The big yellow color of the industrial ships have always been one of my favorite style. You can tell it's not a combat ship, not just because of its color, but also it's shape and size. The large complex, the immense storage for resources and cargo, the mini hangers for drones or small crafts. Simply the word 'Utility' vessel gets my grin on. I wouldn't mind commanding or piloting one of those. Being the workhorse or backbone of the large industrial process makes you feel like a cog in a giant machine. I love it.
What is really amazing is how the ship designs managed to maintain a for of consistency in term of aesthetic. Apart, maybe, the ones from Homeworld Cataclysm.
Cataclysm followed a mining Kiith, that had to do with secondary and even tertiary designs to do anything (plus industrial scale amounts of elbow grease to me make anything work). They could not purchase or get access to the latest designs of the Kuushan (Hiigaaran) navy vessels, (much like in our real world Latin America cannot purchase or build the latest American carriers), so they made due with whatever they could scrounge from other races and built something that worked, but could never be considered cohesive. It is how many armies and anvies operate in our real world, they purchase from various vendors what they can afford and think they can obtain, but rarely if ever have a unified supplier, like the US, Russia or China.
@@Iymarra"Kingdom Hearts 2 has screwed us again!" I was so flashbanged when I heard the Kuun-Lan captain say that in MandaloreGaming's review of Deserts Of Kharak. He actually got the VA to do that line, and the VA absolutely SLAYED it.
Cataclysm is the fun party animal cousin that comes by now and again but is kind of living his own life at a higher level of intensity than the rest of the family, but was mostly doing his own thing.
I liked how some of the ship design in HW3 has Taiidan aesthetic more than the previous, make's me wonder what happened to the Taiidan republic after the Beast war and the Vagyr war.
Funnily, this is address in homeworld mobile. Don't know if it will be canon but in the game, the remnants taiidans that decides to stay on higara integrated themselves into the new higaran government, this obviously caused issues with the new rulers.....since.....the burning of karak was still very fresh in their minds. The remnants taiidan is called kithless, since they are not part of any kith class.
Certainly a lot of the Taiidan remnant industrial base was integrated into Hiigaran use, and where Taiidani designs were found to be better for some reason or another, they were integrated with a little bit of visual kick to keep them vaguely Hiigaran.
the vagyr and original hiigaran fleet looked amazing. imo the taiidan are very pedestrian looking they're essentially f-18s in space. i didn't like that they went back to winged designs. it makes no sense for small fighters to make planetfall. they should dock on large ships. making ships that small be both atmosphere and zero g capable isn't logical
I do love the designs in the Homeworld series for being made for three dimensional environments kinda like submarines rather then the surface ship style in many other universes.
Some? The Mission with the Hyper gate had that sphere of Ion Frigates, and I stole ALL OF THEM! I then had to reload my almost-finished save because there were too many Frigates to fit on the right side of the map to Jump, and had to recycle four of them so the game could continue. Final battle was my Ball Of Ion Death steadily advancing towards the Emperor's Mothership, with two Assault Frigates and 4-5 Repair Frigates supporting it. Enemy fighters couldn't dodge around all of the beams, enemy Destroyers vanished, the enemy Cruiser supported by four Repair Frigates melted, and by the time I was alerted to the enemy Mothership being engaged it was already destroyed.
@@toddkes5890 lol thanks to the power of modding i stole every ship but a few even ended up with 4 times the amount of allowed carriers and stirke craft hell i even stole the enemy collectors as well i mean all is fair in love and war and i needed them as (meat/metal Shields on the front ) oh i mean valued trusted members of our growing forces
I always played Taiidan in MP so horizons is good, but for the storyline, I like the Kusha design aesthetic, and in time I'll probably get used to the horizontal layout, but I'm glad they included both. I feel like it'll do a lot for "emotional continuity".
Fuck yes! Go many great designs, and they manage to evoke the designs previous games in the series without copying. Very excited for this series, and for you to look into Homeworld more broadly
The Khar Kushan’s simple sleek design and subdued greebling at a distance really made me think of this as just another capital ship at first. The original Banana really conveyed a sense of scale.
the homeworld ships are such beautiful designs. the bright colors, distinctive shapes, and those long exaust trails are just perfect. they may lack some detail compared to other designs but I don't think any other franchise matches the pure style of homeworld.
I've never realised just how much these ships look like the coverart of old 50s and 60s sci-fi novels. Bright, bold colours, simple and very easily readable striping, what looks like practical hull designs, I love that art style.
As a life long Homeworld fan I didn't think I could get anymore excited after watching the recent Homeworld 3 gameplay trailer. I have to say you've proven me wrong, this was excellently done. Great work!
You're not wrong. HW1 literally has a mission that has you nav an asteroid field and the only way to survive is blasting shit out the way cause the mothership sure can't avoid them
I know not everyone is a fan of the updated mothership design, especially because the original was so iconic. But for a game that is meant to take place 100+ years after the end of Homeworld 2, I think the Khar-Kushan is a perfect evolution of the original. Plus, I'm also a big fan of flying wing designs.
Can't wait for HW3. And, if you're a veteran of the HW campaigns and you feel like you need a bit more, you should check out the Complex mod. It's...expansive.
I remember back in 1999 I was at my local book store buying any new Star Trek or Star Wars books and maybe a few Starlog, Fangoria, Omni or other magazines; when I saw a box with a spaceship on the cover. I had a few PC games and decided to try out this "Homeworld" and see what it was like. It was only $20 so if it was bad, there was no great loss of money. I stayed awake all night playing that game and replayed it almost every day for a month. The Homeworld series is my favorite game series of all time. When the remastered edition was announced, I was quick to grab a copy which included a model of the Mothership. I would love to see more videos of ships and lore on Homeworld here.
I really cannot wait for this thing, the ships look amazing, love specialisation and this’ll be perhaps one of the more interesting games, really wanna see the destroyer and battlecruiser soon, wanna see those common and top tier front line warships
@@TemplinInstitute While you're there, have you heard anything about the Garden of Kadesh? All I know is that the topic seems to be asore spot for the Hiigarans
Looking at the new ships for HW3, there seems to be some Taiidan design elements to the new craft. I wonder if this hints at the Hiigarans possibly repeating the mistakes of the Taiidan, and of the ancient Hiigaran Empire, shifting to a more militarized and hostile society.
I would definitely say more than "some". That fighter doesn't look hiigaran at all, it looks like upgraded taiidan craft. The bomber looks much better imo, just needs a different pattern for the paint, and maybe lose the canards.
Fun fact: originly harspace ship breaker was set in the homeworld universe, originly in the hagaran ship and ground vic braking, thats why they share alot of deaign elements
Templin : Ion , assault , suppression, assault Frigates Me remembering my 25 different variants of the CR90 corvette based Super Corvette line up of Cr93 , Cr95 , Cr170 and Liberty strike cruisers of the Fulcrum operated Ghost Squadron of the Alliance of Free systems (The nations who want to free themselves from tyranny than restoring the Republic )
*Holy Cow* 👀 I actually just noticed the magnificent _'maneouvering thrusters'_ on all of those big-ship _'frigates'_ and _'carrier'_ !! Dang - what a beautee ❤ The last time I saw such feature possible within _'Homeworld'_ , was that from the _'Complex MOD'_ ...
Absolutely loving this new generation of Hiigaran designs so far! I'm a bit torn on the Suppression Frigate though. Though asthetically pleasing, and that barage of forward facing auto fire looks so awesome, in terms of fulfilling its role it just seems like an almost complete downgrade to the Flak Frigate. Maybe I'm wrong, we'll just have to see. Thank for the great vid!
My take on it is, the longer-range forward-facing firepower helps it stay in formation with other long range capital-killing frigates. In past games, i remember my Flak Frigates being so short ranged that they always flew ahead of the fleet during attack & then got destroyed first.
The razzle dazzle paint jobs are the pièce de résistance of these iconic ships. I love their color palettes. I am also awaiting for their complete soundtrack.
This game is has some of the strangest design choices going, from a HW perspective. The design language is all Taidan, rather than Kushan/Hiigaran. From the horizontal mothership to the Interceptor, and then they've taken the HW2 fighter and turned it into a Carrier. Generally though HW3 is HW2 as it was originally designed to be. It's Dust Wars with a release date, rather than a reboot.
So amazing. HW 1 and 2 is the game I played with my brother when we were in our early teens. No one else I know, played this game. Sadly my brother is not here anymore 😢. He passed away unexpectedly 3 yrs ago. But for him I am going to play the shit out of this game! Can’t wait to play. Probably tears will make the keyboards wet when the first cut-scene starts.
The suppression frigate's fixed-forward anti-strike-craft guns are such an interesting game design choice. It means that positioning and formations will have a drastic influence on their effectiveness, since they need to maintain distance in order to keep their guns trained on their fast-moving targets. For example, you would want a formation of them to spread out a lot, so that each one will be within the effective range of the others.
"The Interceptor reminds me of the Vaygr fighters" Taiidan Imperial Scout: "Am i a joke to you?" On a more serious note, i am getting way stronger Taiidan a la Homeworld 1 vibes from the new Higaaran ships than their own old versions, or maybe it's a mix of both. This irked me initially, but then again i almost never saw the Kushan designs even tho i always play as them, apart from the salvage corvette... lot's of salvage corvettes. >:D I hope to see more of where they're taking the story. Been playing HW1 classic yearly since the mid 2000's! :D
I've always thought the bold colors of a lot of Homeworld ships, often covered in aggressive stripes and checkerboards, is likely an homage to the art of Chris Foss. He was a British artist who did a lot of work for sci-fi anthology magazines and novel covers, especially in the 70s and 80s, including stuff as prestigious as the paperback versions of Asimov's Foundation trilogy. It's a very cool look that I wish we'd see in more scifi these days. Between thermals/radar/lidar and whatever other sensor technology is yet to be developed it would be incredibly difficult to actually sneak up on your enemies in space, so why not make your ship a big red middle finger pointed right at them?
finally. templin got in contact with my Childhood Colony. oh the olden days where the Display interface arent focused on looking nice and instead fully on functionality. i also want to pay respect to my ancestors cousin that died in orbit around Kharak together with the rest of kharak. their Sacrifice paved the way for all of us now.
First time I saw these was on the space engineers steam workshop and I thought they were amazing seeing where there from and how they look with out the blocky constraints is brilliant
I've loved this game from the original on. I bought the collectors edition for HW2 that came with the Pride of Hiigara statue and I've ordered the same for 3. I can't wait to see the new fleet and take my place of the command deck of the latest mothership.
Specialist designs are an odd choice, because the opposite approach has almost always been better in Homeworld: dedicated corvette killers have pretty much always fared worse than ships effective against both frigates and corvettes, Ion Cannon frigates usually fare worse than Torpedo frigates or Destroyers, cloaked fighters were practically useless, and so on.
Not to be a pessimist, but the flagship's flying wing shape could be a real disadvantage in a fight. Battles in space take place in 3 Dimensions and making a silhouette that huge and well shaped is basically painting a target on for anything coming at you from below or above.
I mean any enormous flagship is going to be an easy target regardless of the shape. The defence for flagships come from the fact they're usually the most heavily armoured spaceships in the fleet with a large amount of point defence.
Something interesting to note, the new Hiigaaran ships, look very much like the Taaidani ships from the first game. To me suggests that the Hiigaarans have absorbed the Taaidani republic into their empire and have taken on a lot of their ship design practices.
I hope my clan is still around at this point in Hiigarian history. Been giddy about it since my family name was on one of the helmets in the "Expedition Guide" for Deserts of Kharak.
I wish I could give you a million likes for making a video of my fav RTS. if one day you make a video about my favorite homeworld faction Vaygr I would explode lol
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We’ve evolved from a giant blue banana to a giant blue croissant.
Progress takes many forms.
THE HIIGARANS BECAME FRENCH
Do the have a tiny angry man
Flatbread ship
More like a ration tray.
the maneuvering thrusters look amazing. Ships in homeworld always moved like this, but this just adds that extra visual flair to it
It made me shit and cri tears of joy seeing them tbh
@@crassirus there is not a lot of games with that feature
The big yellow color of the industrial ships have always been one of my favorite style.
You can tell it's not a combat ship, not just because of its color, but also it's shape and size.
The large complex, the immense storage for resources and cargo, the mini hangers for drones or small crafts.
Simply the word 'Utility' vessel gets my grin on. I wouldn't mind commanding or piloting one of those.
Being the workhorse or backbone of the large industrial process makes you feel like a cog in a giant machine.
I love it.
Look up the Orca from eve online… one of the sexiest industrial ships ever, fap time.
Have you tried Hardspace Shipbreaker? You can at least salvage ships like that to your heart content.
Try eve online?
What is really amazing is how the ship designs managed to maintain a for of consistency in term of aesthetic.
Apart, maybe, the ones from Homeworld Cataclysm.
Cataclysm followed a mining Kiith, that had to do with secondary and even tertiary designs to do anything (plus industrial scale amounts of elbow grease to me make anything work).
They could not purchase or get access to the latest designs of the Kuushan (Hiigaaran) navy vessels, (much like in our real world Latin America cannot purchase or build the latest American carriers), so they made due with whatever they could scrounge from other races and built something that worked, but could never be considered cohesive.
It is how many armies and anvies operate in our real world, they purchase from various vendors what they can afford and think they can obtain, but rarely if ever have a unified supplier, like the US, Russia or China.
This is the kiith somtaaw warship kuun-lan!
@@Iymarra"Kingdom Hearts 2 has screwed us again!"
I was so flashbanged when I heard the Kuun-Lan captain say that in MandaloreGaming's review of Deserts Of Kharak. He actually got the VA to do that line, and the VA absolutely SLAYED it.
Cataclysm is the fun party animal cousin that comes by now and again but is kind of living his own life at a higher level of intensity than the rest of the family, but was mostly doing his own thing.
@@Iymarra SooOo The MiineEeers arRe NoooW waRRioRs ? YoouU hAAAve cOMe FaAaR liTTle Kith Sommme-Taaw.
I love with HW how you have such a big flagship that's dwarfed by the megalith vessels/wreckage in the background.
I liked how some of the ship design in HW3 has Taiidan aesthetic more than the previous, make's me wonder what happened to the Taiidan republic after the Beast war and the Vagyr war.
Maybe they got absorbed by the higarans
Funnily, this is address in homeworld mobile. Don't know if it will be canon but in the game, the remnants taiidans that decides to stay on higara integrated themselves into the new higaran government, this obviously caused issues with the new rulers.....since.....the burning of karak was still very fresh in their minds. The remnants taiidan is called kithless, since they are not part of any kith class.
Certainly a lot of the Taiidan remnant industrial base was integrated into Hiigaran use, and where Taiidani designs were found to be better for some reason or another, they were integrated with a little bit of visual kick to keep them vaguely Hiigaran.
Just the Hiigarans embracing their salvage corvette roots.
the vagyr and original hiigaran fleet looked amazing. imo the taiidan are very pedestrian looking they're essentially f-18s in space. i didn't like that they went back to winged designs. it makes no sense for small fighters to make planetfall. they should dock on large ships. making ships that small be both atmosphere and zero g capable isn't logical
This was my first rts game. And every time I see the mothership a tear go down from my eye.
Karak still live in our hearts!
It wasn't my first, but it was the first that conjured such an emotional response. That launch sequence still gives me chills!
I do love the designs in the Homeworld series for being made for three dimensional environments kinda like submarines rather then the surface ship style in many other universes.
03:03 “In the past we’ve seen a loose collection of starships, some of which may have been stolen from the Taiidan”
I see what you did there.
Some? The Mission with the Hyper gate had that sphere of Ion Frigates, and I stole ALL OF THEM!
I then had to reload my almost-finished save because there were too many Frigates to fit on the right side of the map to Jump, and had to recycle four of them so the game could continue.
Final battle was my Ball Of Ion Death steadily advancing towards the Emperor's Mothership, with two Assault Frigates and 4-5 Repair Frigates supporting it. Enemy fighters couldn't dodge around all of the beams, enemy Destroyers vanished, the enemy Cruiser supported by four Repair Frigates melted, and by the time I was alerted to the enemy Mothership being engaged it was already destroyed.
@@toddkes5890 Same here! Ahh... Good times! 🥲
@@toddkes5890 lol thanks to the power of modding i stole every ship but a few even ended up with 4 times the amount of allowed carriers and stirke craft hell i even stole the enemy collectors as well i mean all is fair in love and war and i needed them as (meat/metal Shields on the front ) oh i mean valued trusted members of our growing forces
Templin Institute's content is always pure unadulterated awesomeness.
With a single keypress you can change the orientation of the mothership from horizontal to vertical if you so choose
That is actually cool!
I always played Taiidan in MP so horizons is good, but for the storyline, I like the Kusha design aesthetic, and in time I'll probably get used to the horizontal layout, but I'm glad they included both. I feel like it'll do a lot for "emotional continuity".
Based on some of the trailers, we'll probably have to be in certain configurations to progress through certain areas.
Ah, a return to the roots. Seeing that intro followed up with Homeworld ships brings me back. :)
I’m excited to hear more about Homeworld!
Fuck yes! Go many great designs, and they manage to evoke the designs previous games in the series without copying. Very excited for this series, and for you to look into Homeworld more broadly
The amount of detail in Homeworld 3 is just glorious.
The ship pron has always been strong with the Homeworld universe. Moreso than other franchises, I feel! There's just something truly special about it.
The Khar Kushan’s simple sleek design and subdued greebling at a distance really made me think of this as just another capital ship at first. The original Banana really conveyed a sense of scale.
the homeworld ships are such beautiful designs. the bright colors, distinctive shapes, and those long exaust trails are just perfect. they may lack some detail compared to other designs but I don't think any other franchise matches the pure style of homeworld.
Whats also interesting to note is that the gun turrets on the Mothership arent fixed and can change position along a hull. ^^
I've never realised just how much these ships look like the coverart of old 50s and 60s sci-fi novels. Bright, bold colours, simple and very easily readable striping, what looks like practical hull designs, I love that art style.
As a life long Homeworld fan I didn't think I could get anymore excited after watching the recent Homeworld 3 gameplay trailer. I have to say you've proven me wrong, this was excellently done. Great work!
Thank you for the tour... it is incredible, how the Homeworld series manages to top their own designs again and again... i just love it.
I got my Holy Roller shirt on Sunday and it’s awesome! Thanks guys!
That large delta wing ship sure makes a large target from the top / bottom. I could only imagine trying to maneuver that through an asteroid field.
You're not wrong. HW1 literally has a mission that has you nav an asteroid field and the only way to survive is blasting shit out the way cause the mothership sure can't avoid them
@@loganmeyer9200 That's because the first ship had trouble moving on it's own the second mothership would have been able to move out of the way
I know not everyone is a fan of the updated mothership design, especially because the original was so iconic. But for a game that is meant to take place 100+ years after the end of Homeworld 2, I think the Khar-Kushan is a perfect evolution of the original. Plus, I'm also a big fan of flying wing designs.
Can't wait for HW3. And, if you're a veteran of the HW campaigns and you feel like you need a bit more, you should check out the Complex mod. It's...expansive.
I remember back in 1999 I was at my local book store buying any new Star Trek or Star Wars books and maybe a few Starlog, Fangoria, Omni or other magazines; when I saw a box with a spaceship on the cover. I had a few PC games and decided to try out this "Homeworld" and see what it was like. It was only $20 so if it was bad, there was no great loss of money.
I stayed awake all night playing that game and replayed it almost every day for a month. The Homeworld series is my favorite game series of all time. When the remastered edition was announced, I was quick to grab a copy which included a model of the Mothership.
I would love to see more videos of ships and lore on Homeworld here.
loved to see the small thruster for turning the big ship
HW1 higaran harvesters are still my favorite. I loved the flying container vibe.
This is the first I've heard that you can put the mothership into vertical profile, and I love that.
I hope to see you talk about Deserts of Kharak
& how the Hiigaran/Kushan society worked
I really cannot wait for this thing, the ships look amazing, love specialisation and this’ll be perhaps one of the more interesting games, really wanna see the destroyer and battlecruiser soon, wanna see those common and top tier front line warships
First, thanks so much for these videos. You've inspired us all to make our own investigations.
I was so excited to see this on my feed. Can't wait for homeworld 3!!
as a fellow ship spotter I love the Homeworld ship deigns. these are a great addition
Aww, it's nice seeing the Templin dudes being more like a documentary crew than interdimentional spies for a change
Hey, not everyone is trying to kill us.
@@TemplinInstitute While you're there, have you heard anything about the Garden of Kadesh? All I know is that the topic seems to be asore spot for the Hiigarans
Looking at the new ships for HW3, there seems to be some Taiidan design elements to the new craft. I wonder if this hints at the Hiigarans possibly repeating the mistakes of the Taiidan, and of the ancient Hiigaran Empire, shifting to a more militarized and hostile society.
I would definitely say more than "some". That fighter doesn't look hiigaran at all, it looks like upgraded taiidan craft. The bomber looks much better imo, just needs a different pattern for the paint, and maybe lose the canards.
Love that there is a Homeworld 3 ... awesome series!
The first 3 homeworld games are great. Hoping this next one is too
Countless hours playing Homeworld 2 back in the day.
Fantastic! Great first look at a few of the ship types of the Hiigarans in HW:3. Can't wait to finally get hands on and try it out!!
I've been a Homeworld fan since the early 2000s and seeing the way the designs have evolved is just a thing of beauty.
Fun fact: originly harspace ship breaker was set in the homeworld universe, originly in the hagaran ship and ground vic braking, thats why they share alot of deaign elements
Thank you for that video :) really awesome to see the Homeworld Universe covered by someone who can appriciate to details that went into these ships
What great narration!! Thanks for the sneak peak and looking forward to part 2!
Just watched the new trailers earlier. Even more hyped for this game
Still the best space games of all time in my opinion... I love this franchise.
Templin : Ion , assault , suppression, assault Frigates
Me remembering my 25 different variants of the CR90 corvette based Super Corvette line up of Cr93 , Cr95 , Cr170 and Liberty strike cruisers of the Fulcrum operated Ghost Squadron of the Alliance of Free systems (The nations who want to free themselves from tyranny than restoring the Republic )
Homeworld was my first RTS. I borrow this game from my cousin and now I have all games od this series. 🎉
first dude who did review HW3 ships, My Congratulations!
i hope you guys create some epic ship designs for dawn of victory!
Been enjoying thr complex eco mod for remastered, can’t wait till this comes out.
I'm in my 63 and I love this game since ever first edition. And the soundtrack by Yes is amazing ❤
The industrial beauty of these designs will always have a place in my heart.
I adore the fact that you can flip the mothership around in the new game
I want to play homeworld 3 so bad. It’s an addiction I forgot I had after so long, but man do I crave it now that it’s ahead of me.
Was always a fan of the Taiidan Heavy Cruiser
Yeaaaah! I absolutely adore the the art and ship style of the HW series. Cant wait to play myself and to see the rest.
The Homeworld art direction always wowed me with how much aggressive energy a few stripes can convey.
*Holy Cow* 👀
I actually just noticed the magnificent _'maneouvering thrusters'_ on all of those big-ship _'frigates'_ and _'carrier'_ !!
Dang - what a beautee ❤
The last time I saw such feature possible within _'Homeworld'_ , was that from the _'Complex MOD'_ ...
Absolutely loving this new generation of Hiigaran designs so far! I'm a bit torn on the Suppression Frigate though. Though asthetically pleasing, and that barage of forward facing auto fire looks so awesome, in terms of fulfilling its role it just seems like an almost complete downgrade to the Flak Frigate. Maybe I'm wrong, we'll just have to see. Thank for the great vid!
My take on it is, the longer-range forward-facing firepower helps it stay in formation with other long range capital-killing frigates. In past games, i remember my Flak Frigates being so short ranged that they always flew ahead of the fleet during attack & then got destroyed first.
An excellent vid. Really enjoyed your narration. Thank you for sharing this. Take care
Goosebumps, homeworld and Templin, ABOUT TIME.
Rad recap dude!
I hope they bring back the salvage corvette. I wish to once again have the power to steal my enemy's capital ships.
Resource collectors can do that now
Looking at those designs really makes me want a homeworld mod for hard space shipbreakers
"Across alternate worlds" is such a cool way to say "in games, novels, and movies"!
The razzle dazzle paint jobs are the pièce de résistance of these iconic ships. I love their color palettes. I am also awaiting for their complete soundtrack.
It might be a small thing but the ability to switch between horizontal and Banana Mode™ is such a cool feature dude
Will be a part of gameplay too
“This is the Somtaaw warship Kuun Lan!”
This game is has some of the strangest design choices going, from a HW perspective. The design language is all Taidan, rather than Kushan/Hiigaran. From the horizontal mothership to the Interceptor, and then they've taken the HW2 fighter and turned it into a Carrier. Generally though HW3 is HW2 as it was originally designed to be. It's Dust Wars with a release date, rather than a reboot.
man that resource collector checks so many boxes for me! im so hyped for the release!
So amazing. HW 1 and 2 is the game I played with my brother when we were in our early teens. No one else I know, played this game. Sadly my brother is not here anymore 😢. He passed away unexpectedly 3 yrs ago. But for him I am going to play the shit out of this game! Can’t wait to play. Probably tears will make the keyboards wet when the first cut-scene starts.
The suppression frigate's fixed-forward anti-strike-craft guns are such an interesting game design choice. It means that positioning and formations will have a drastic influence on their effectiveness, since they need to maintain distance in order to keep their guns trained on their fast-moving targets. For example, you would want a formation of them to spread out a lot, so that each one will be within the effective range of the others.
"The Interceptor reminds me of the Vaygr fighters"
Taiidan Imperial Scout: "Am i a joke to you?"
On a more serious note, i am getting way stronger Taiidan a la Homeworld 1 vibes from the new Higaaran ships than their own old versions, or maybe it's a mix of both. This irked me initially, but then again i almost never saw the Kushan designs even tho i always play as them, apart from the salvage corvette... lot's of salvage corvettes. >:D
I hope to see more of where they're taking the story. Been playing HW1 classic yearly since the mid 2000's! :D
I've always thought the bold colors of a lot of Homeworld ships, often covered in aggressive stripes and checkerboards, is likely an homage to the art of Chris Foss. He was a British artist who did a lot of work for sci-fi anthology magazines and novel covers, especially in the 70s and 80s, including stuff as prestigious as the paperback versions of Asimov's Foundation trilogy. It's a very cool look that I wish we'd see in more scifi these days. Between thermals/radar/lidar and whatever other sensor technology is yet to be developed it would be incredibly difficult to actually sneak up on your enemies in space, so why not make your ship a big red middle finger pointed right at them?
finally. templin got in contact with my Childhood Colony. oh the olden days where the Display interface arent focused on looking nice and instead fully on functionality.
i also want to pay respect to my ancestors cousin that died in orbit around Kharak together with the rest of kharak. their Sacrifice paved the way for all of us now.
Loving the ship designs
Hey-hey, what about salvage ships?
We always need some rum, black flag and scull.
Great video! You've earned a sub!
Welcome aboard!
I really want to see the Railgun Corvettes they have under the build list.
First time I saw these was on the space engineers steam workshop and I thought they were amazing seeing where there from and how they look with out the blocky constraints is brilliant
I always loved the design of the Taiidan ships
I can't wait to see more of the battle cruiser. It was by far my favorite ship in on hw2, and can imagine it being my favorite in this one as well.
I can't wait for the next video!
I've loved this game from the original on. I bought the collectors edition for HW2 that came with the Pride of Hiigara statue and I've ordered the same for 3. I can't wait to see the new fleet and take my place of the command deck of the latest mothership.
It lives! My favorite game of all time lives!!!
Man, a glut of HW3 videos released today!
HW ship aesthetics have always been top notch!
The bright colour schemes with striking stripes and lines remind me of the ships in Jodorowsky's Dune
Specialist designs are an odd choice, because the opposite approach has almost always been better in Homeworld: dedicated corvette killers have pretty much always fared worse than ships effective against both frigates and corvettes, Ion Cannon frigates usually fare worse than Torpedo frigates or Destroyers, cloaked fighters were practically useless, and so on.
Huge potential. I love it so far. 💞✌😊👍
So very excited for HW3
Not to be a pessimist, but the flagship's flying wing shape could be a real disadvantage in a fight. Battles in space take place in 3 Dimensions and making a silhouette that huge and well shaped is basically painting a target on for anything coming at you from below or above.
I mean any enormous flagship is going to be an easy target regardless of the shape. The defence for flagships come from the fact they're usually the most heavily armoured spaceships in the fleet with a large amount of point defence.
Something interesting to note, the new Hiigaaran ships, look very much like the Taaidani ships from the first game. To me suggests that the Hiigaarans have absorbed the Taaidani republic into their empire and have taken on a lot of their ship design practices.
I hope my clan is still around at this point in Hiigarian history. Been giddy about it since my family name was on one of the helmets in the "Expedition Guide" for Deserts of Kharak.
I wish I could give you a million likes for making a video of my fav RTS. if one day you make a video about my favorite homeworld faction Vaygr I would explode lol
We shall have to see if this game knocks out Cataclysm (Or Emergence) for my top slot in the series.
Can't wait for this next game!
Hope we will also see more Progenitor ships like the Sajuuk or or the Dreadnaugth