Name: CodeKnight
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I'm kind of disappointed with this. Space combat is always really cool in principle, but this is just frustrating and slow. I guess it's mainly because it's a really old game that's been remastered rather than a more modern one, but I really couldn't get on well with this. It looks great and I love the story of the campaign, but I think it's held back by a few things. The combat (and general pace of the game) is really slow. Controlling units in general is clunky, as well as most of the other controls and the tools you have for controlling your units. Perhaps the upcoming Homeworld 3 will be better if it's modernised, but I'm struggling to play this.

Pros

Great background music
Cool story line
It's space combat
You can build Salvage Corvettes which literally pick up and take away enemy ships. It's great fun.
During the campaign, it's a really nice idea that the ships you build in the previous mission carry over to the next one. In reality, gearbox have changed how this works and now increase the number of enemy ships in the next mission too to compensate, which means it's actually harder if you did well before.

Cons

Pressing Escape doesn't open the menu, or go back in menus
Annoying controls
Selecting and controlling large numbers of ships is clunky
Can't change the game speed. The gameplay is extremely slow. Even combat is slow
During the campaign, there are regularly sections with no active objective and I have no idea what I'm meant to be doing
When building new ships, the UI shows a few characters of the title of the ship, and never how many are in the build queue. So if I'm trying to build 5 Light corvettes, I see "ight Corvette X" (should say "Light Corvette X5) which is totally useless
The "Guard" command seems to do nothing. I have a squadron of ships set to guard a resource collector. It's getting hammered by enemy ships, and mine are just sitting there watching

Homeworld Remastered Collection

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