Homeworld: Remastered Collection, Gearbox Software’s definitive edition of the legendary RTS, arrives today on GOG.com in time for the release of a major update to enhance the game for all players.
To celebrate, the game is available with a 30% launch discount. Â The package includes both the classic and remastered editions of Homeworld and Homeworld 2.
This coincides with a new patch that brings much requested updates to the game.
The new patch contains:
- Reworked Formations logic allows players to deploy groups of ships with more control and granularity than ever before. Â Formations are now far more flexible, smarter, and reactive to the types of ships a player assigns to them.
- Ballistic flight behavior for projectiles enhances how combat feels and looks; rounds fired can overshoot and hit unintended or tightly grouped targets.
- Target acquisition logic has been enhanced to take speed and grouping into account; stationary units are now much more vulnerable.
- Tactical options have been added in addition to Formations which expand the degree of control a player has immensely. Â Ships designated as Offensive, Neutral or Evasive have distinct behaviors both alone and in groups.
- Balance in both SP and MP has been rebuilt from the ground up, bringing with it many bug fixes and additional features.
- More than 6 months of intense effort resulting in dozens of bug fixes, graphical enhancements, and performance improvements.
- New design systems, controls, and features that expand the options available to Mod authors by an order of magnitude. Â Long-requested gameplay features are now trivial instead of hacks; many systems have options and features developed explicitly for Mod authors.
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