Homeworld Remastered Collection Next Month

The Homeworld Remastered Collection will launch on February 25th, announces Gearbox Software, though development of the space strategy relaunch will evidently not be fully complete at that time, as they say saying that all customers "will also receive free access to the Homeworld Remastered Steam Multiplayer Beta when the collection releases." They offer a 90 second teaser trailer to celebrate the news, and the collection is available for pre-purchase on Steam with a 15% discount. Here's word on the new trailer and the multiplayer beta:
The first-ever gameplay footage – shown this weekend to a packed room at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio and available here on YouTube – highlights the extensive effort that has gone into updating the games for modern audiences. Homeworld Remastered Collection refreshes these tremendous games with new, high-resolution textures and models, the latest graphics-rendering technology, as well as a fully remastered score and new voice recordings from the original cast.

Gamers who purchase Homeworld Remastered Collection will also receive access to the Homeworld Remastered Steam Multiplayer Beta, which kicks off alongside Homeworld Remastered Collection on February 25, 2015. Competitive multiplayer modes for Homeworld and Homeworld 2 have been joined to offer players access to races, maps and game modes from both games in one integrated multiplayer experience. This beta combines code from over 15 years ago with newly-written changes, and will be shaped by fan feedback as development progresses.

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Talutha wrote on Jan 26, 2015, 17:32:
Here is 37 minutes of footage from PAX South.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRtqy0CGur4&x-yt-ts=1421914688&x-yt-cl=84503534


Shiiiit. Well so much for not buying this game.
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SpectralMeat wrote on Jan 27, 2015, 08:52:
FFS guys stop posting videos sigh
You are making it pretty hard not to preorder it!

I know, I haven't pre-ordered a game since 2005 or so. But I'm SO tempted with this.
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Looks awesome, I'm stoked.
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FFS guys stop posting videos sigh
You are making it pretty hard not to preorder it!
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Jan 27, 2015, 02:41
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NegaDeath wrote on Jan 26, 2015, 16:37:
Not having played the originals (hands in gamer card) I'm looking forward to trying these for the first time, based on the praise people here and elsewhere heap on it.

Wow. I envy you quite a bit. Homeworld is one of the most atmospheric RTS games I have ever played (nevermind the pun). Im probably getting this, Ive completely forgotten most of the ending of the game so playing through it is going to be fresh(ish).
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Jan 26, 2015, 21:35
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Talutha wrote on Jan 26, 2015, 17:32:
I'm super hyped about this. One of the few RTS games I loved and spent a lot of time with as a child.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRtqy0CGur4&x-yt-ts=1421914688&x-yt-cl=84503534

Yeah, that looks so good. Thanks for posting this vid.

This game would be awesome with the Oculus.
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Jan 26, 2015, 19:45
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Jan 26, 2015, 19:45
 
Parias wrote on Jan 26, 2015, 17:36:
So did they get rid of the forced-hyperjumps for Homeworld 2? That was the one thing that annoyed the hell out of me; you had to deliberately avoid triggering events in a given mission that would force you into the next one until you were actually ready, or you'd end up spontaneously jumping.

I hated that so much compared to the original which let you control this. And I LIKED occasionally watching all my ships dock / form up before the end of a mission, damnit!

I disliked that as well. The upside is you didn't spend 20min after the mission collecting resources like in Homeworld 1. The downside was that you also didn't get time to rebuild your fleet before the next mission and it forced you to the next mission while giving you all the resources from the previous map.

Personally I prefered the method in Homeworld 1. While I'm collecting resources im rebuilding any lost units before moving on. This time at the end gave you the quiet and emptiness an quiet of space and really added to the ambiance which the soundtrack just emphasized.
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Jan 26, 2015, 19:41
 
Ladron3dfx wrote on Jan 26, 2015, 19:19:
Task wrote on Jan 26, 2015, 10:31:
Disappointed that there is no option to buy it in a box on a disc.

I just bought a few old PC games, it's nice to have them in my hands.

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Jan 26, 2015, 19:19
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Task wrote on Jan 26, 2015, 10:31:
Disappointed that there is no option to buy it in a box on a disc.

I just bought a few old PC games, it's nice to have them in my hands.

@Bundy
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Jan 26, 2015, 19:05
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Jan 26, 2015, 19:05
 
WaltC wrote on Jan 26, 2015, 16:47:
H1 runs great for me @1600x1200 D3d with all of the eye-candy options maxxed. Beautiful. Not sure why you're having problems--win10TP B. 9926. Running in straight-up Win 10 mode, no compatible modes selected/needed. Catalyst 14.12 Omegas, 6-core FX-6300 @ 4.5GHz, 8 Gigs ram, HD 7850 2GB.

Can't get H2 to run yet...still trying though...
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And this is without modding it? Now I, too, have installed the widescreen mod for it but that's it.

I've tried it on several systems, all with the same outcome. Now, the difference is that I am not running AMD hardware. Intel Core I7s and Nvidia GPUs.
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Jan 26, 2015, 17:37
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Talutha wrote on Jan 26, 2015, 17:32:
Here is 37 minutes of footage from PAX South. They've definitely put a ton of work into this game. I've only gone through about 10 minutes of the presentation but they've already talked about how the backgrounds weren't actually textures and how that was difficult to go through, the Mothership in the original was only about 100-200k worth of textures and is now 10Mb, the UI is completely scaleable and no longer static, lighting from beam weapons now spread across the entire playfield and is not static and built in mod support.

Just from what I've heard so far, they've put a lot of effort and love into remaking this into what the original fans want. They've even gotten the original artists to redo all of the cinematics through the game(the painted, comicy looking ones) so those are obviously still true to their original ideas.

I'm super hyped about this. One of the few RTS games I loved and spent a lot of time with as a child.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRtqy0CGur4&x-yt-ts=1421914688&x-yt-cl=84503534

Nice vid. Switched over to watching this one.

Mod support via Steam Workshop! They actually hired one (maybe more) of the Homeworld modders that has been modding the game for years to come in and work on improving the mod support for the Remaster.

Bring on updated versions of the Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars mods
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So did they get rid of the forced-hyperjumps for Homeworld 2? That was the one thing that annoyed the hell out of me; you had to deliberately avoid triggering events in a given mission that would force you into the next one until you were actually ready, or you'd end up spontaneously jumping.

I hated that so much compared to the original which let you control this. And I LIKED occasionally watching all my ships dock / form up before the end of a mission, damnit!
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Jan 26, 2015, 17:32
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Jan 26, 2015, 17:32
 
Here is 37 minutes of footage from PAX South. They've definitely put a ton of work into this game. I've only gone through about 10 minutes of the presentation but they've already talked about how the backgrounds weren't actually textures and how that was difficult to go through, the Mothership in the original was only about 100-200k worth of textures and is now 10Mb, the UI is completely scaleable and no longer static, lighting from beam weapons now spread across the entire playfield and is not static and built in mod support.

Just from what I've heard so far, they've put a lot of effort and love into remaking this into what the original fans want. They've even gotten the original artists to redo all of the cinematics through the game(the painted, comicy looking ones) so those are obviously still true to their original ideas.

I'm super hyped about this. One of the few RTS games I loved and spent a lot of time with as a child.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRtqy0CGur4&x-yt-ts=1421914688&x-yt-cl=84503534
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Jan 26, 2015, 17:23
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Jan 26, 2015, 17:23
 
Gamespot Homeworld Remastered Article

During voice over recording for Homeworld 2, complications with the Canadian actress who voiced Karan Sjet--your Fleet Intelligence--in the first game, Heidi Ernest, led to her role being recast for the second game. For Homeworld Remastered Collection, Gearbox went back to Ernest and had her record all mothership dialogue for the new Homeworld 2. Additionally, composer Paul Ruskay had the original recording tapes for the soundtrack, allowing Gearbox to re-implement Homeworld's original soundtrack for the collection.

So awesome. So excited!
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Jan 26, 2015, 17:12
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Jan 26, 2015, 17:12
 
https://www.youtube.com/user/Linuturk/videos

PAX South 2015 Gearbox Homeworld Remastered panel.

If someone has a link to better quality, please post.
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Jan 26, 2015, 17:06
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Ladron3dfx wrote on Jan 26, 2015, 13:57:
No GOG.com, no sale.

No DRM Free, no sale.

Cool story bro. Have fun not playing the game.
Also, 2005 called and apparently they still gave a shit about steam drm.
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Jan 26, 2015, 17:00
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Burrito of Peace wrote on Jan 26, 2015, 14:09:
As an aside, what the fuck is a "peps"?

Is that some illiterate, slackjawed, drooling retard's phone abbreviation for "people"? It's 7 fucking letters! SEVEN! You've already typed out 4! How fucking hard is it to type the other 3? Is the fucking world ending? Are you about to be ass raped and killed by Jason Vorhees and you only have 22 characters to get the message out?

I think "people" is only six letters, although lowercase e is a pain to write properly, so I suppose we could count them as 1.5 each.
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Jan 26, 2015, 16:56
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Jan 26, 2015, 16:56
 
MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jan 26, 2015, 14:04:
Luke wrote on Jan 26, 2015, 12:57:
Funny how peps want to wait for this game to go on sale , but don't have nada problem putting 1000$ or more for a pixel ship in Star Citizen , Wall guess those peps are feeling important like " We made the game" jezz

To be fair, I don't think we have anybody who is into Star Citizen for nearly that much on Blues. Based on the last couple SC threads, we do have a small number of people who are in at the base level, whatever that was.

I think someone (CJ Parker?) went in for $1000, but is now selling his ships off piecemeal for a profit. He's tired of waiting.
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Jan 26, 2015, 16:47
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Burrito of Peace wrote on Jan 26, 2015, 10:28:

I am very much looking forward to playing this on a modern system. I, too, have all the originals (including Cataclysm) but they're pain in the ass to get running on a modern OS and the render mode is always stuck in "Software" as the Dx calls that the originals used are deprecated in today's world and even forcing it causes an ugly screen blink that gives me headaches. OpenGL works...provided it I run it in WINE on a Linux box.

H1 runs great for me @1600x1200 D3d with all of the eye-candy options maxxed. Beautiful. Not sure why you're having problems--win10TP B. 9926. Running in straight-up Win 10 mode, no compatible modes selected/needed. Catalyst 14.12 Omegas, 6-core FX-6300 @ 4.5GHz, 8 Gigs ram, HD 7850 2GB.

Can't get H2 to run yet...still trying though...

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Jan 26, 2015, 16:37
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Not having played the originals (hands in gamer card) I'm looking forward to trying these for the first time, based on the praise people here and elsewhere heap on it.
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