There's no release date right now, but Homeworld 3 is currently slated to launch at some point in the first half of 2023, where it may end up being one of the best PC games of the year for strategy fans. Thanks to Alex Delamaire & BBI for allowing these concept art for HW3 to be freely accessible from their Google drive. It's a little more streamlined for the players."
"But at the same time, it just ended up working a lot better. Rob Cunningham, who was the art director for both Homeworld and. We ended up grouping the Resource Collector into the Resource Controller as a single unit, so you don't have to do little tedious micromanaging," Gryc says. The Homeworld 3 gameplay trailer revealed at The Game Awards signals a return to classic RTS gameplay, but at an epic new scale. Homeworld 3 art director discusses redesigning spacecraft for a PC RTS. "You'll have different classes, so a Torpedo class would have two stripes in the back, or an Assault Frigate will have a single stripe, just to define its role on the battlefield."Īnother big thing that helps make the game readable is the visual effects, with the developers working to make different weapon types (and the resulting impacts) unique in order to quickly make it obvious what kind of ship is attacking at a glance.Īccessibility is also at the forefront of this design philosophy, with Blackbird Interactive working to make sure things feel appealing to longtime fans while reducing some unnecessarily tedious elements for newcomers. Gearbox announced today at The Game Awards that Home-world 3 will launch on the. Obviously there's the pageantry, by pageantry I mean the striping pattern on ships," Gryc explains. "The overall kind of shape is one thing we look at, but then we have a few other elements. The Mothership is 3 kilometers in length, while a mere fighter is 20 meters long. This led to using the original Hiigaran Carrier design for a pirate ship, which Gryc notes works far better than what the team was originally toying with.Īll of this has to come without jeopardizing readability in the heat of battle, which is a challenge given the scale at hand. While things that need to be reworked will get priority, the realities of game development means there's only so much time, meaning assets can and should be reused when possible. "When you see the two units side-by-side, you're like 'I get it, they're part of the same fleet, they belong, this definitely looks like a carrier I could take into the combat field' and it's a design we're proud of." "At the end of the day, we came up with something that really feels like it is in harmony with the Mothership," Gryc says. Redesigning the Hiigaran Carrier meant undergoing a process called "shape-tuning," something Blackbird developers user to refer to finding a rough shape for a spacecraft and then rapidly iterating on it, adjusting engine locations, tweaking different points, and going back and forth to find what works.
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