something.

 

[Baron Tahn]

Reading the last couple thread pages gives me the sense that noone, not even the devs, know what the fuck they are making here. Which is worrisome.

Also, theres modders working on the remaster of 1/2? Do tell? They werent BAD remasters apart from the whole 'let's ruin the good stuff from 1 by putting 2's crap fighter mechanics in it' and similar.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Why did nobody tell me the people behind Complex were making their own game?

 

[RobotSquirrel]

Why did nobody tell me the people behind Complex were making their own game?

^ngl this is exactly what I thought when I thought of Homeworld 3. Modular Ships. More complex logistics management. Looks damn good.

 

[DesolationStone]

Homeworld 3 - Dev Update: 5 Big Changes We’re Making Because Of Your Feedback

Nearly every single keyboard input is now rebindable.

We’ve increased the hitpoints of every ship by 30 percent

we’ve made ability durations and their cooldowns longer

The only solution was obvious: We’ve added a slider to adjust the scale of the HUD in the settings menu

ThE onLy SolUtiOn waS ObVioUs

Meanwhile, on reddit

 

[Catacombs]

Meanwhile, on reddit

What awful UI is this?

 

[DesolationStone]

Meanwhile, on reddit

What awful UI is this?

https://redlib.freedit.eu/

 

[Catacombs]

https://redlib.freedit.eu/

I rue the day when old.reddit.com stops working.

 

[Alfgart]

8/10 for the 13 mission campaign

 

[Carpalone]

8/10 for the 13 mission campaign

After all these years the devs were only able to squeeze out a 13 mission campaign?

 

[Baron Tahn]

Probably got a nice expensive DLC planned to hide half the story behind.

Any 'decent' reviews out yet? IGNs word doesn't count for anything.

 

[Dayyālu]

Looks aggressively mid. When even the IGN review is suffering through the teeth "there aren't many ships" "maps look clumsy" "it's dumbed down from HW2" you can feel something is off.

Also, I'm still amazed that they went for whatever horror is that cutscene work. Yes, I do play Homeworld for the character-based story about the usual S'jet crap. Who the fuck cares for characters in a Homeworld game? DoK tried and it was boring, and those cutscenes look rough.

Oh well, the development must have been messy.

 

[Perkel]

Why did nobody tell me the people behind Complex were making their own game?

Because complex mod was good because it was homeworld mod rather than its own thing. I love complex, i spent 100s of hours playing it. I just don't want to play non homeworld complex. IT was "homeworld tactics" where each part was integral to it.

It was excuse to play more homeworld when homeworld got stale.

 

[ropetight]

Looks aggressively mid. When even the IGN review is suffering through the teeth "there aren't many ships" "maps look clumsy" "it's dumbed down from HW2" you can feel something is off.

Also, I'm still amazed that they went for whatever horror is that cutscene work. Yes, I do play Homeworld for the character-based story about the usual S'jet crap. Who the fuck cares for characters in a Homeworld game? DoK tried and it was boring, and those cutscenes look rough.

Oh well, the development must have been messy.

It does look epic at the moments, and there is bunch of options for controls - but I cooled off a bit.

Instead of emptiness of space with points of interest, we have nebula soup with superstructure corridors.
And no subsystem targeting?

They really don't make them as they did.

 

[gongal]

This garbage is so sad to experience. Everything from story/characters/script to gameplay and tech is so much worse than everything that came before it. Why are these (seemingly adult) developer ""people"" so mentally underdeveloped and even borderline retarded?

 

[DesolationStone]

Initial euphoria aside, I believe this game will be a disastrous flop for both Embracer and BBI, and will kill the Homeworld franchise for decades to come.
The only hope and focus now is on the Homeworld 1 open source code project, in the hope that one day they will be able to run Cataclysm.

 

[Rahdulan]

Huh? HUH?

 

[d1r]

Some may call it ugly, manly, badly proportioned, respulsive, but I just call it CANADIAN

Blackbird Interactive​ Headquarters	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

 

[DesolationStone]

Huh? HUH?

It's incredible that using old-style cutscenes would not only cut the cost of the game in half, but also increase the quality of the storytelling. These "modern cutscenes" are completely useless and creepy. The old-style storytelling and the use of "collective" protagonists were the trademark of the franchise and a peculiar interpretation of Ueda's "minimalism".

 

[catchaser]

Some may call it ugly, manly, badly proportioned, respulsive, but I just call it CANADIAN

Blackbird Interactive​ Headquarters	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

It's another woke self-insert.

Played for 105 minutes. Refunded because of the DEI bullshit.

 

[Yaar Podshipnik]

I'm quite unhappy with this game. Haven't tried any multi, but the campaign gameplay is kinda meh, and the cutscenes are atrocious. WTF devs? HW1&2 had such cool stylish cutscenes, worldbuilding that felt so satisfying with a constant feeling of being on edge of understanding something important, while this crap... Cutscenes between missions in 1&2 felt like a reward, looking at Imogen's ugly mug and hearing her whining feels like punishment.
Completely agree with posters above that shifting changing protagonists to being the people to a single person is absolute trash.
The resemblance of the managing director to the protagonist is uncanny (though Imogen has better hair and no disgusting piercings at least), and I wonder whether she made the artists make the character look like that or was it their own brown-nosing initiative?

 

[Joggerino]

Refunded because of the DEI bullshit.

How much of it is there? I wasn't paying attention to the game at all.

 

[Dayyālu]

This gonna be a slaughter. Even the Reddit hugbox is rebelling against the obvious retardation in writing and development, it's endearing to see (despite the bootlickers trying desperately to "be nice guys be nice we got game for 120 bucks be nice nice nice).

There must have been something going on in the background. Most writing for Homeworld has fallen into the S'jet virus (despite people and reviewers screaming that the cool thing was always the "collective narration" thingie) but this.... I dimly remember the previews with the developers being really proud of their cutscene team, maybe they tried to shoehorn awful writing and cutscenes to coddle a department and overall narrative be damned? Like, " I've heard Lin can suck the lead out of a pencil, she asked if we could, like, make the protagonist a Strong Indipendent Woman and she would "discuss" with us the thing"

HW's gameplay went from "fine" to "decent", so I'm borderline curious about the final realization of the HW2's pipedream of megastructures, maybe I'll get this one when it's 1-2 bucks. DoK was so mediocre I didn't even manage to finish it, maybe the gameplay side of this is at least adequate.

Can't wait for the user reviews tomorrow tho.