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SpaceGoatFarts posted:Getting a big John Harris vibe from these artworks, which is what makes me the most excited about a new Homeworld game. I'm a bit hyped John Harris was actually cited as being one of the major influences on the art style in the game! In a way you could say that he was drawing Homeworld before Homeworld.
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Did Gearbox ever give a final word on the remaster? Is it safe to assume that squad and formation stuff for the remaster is never happening and that the multiplayer will never leave beta?
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Brutakas posted:Did Gearbox ever give a final word on the remaster? Is it safe to assume that squad and formation stuff for the remaster is never happening and that the multiplayer will never leave beta? Brutakas posted:Gearbox
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Dec 21, 2015 21:29
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I'm pretty sure they have everyone's money already. What does more effort get them?
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Litany Unheard posted:I'm pretty sure they have everyone's money already. What does more effort get them? More positive reviews and a longer tail of sales?
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Gearbox has always struck me as a company that doesn't think too far beyond the next fiscal quarter.
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Litany Unheard posted:Gearbox has always struck me as a company that doesn't think too far beyond the next fiscal quarter. suprised they didnt fix it but sell the patch as dlc
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Brutakas posted:Did Gearbox ever give a final word on the remaster? Is it safe to assume that squad and formation stuff for the remaster is never happening and that the multiplayer will never leave beta? There is a beta "opt-in" patch available on steam where someone has gone to a lot of trouble to fix and balance a lot of things, including reworking frigates to not be fragile. I got the impression it was more a labor of love by someone in their free time than paid work though.
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Litany Unheard posted:Gearbox has always struck me as a company that doesn't think too far beyond the next fiscal quarter. Their implementation of "restart the game but harder" difficulties in the Borderlands series is a testament to not only their lack of foresight, but their lack of capacity for introspection. That poo poo just becomes a pointless slog because they didn't scale weapons to match the increasing resilience of enemies, so you were just dodging OHK poo poo while dumping all of your ammo into poo poo you had previously been able to punch to death even with someone other than Krieg. So yeah, Gearbox isn't good at considering anything not presently in front of their nose.
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Phrosphor posted:There is a beta "opt-in" patch available on steam where someone has gone to a lot of trouble to fix and balance a lot of things, including reworking frigates to not be fragile. I got the impression it was more a labor of love by someone in their free time than paid work though. Probably a case of 'on company time, but only when he has nothing else to do', which is why formations will probably never be fixed 
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https://www.reddit.com/r/homeworld/comments/3xdlrb/the_mystical_megapatch_is_nigh/ http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/t/future-mp-beta-patches/137564/504 Pertinent bits, courtesy of u/bitvenom, one of GBX's programmers: quote:I really, really hope everyone is happy with what we end up putting out... it has been SO MUCH work, I can't even begin to explain it. Though, it is likely we'll do a 'dev diary' about this last patch and the insane stuff we had to do... it may help other devs looking to do similar work in the future. Thanks for the kind words though, if it wasn't clear, we're still working for the fans - the chance of this just magically making a bank-busting amount of money is zero...
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My continuing concern is that even these very sporadic updates have always framed these patches in terms of multiplayer. Maybe this one is different and maybe it doesn't matter if changing one affects the other regardless but formations working in multiplayer but not single player isn't really the fix I'm looking for. And fuel only ever really mattered in Kadesh so no big loss.
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Dec 22, 2015 22:00
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I'm assuming "Stances" means something like angling your tank to improve the chance of deflecting rounds or some poo poo. Defensive stance, gain 10% armor but lose some measure of mobility, etc. A bit like the aggressive/defensive toggle where they talk about diverting power between shields/weapons.
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Tanith posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/homeworld/comments/3xdlrb/the_mystical_megapatch_is_nigh/ Holy poo poo, I don't want to get excited but... holy poo poo. Am I finally going to be able to play through HW1 again?  Wonder if there's anything about projectiles acting like projectiles?
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quote:And fuel only ever really mattered in Kadesh so no big loss. Which has turned the Swarmers into absolute loving nightmares because their weakness has been neutered, but they're still as strong as they ever were, if not more so.
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What if I loved the clean, minimalist HW1 UI and hated HW2 because of the UI changes, are they going to fix that?
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Bloodly posted:Which has turned the Swarmers into absolute loving nightmares because their weakness has been neutered, but they're still as strong as they ever were, if not more so. Nah Swarmers are way less of a problem because their speed doesn't make them dodge attacks anymore. You shoot at a swarmer and you roll the same dice, no matter how fast and at what angle it's going relative to the firing ship. It does mean that stationary swarmers are just as hard to hit as the ones that are flying around, but overall weight of fire cuts them down much more reliably.
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Not the case-they still can't be hit by any attacks, and you still get the 'they're too fast' message.
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They apparently rewrote the movement code, which means that formations and grouping individual ships HW1 style have probably been implemented. Pretty nifty, hopefully they get it released soon.
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Ground RTS thingy looks cool. Gives me a bit of a Ground Control vibe? I think it's just the deserty planet.
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Fish Fry Andy posted:They apparently rewrote the movement code. Thank god, that poo poo just didn't work.
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It was also a big problem with the more complex mods with regard to performance. Apparently it was really bad and outdated (no surprise considering the history of the Homeworld 2 dev cycle). Who knows if they've fixed that problem though.
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Still no official marketing from Gearbox, which is worrying, but I found some info on the forums:quote:Hiya ShaneWallis123! We were also hyped when it turned into a real Homeworld game instead of just a spiritual successor. All pretty vague, but it's something. 
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Homeworld: DoK developer posted:I don't want to spill the beans... The game is releasing this month. It may, in fact, be time for them to start spilling beans everywhere.
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This game is coming out in 2 weeks and I know nothing about it because there seems to be no marketing. I know more about Hardware: Shipbreakers than this game. An actual RTS that isn't about build orders and has a little of that lovely Relic assymetric warfare is exactly what I want to start my year with - but Gearbox have Such a bad rep and this is an untreated studio. I need information before I make a purchase and the lack of anything is making me really concerned.
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You look for this game online and the last releases about it were nigh on 3 weeks ago. They need to pull it together or this will die on its arse on release day, and if they're hoping for multiplayer to take off, it isn't going to happen, especially if the starting balance is weak or the maps are garbage, which is how CoH2 was for months.
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Deakul posted:Holy poo poo, I don't want to get excited but... holy poo poo. This caught my attention too. I'm checking the news page for the game every day now. I tried the first mission the day the remaster released, but I decided to wait until they finished the game since it was my first time ever playing it. The game should be labeled early access until they have put out the product they described on the store page, i.e. a high definition and better GUI version of Homeworld 1 and 2.
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CountingWizard posted:This caught my attention too. I'm checking the news page for the game every day now. I tried the first mission the day the remaster released, but I decided to wait until they finished the game since it was my first time ever playing it. The game should be labeled early access until they have put out the product they described on the store page, i.e. a high definition and better GUI version of Homeworld 1 and 2. It will be early access for eternity with the HW1 requirement in there.
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The way Gearbox is handling DoK really makes it look like it's being shoved out the door to die quietly. You don't allocate 0 dollars to market something by accident. 
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Sindai posted:The way Gearbox is handling DoK really makes it look like it's being shoved out the door to die quietly. You don't allocate 0 dollars to market something by accident. On the other hand, if they spent that much money to market colonial marines and it was a fat turd, maybe this is so good they decided that they didn't need to market it. (Lol)
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Hey, remember how Nexus: The Jupiter Incident, that awesome tactical spaceship game died on its arse for exactly the same reason? Because I do
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Nickiepoo posted:Hey, remember how Nexus: The Jupiter Incident, that awesome tactical spaceship game died on its arse for exactly the same reason? Did you know they tried to kickstart a second one?
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I get the feeling that this hastily converted F2P social media game might turn out to be bad!
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Nickiepoo posted:Hey, remember how Nexus: The Jupiter Incident, that awesome tactical spaceship game died on its arse for exactly the same reason? Like it started off being a kinda Cannon Fodder-style puzzle game before moving into being a transdimensional post-apocalyptic space opera with pretty much zero warning.
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jBrereton posted:NTJI was hard to market for. Didn't it originally start life as part of Imperium Galactica 3?
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Phrosphor posted:Didn't it originally start life as part of Imperium Galactica 3? I believe it was from the same company but I don't think they had planned on it being a 4X from the outset, it was also cobranded at one point too but it looks like they dropped the name. That's honestly why I never really liked it from the outset. IG2 was one of my favourite games and I wish GOG or some one would rerelease it. NTJI just struck me as a mildly fustrating space sim. As for this latest Homewold spin off, I don't mind that there isn't much info out there. I don't really know what they could go into without really spoiling the game outright. I guess I'm just glad that its not F2P garbage anymore and a sorta proper RTS. Have to see how the early reviews go before jumping in. Edit: Raygereio posted:Yeah. It started as Imperium Galactica 3: Genesis. Then Digital Reality's publisher went bankrupt. The title was picked up by Philos Laboratories who renamed it to Galaxy Andromeda, but then these guys went bankrupt as well. Psychotic Weasel fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Jan 7, 2016 |
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Phrosphor posted:Didn't it originally start life as part of Imperium Galactica 3? A lot of Philos' staff joined Mithis Entertainment, so I guess someone stuffed the game in his bag and took it with him to Mithis where it eventually became Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. Probably the only real traces left in Nexus of the 4x game it started as, were those neat transitions it had during mission briefing going from a galactic view, to a solar system, to a planetary orbit, etc. Psychotic Weasel posted:NTJI just struck me as a mildly fustrating space sim. Raygereio fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Jan 7, 2016 |
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Psychotic Weasel posted:IG2 was one of my favourite games and I wish GOG or some one would rerelease it
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