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Homeworld 3 will unlock across Steam at the same times world-wide.

Homeworld 3 Advance Access will unlock May 10 at approximately 11am PT/2pm ET/18:00 UTC.

Homeworld 3 will officially launch May 13 at approximately 11am PT/2pm ET/18:00 UTC.

PRIZE:

• Alienware Aurora R16 skinned fully in Homeworld 3 and Hiigaran livery (Value: $2,099
  The PC comes fully loaded with:
  
  
  
  • Processor - Intel® Core™ i7 13700F (16-Core, 54MB Cache, up to 5.2GHz with Turbo Max 3.0)
    
  • Operating System - Windows 11 Home, English, French, Spanish
    
  • Graphics Card - NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070, 12 GB GDDR6X
    
  • Memory - 32 GB: 2 x 16 GB, DDR5, 5600 MT/s
    
  • Storage - 2 x 512GB M.2 PCIe SSD
    
  • Chassis Options - 1000W Platinum Rated PSU, 240mm Liquid-Cooled CPU & Clear Side Panel
    
  • Wireless - Intel® Killer™ Wi-Fi 6E AX1675, 2x2, 802.11ax, MU-MIMO, Bluetooth® wireless card
    
  • Support - 1Y Premium Support with Hardware and Software1-2 Biz Day Onsite after remote diagnosis

• Homeworld 3 Fleet Command Edition (Value: $89.96) which includes:
  
  
  
  • Base game
    
  • Year One Pass
    
  • Digital Soundtrack by Paul Ruskay
    
  • Multiplayer Customizations Set which includes:
    
    
    
    • Profile Banners
      
    • Ship Decals
      
    • Multiplayer Name Color
      
    • Engine Trail Color

Instructions

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2. Hit Enter.
   
3. Execute Your Strategies in Style.

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Homeworld 3 Collector’s Edition

Homeworld 3 Year One Roadmap for War Games/h2]



Today, we’re happy to share our year one roadmap will you all! These updates are aimed to provide players with a variety of content for the War Games game mode such as new challenges, artifacts, classes, systems, maps and playable factions.

Here’s what you have to look forward to in the year after launch:

• June Free Content Drop: New challenges and artifacts.
  
• July Paid DLC: New playable faction, new faction-starting fleets, artifacts and faction emblem
  
• August Free Content Drop: New challenges, new artifacts and new map & system.
  
• October Paid DLC: New playable faction, new faction-starting fleets and faction emblem
  
• Fourth Quarter Free Content Drop: New challenges, map and more new content.
  

Our free content drops will be available for all owners of Homeworld 3, and feature new challenges, artifacts, maps, and systems! We will have more information on the contents of each drop closer to their release dates!

Included in the Collector’s Edition, and available separately, is the Year One Pass, which includes the three DLC drops that expand the co-op War Games mode with new playable factions and artifacts. These DLCs will also be available for purchase separately.

Updated PC Specs 

The History of Homeworld

The barren desert planet of Kharak is home to a resilient but divided people, known as The Kushan. They fought over resources under a burning sun for thousands of years.

Everything changed when Rachel S'Jet discovered something buried deep beneath the unforgiving sands. It was an ancient technology that would allow the Kushan to escape their dying world: A hyperspace core. And with it, a map that pointed the way to the true home of the Kushan: Hiigara.

The Kushan put aside their differences, and for 100 years worked together to construct a grand Mothership that could transport 600,000 Kushan to Hiigara.

Karan S’Jet, Rachel’s descendent, volunteered to be bound, body and mind, to the Mothership. Through her sacrifice, she became its Navigator and “Fleet Command”, guiding the Kushan to their true home.

Unfortunately, the efforts of the Kushan did not go unnoticed.

The Taiidan Empire, a powerful enemy who had exiled the Kushan to Kharak 4000 years ago, took swift and devastating action.

While Kharak burned, Karan rescued all that remained of her people. Instead of fleeing into the dark, Karan turned the Mothership into the tip of a spear. A spear aimed directly at Hiigara.

War ensued against the Taiidan empire, and through the struggle, Karan’s fleet emerged victorious.

The Taiidan Empire was shattered and the Kushan reclaimed their homeworld, becoming Hiigarans once more. At this time, Karan learned of the existence of two other hyperspace cores.

The first of these was gifted to Karan by the Bentusi, an ancient race who called no planet home and lived only among the stars.

The final core was won by Karan upon defeating the Vaygr, a vicious foe who sought to control the cores at any cost.

Karan united all three cores aboard the legendary Progenitor mothership Sajuuk and, in doing so, unlocked a vast hyperspace gate network that enabled interstellar travel for all.

Trade and Culture spread effortlessly between the stars. Population centers grew in places previously inaccessible, and the galaxy was united in peace.

Thus began The Age of S’Jet.

During this peaceful time, there was a region deep in the Outer Rim from which no ship ever returned. It became known as The Anomaly.

Gates in this area were erratic and dangerous. Thousands of lives were lost. Eventually, these gates went completely dark, and The Anomaly spread.

Karan S’Jet, aboard a new mothership, the Khar-Sajuuk, was sent to find the source of The Anomaly and stop it. She never returned.

Twenty years later the burden falls to Karan’s protégé: Imogen S’Jet. This is where our story for Homeworld 3 begins.

1. Controls
   
2. Combat
   
3. Attack Move
   
4. HUD, NLIPS, and more.
   
5. War Games

1. Controls — or, rather, giving you control

• Build an intuitive control scheme for all players that leverages Homeworld 3’s unique features and modern camera control best practices.
  
• Understand and acknowledge what veteran Homeworld players find familiar about the original control schemes.
  
• Let everyone have freedom to customize controls to best fit their unique playstyle as much as possible.

• Nearly every single keyboard input is now rebindable.


• Rebind abilities, keyboard-related camera controls, command modifiers, and more!


• We have made sweeping changes to default hotkeys, which we’ll outline in more detail below. Spoiler: Rejoice, friends, as Focus Target is now triggered by simply pressing F!
  
• We now have two presets for hotkey bindings, a revamped Modern layout and a layout that replicates the hotkeys used in Homeworld 2 Remastered (We’ll discuss these in detail in just a minute).
  
  • If you manually rebind an input and then swap hotkey presets, your manually rebinded inputs won’t be overridden.
  
  
• We’ve increased movement and rotation speed of the default camera settings. The camera now feels very similar, in terms of speed, to Homeworld 2 Remastered.
  
  • We’ve also given you more granular control over the camera settings, so you can fine-tune it as needed.

• The Modern control scheme has been designed for Homeworld 3 by incorporating two decades worth of innovations and learnings from other strategy games and is being made even better thanks to your feedback. This setup is meant to cater to a wide audience of players and doesn’t assume prior experience with Homeworld.
  
  • The first-person camera is controlled by WASD + QE.
    
  • Unit movement prioritizes clicking on terrain to provide waypoints.
    
  • We’ve also moved away from the War Games demo’s grid-style hotkey convention (where hotkeys were bound to QWERT + ASDFG keys). Hotkeys are now directly related to the action they perform but with a bias towards keys that are easily reached with your left-hand resting on WASD.
    
    • For example, “V” is now your default keybind for MoVe because Homeworld 2 Remastered’s use of “M” is a bit of a stretch on QWERTY-style keyboards. “H” is for Harvest, “A” is for Attack, and so forth.
    
    
  • In cases where a hotkey overlaps with a camera control, Modern preset prioritizes the camera. This effectively disables that hotkey. (For example, while the “D” key normally tells a ship to dock, with Modern controls it moves the camera left.)
    
    • To avoid this, you can choose to enable the option where the Modern preset camera can only be moved when holding the right mouse button. Or you can just rebind Dock to another hotkey.
      
    • We’ve fixed a bug in the War Games demo related to the above, where using right-click to engage the camera resulted in all hotkeys being disabled. Now, using right-click only disables any overlapping ability keys.
    
    
  • Certain UI features, like Tactical Overlay icon amalgamation, are turned on with the goal of providing concise, streamlined information about the battlefield and your units.
    
  • Certain unit behaviors are prioritized over others. For example, instead of docking with a Carrier when you right click on it, applicable ships will now guard that Carrier instead.
  
  
  
• The Legacy control scheme replicates Homeworld 2 Remastered’s controls and feedback. This setup catered to players wanting an experience that feels consistent with previous games, and effectively replaces the Classic control scheme you saw in the War Games demo.
  
  • The orbit-style camera is controlled by the mouse, arrow keys, or by focusing targets.
    
  • Unit movement prioritizes the Movement Disc, exactly as you remembered it.
    
    • We’ve expanded Movement Disc functionality to add some features that were available in Homeworld 2 Remastered, like using “Shift” to adjust height.
    
    
  • Hotkeys automatically default to those used in Homeworld 2 Remastered. (Move = “M”, Attack = “Ctrl-A”, etc.)
    
  • UI features are identical or closely resemble Homeworld 2 Remastered. This includes turning off icon amalgamation in the Tactical Overlay so you can see every unit icon regardless of how many are in a small area!
    
  • Unit behaviors, where applicable, will replicate Homeworld 2 Remastered. To repeat our example above, right-clicking on a Carrier will cause ships to dock with it.
  
  
  
• The “Customize” option is for players interested in taking the best of both of these schemes to create something unique. Here you can mix and match both the Modern and Legacy presets to find the perfect setup. Unsurprisingly, this has become the favorite option for most of us on the development team, as it lets you retain aspects about Homeworld 2 Remastered that you loved while still benefiting from some more user-friendly options.
  
  • Every option outlined above (and many more) are presented as a set of toggles that you swap between Modern and Legacy. Want a WASD-controlled, orbiting camera with Homeworld 2 Remastered hotkeys and icon amalgamation in the Tactical Overlay? Go nuts!

2. Making Combat More Satisfying

• We’ve increased the hitpoints of every ship by 30 percent. Now everything takes longer to explode without sacrificing the potential for devastating ambushes or other massive swings in momentum. This is just one crucial ingredient in a much larger mix of adjustments to ship behavior that makes combat more satisfying, intuitive, and tactical.
  
• We’ve made improvements to formations that make using them more beneficial and less tedious.
  
  • When activating a formation, ships will organize themselves more organically instead of dropping everything they were doing to go form up.
    
  • When activating a formation on ships that are traveling to the same destination, the formation will anchor itself around whichever ship is the furthest ahead, so slower ships will continue moving forward and leading ships won’t suddenly pull a 180 to go regroup.
    
  • There was also a painful bug that often caused ships to stop dead in their tracks when given a formation assignment. That’s now fixed.
    
  • The sphere formation, in particular, is now a much more potent ball of death that is useful when you want to concentrate firepower and movement around a single ship.
  
  
• The way we’ve designed ship abilities in Homeworld 3 is different from previous games and we were very interested in their reception. We heard from many players that abilities required too much babysitting, which clashed with some of their more passive benefits.
  
  • To address that, we’ve made ability durations and their cooldowns longer. The result is that when to activate an ability is a choice that carries more consequence than before. You’re no longer spamming abilities the moment they’re available, but instead waiting and choosing the opportune moment to use them for maximum effectiveness — knowing that failing to do so will result in that ability being offline for much longer.
  
  
• Oh yeah, speaking of babysitting, we’ve had a little chat with Support Frigate pilots and let them know they’re more than welcome to heal friendly ships without being directly instructed to. They seemed very excited about this new level of autonomy.

3. Classic Attack Move is Back!

• Homeworld 3 is still in development, and when the demo was released, we didn’t have a proper implementation of Attack Move orders.
  
• Many larger ships in Homeworld 3 feature point-defense systems like omni-directional turrets that automatically engage nearby threats. There was a bug in the demo, however, that was often preventing those turrets from opening fire as intended.

• Attack Move now works as intended, and can be used with either the Modern or Legacy control presets. To initiate an Attack Move order you can:
  
  • Give an Attack order and click on terrain.
    
  • Give a Move order and, when the Movement Disc appears, hold “Ctrl” to convert the Move order to an Attack Move order (the Movement Disc will turn red to indicate this).
    
  • Units currently engaging hostile targets can be given a Move order and they will move to a chosen point but keep attacking their existing target as long as they are within range, allowing you to kite enemies.

4. HUD, NLIPS, and other fun acronyms

• The bandbox (or selection box) is now much more accurate than before, so you’ll find it easier to select clusters of units.
  
• The Spacebar no longer builds a ship when the Build Menu is open, so you won’t accidentally start production on something when you really meant to open the Sensors Manager.
  
• We’ve also made the Sensors Manager more usable by increasing zoom sensitivity.
  
  • And don’t forget there’s now more granular options for icon amalgamation so you can select a preset that is most useful to you.
  
  
• Did you know you can retire ships to refund their resources? Not your fault if you didn’t because it wasn’t in the tutorial. That’s been rectified.
  
• In a similar vein, there’s a powerful context menu you can activate with Alt+Right Click to access additional unit orders. We’ve given it a proper place in the advanced section of the tutorial too.

5. Variety is the Spice of War Games

• We’ve doubled the amount of objectives that can happen during a run.
  
  
  
  • To clarify this just a smidge, the four objectives you saw in the War Games demo are now only available during the first mission.
    
  • The second mission has an entirely new set of four objectives. To reflect the escalating difficulty of a run, these objectives require use of advanced mechanics, like salvaging wrecks, protecting flagships, and capturing ships.
    
  • Enabling difficulty modifiers that spawn an extra objective during each mission now vastly increases the number of objective permutations you can experience between runs.
  
  
• Resource Controllers are now free but take significantly longer to produce in War Games.


• We saw how frustrating it was to have a run end with a whimper because your Resource Controllers were destroyed and you lacked the funds to build new ones.
  
• Now you can always reboot your production operations, but their increased build time will put you in a very vulnerable position until they’re back online.

• Addresses a crash on game launch for regions using non-latin text characters.
  
• Increased the default camera speed and sensitivity to address concerns on the default tuning feeling sluggish.
  Note: This change will apply to all users who have not modified or changed their sensitivity settings in the menu.