So this dev diary is a basic rundown on the systems the devs implemented in the game alongside a announcement that they're going to start live playtest for the current build of the game relatively soon.

It took a while, but 0.8 "The Fractured Empire" is finally up as a beta:
For the mod: https://www.moddb.com/mods/homeworld-rise-of-hiigara/downloads/rise-of-hiigara-v08-beta
For the engine, LIbrelancer: https://www.moddb.com/mods/homeworld-rise-of-hiigara/downloads/librelancer-rise-of-hiigara-08-beta-engine

This is the biggest update the mod ever had. The headline is fleet command. You can still fly your own ship like before, but now you can also switch to a Homeworld-style RTS view and run a fleet.

Build ships on your carrier, mine and refine ore, put down refineries, outposts and sensor arrays, research upgrades and keep everything supplied.

Your fleet keeps working while you're docked or off in another system. The map grew too, although you can find out by yourself without much spoilers

This is a beta, stuff maybe be missing, bugged out, or needs gameplay loop improvement, anything you see, please let us know, this is what testing are for :)

https://discord.gg/rFQ9Yb9eJe

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3810013687 My Steam Workshop, if you're interested

Hi dear gamers,

I have been a fool. A few days ago I decided to gift my nephew some games to spend some time this holiday season; amongst them, this particular game.

However, to my surprise, this little brat is lacking basic respect, and after a horrendous family dinner, I decided he was not deserving.

So here I am with a Steam CD key that was briefly in his hands, which I'm willingly giving away to any gaming enthusiast that will justly appreciate the opportunity.

Please comment something wholesome proving you're not a bot. First come, first serve.

I really hope this hopeless kid has not used it already.

Cheers,

Edit:

u/sandeep_sm claimed it for being wholesome with their niece.

Ok so i have literally been wanting to play a remastered version of HW cataclysm and so far there is a dead mod on steam workshop and an AI slop remaster. This shit has pissed me off enough to where I want to learn to code and fucking remaster this shit myself, but I literally dont know where to start.

Coul yall please assist

Hello All,

So google tells me that I can edit my PersistX.lua file to cheat my fleet composition for each mission start, however, I can't seem to find a guide on what codes are for what ships.

I'm playing the HW2 Remastered campaign with player patch 2.3, but even with the difficulty turned down, I keep getting absolutely hammered by the enemy who seem to have infinite resources on many missions...

I'd love to (with difficulty scaling turned off) load into mission 4 with half a dozen battle cruisers and just roll over the enemy. Is there a guide somewhere as to what to put into the .lua file for each specific ship?

Appreciated!

Edit: Adding Ship Codes for the future:

Hiigaran Shipyard:

{
      tactic = 1,
      type = "Hgn_Shipyard_Elohim",
      subsystems = {
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_MS_PRODUCTION_FIGHTER",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_MS_PRODUCTION_CORVETTE",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_MS_PRODUCTION_FRIGATE",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_SY_PRODUCTION_CAPSHIP",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_MS_MODULE_RESEARCH",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_MS_MODULE_RESEARCHADVANCED",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_MS_MODULE_PLATFORMCONTROL",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_MS_MODULE_FIRECONTROL",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_MS_SENSORS_ADVANCEDARRAY",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_SY_INNATE_ENGINE",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_SY_INNATE_RESOURCE",
        },
      },
      stance = 2,
      name = "Hgn_Shipyard",
      teamColourHandle = 0,
      hotkey = 0,
    },

Hiigaran Bomber:

{
          index = 0,
          type = "Hgn_AttackBomber",
          stance = 0,
          hotkey = 32,
          teamColourHandle = 0,
          size = 0,
          tactic = 0,
        },

Hiigaran Bomber (Elite):

    {
      index = 0,
      type = "Hgn_AttackBomberElite",
      stance = 0,
      hotkey = 32,
      teamColourHandle = 15,
      size = 0,
      tactic = 1,
    },

Hiigaran Pulsar Corvette:

{
          index = 0,
          type = "Hgn_PulsarCorvette",
          stance = 0,
          hotkey = 64,
          teamColourHandle = 0,
          size = 0,
          tactic = 0,
        },

Hiigaran Dreadnought:

   {
      tactic = 0,
      type = "Hgn_Dreadnaught",
      stance = 1,
      name = "NIS_Squad",
      teamColourHandle = 0,
      hotkey = 536870928,
    },

Vaygr Battlecruiser:

{
      tactic = 0,
      type = "Vgr_BattleCruiser",
      subsystems = {
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "VGR_BATTLECRUISERENGINE",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "VGR_HEAVYFUSIONMISSILELAUNCHERBC",
        },
      },
      stance = 1,
      name = "Vgr_BattleCruiser3",
      teamColourHandle = 0,
      hotkey = 16,
    },

Hiigaran Battlecruiser:

{
      tactic = 0,
      type = "Hgn_Battlecruiser",
      subsystems = {
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_BATTLECRUISERIONBEAMTURRET",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_BATTLECRUISERIONBEAMTURRET",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_BATTLECRUISERKINETICBURSTCANNONRIGHTSIDE",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_BATTLECRUISERKINETICBURSTCANNONLEFTSIDE",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_BATTLECRUISERKINETICBURSTCANNON",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_BATTLECRUISERKINETICBURSTCANNON",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_BATTLECRUISERENGINE",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_C_MODULE_FIRECONTROL",
        },
      },
      stance = 1,
      name = "",
      teamColourHandle = 0,
      hotkey = 134217744,
    },

Hiigaran Destoryer:

{
      tactic = 0,
      type = "Hgn_Destroyer",
      subsystems = {
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_KINETICBURSTCANNONDESTROYER",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_KINETICBURSTCANNONDESTROYER",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_KINETICBURSTCANNONDESTROYER",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_KINETICBURSTCANNONDESTROYER",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_DES_ENGINE",
        },
      },
      stance = 1,
      name = "",
      teamColourHandle = 17,
      hotkey = 67108872,
    },

Hiigaran Marine Frigate:

{
      tactic = 1,
      type = "Hgn_MarineFrigate",
      subsystems = {
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_VULCANKINETICTURRETHEAVY",
        },
      },
      stance = 2,
      name = "",
      teamColourHandle = 0,
      hotkey = 2048,
    },

Hiigaran Ion Frigate:

    {
      tactic = 1,
      type = "Hgn_IonCannonFrigate",
      stance = 2,
      name = "",
      teamColourHandle = 0,
      hotkey = 0,
    },

Hiigaran Flak Frigate:

{
      tactic = 1,
      type = "Hgn_AssaultFrigate",
      subsystems = {
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_KINETICBURSTCANNON",
        },
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_KINETICBURSTCANNON",
        },
      },
      stance = 0,
      name = "",
      teamColourHandle = 0,
      hotkey = 67108992,
    },

Hiigaran Torpedo Frigate:

{
      tactic = 1,
      type = "Hgn_TorpedoFrigate",
      stance = 2,
      name = "",
      teamColourHandle = 0,
      hotkey = 0,
    },

Hiigaran Defense Field Frigate:

{
      tactic = 1,
      type = "Hgn_DefenseFieldFrigate",
      subsystems = {
        {
          index = 0,
          name = "HGN_VULCANKINETICTURRETHEAVY",
        },
      },
      stance = 1,
      name = "",
      teamColourHandle = 0,
      hotkey = 134217728,
    },

These little invincible fuckers literally grabbed my fucking massive carrier out of nowhere and just stole that shit with my entire fleet chasing it, absolute nonsense.

I just got to Higara, the last mission I think in HW1 and I'm getting my ass kicked like crazy. I cant even beat the first attack fleet they just target down my mothership. I'm gunna keep trying but I want to know how difficult you guys find this mission.

I've been trying to play multiplayer skirmish with my friends, something we have done a lot previously, but since I got my steam deck the game will desync 5-10 minutes into every match. Singleplayer works fine, in campaign skirmish or modded skirmish, but multiplayer always desyncs.

Has anyone else had this issue and is there a fix for it?

Not a perfect copy of the official binary, but fairly close if you only play Skirmish vs. CPU. Decompilation is clean and close to the original source with as much of HW1's public source preserved as possible. Needs a legal copy to run.

Grab it before it's gone if Codeberg or the rights holders are unhappy with it.

Phantom Havoc Demo

My solo developed project is finally approved & released!

After much, much delay the Demo is now live for everyone to play. There is roughly 90minutes of game play, with quite a few features included. There are still some bugs to work out, but it's fairly polished and ready to enjoy. Had to take some time to myself and regather where this is going and which features to include so excuse the massive delay.

Demo:

Players have control over one playable faction, multiple types of units, from small fighters to large battlecruisers. Players are also able to build bases and defenses. In this demo level, players have to rescue and evacuate civilians back to orbit to complete the missions. Players also have the choice if they want to go on offensive and attack the enemy flagship & fleet command. Use traditional RTS controls, or take direct control of units.

Win condition: All civilians evacuated to orbit.

Thanks everyone for your support in this endeavor and the words of encouragement.

Hope you find it worthwhile to play.

Approved for release.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3552260/Phantom_Havoc/

Some ships I drew for a personal project, but was inspired by Homeworld, also did some environment concept art as well. Btw, i am open for commissions; you can PM me here or via [valahor@gmail.com](mailto:valahor@gmail.com)

In my humble opinion, the game campaign is divided into 2 sections:

Pre-Battle Cruiser phase and post battle cruisers phase.

The game is a slog before battle cruisers are available. I feel like I am just throwing AAVs into a meat grinder to protect my heavy railguns. I make formations of 12 AAVs and 6 railguns. And some times 12 LAVs to counter and rush down railguns. I found myself relying heavily on air strikes and having to rebuilt so many jet fighters. Bombers get too close and get shot down. Same with the A-10 gunships getting too close and being shot down. Only the jet fighters and their long range missiles were useful. And yes I destroyed the missile/anti air vehicles, the fortified turret hits air too. At some point I unlocked cruise missiles but those were kinda pricey but worth it at 500 CU but the cool down takes forever.

Then once I unlocked battle cruisers, I just steam rolled the enemy with a 8 battle cruiser and 2 support cruiser formations. I built a few artillery cruisers and assault cruisers but didnt like using them because of how fragile they were. 8 battle cruisers with 2 support cruisers repairing them was the formation that worked for me.

Assault battle cruisers were just too soft.

I am just not motivated to try harder difficulty because it would just mean I would just produce more AAVs to sacrifice in hard mode.

Other thoughts:

The Gaalsien Honor Guard battle cruiser you can capture is just a super heavy gaalsien assault railgun.

The coalition assault battle cruiser is a super heavy Gaalsien armored assault vehicle.

I didnt buy the DLC so I know nothing about Soban or that other faction I can not pronounce or remember to spell.

I'm using the new AI method to decompile Cataclysm and have gotten mission 1 working. I'm currently using several unit setup and UI files from HWU and Cataclysm Remastered and wanted to get permission to use their work before posting anything, but I was subsequently banned from the Homeworld discord with no message when I asked about it there.

If anyone could help that'd be great.

Anyone here remember seeing a specific trailer for HW2 around 2005/06...I don't know if it was official or fan made, I cant find it anywhere...its a 3d render of a fleet over pass...it starts off with a few fighters flying over head, then cuts to text screen saying something like "only you can stop the darkness"...then it cuts back to a larger fleet of ships including a battlecruiser flying overhead....anyone got a link or managed to save the vid???

Gearbox broke the docking for Kushan motherships in Remastered Collection Homeworld 1 Classic in their July '23 update (fighters and corvettes, instead, endlessly circle the mothership), acknowledged that they broke it, didn't fix it, then announced plans to never fix it. Well, I got tired of it, so I fixed it. And added widescreen support and fixed a couple related bugs along the way.

So here ya go: https://www.moddb.com/mods/docking-fix-plus-widescreen-support

Hey all. I've been working on a post Homeworld 3 story with some help from ChatGPT. Here is the tagline I came up with and the title:

An ancient legacy awakens. Beyond the known reaches of hyperspace, forgotten civilizations emerge, old enemies return, and a new threat stirs in the darkness. As the Hiigarans venture beyond the boundaries of their history, they will discover that reclaiming their Homeworld was only the beginning.

HOMEWORLD IV: THE FRACTURED REALMS

Story Synopsis

Decades after reclaiming Hiigara, the Hiigarans embark on an ambitious expedition into the unexplored reaches of the galaxy, seeking to uncover the secrets of the Progenitors, restore ancient technology, and investigate the mysterious hyperspace networks surrounding Balcora.

Led by Admiral Kael Soban, the expedition soon encounters forgotten civilizations, dangerous remnants of the past, and evidence of an ancient extragalactic power known as the T-MAT—a civilization whose technology may rival that of the Progenitors themselves.

Meanwhile, an emerging Coalition of Vaygr, Taiidan, and Turanic forces secretly monitors the expedition. Its mysterious leader sees an opportunity to strike at Hiigara while its defenders are scattered, setting the stage for a devastating siege that will test the very survival of the Homeworld.

As old enemies become unexpected allies, the Hiigarans must unite their scattered fleets, rediscover their forgotten ancestry, and confront a threat reaching far beyond conventional hyperspace.

But when Imogen S'jet finally returns aboard Khar-Kushan, she brings a chilling warning: the alien vessels encountered throughout the expedition are part of something far greater.

The battle for Hiigara may be over. The battle for the galaxy has only just begun.

I'm curious as to what the Homeworld community thinks about this.

(models from firmament & green moon)

So Here's my idea:

An insectoid species (not even related to the progenitors) discovers the wreckage of a bentusi ship, reverse-engineers the hyperdrives inside, and activates hyperspace, and this attracts the Taiidan Empire because they don't want competitors, so it's like halo: the Kys'ar are the human equivalent, a species desperately fighting an alien force that seeks to erase them, while the Taiidan are the covenant equivalent, a brutal interstellar empire that seeks to exterminate a whole species to preserve it's power.

What do you think?