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It's weird to see such a muted response to a new entry in a series with this amount of history. Is it because the latest COH sequels have been such stinkers? The demo?
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Blackbird Interactive wasn't involved in Company of Heroes 3. The marketing just isn't exciting anyone I think.
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May 7, 2024 00:52
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I keep forgetting when this game is actually coming out because of all the delays I saw some chatter about negative reviews for "the new homeworld game" but it was about the VR one lol
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May 7, 2024 00:53
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6 more days until release, so wait is almost over! I am excited for this game, I love Homeworld, but my expectation is to temper my excitement, I think based on the demo/betas, this is going to be a really buggy/broken game at launch. It'll need time to turn into the best RTS it can be.
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May 7, 2024 00:56
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Amazon was supposed to give me the game on the 10th but they lied and it's the 13th. Now what am I supposed to do with a day off work
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May 7, 2024 00:59
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Yell at the next Amazon driver you see
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May 7, 2024 01:06
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RBA Starblade posted:Amazon was supposed to give me the game on the 10th but they lied and it's the 13th. Now what am I supposed to do with a day off work Replay Deserts of Kharak so you have some good memories to fall back on after the inevitable disappointment of Homeworld 3 strikes 
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May 7, 2024 01:17
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I said come in! posted:6 more days until release, so wait is almost over! I am excited for this game, I love Homeworld, but my expectation is to temper my excitement, I think based on the demo/betas, this is going to be a really buggy/broken game at launch. It'll need time to turn into the best RTS it can be. they did supposedly fix the majority of the complaints at least from the demo so i guess we will see oh wow the early access is only 3 days away HallelujahLee fucked around with this message at 02:04 on May 7, 2024 |
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May 7, 2024 02:02
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Cant afford to buy the game right now anyways. Job hunting. 
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May 7, 2024 02:17
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The Steam page lists Homeworld 3 as "playable" on Steam Deck. That would be an interesting experience, to say the least.
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May 7, 2024 02:23
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i want DoK so bad but have somehow missed every sale in the last decade.
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May 7, 2024 02:24
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tokenbrownguy posted:i want DoK so bad but have somehow missed every sale in the last decade. It's 90 per cent off on GOG right now, but it's ending by tommorow. https://www.gog.com/en/game/homeworld_deserts_of_kharak
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May 7, 2024 11:07
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I remain cautiously optimistic but the demo revealed a lot of problems that should not have existed to begin with. It was like these people never made an RTS before.
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May 7, 2024 19:18
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With the rate game dev burns through people that's probably true of a lot of people on the team. And if leads are tired/depressed/checked out/burnt out sometimes there's a total loss of institutional knowledge.
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May 7, 2024 21:35
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Deptfordx posted:It's 90 per cent off on GOG right now, but it's ending by tommorow. hot drat! purchased! thanks for pointing it out. honestly more excited for DoK than HW3 given how the beta went.
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May 7, 2024 21:48
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Deptfordx posted:It's 90 per cent off on GOG right now, but it's ending by tommorow.  , I immediately rushed off to GOG when I saw this post.Turns out I bought the game already when the price was at 90% reduced the last time it happened. According to my order history, I went on a buying spree back then and bought three really weird, obscure space strategy games -and threw DoK in there when I saw the price was below 5 bucks. I just then apparently immediately forgot. 
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May 7, 2024 23:06
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Libluini posted:According to my order history, I went on a buying spree back then and bought three really weird, obscure space strategy games -and threw DoK in there when I saw the price was below 5 bucks. I just then apparently immediately forgot. Ahh, the GoG experience.
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May 7, 2024 23:22
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Burns posted:I remain cautiously optimistic but the demo revealed a lot of problems that should not have existed to begin with. It was like these people never made an RTS before. AFAIK it's also BBI's first game made in Unreal Engine, which considering they mostly worked in Unity for DoK and Shipbreaker can be a tricky transition. Some of the problems in the demo come off as not being familiar with best practices in UE, like how to manage cursor states, UI focus, things that in one engine might be very straightforward that in another require more thought in setting up. Some stuff in the demo felt like amateur mistakes, but depending on how the BBI dev team operates it might come from them still trying to figure out how to best implement certain mechanics, systems and features, and not finding the time to make them feel properly polished for the demo. Still cautiously optimistic for the game, the notes on changes to some of the bigger issues people had with the demo didn't cover all the bases for me and I expect the game to be a bit of a mess on release, but I'm willing to cut them some slack. It's Homeworld 3, finally.
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May 8, 2024 09:09
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I slammed a preorder because I never learn so I'll post my thoughts.
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May 8, 2024 09:52
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They were fairly good at responding to feedback with Shipbreaker so I'm holding a cautious optimism that even if things aren't in an ideal place on launch it'll improve with time.
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May 8, 2024 10:14
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The thing that worries me, is that we saw those beginner mistakes very close to launch when QA and internal testing should've really picked up on those behaviours very very fast. BBI are very good and responsive to feedback and I wholeheartedly trust them for things that are fixable like that, but I am extremely concerned for more static things like the campaign itself and their whole gimmick of space terrain.
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May 8, 2024 11:01
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Even remastered was a steaming turd at its launch. It'll definitely be a buy a year later, as is the current trend of video games. Doubt multiplayer will take the scene.
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May 8, 2024 12:32
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I also doubt that BBI will still be around in a year.
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May 8, 2024 12:35
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That's certainly the worry, with the current trend among major publishers. They've already been hit by cuts and layoffs. They're owned by 2k/Take Two ultimately now, aren't they? Now that gearbox has been reacquired by their old overlords.
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May 8, 2024 13:35
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Rarden posted:That's certainly the worry, with the current trend among major publishers. They've already been hit by cuts and layoffs. BBI is independent. Gearbox owns the Homeworld IP but not the studio.
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May 8, 2024 14:13
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Oh, that's actually reassuring. The game only needs to be enough of a success to keep BBI going instead of pleasing a line-obsessed investor.
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May 8, 2024 14:47
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Flipswitch posted:I slammed a preorder because I never learn so I'll post my thoughts. gently caress it same. Worth it just for the nostalgia. Now excuse me while I listen to some Yes
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May 8, 2024 16:50
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Homeworld 3 is going to be cool and good Only two more days!
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Eyud posted:Homeworld 3 is going to be cool and good whoa, didn't know it was gonna be that soon! I gotta figure out if I backed this or not. Dangit, I did back at a level where I was gonna get my name in there, but I missed the email. evilmiera fucked around with this message at 18:06 on May 8, 2024 |
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May 8, 2024 18:04
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Yeah I did the same thing, oops
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evilmiera posted:whoa, didn't know it was gonna be that soon! I gotta figure out if I backed this or not. in a just world, you'd still be able to get your name in later, after all, why not use patching for good this once?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uaa3WTHvtc Templin Institute got to do a promotional video from Homeworld 3 giving a rundown of the galaxy's history. It even slots Cataclysm into the timeline, albeit briefly. I really need to give Honeworld 3's soundtrack a listen. Homeworld 2 has some of the best music ever and I hope that Paul Ruskay continues to shine. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 23:59 on May 8, 2024 |
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May 8, 2024 23:44
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It doesn't look like Amazon is going to deliver my copy for early access. Boo I say, booo *Edit* they changed it after I posted this. Friday it is! Dilber fucked around with this message at 00:48 on May 9, 2024 |
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George Sex - REAL posted:It's weird to see such a muted response to a new entry in a series with this amount of history. Is it because the latest COH sequels have been such stinkers? The demo? Besides the demo’s issues I’ve become less interested in Homeworld as it increasingly became a series about war. Which I understand sounds like a weird thing to say considering how much fighting is in every game but it’s about the vibes behind that fighting. Homeworld 1 was about encountering weird space things just as much as it was about fighting. Cataclysm was certainly all about fighting against a dangerous enemy but one that had no purpose other than to consume - a war is political but fighting the Beast was survival. The entire campaign was barely staying one step ahead until you manage to figure out how to win. 2 and Deserts were both far more straightforward. Do the thing, defeat the obvious bad guy from taking over the world. Deserts was still fun, 2 was still…2 but there was a lot less vibes to latch onto outside the gameplay. We’ll see what HW3 feels like.
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Arc Hammer posted:Templin Institute got to do a promotional video from Homeworld 3 giving a rundown of the galaxy's history. It even slots Cataclysm into the timeline, albeit briefly.
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I'm more concerned about Homeworld focusing too much onto individual characters and specifically the S'Jet family. A big part of what made the first game so compelling is that there's only like four characters who have actual names but the Kushan people themselves are the protagonists. It adds a level of scale to the events unfolding by playing the story from a macro setting. I'm kinda worried that the story of Homeworld 3 will get too far into "what happened to Karan when she 'died' exploring the anomaly and how long before the world's most obvious twist happens and we have to fight evil Karan and the Khar-Sajuuk in a mirror match"
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May 9, 2024 02:46
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cataclysm is very good prob played it as much as either hw1 or 2
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Arc Hammer posted:I'm more concerned about Homeworld focusing too much onto individual characters and specifically the S'Jet family. A big part of what made the first game so compelling is that there's only like four characters who have actual names but the Kushan people themselves are the protagonists. It adds a level of scale to the events unfolding by playing the story from a macro setting. I'm kinda worried that the story of Homeworld 3 will get too far into "what happened to Karan when she 'died' exploring the anomaly and how long before the world's most obvious twist happens and we have to fight evil Karan and the Khar-Sajuuk in a mirror match" Yeah, same here, that echoes my sentiment perfectly. Homeworld isn't, and shouldn't be about some kind of specific messiah-figure, but the spirit of survival and exploration of an entire people. That's what gives it the sweeping and epic space opera-like feel.
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Harlock posted:As the world's only Cataclysm liker: good. You have my axe Arc Hammer posted:I'm more concerned about Homeworld focusing too much onto individual characters and specifically the S'Jet family. A big part of what made the first game so compelling is that there's only like four characters who have actual names but the Kushan people themselves are the protagonists. It adds a level of scale to the events unfolding by playing the story from a macro setting. I'm kinda worried that the story of Homeworld 3 will get too far into "what happened to Karan when she 'died' exploring the anomaly and how long before the world's most obvious twist happens and we have to fight evil Karan and the Khar-Sajuuk in a mirror match" TBH I'm a little disappointed from that video that the Khar-Sajuuk isn't just Literally Sajuuk
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Harlock posted:As the world's only Cataclysm liker: good. Nah, there are plenty of us.
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