Homeworld 3 Has a 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗡𝗔 𝗕𝗨𝗧𝗧𝗢𝗡

[@A_Spec]

Like what you're seeing? Want to be notified when Homeworld 3 becomes available so you can use that Banana button ? Wishlist the game on Steam using this link; bit.ly/Homeworld-3

[@loleo6556]

I think the banana mode is for maneuvering through tight spaces, nostalgia, and using the mothership as a bullet shield for your fleet

[@loleo6556]

Although I'd feel a little bad about using it as a bullet shield since apparently the person integrated with the ship feels every shot like it was hitting her actual body

[@unicorngall1047]

@@loleo6556Better feel some temporary pain than knowing dozens of smaller vessel crew members will die :p

[@foxdavion6865]

I imagine a good strat would be to position it so it is vertical sideways facing the enemy, so you can hide carriers behind it.

[@dominiquesavoie568]

The question is... Will Homeworld 3 allow you to capture an absurd amount of ships?

[@A_Spec]

Apparently; yes

[@electrohalo8798]

The Great stolen ship fleet shall return!

[@Masterbean]

​@@electrohalo8798legitimate salvage!

[@doomergeten]

@@electrohalo8798 OUR FLEET!

[@fanusobscurus]

@@Masterbean Yarh, they cant be claiming its illegitimate if the previous occupants be busy being star food.

[@stormlordeternal7663]

The "space terrain" really reminds me of the broken bits of Stellaris mega/gigastructures with how they're so absurdly bigger than standard ships.

[@galomir833]

who said it was not our mess that we fought in :)

[@KlaxontheImpailr]

When I first heard about the terrain I thought they meant you could deploy "ground troops" to explore or hide in ambush. Might be a cool addition.

[@The_Viscount]

You know what would be interesting? If the banana button applied to all capital ships and frigates. Turret placement can be a big deal. Being able to roll the ships to change turret angles would be cool.

[@TheRealXartaX]

Homeworld roguelite mode sounds really interesting. Assuming they add more units and stuff so it has build diversity.

[@MrRolnicek]

Indeed. More fleet types and more limits on the fleet types (aka. more specialization)

[@Mahrooby]

yeah, something like what starcraft 2 did, with having a whole bunch of nutty mini-factions that push things into strange and sometimes silly directions a good flashy showy hook for getting new players in, along with letting older players carry for them

[@Asrahn]

Maybe one day, we'll get to play as the Beast Slayers themselves, once more.

[@grailw9221]

yeah i wish. just a fun fact homeworld 2. Along with having terrain. Was also originally going to have the option to play as more kiiths then just S'jet. There was even concept art made for a soban fighter craft static.wikia.nocookie.net/homeworld/images/e/e8/Soban.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070909173550

[@ImNeurons]

Kuun-lan!

[@freddykingofturtles]

Somtaawm in the future I'm sure.

[@f1nger605]

They didn't just want to add terrain to Homeworld 2, they wanted it to be in the original Homeworld, but hardware limitations at the time made that untenable.

[@A_Spec]

I wasn't aware of that, I thought that monoliths was mostly for the second game. It's weird though, the gameplay is completely different due to the ''terrain'',

[@f1nger605]

@@A_Spec - As I understand it, Karos Graveyard was originally imagined to have a massive junked ship that spanned the map and provided terrain, but the game was already right on the edge of polygon counts at the time, so they ended up just making the debris vaguely shaped like a ship and having mines be the obstacles.

[@XMysticHerox]

Makes sense. The 3D maneuvering always felt a little pointless to me. Only in MP you'd occasionally have flanks using it but other than that it was mostly just sort of there.

[@tiborinna]

Yeah, therefore they ended up with invisible obstructions, like space radiation (nova station map) , or nebulas, where you could sneak closer to your enemy. So I think there was terrain implemented somehow, but yeah..those limitation of hardware...

[@LORDOFDORKNESS42]

*BANANA BUTTON.*

[@electrohalo8798]

The true fanservice needed by the homeworld community

[@ravenbird7764]

BANANA BUTTON(2)

[@chaz706]

Banana Button?

[@nekocatmeow7959]

i kinda hope there's more content for the skirmish, that would really ramp up the replayability. also higher unit cap for bigger battles

[@Scotthinaman]

let us never forget Homeworld Cataclysm

[@kholdanstaalstorm6881]

Already wishlisted, but used the link nonetheless. Thank you ASpec for your coverage, it helps with the decisions on the game!

[@benruniko]

When i was younger playing Homeworld with my friend in high school, Mods are what made it fun long term. I loved the vanilla games dearly, but being able to change things around dramatically had me playing for years.

[@tatzecom]

ASpec its time for a shed update. the ASCU (ASpec Shed Cinematic Universe) needs another entry, the kids yearn for the shed. Give it to us.

[@birkhoms]

You know what, those enemy cruisers kinda look like the ships from Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Like it, though it is actually saddening that there are no submodules.

[@Runetrantor]

The mention of a side game mode makes me now wonder if anyone has tried or is trying to make like, an open world Homeworld. Rather than a linear campaign, you can jump your fleet around a starmap and fight enemies and grow the fleet. Sounds kind of fun.

[@HalNordmann]

Homeworld Mobile is trying that

[@henrycooper3431]

​@@HalNordmannand failing terribly to be memorable sadly

[@arfbark3924]

Would love a Homeworld small fleet RPG.

[@pikadragon2783]

Elite Dangerous has a few homeworldy designs. You could grab a few friends and fleet around the galaxy.

[@The_Viscount]

There's a tabletop RPG for homeworld, actually.

[@TheBryceWade]

The Mods are going to make this game absolutely epic.

[@SecretRaginMan]

I'll be honest: my main interest in Homeworld 3 is seeing what sorts of shenanigans you can get up to, you crazy, crazy guy.

[@galomir833]

seing capture will still be in we all know what gonna happen

[@Zsteel]

ALL HAIL THE RETURN OF THE SPACE BANANA. This button also gives me an idea, can I use it to have my space banana hit other ships. You know just fly next to those big pesky enemy ships that are shooting me, push the button and watch them get slapped off the map.

[@DestructivelyPhased]

I can understand why artifacts may not be returning in the campaign, in that balancing for combinations of artifacts could be a nightmare. For example, in DOK, I got an artifact that reduces the supply cost of strike fighters very early on and I cruised through the next few missions as I could field a full airwing combined with large ground forces. So random combinations of artifacts could be a nightmare to balance around as a player with the right combinations would be able to cruise on by while a player with a bad or miss matched set of artifacts could struggle.

[@addisonmartin3200]

20:42 Come on, ASpec. The objectives are always low! The enemy gate is DOWN!

[@lionzod6943]

Ive had this wishlisted for a long long time. Never played the original 2 and didn’t realize it was 20years since 2.

[@igorokinamujika2073]

Original 3. There is also Homeworld: Cataclysm. I higly recommend playing all of them.

[@drakhoon]

I a guessing the reason why wargames is decoupled form single player and multiplayer is that (and again this is just a guess) Wargames is probably the only part of the game that is NOT mod-able. They have already stated they have tried to make it mod friendly (SP and MP) but allowing people to mod the Wargame part would make it pointless as there are a lot of people I know saying the first thing they would mod out of Wargames is the constant incursions ^.^ as well as get rid of the negatives on artifacts. My theory is that the Wargames part will not be able to be modded so they had to unhook it from SP and MP. In addition we dont know much about the SP campaign so maybe we will find artifacts in the SP campaign. I am a fan of an RTS game that has no problems breaking the SP campaign so that is as fun as possible while keeping the MP separate and balanced. Honestly one of the best things Starcraft 2 ever did.

[@foxdavion6865]

The original devs of Homeworld always wanted to make a Homeworld 3, but corpos got in the way of their dream, all THQ wanted them to do was make Dawn of War and they owned the IP. Now it's a reality because those funding them to make it want it to be a reality too. Took 20 years...

[@SpaceGata]

I like how the ancient ship debris being so big makes you feel insignificant compared to what used to be. Your biggest ships are tiny fighters compared to whatever the debris was.

[@compassionatecurmudgeon7025]

I assure you the devs will release having never put any thought into that question. I'm just going off of the multiplayer focus and clear influencer push. They don't give a fuck about lore.

[@s.k.1082]

@@compassionatecurmudgeon7025 Cool story, bro.

[@roccaraso1771]

I will have to go back and read varius materials but it seems wierd to me that there are no targetable modules, iirc they are also directly cited in the mothership description, maybe theyr are still working on them? I sure hope so personally, it was such a strong aspect of homeworld gameplay, same for the battlecruiser it looks nice just needs to be bigger in my opinion, which is a relatively easy fix

[@davidzadro2939]

Honestly I'm glad they're not mixing the campaign and war games. I want to be able to enjoy the single player at my own pace and then maybe dive into multiplayer after that

[@strcmdrbookwyrm]

Regarding the space terrain: I think it's alright. It's certainly seems like it's going to be fun to mess around with, exploit, and abuse. My main worry is that they'll overuse this in the campaign. I don't think it will be that bad if the campaign uses a variety of terrain types and densities, and that could actually make it a fun challenge. Especially if there's a mission with no cover, or very little cover that your really far away from. But if the space terrain is just derelicts and monoliths, like it is in this demo, I can see it eventually getting boring. Also, I totally agree with you that there should be artifacts in the campaign. Even if they didn't carry over from one mode to the other, just being able to get different artifacts as you play through the campaign would add so much replay value. (There are a few caveats, I think. One is that they'd probably want to lock some artifacts to certain types, both so you can be guaranteed certain aspects/levels/routes of progression and so you don't get some things to early. I'd also want a way to balance the game so that it could be beaten without any artifacts (or at least any non-required ones) and/or have the enemy scale in power with you as you got more artifacts. But that's my opinion)

[@HalNordmann]

There probably will be artifacts in the campaign, just like there were in Deserts of Kharak. But what was talked about was potentially one mode's artifacts affecting the other.

[@TheMarilith]

Big fan of the whole series, I hope this new version will be released soon ;-)

[@janedoe4586]

man still don't understand why there are till now no howworld movies or TV show out there ..the story and art style is so awesome has star wars replace potential.

[@KnightspaceORG]

Glad to see you are doing videos on a game that hasn't been completely ruined yet

[@amplify6613]

i really miss targeting modules tbh i always loved that about homeworld 2, and where are my beloved marine frigates

[@isimiel3405]

the fighters look Taiidani

[@danilooliveira6580]

hopefully skirmish will have a lot of customization, including massively increasing the ship cap. also I'm not a fan of the damage effects, its like the ship is disintegrating, I want realistic scorch marks as the ship get hit. also the puny explosion when you destroy a big ship is just sad, where is my massive white out super nova when I blow something big ?

[@Dropbaud]

I think it would be great to see the Bentusi again, but we'd have to change galaxys at that point.

[@Sokko325]

I get what you mean, even the battlecruiser looked the same as the frigates.

[@13deadghosts]

Looks nice, but honestly, from a mechanics/combat point of view, I prefer Nebulous: Fleet Command even though it currently is still in early access and alot harder. But hey, maybe they still make some changes. I still love homeworld and wish them all the best. A new and good Homeworld would be great :) And yess, the scaling between the Baseship and the rest of the fleet is definitely off.

[@xyreniaofcthrayn1195]

All hail the space banana or be assimilated, resistance is optional (insert enemy faction name here)

[@Paisa231]

Banana is both nostalgia and practical use. I wonder if some of the War Games and Campaign missions will use this some more actively. About War Games, I think the purpose of this mode. To extend longevity of a 'semi SP' experience. Like Spec Ops in Call of Duty Modern Warfare. So this mode could be something you train your skills. Have fun with after you finished the Campaign. And if artifact's upgrades is part of MP. Then you should not be able to "rank" up, outside regular MP, IMO. By doing this the incentive to rank up in MP is gone. If they go this route, and I will like them to make a rank up concept in MP.

[@Agemmata-Arts]

Is it just me or all the larger ships seem much more nimble than in HW 1 and 2? That Carrier turns really fast for something that me. In HW1 and 2 it would take ages to steer larger ships, which is more realistic, but also cumbersome in some cases.

[@toshibavoodoo]

Love and excited about HOMEWORLD!! Worried the co.pany laid of people.

[@sedevri864]

Ive had the Special editon of this for over a year now

[@glenn_r_frank_author]

Space Banana button... I approve.

[@Chimjjl]

THE BANANA RETURNS! ALL HAIL THE SHIP OF THE BANANA!

[@Gemoron]

I kinda wanna dismantle the mothership in hardspace shipbreaker. Same universe, after all

[@ImpactedWhisper]

It's sadly not, HSS is a whole new IP developers even confrimed this - otherwise that would've been dope as hell

[@grailw9221]

i always thought it was a distant prequel to be honest@@ImpactedWhisper

[@Ransonol]

I hope for endless research , and interactive system to system maps vs Ai and huge maps because universe is huge and empty. Planet management and maybe population and fusion to get resources, Solar flares and environment would also be great

[@puteraslayer]

will the company increase the unit cap?

[@A_Spec]

It's quite extensive in the campaign

[@Doomrider47]

Will we finally be able to "Bring Sa'juuk to Bear" this time?

[@leonardopezente8663]

lets be honest, the banana mode is the most important mecanics on this game

[@HoloTheEverWiseWolf]

I see unit cap mods in the future

[@Jayy997]

Why is the UI and text so oversized? Have you set it to 400% scaling or something?

[@A_Spec]

That was the default, I assume that 20 years of UX design progression got us here.

[@ClnlBogey]

I mean I really love the design. I agree with the eve online logic. The monolithic space debris and such is very eve.

[@Alexandragon1]

Thx for the video!

[@A_Spec]

My pleasure!

[@Alexandragon1]

@@A_Spec :)

[@TheKianykin]

I beat the original homeworld with the Great Cassette Player before beating it with the Space Banana

[@dj_koen1265]

Game looks really cool

[@sdoo-ou2ni]

I am worried about the multiplayer mode because I am worried about microtransaction if they monetize artifacts I will be enraged

[@Spaceman05]

They said there will be no microtransactions, even in multiplayer the only customisation is the colour scheme

[@Shamai36]

i'm also worried about that but in HWMobile you have micro, but you dont need it. You dont fight with other players but help with other.

[@sdoo-ou2ni]

@@Spaceman05 they said that about Fallout 76 even after the year the game looks good so far gearbox don't screw this up and yes you can tell me it's a different studio all you like but we all know where the money's going

[@Spaceman05]

@@sdoo-ou2ni what are you on about

[@blackhand9581]

Wait, there's a Taidan skin? Would that mean that the republican Taidan joined up with the Hiigarans? That's pretty cool of the Hiigarans. I do hope I get to see a Somtaaw beast slayer decal in this game.

[@Sokko325]

Maybe the wargames could unlock new starting artifacts for the campaign?

[@A_Spec]

That what I was thinking too!

[@compassionatecurmudgeon7025]

Why am I the only one having command and conquer 4 flashbacks like a vietnam vet? A classic base/fleet building RTS getting turned into small scale fleet battles with RPG leveling elements and no characters... Because the reason why people liked full scale strategy games was because we didn't have the tech to make small scale RPGs? Is that what the devs are thinking?!? Not everything needs to be fucking starcraft 2. Homeworld 3 makes me smell burning.

[@Nyst2]

This is just my opinion from this small glance at the game, but the ships don't seem as iconic as before. Your fighters used to have cockpits, and have these cool light trails behind them. You could see the turrets on your flak frigate turn to track the enemy even when zoomed out. The ion frigates looked like they were built around the gun itself, with the guts of the ship arranged around it. Your harvesters were dirty and industrial looking. Your battlecruisers looked tough, and their guns were huge! A battleship turret was bigger than a corvette. These new ships look very pretty, very sleek and clean, but they also look very samey. Those subtle touches the artists added disappear almost immediately as a soon as you zoom out even a little. A battle feels more like a fight between small ships and big ships, not actually different classes. That poor enemy battelcruiser. Even when zoomed in in the middle of battle, you could barely tell it was firing its weapons.

[@glenn_r_frank_author]

Personally when I got hooked on Homeworld2 (yeah I was late to the game for the first one) I mostly played the Skirmish Mode more than the campaign games... so... not sure about this new mode.

[@aetherial87]

"Taiidan colors" Does progenitor paint instead. 😂

[@A_Spec]

Taiidan is yellow red. Prog is grey red

[@aetherial87]

@@A_Spec you picked green though, unless YT is screwed up, haha.

[@canyonntt6969]

SPACE BANANA

[@thorax9997]

there at least 2 artifacts per round from what i have seen on other game playthroughs with a possible 3rd if you go outside of the debris

[@blindtraveler844]

hope they built this game like empire at war .. otherwise i will just wait for a cool reimagine of this game like homeworld 2 to release on empire at war from the amazing modding community in that game who have completely overhauled the game engine of that game and still has 1000s of players still playing on 100s of different mods .. because iv seen nothing new at all over HW2 and thats kinda saddening .. they could have totally did an empire at war kind of game with ground battles planet and other objects capture and use to allow creation of special craft and tech etc and had a full on higher up galactic view where you can conquer build a base to front your main ship as you move thru the story of the game

[@tiborinna]

Hey. Nice review, thnx! I played all the games including complex modes, used all modding tools, and i have to say, iam a bit disappointed from what i saw sofar. Terrain was present in hw1 in form of space radiation, in 2 in form of nebulas, you needed to take there the terrain into consideration as well, alltough probably less, then here. What iam currios about is, all HW maps in all versions were basically a predefined square "space" of a certain size, which you could define in Handommap generator. Simply you could reach the edge of the map, where sometimes weird things happened. Is it the same case here in HW3? Probably yes. I see its very few improovements for being 20 years idle. Iam definitelly with hopes, that it is not all, and looking forward to get anyway.

[@numberyellow]

The only thing i care about is whether or not they used the same pacing and mission structure that they did in the last two games. i couldn't finish Homeworld 2, because, structurally, it felt too much like the first game.

[@alasterdemare]

hor homeworld 3 i am very hyped :) to wait until february 2024

[@roguegargoyle914]

Liked what I've seeing of Homeworld 3, looks very Homeworldy which is good I've never found a good reason to have motion blur and depth of field in a PC game, horrible effects that should have died with last gen consoles.

[@lostree1981]

agreed. I turn them off first thing whenever the option is there, bloom aswell.

[@Fishbeings]

What is the meaning of life?

[@daradacro23]

I NEED IT

[@syrusalder7795]

The children yearn for shed updates aspec

[@thorax9997]

been on my wish list since 20/12/2021 LOL when i become aware of it

[@carlosrgns]

BAD IDEA!!! please remember C&C 4

[@A_Spec]

I'm tempted to do a video on that one

[@carlosrgns]

@@A_Spec 10 mins into grinding and you'll hate the crossover between skirmish and campaign

[@rhl2macwan]

I hope this game has not become like that c&c 4 tiberium whatever moving base thing I preferred the buildings in the first 3 games

[@damianprzebieraa330]

Shame there is no sub-system targeting

[@Mortainous]

Xbox Series X 🧐????

[@homeworld2evolution]

I've been watching the Homeworld franchise since 2000 and unfortunately my conclusion is not satisfactory. After 20 years later, the game doesn't get smarter or better, the game gets dumber and simpler. This is painful to realize. Even without delving into the details of the game, there are details, that are noticeable that simply break my heart. 20 years later, the ships still no have crews, no have ammunition, no have fuel, no have subsystems on its board and we see the same gameplay mechanics, formations, ships purposes as in 1999 or 2003! Everything new, is that the game simply copies from Desert of Kharak in its the interface, in its ship design, in its music, in its type of weapons, in its environment, etc, etc, etc. Simple examples 19:44 - the sand slides lies on the slabs in space, 20:47 - the wind blows in space , 21:44 - what an idiot with flat brain added a flat grid to this game!? In fact, people are making a game about space, in which there is no space! There cannot be mountains of sand in space, there cannot be mountains of icebergs, the wind cannot blow, there cannot be a static environment, cause any object at the space zero grawity must have rotation, but it seems the developers don't know about that! My conclusion is not comforting - unfortunately this game is made by illiterate people, who have not yet broken away your brains from the previous game - Deserts of Kharak. Those people just breed illiteracy, because a lot of teenagers will play it, distorting their ideas about space. Unfortunately I'm disappointed, I wanted Homeworld 3 to be the smartest and most competent space game as possible, with much greater depth of gameplay, than it was in last 2003 release (Homeworld 2) but everything I've seen so far is just looks silly or copy/paste from land game DOK.

[@Shamai36]

@aspec this looks like Homeworld Mobile mission. Go to system, scan system, get to mission alone or create group and together fight. In HWM it is cool and i love it (even i hate mobile games before, you know. Millenials :D ) I hope this is will end with not just wargames mode but like HWM galaxy map and facions, clans.. btw. In HWM you have 3 class of capital ships. Explorer (fast armored but not such sexy to fight) Carrier (with many slots and escort ships but slow and not such havy armor) and BattleCrusier (many guns, heavy armor but small hangar). It will be cool if devs have same idea for HW3

[@Cmhasty10]

Any idea if traditional pvp is still in the game? All the previews are just this pve content which personally I have 0 interest in.

[@weirdochristoffel5285]

i like pve i suck at pvp

[@jonhilke]

Where is my mother ship and capitol ships. So far this looks like total trash. I can play this on a mobile phone already. Man am I am dissapointed, the bar is so low these days.

[@lostree1981]

I'll be honest, two decades and the graphics and gameplay are the same? That's disappointing. With that much time I was expecting something a bit more akin to Star Wars: Empire at War, with an entire galaxy to develop an economy in before you Explore, Expand, Exploit, and Exterminate. This looks like it will be a short campaign with some game modes and a bit of multiplayer PvP? thats... just Homeworld 2. I mean that Star Wars game is from 2006, and it even has ground combat, surely they could have strived to achieve this for Homeworld.

[@igorokinamujika2073]

To each their own, I guess, but if like Homeworld its because it's hand crafted campaigns. I wouldn't like it to change into just another pseudo Total War like Company of Heroes 3 or Battlefleet Gthic Armada 2. I'd rather have quality over quantity. If you think the graphics are the same, I invite you to check gameplays of the original Homeworld 2. There is a noticeable inprovement, both visually and in scale.

[@sosogo4real]

If they made the Progenitors the antagonists then the game is dead to me.

[@Lightningshattr]

I actually like the flat side more than the original banana thingy..

[@thorax9997]

no hard points for weapons and sensors for the larger ships is disappointing