Homeworld 3

Released May 2024, last (and final) major update November 2024, the developers abandoned the game rather than working with the community. Don't give them your money.

If you've never played Homeworld before, this game will probably be pretty fun. If you have played Homeworld before, you'll be constantly thinking about everything this game does wrong. The graphics and sound design are excellent, but the visual design of the ships is far too uniform within factions, the AI is not very good at all, and worst of all, the story and characters are an enormous departure from previous Homeworld games in a negative way. This game also just lacks the majesty of the other Homeworld games, even Deserts of Kharak. There is far too much focus on frustratingly small maps within and adjacent to difficult to navigate megastructures. The sense of scale and journey from previous games is gone. It feels like you're hyperspacing in to a tiny box with an objective, and then hyperspacing out, with no time to think or perform resourcing ops. The new intel guy is also constantly chirping at you. The game does not trust you to know how to play it. Constant reminders of the most basic objectives from characters with far too human-sounding voices and HD human faces attached to their dialogue boxes, which is a big break from the narrative themeing of Homeworld being about collective struggle between cultures. Ultimately, that's Homeworld 3's biggest flaw. The game isn't about much of anything. The plot and characters are weak and the game is about a boring, kinda annoying woman beefing with an insane, kinda annoying woman, and a far too much focus on lullaby-based prophetic nonsense. Which sucks! I love women! I am one! I should love a Homeworld game zeroing in on a relationship and rivalry between two women, but the writing is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that all it does is make me yearn for the epic tales of collective cultural struggle that Homeworld 1 and Deserts of Kharak represented, or the insanely cool kiith politicking and scifi-horror of Emergence.

Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.

The developers have completely ruined a great franchise, HW 3 is horrible game that is nothing like any of the previous HW games (I know, I've played and enjoyed them all); DO NOT PURCHASE THIS PIECE OF TRASH!!!

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I'm late to the party, and I'll probably cover mostly the same points as most other people, and I'll skip some, however I want to vent. The games I actually replay or play skirmish mode in are extremely few and far between, and it is my great displeasure to inform you that Homeworld 3 is not on that list. We have a saying in my country: "They welcome you by your clothes, but see you off by your wit", and I think it fits HW3 very well. It's beautiful, detailed, gorgeous, and that's all you get. Even that is held back by design choices, and it made an impression right off the bat. I want to look at stuff in the distance, I want to zoom in and explore features, structures, the whole environment you've put me in. Why make it so eye-catching if I can't look, much less touch? Oh, that's enough looking, time for my 5th cinematic this mission. Grander ambitions were in mind, and I'm sad they weren't realised. The gameplay is also a total devolution of what previous games had. What, trying to micro a fleet into a different position during combat wasn't enough? Was it really necessary to add abilities? Was it necessary to make them suck? The last time I experienced this dissatisfied was when I first played Red Alert 3, where I also used a unit ability only to see the animation, and not to gain some sort of tactical or strategic advantage. It's the same here. Why would I cloak my bombers? I am not a child, I won't fall for the (almost) perfectly rendered set of keys you're jingling in front of my face and not notice the poor choices made along the way. Why would I shut down my BC's weapons to use the AOE buff? Why would I even build a BC, it's only slightly more useful than space trash. Speaking of space trash, get ready to navigate it, because that's what most maps boil down to. Hope you don't have claustrophobia... Actually, you will develop it by the end of the campaign. Almost all maps are a box. You are either inside or outside the box. Sometimes the box is folded, or has more boxes in it. Did I say claustrophobia? I meant tunnel vision, because that's the only tactic there is. The actual combat encounters are so fast, that it isn't worth it to try and spend 5-15 minutes navigating a complex path to gain a better position over enemy units - just faceplant them. I know, such riveting gameplay! I don't know who was in charge of putting their growth fetish in the game, but I hope they're ashamed of the abysmal story they've helped create. It is an endless back and forth. I can't decide if I'm more angry about the repetition, contradiction, poor choice of words, the "Sands and sinners", or the repetition. Note for the writers: Show, don't tell. Note for the product manager: Get bent. It's a cheap shot to blame the infestation that had a chokehold over the industry during this game's development, but I'm still gonna. I understand that it's all about what investors and publishers want, and that what they wanted was optics and buzzword checklists, but you are still in control. This is an old franchise. It's famous for groundbreaking technology, innovation, story, atmosphere, music, writing, gameplay, and it could have kept going like that. I also understand that an initial budget estimate is never to be trusted, but you could have ran another funding campaign! I would have given money, a lot of people would have, probably, and we could have had another masterpiece! Creativity should lead, not follow. I was let down. We were all let down. I've seen people mention that the game is pretty decent outside the campaign, but I don't care. I have a bad taste in my mouth, and it's still there long after I played it on release. I, like many others, spent decades waiting with bated breath, wondering if we'd ever see the next installment. We got a remaster that was great, despite its technical issues. We got a prequel that proved the vision was still alive, even if a little dented. We got our first announcement trailer, and later we got the final product. Boy was it not worth it. I wish I didn't spend so much time looking for more news and updates during those 20 years. Homeworld 3 was welcomed for its spectacle, and we sent it off with disappointment. Please get it right next time... in another 20 years.

Going to boycott backrooms as well. Blackbird will never receive money from my household again. Tarnished the best scifi RTS to ever grace the PC, then refused to fix it. Cowards.

我是半价买的。 其实一开始我是不打算写东西来批评的，毕竟在这个左右脑互博司空见惯的今天，设计师脑抽是很常见的事。我隔了发行两三年以后才买，就是为了让发行商打点补丁，优化做一下，起码给点成熟的时间和机会。BBI在1代2代上的投入是有目共睹的，当年大家对于《家园》的宏大叙事的热情也是有目共睹的，但如今，我不能说大家的胃口都被养的很刁钻，但产品质量问题终究不是借口。 先说好的地方， 1.美术方面，巨物和空间做的还是很漂亮的，很宏伟，尤其是你有一个很大的曲面屏的时候会觉得还很爽 2.然后美术就离职了 下面是不好的方面： 1. 剧情逻辑是冲突的，剧本没写完，草草收场，胳膊肘塞进了自己的十二指肠的感觉 2.整体赶工痕迹明显，游戏很显然是冲着15-18个关卡的宏大叙事去做的，但是细节没有打磨就上架开卖，你以为玩家是吃shi长大的就可以随便给我们喂shi？ 3.音乐除了开头老旋律搞了一下情怀，其他的你甚至不愿意找个工作室写个正经的谱，就乱编。前作的宏大音效，这作的小瘪三。 4.程序上缺陷明显，已经不是bug的问题了，是缺陷，未完成。 5.我尊重一切人类，但不尊重那些不尊重我的人类。 6. 建议打折到50%以下再买。 7.美术在家办公，拿着10%的原有的工资复制粘贴了所有舰船的贴图并且用矢量工具拉伸了一下就交稿了。 20多年前我拿着那张《万舰齐发》的盗版光盘兴奋的让黑网吧老板给我安装上这个游戏的时候，整个黑网吧里玩CS的小孩都觉得我是怪胎，净玩一些他们看不懂不知道怎么操作的游戏。但《家园》的剧情和音乐奠定了一个少年的审美，世界观和对于星空的终极向往。如今，时过境迁，当年的少年在一个心中“神”一样位置的游戏的续作评论区里留下了差评，埋葬了青春，埋葬了向往，埋葬了属于自己那份对于星辰的浪漫。

After the reviews I was prepared for the awful writing - what I wasn't expecting was broken and absent basic features. Units don't keep formation, wandering off during battle and getting completely scattered. It's impossible to see from the UI where selected units are. Shift-click does not deselect a unit, so trying to break them up into squads of specific numbers is an absolute chore. Escort orders are taken as vague suggestions. Losses are irrelevant because you have so many resources thrown at you from the start. If you're taking some time at the end of a mission to fix and reorganise your forces the Intel guy will constantly remind you you're supposed to be jumping out. That's when you're allowed time - frequently you will be forced to jump out after you've taken control of the area and are denied a chance to tidy up your forces and are thrown straight into the next combat zone as if no time went by. There appears to be no rhyme or reason to when you're allowed to choose to jump vs missions where it happens automatically. There's a mission where you have to move through an asteroid field but the navigation and formations are so bad you have little control over where anyone goes so everyone just walks into death for no reason. Bizarrely my highly maneouverable interceptors seemed most incapable of avoiding slow building-sized rocks. I gave up trying to use the gimmicky "hide behind the big asteroids" mechanic and just told everyone to beeline for the exit point. It's pretty, I'll give it that. Though that said, all the mist and particles and lens flare just further detracts from the readability of the game. The aesthetic is overall fine but very dull. I couldn't tell you the actual shape of any particular ship - compared with the ships from the first one which I could probably draw from memory. They nailed the Homeworld-esque radio chatter, that's about the only unqualified complement I can pay. Mothership has the main bay on the underside which serves to just hide away all the cool docking/undocking moments that were made a big deal of in the earlier games. I want my banana back. You're thrown into missions as if you missed the briefing. Literally, you'll be in command of a special strike group and get one line about what's going on and feel like you must have skipped a scene where they described what on Earth is going on. They invested a shocking amount of time and energy into telling a story about psychic women arguing in a hyperspace dream vision in this scifi military game but spent no energy telling any stories about what is even happening in the scifi military game. All the megastructures are just distracting. They make the mothership feel small and unimportant and add so little gameplay options that it's no fun. They repeatedly try to craft missions where cover and tunnels are relevant but it's usually easier to just ignore. I could go on. An extraordinary swing and a miss. Someone with all the wrong ideas clearly got their claws into this and pulled it way off course. Crushingly disappointing end to a once-great franchise.