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Posted June 07, 2016
Return to the Mothership



<span class="bold">Homeworld Remastered Collection</span>, containing the legendary space RTSs turned instant classics, is now available, DRM-free on GOG.com with GOG Galaxy support for achievements and multiplayer, and a 50% launch discount.

Homeworld brought real-time strategy into actual 3D, creating a truly free-form tactical experience across battlefields vast in every dimension. It did so in a way that's not just manageable, but overwhelmingly fun! This engrossing space opera chronicles the struggles of an alien race, the Kushan, locked in a vicious conflict with a tyrannical empire as they make their way to the promised land.
Homeworld 2 expanded on the setting and story even further, while refining the overall gameplay and visual experience. Now the whole saga has been remastered, putting a fresh coat of paint and techno-magic over this timeless experience, so that new and veteran players alike can finally return safely to their true Homeworld. This version also includes the latest massive patch, which brings tons of radical changes to formations, ship behavior, gameplay balance, and more.

The Homeworld Remastered Collection includes both the classic and remastered editions of Homeworld & Homeworld 2.
Dedicated fans can also grab the remastered <span class="bold">soundtrack from both games</span>, available in MP3 and FLAC.



Engage in full-scale battle between vast 3D fleets in <span class="bold">Homeworld Remastered Collection</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com. The 50% discount will last until June 10, 12:59 PM UTC.
Posted June 08, 2016
Awesome release. Nice to hear HW1R has its formation issues fixed. Will buy.
Post edited June 08, 2016 by thebream
Posted June 08, 2016
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rampancy: DRM from Apple's Mac App Store
Just out of curiosity, have you confirmed it verifies the receipt or are you assuming? I wish the product pages would indicate which publishers have activated the DRM. Actually, I usually email them ahead of time to find out before taking the plunge.
Posted June 08, 2016
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rampancy: DRM from Apple's Mac App Store
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Darling_Jimmy: Just out of curiosity, have you confirmed it verifies the receipt or are you assuming? I wish the product pages would indicate which publishers have activated the DRM. Actually, I usually email them ahead of time to find out before taking the plunge.
Now that you mention it, I really don't know; I've always just assumed that any app on the MAS uses Apple's MAS DRM. To be honest, I didn't even know it was optional. But according to Wikipedia, Aspyr's titles on the MAS use Apple's MAS DRM; on Aspyr's site, the only game tagged as DRM-free is Layers of Fear.
Post edited June 08, 2016 by rampancy
Posted June 08, 2016
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Sabin_Stargem: Aside from the ultra delicate strikecraft, it was horrible for me to witness all of my ion beam frigates (at the cap limit) rushing a single heavy cruiser and being blown into atoms within about a minute. If I remember the original Homeworld correctly, those frigates should have managed to take down that kind of ship, with moderate losses after three or four minutes. Assuming no reinforcements came along to ruin my day.
Yeah, you really need to occupy bigger craft before engaging with Ion Frigates - but when you do that, they absolutely obliterate their targets. Ion Frigates and their hardiness is actually something I still remember from the original Homeworld - I really didn't like that aspect. Generally, remasters fixed a lot of things I did not like about original...

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Sabin_Stargem: If you reached the Garden of Kadesh missions, are the Kadeshi beam frigates working properly now? When I played HW1R, they weren't able to lock on and attack.
Finished it and sadly, somehow managed to not capture a single one of those beam frigates. Still, mission was damn tense.
Post edited June 08, 2016 by Fenixp
Posted June 08, 2016
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rampancy: on Aspyr's site, the only game tagged as DRM-free is Layers of Fear.
Presumably because Gog is listed in the 'buy now' options. Oh well, I'll pick up the Homeworlds here and hope that CrossOver cooperates. Thanks.
Posted June 08, 2016
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rampancy: on Aspyr's site, the only game tagged as DRM-free is Layers of Fear.
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Darling_Jimmy: Presumably because Gog is listed in the 'buy now' options. Oh well, I'll pick up the Homeworlds here and hope that CrossOver cooperates. Thanks.
I'm pretty confident that you'll get them working in WINE; I know HW Classic works because I have the CD version and that works just fine. Due to an issue with the game itself, the only thing that doesn't work is changing resolutions/renderer in the game; that can be circumvented with registry edits. HW2 Classic apparently also works just fine according to AppDB reports, but due to issues with the game itself and some deprecated features in WINE, some advanced graphical effects don't work.
Posted June 08, 2016
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Fenixp: Yeah, you really need to occupy bigger craft before engaging with Ion Frigates - but when you do that, they absolutely obliterate their targets. Ion Frigates and their hardiness is actually something I still remember from the original Homeworld - I really didn't like that aspect. Generally, remasters fixed a lot of things I did not like about original...
The problem with fragile ships is that it prevents the ability to delay enemy opposition, disallows getting into position to flank, and generally makes it so that the best and only way to win is to bring the biggest ship. That is bad in my opinion, and really took away from what made the original Homeworld interesting to me.
Posted June 08, 2016
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Sabin_Stargem: The problem with fragile ships is that it prevents the ability to delay enemy opposition, disallows getting into position to flank, and generally makes it so that the best and only way to win is to bring the biggest ship. That is bad in my opinion, and really took away from what made the original Homeworld interesting to me.
I tend to scout the enemy, position my forces and only then attack. Large vessels are generally fantastic precisely at obliterating those which are about a class smaller than they are - so yes, most capital ships will destroy frigates with impunity. Send bombers covered by fighters/light frigates their way however and while you will inevitably take losses, those large vessels will go down. Which is the point at which you may think about taking your swarm of ion cannon frigates and attack from beneath - especially if you manage to destroy the capital vessel's engines, which you can now do even in the original game.

Generally speaking, I don't tend to bring my capital ships as a counter to opposing capital ships as capital ships are a lot better at destroying their own kind then they are at defending against smaller craft.

You're correct that the tactical layer has shifted - but it's definitely not a simple case of "Bring the bigger guns."
Posted June 09, 2016
YES! At last, I get to experience Homeworld for myself. Thanks, GOG!
Posted June 09, 2016

The 50% discount will last until June 10, 12:59 PM UTC.
What's "June 10, 12:59 PM"?
Is that June 11, 00:59?
Posted June 09, 2016
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rampancy: on Aspyr's site, the only game tagged as DRM-free is Layers of Fear.
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Darling_Jimmy: Presumably because Gog is listed in the 'buy now' options. Oh well, I'll pick up the Homeworlds here and hope that CrossOver cooperates. Thanks.
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Darling_Jimmy: Presumably because Gog is listed in the 'buy now' options. Oh well, I'll pick up the Homeworlds here and hope that CrossOver cooperates. Thanks.
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rampancy: I'm pretty confident that you'll get them working in WINE; I know HW Classic works because I have the CD version and that works just fine. Due to an issue with the game itself, the only thing that doesn't work is changing resolutions/renderer in the game; that can be circumvented with registry edits. HW2 Classic apparently also works just fine according to AppDB reports, but due to issues with the game itself and some deprecated features in WINE, some advanced graphical effects don't work.
I think the classic games might work fine through WINE but the Remastered might be more problematic. I don't know if the issues were solved, but while people got it to work on Linux, the Macs had more problems - seemingly related to poor OpenGL 3.3-Mac support through Wine.

http://portingteam.com/topic/10533-homeworld-remastered-steam-opengl-failed-to-load-error/

https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&amp;t=23625

https://www.codeweavers.com/support/forums/general/?t=27;forumcurPos=100;msg=171151

However, that was awhile ago and things may have been fixed.

EDIT: Now Steam is discounting Homeworld as well ... however, if one Aspyr game is here, more might eventually show up ... hmmm ...
Post edited June 09, 2016 by crazy_dave
Posted June 09, 2016

The 50% discount will last until June 10, 12:59 PM UTC.
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BlueTemplar: What's "June 10, 12:59 PM"?
Is that June 11, 00:59?
that seems to be
2:59PM CEST
or
14:59 CEST
Posted June 09, 2016
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cecil: then why steam have it? is GOG the only one who doesn't have a deal with Asypr?
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rampancy: In fact, I'd wager I'm probably the only person who'd be doing that...
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Gydion: You would lose that bet. Looks like my GPU should just be able to run the remaster, but Homeworld classic will be the one I will play.

Promo for another 60 hours, good.
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froggygraphics: Pretty much GOG is the only place you won't find aspyr games. If you look at GOG s catalog any games that have mac versions done by aspyr arent here.

It is what it is.
hopefully GOG will get a contract with them sooner rather than later
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Darling_Jimmy: Presumably because Gog is listed in the 'buy now' options. Oh well, I'll pick up the Homeworlds here and hope that CrossOver cooperates. Thanks.
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rampancy: I'm pretty confident that you'll get them working in WINE; I know HW Classic works because I have the CD version and that works just fine. Due to an issue with the game itself, the only thing that doesn't work is changing resolutions/renderer in the game; that can be circumvented with registry edits. HW2 Classic apparently also works just fine according to AppDB reports, but due to issues with the game itself and some deprecated features in WINE, some advanced graphical effects don't work.
I added Homeworld Remastered (Mac) to the Wishlist. Of course, I'm hoping GOG expands their current Aspyr offerings from the 1 game they currently as there are quite a few in addition to Homeworld remastered that I would quite like to have. :)

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/homeworld_remastered_mac

More wishlist items for Aspyr/Feral:

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/aspyr_feral_interactive_mac_versions

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/mac_games_published_by_aspyr_media
Post edited June 09, 2016 by crazy_dave
Posted June 10, 2016
How can i activate Mods with the GOG Version? i need help
Posted June 10, 2016
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crazy_dave: I think the classic games might work fine through WINE but the Remastered might be more problematic. I don't know if the issues were solved, but while people got it to work on Linux, the Macs had more problems - seemingly related to poor OpenGL 3.3-Mac support through Wine.

http://portingteam.com/topic/10533-homeworld-remastered-steam-opengl-failed-to-load-error/

https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&amp;t=23625

https://www.codeweavers.com/support/forums/general/?t=27;forumcurPos=100;msg=171151

However, that was awhile ago and things may have been fixed.
After reading through the thread you linked, I'm not optimistic about HWR working on WINE in OS X. At least not until the graphics programmers at Apple get their collective heads out of their god damned asses and give us a competitive implementation of OpenGL.

Of course, that's about as likely as Apple coming out with an Android smartphone.

On a more positive note, I can verify that HW 1/2 Classic do work very well in Wineskin, albeit with the same minor bugs present when running the original retail releases. I hope to post instructions and notes later tonight on the "Judas" thread.
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Avarice1987: How can i activate Mods with the GOG Version? i need help
Are you talking about the classic releases? Mod support on them works just like it did before as with the retail CD versions.
Post edited June 10, 2016 by rampancy
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