Here’s a chunky new Homeworld 3 gameplay trailer about an ambush
Gravelly comms voices, honestly, just ain’t anything better.
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The latest look at Homeworld 3 beats outpasteyefuls of gameplay by about three minutes, which I like quite a bit. You know why? It has lots more nice sweeping space ships and gravelly radio comms chatter and ancient, arcane megastructures.
The trailer, called Kesura Oasis, outlines a conflict in the Homeworld 3 campaign where a force of enemy raiders ambushes a resource-collecting and repair mission headed up by a mothership. (“It’s a new design, a sort of flat croissant rather than the huge upright banana of past motherships in the series,” I said in oureverything we know about Homeworld 3piece.)
In the trailer we’re shown maneuvering around terrain, and how that can give ships an advantage against their supposed counters. There’s also spotlights on the importance of gathering resources to build new ships, as well as using those same resource extractors to capture and convert disabled enemy vessels.
The big centerpiece of the trailer is all about showing off a conflict between the mothership and a raider carrier with escorts. The carrier jumps in, launching waves of enemies and threatening with its larger escort frigates. In response, the mothership has to deploy more fighters to screen their resource income while bombers and assault frigates are produced to take out the larger enemy ships.
Our Phil Savage recently got his hands on Homeworld 3, andhis impressionwas that it was a space RTS all about terrain.
“The environmental artistry that Homeworld is known for—the grandeur of space, its asteroid fields and derelict ships, is no longer just part of the skybox. It’s now an active part of each mission—an aspect of terrain to strategise around,” he said.
Homeworld 3 will be released in 2023, following adelay in June.For more, check outeverything we know about Homeworld 3which I know I linked earlier but am absolutely going to link again for those people who read the first and last paragraphs exclusively.
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You can find Homeworld 3 on official websitehomeworlduniverse.com, and you can see itsEpic Games StoreorSteampage ahead of release. It’ll be the latest in the space RTS series that first brought three dimensional combat to the genre—the first mainline release since Homeworld 2 released in 2003, and seven years since spinoffHomeworld: Deserts of Kharakreleased in 2016.
Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he’s not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.
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