Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak

Unable to play after 1.4 Patch, don't buy this. Epic Online Services are installed and break the game unless you're online.

BOOOO EPIC ONLINE SERVICES BOOOO Besides the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of online-only, changing the conditions this late after release is insulting and highly disappointing. This is unacceptable.

This was one of my favorite games. Recently had to wipe my hardrive for a computer update and haven't played DoK for a while, but suddenly I'm required to get an Epic account and be online to play the campaign. When the HELL did that happen!? Once again Epic has screw me out of a good game. I hate leaving negativity, but I can't forgive this. Screw you Epic.

They have retro actively required me to be always online through epic. I did not sign up for this. this is not what I purchased.

I am not enjoying it. I am a die-hard Homeworld fan and respect and admire the artistry of the originals. This game? It's not homeworld. You cannot compare being in space and the numinous awe that brings with being on a flat desert wasteland that perennially looks the same each and every mission. It's bizarre to be able to compare it to being in the void of space every mission and claim in seriousness that the latter still has more visual interest. Combat is annoying, it's a race-against-the-clock clickfest and micromanagement is extremely high. Like HW2, everything is rock-paper-scissors. What's more annoying is that critical resources like carrier upgrades that you collect are not automatically harvested at the end of the mission. This means you are not free to play the way you like - you cannot predict when a cutscene will kick in and end the mission and so you end up restarting missions just to get those artifacts which apparently aren't that important to a lone carrier deep in the hostile desert. Captain's on a tight schedule, y'all. The bottom line is since the storyline takes precedence over gameplay, you are best served to play it on easy and just sightsee your way through the game with a tonne of clicking inbetween cutscenes. I could play the original HW games for hours and sit through an entire campaign in one sitting. This game has me quitting in irritation too frequently to go do something else instead. The path-finding is HORRIBLE and my strike aircraft get stuck circling the carrier way too often because they can't figure out how to land or are stuck in some sort of deadlock. Gearbox do NOT know how to make addictive RTS. I am playing this game 10 years after release so won't comment on the graphics, they still look good and must have been great when the game was launched. But that is not what this type of game is about. Homeworld Remasted is much better looking than the original, for example, but it is unquestionably a worse game because the underlying engineand gameplay mechanics are completely different and that ruins much of what made the original so special. Gearbox needs to learn how to focus on what's important. If you're a fan of the HW universe then I suppose this game is worth your money, but as an RTS it fails and therefor it gets a not recommended.

No mods No multiplayer Campaign is kinda short If you realy like RTS genre or Homeworld frnachise - go for it. But only at discount proces.

Epic DRM retroactively added.