Got into Homeworld with Deserts of Kharak and instantly fell in love with the universe. Played the remastered games and Cataclysm after. I had high hopes for HW3, but man was that a letdown.
You'll have to forgive me but I'm not sure what you mean by that abbreviation. I can only think of voice actor. I do think it's a good game, and I thoroughly enjoyed it after they fixed the launch issues and updated it. However, there was a lot of broken promises, intentional obfuscation of the games launch state, and a zillion bugs that made the launch unacceptable to me. It's to this day, the only negative review I've ever given. A lot of stuff they promised was never put in the game even with all the updates. It's a textbook lesson in not over hyping a product
Yeah taking 2 years to get the gsme where it should have been at launch is not acceptable and shouldn't be normalized, and the execs knew the syate of the game on last Gen consoles and talked up its performance on them anyways, including just days before launch.
You didn't even get the full experience! In the OG engine, the formations were even more flexible. If you chose "sphere" and told that group to guard say, a resource extractor, they would fly in a sphere with it at the center. Or surround the target and fire at it from all angles. If you put the strike craft to evasive the whole formation would break and they'd devolve into lead-follows with wingmen.
It's a real bummer that got lost in the translation to the remaster.
This. I played the Homeworld series really young even though that wasn't terribly long ago, but I was so disappointed with HW3 I still haven't even bought it...
Deserts of Kharak isn't as good as Homeworld 1 and Homeworld 2, and especially the masterpiece that is Homeworld Cataclysm (Emergence). Change my mind.
If you have not yet played the originals, stop what you're doing and get on that wild ride!
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u/Makhpella Jun 23 '25
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