Homeworld is the best 𝗦𝗣𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗬 Simulator 

🎵 Yar Har, Fiddle dee dee. All your ships now belong to me! 🎵

Fun Fact: In Homeworld 2, it's possible to yoink Makaan's dreadnought in the second to last mission. Meaning you can roll into the final mission with two dreadnoughts and Sajuuk.

The main reason why Homeworld has such a strong Battlestar Galactica vibe is because it was initially intended as a BG tie in game. As far as I remember, they had been working on the engine for a while, so that they could have a tech demo, and possibly a bit of story, before approaching the network about it. The network ended up refusing to open up their IP for a videogame tie-in. Instead of letting all that work go to waste though, the studio got together and decided to write their own, original story and that became the game that we know and love today. There is so much more lore, which has been left out of the game, but can be found in the game's manual. The amount of worldbuilding for this game is insane and it helps make it, its sequel, the prequel and the spinoff, feel alive as stories. I am looking forward to HW 3 with careful hype and I truly hope that the story turns out as amazing as the first one. Here's hoping for a new age of 6 degrees of freedom space strategy games!

Homeworld and Cataclysm were played to death on my ancient PC as a young lad, Cataclysm being absolutely the best and very underrated.

The radio chatter during Mission 3... ...I still get chills 😱

In the original, you can hear the guy's voice breaking. That and the music really made you feel that this game was something special.

He isn't wrong about Mission 3 by the way. It is straight up one of the greatest moments that will stick with you forever. Right up there with Cataclysm (Now emergence) when the commander is ripping the Bentusi a new one.

"Salvaging is like being a medic, except this medic steals your stuff instead of healing you." -ASpec, 2023

i remember playing this on dads lap decades ago, homeworld is and always will be the GOAT! i was super happy to see BBI's deserts of kharak recaptured the vibe (and had great radio chatter), i really hope HW3 isnt going to be a letdown.

I had never been as invested in a game as I was in Homeworld after mission 3. First time a game had ever given me such an emotional response. The dialog and music is just... amazing.

The best part of the ASpec shed saga is I have no idea if there's a real shed he's fixing up, or if it's all an elaborate comedic gag, but either way I'm here for it.

Quick note that the game scales enemy fleet sizes in some missions based on your fleet size, so when I rolled into the last mission with > 100 (salvaged) beam frigates, the corresponding enemy fleet was so powerful, they basically one shot my mothership. Eventually I learned to retire/self-destruct a large part of my fleet prior to starting missions like that.

I can still remember my first playthrough. My dad had bought a new PC that was finally able to play HW with more than 5 FPS. Every mission was a struggle for survival but everything went well until the asteroid. I barely managed to destroy it, but in the process I lost most of my fleet. The final fight was much too close. I was only just able to repair my mother ship again and again. Then came the reinforcements, which unfortunately were destroyed by bombers. Reload once and with my fighters as escort and the enemy mothership was destroyed. The conclusion of a truly epic campaign.

I got this game when it came out in 99, and I remember autofollowing my resource collectors and mind-larping as a lonely rock hauler pilot. Weird how nostalgic that feels now.

The fun part was in the original game there was no unit cap (there was a build cap for your own ships) so you could cap the entire map it was hilarious going into the final battle with over 100 captured Ion Figates and ships from other missions

Ah. Homeworld. Such a lovely franchise. Always had a blast throwing myself at the AI with reckless abandon

The fleet must grow.

The Terranic Raider carrier is considered a "Mothership" which is why you can't steal it. PS: Homeworld 2 has a mod called Complex that lets you play as almost all the races in the history of the series.

I absolutely love the Homeworld series, and it has all to do with mission 3. Fun fact, in the original game, Adagio for Strings does not start playing until you move the camera to look at the main plot point in the mission. The music was another thing that instantly drew me in, as it was a very interesting mix of eastern and western elements. Glossing over the great gameplay, the unit chatter, and voice acting was something that hasn't been surpassed since then, the understated tones, the professionalism, and the slight cracks in tone where their humanity, for lack of a better word, shines through just enough to remind you that while these are veteran soldiers, they are still just people, and there's a second, constant battle that goes on underneath the surface, in parallel to the space battle, to remain calm and collected. While made by a different studio, Homeworld Cataclysm, now known as Homeworld Emergence, intended to be a standalone expansion, had the same quality of voice acting. It's truly unfortunate that the source code for that game has been lost, as it would have been wonderful to play the remastered version of a horror-survival-thriller 3d space strategy.

A man after my own Homeworld heart! All your ships are belong to us!

Homeworld has always been one of my favourite games and I can't wait for number 3 to come out

Actually, the best Space Piracy game is *Starsector.* I'm surprised you don't have one video about this game in your channel. I can't recommend enough, it is super immersive, full of interactions and possibilities. Even better if you mod it to add more content.

“Welcome to the mothership! Here’s your ship back, and here’s a new uniform.” The random pirate who just got stolen: “Hold on.”

> "Piracy" simulator > Doesn't capture the Multibeam Frigates, Fuel Pods BOO HISS

Loved Homeworld. Loved Homeworld 2. These games are timeless.

Quick Google search says a supernova could cause damage on Earth at approx distance of 160 light years. Wiping out all life on Earth could happen at 25 light year distance. 200 light years away on that one mission works well enough. 20+ years ago, I had just graduated college, moved to a new city and didn't know anyone, worked 80-hour weeks. I remember playing HW 1 on my ad hoc desk of plastic bins and wood planks, in my otherwise empty efficiency apartment -- no bed or anything. I still think now that those circumstances made HW 1's missions, atmosphere, and music hit harder for me. Hearing Adagio for Strings gave me shivers the first time I played that mission, and I still feel a tiny little nostalgic frisson even now whenever I hear that piece. Your comfort level and irreverent humor got me subbed right away. Looking forward to checking your other videos, and hopefully I'll see your future HW3 content too!

Homeworld is an epic game from the early 2000s (Well actually from 1999)... Epic game store however is an epic failure of a spyware platform... PS: Capturing everything you can get your salvage corvettes on IS the only way to play Homeworld 1... There is this mission later on where you can capture an absurd amount of beam frigates if you just take your time...

The formations system of the original Homeworld game is something I missed when playing the HW2 game engine based remaster - though the latter is gorgeous. Tabbing through X, Wall, sphere, and other was among my favorite memories of the game. Their lack in the later HW2 game was due to an attempt to automate that function, but it wasn't as fun. I especially liked setting a bunch of mine layers in an X formation and letting them set up a minefield layer then stepping them forward a bit to repeat. Created a nice volume of mines.

Mission number 3 is the one were it really hits ... its absolutely perfect for the story and everything ^^

My partner is studying game dev and I had them play the first 3 missions of Homeworld for inspiration. We both cried...

This truly is one of my favorite games of all time and I will proudly say that the first time I played I salvaged every ship I could.

I tried the salvager-only challenge with the OG Homeworld about two decades ago. It went surprisingly well. Apart from building a few combat ships in the initial levels, I only used combat ships that I captured. Instead I sunk most of my RU's into salvage corvettes. I believe I maintained a fleet of over 50 salvage corvettes that I would throw at enemy frigates and capitals. Often lost half the fleet, but managed to capture some neat ships. Did have to do quite a bit of save scumming to capture the multi-beam frigates from the Kadeshi.

This is the game I have the fondest memories of! The battle cruiser blob one can get in the end is just the best. And even without the creative solutions, the game is just so good!

Even 2 decades later I remember that in Homeworld there were 11 heavy cruisers in the campaign. I know because I had all of them by the end of my very first play-through.

man i cant wait for the new homeworld, iirc you can steal ships there as well

Even if unrealistic, I really like how they showed the ships ramming each other in the sequences to show how maddened and desperate the salvagers are for ANYTHING out in space. This game seems to have those expressive moments. Then you use your salvagers, and it makes sense. Those things aren't just salvage craft, their interdictors! Kinda nice that they just let that be the vibe.

The original Homeworld was my very first pc game and I have always enjoyed playing it like you did in this video, hijacking every capital ship possible. The remaster is a nice visual upgrade from the original, since it was released some 15 years later. Can't wait for Homeworld 3.

You can use strickecraft in Supernova station and you definitively can capture ships. Thats usually where I capture my first heavy cruiser. You just need to be extra careful no to bring them outside of the "dust paths" (or dock them to move from one dust spot to another). For a "steal everything" playtrhough I must say you have stolen very little. I usually steal all Ion arrays, multi beam frigates, destroyers and heavy cruisers and also some carriers. I even know of some people have managed to salvage all the ion array frigates from Bridge of Sights. Then, I do use the save scumming a bit. Putting salvage corvetetes above or behind with something to distract the "prey" also helps.

The original Homeworld is one of my favorite games played back when it was first released. Looking forward to play the remastered version =)

Homeworld always reminded me of the closest thing to a Star Trek game. Star Trek really perfected the "problems in space, once a week" thing lol. While I was a 90s star trek fan, growing up with those episodes as a kid, the series is so old, its a wonder why there isn't a proper Star Trek style space game with a long campaign that feels like a season of the show - other than Homeworld. I just love the little self-contained stories with an overarching plot that develops at a slow and even pace.

"Piracy"? I'm sure you mean _high-risk trading._

I must admit that i was quite disappointed about the 100% reasonable balancing they did with the remastered edition by limiting the total amount of ships of each size you could own. Stealing and KEEPING absolutely everything in the Original version because there was zero Limitation to the amount of Ships you could have was just so much fun.

One of my fav things about this game besides the full 3D movement, lore, and music is the background chatter, made things sound more like there were actual people in the ships.

I played the original Homeworld in "Salvage them all" mode back in the day. They had a fleet limit on building new ships back then but no limit on salvaging them. Which lead me to play some stuff a bit out of order to get some of my own faction's ship earlier when I could. Lots of fun that. I ended up with like 5 carriers, 5 Cruisers, 8 Destroyers and 20-ish frigates. Including lots of multi beam frigates from the NPCs nebula faction(Kadesh?). Admittedly some classes, like carriers, were useless in larger numbers though. They did patch the fleet size limit pretty quick though from Cataclysm onwards. - Ion array frigates(the expanding reflector ones) are actually much more powerful then your own Ion frigates, but also much slower and quite fragile. Having 6 of those though guarding your mothership against capitals works very well even late game. - Multi-beam(Kadesh) frigates have broken AI(or broken model) so they can't actually use their beams all the time, but still they are awesome against corvettes and fighters. They just rolled weirdly while firing. You can't capture any of the Turranic carriers. I've tried. They would also be useless to you apart from recycling them. P.S. In Homeworld ships from the two factions have actually somewhat different weapon outfit. It's kind of equivalent, but not the same so against different targets one faction works better then the other one. I think the Taiidan had more projectiles and Hiigarans have a bit stronger beams armament. P.S.2: 23:00 I'm pretty sure that heavy cruiser is salvageable. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I captured every single heavy cruiser showing in the game.

Ah, the good old days. I remember the second timee I finished Homeworld, that was then one where I used the more environmentally friendly recycling tactic shown in this video (mostly because I wanted varied and colorful fleet). By the end of I had assimilated almost every single capital and supercapital ship that had crossed my path, Including, through sweat and tears, several missile destroyers. I managed to keep several ion array and multi-ion frigates until the last mission, so that my new kadeshi and turanic "friends" could have first seats to watch my triumph. Hella fun.

You are not wrong, HW1 was the king of the steal everything and give nothing back game... and the original didn't have a fleet cap so there was always a reason to keep around those older ships, even as they became obsolete... having a few of the Ion Cannon Array frigates still surviving to the end always feels like an accomplishment. That being said... there is an evil joy in playing the 150 Ion Cannon Frigate map and spending a day stealing almost everything on that map to the point that it makes just steam rolling over the rest of the game easy.

Imagine being in a bigass space battle and you hear a thud and your ship jolts, you lose control and start drifting so you think you've been hit, and then you get a transmission from a dude in fucking coveralls that looks like a boilerman saying he's impounding your ship lmao

You know in Karos Graveyard you can just build 1 gravity generator to trap the Junkyard Dog in - Ez win ^^

Sadly the window to claim the remastered collection has ended, however you can now wishlist Homeworld 3, a game I've been waiting for 20 years on Steam, using this link; bit.ly/Homeworld-3

It is a shame they didn't remaster cataclysm/emergence. At least GOG has it. Somtaw is best kith. I didn't realize they didn't include 2's capture cap in the remake. The piracy really was the best part of 1. That and the story.

S. Strategically T. Transfer E. Equipment to A. Alternate L. Locations credit: The Fat Electrician

Ah yes the “big fleet screenshot” gameplay type. This has been a staple since the game came out for Borge players and the times where videogame magazines published user screenshots.

Jank is a HUGE selling point for me

I used to do playthroughs stealing every ship, it was great.

Lol, that's how I played the game, having as much as possible salvaging corvettes. Also scouts are very useful to make the ai try to catch it and then have your salvage corvettes waiting to steal the baddies. I managed to have insane amounts of ships!

Absolutely fantastic walk down memory lane. I've got something like 2,500 hours in this game, and loved every single second of it. Thanks for the memories!! RIBBIT!

Someone needs to find a copy of the Homeworld Cataclysm source code so we can have a remastered of that. The screams. You never forget the Screams...

How the creators intended us to play Homeworld: A small group of survivors fight against incredible odds to reach their true home. How players play it : *Rocks up with a massive fleet and half the Ion Frigate sphere*, Karen's first broadcast to any vessels "Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us."

Best way for the scrap yard is just to go high up and over. There's no defenses there and you can dive straight down to the mission objective. Also the scrapyard dog can be disabled with gravity generators and pounded into spacedust without any danger.

I loved salvage corvettes I did the same thing as you. Some ships, I seem to recall, were impossible to salvage until badly damaged by you.

Homeworld is one of my all-time favorite games. My move was to put a few quads of salvagers high above the "plane" and once I engaged other fleets, the salvagers would drop from above, clamp on to those tasty capital ships, and yeet them back. Also, I had three support frigates on continual healing duty. And I downloaded the music group Yes's soundtrack and listen to it often.

A homeworld game with full battletech style damage modelling would be sick.

I never played the original but I played a LOT of Homeworld2 and loved the skirmish mode just for the battle strategy and tactics!

I played the original as a kid. i was maybe 10 years old. This is by far the best game i have ever played since, purely, for those 1st 3 missions. That, coupled with sitting, reading the manual as the game was installing on the hobbled together pc we had. "Everything is gone, Kharak is burining"

Holy heck, I played and adored Homeworld back when it first came out. For a space rts it has a surprisingly moving story. I would be lying if I said I was dry-eyed through Yes’ ‘The Ladder’ after the struggle was over. The concept art for this game got me interested in game dev and I worked as a concept artist for years. If you get the chance, you should play this. And steal everything you can with those salvagers :)

"The fighters and corvettes become useless early on." *Laughs in Sea of Lost Souls*

man i LOVE the designs of their ships, so clean!

I love the music in homeworld. Its so different from anything else i've ever heard in gaming and it somehow just works so damn well

The Music was always the thing I loved the most about all the games. Hope Homeworld 3 is just as good!! o7

In Space nothing is nailed down

I’ve never played any of the Homeworld games, although I did buy the remastered collection a while back. After watching this, I absolutely HAVE to play it!

You had me at "Space Pie"

Homeworld was always one of my favorite games and even though I don't play it often, I still listen to the excellent soundtrack!

Always nice to assign some repair corvettes to your salvagers. They're gonna take fire getting in and need some time to get out with the goods.

The real capture records were in the original Homeworld game, as you could use all your corvette slots for salvagers and repair corvettes. Homeworld 2 eliminated the salvage corvette and put in strict limits on what you can build or have in a fleet. The remastered games used the latter games setup, so even though you have salvage corvettes, you can't do all the tricks from the original... like letting fighters run out of fuel and kami-salvaging them. I have the remastered games and they do include the originals... however, when trying to play the first one I couldn't get anything to dock for some reason, and the turanic fighters killed themselves despite me keeping the Mothership on passive. Hope I can get it working without an emulator :P In any case, glad you had some fun with it. OH, the ghost ship, you use a scout to keep the fleet busy, then send all your corvettes and strike fighters/bombers. Oh, and if you use repair frigates and the captured carrier from 5, you can catch everything in 10. If you have the gravity ships, you can even get the corvettes and fighters etc. Or at least, you can do that in the original. In any case, my 2 cents, and have fun!

i love homeworld. i remember the ion frigate sphere mission very well. i had a couple of mine layers and gravitation field frigates and used them to destroy a few ion frigates to punch a hole into the sphere. after that, i snatched frigates from the rim of the sphere. At the start of the next mission, i had so many frigates, i could not see the end of the line. In the last mission i made my own ion frigate swarm around my mothership! In cataclysm (for me a better game than 2), they added a fleet limit, a good decision for gameplay reasons and maybe for lore (somehow you need crew), but it was fun to have so many more ships than you should have.

I think in one of the missions I managed to Hijack a total of 100 Ion Frigates, 16 Destroyers and a Qwaar-Jet Heavy Cruiser, losing some salvagers and fighters was worth it.

Even with maximum 8 salvage corvettes at once you can't capture the Turanic carrier. The carrier's engine is more powerful than all of them combined.

REALLY appreciate this tip pimpin! I've been missing these two games for a good long while now. Don't know if I dig the new "remastered" UI yet though. We'll see though I'm only two missions in.

Fun Fact: When I played this game awhile ago, I learnt that if you spent the time moving your smaller kinds of craft through the dust tunnels than you can use strikecraft or corvettes but their mobility will be impaired since they will fucking die if they go outside the dust tunnels. That's how I got the heavy cruiser during that mission, I will say though that slowly pathing your smaller craft through those dust tunnels is hell.

That's how I played homeworld back in the day. The best craft to steals was those white cruisers from that crazy race. Had loads of those in my fleet

the intro to mishion 3 had me in peices for ages. reallly sets the tone for the rest of the campaine.

I would love to see a vid similar to this but on HW2; was really entertaining to watch you give a quick overview of the game without spoiling much, and the Salvage Everything aspect was great

Mission 3 has OMG ALL THE FEELS!!! I love it!

I really resented what the remaster did. I played the original unpatched Homeworld from CD-ROM. They didn't have fleet caps, and I stole so many cap ships the jump in line was partly out of render range. Frigates could be relied on to survive battles with destroyers/cruisers, and each of those Spinning Multi-Beam Frigates was a carefully husbanded asset for my playthrough. Now frigates pop too quickly to be worth worrying about.

I remember being so into this game, but it was kicking me in the rear. So I read all the accompanying booklets containing admirals' tactics and formations, memorized all the ships' specs, and read all the history and lore. Epic. Had like a gazillion little Kadeshi ions (faster & maneuverable than other frigates) and other caps - imagine them all in wall formation such that you couldn't see them all on screen and can focus-fire anything in a few seconds. I think if you staved off attacking the Kadeshi mothership they kept spawning. Much jenk ^_^

The junkyard dog in the karos graveyard was counted as a corvette and thus was vulnerable to gravity wells. Thankfully, the taidaan are kind enough to provide some in the previous mission. So you can trap it and pound on the little bastard with you capital ships. It has a stupid amount of hp, so bring an extra grav well in case the first runs out of juice. Also stole about a dozen support frigates and just had them all heal my mothership in the last mission. Health bar barely moved even with the AI largely ignoring my fleet to shoot at it.

amazing to see one of my most favorite chad games on one of my best subscribed chad channels

Of course I see this video and find out it's free two weeks AFTER it ends.

oh sick, i remember back when Homeworld 1 came out. I really enjoyed the backstory.

This was the way I played this game the first time I played it back in the early 2000' using salvage corvettes to steal as many enemy ships as possible. Great fun. It's the only way to build your fleet beyond the maximum allowed.

My dad and i played this when i was a kid ive played it over the years. Cool to see it on the channel.

i remember an "ion corvette sphere" in the non remaster version; you could send a ship to attack (if it could take one ion it) and then immediately back up. they would focus on that target and follow you. then you could capture said ion ship while they focused on chasing you. and what fun, they dont count toward your maximum ship limit. So i would have like 30-40 ion frigate for the next stage making destroying the asteroid contraption unrealistically easy to complete

completed both campaigns... also Homeworld OST is fantastic

Very considerate with the spoilers. Appreciated.

They took our home. So we're gonna take whatever they don't leave nailed down. This is the ONLY way to play Homeworld

The kedeshi multi beak frigates are must-steals

I remember seeing homeworld 1 in a pc mag and hoping someday I would be able to play it. The hype train that magazine made was real. All these years later when Deserts of Kharak came out and I got to play the whole series, well the hype did not let me down.

On the ghost ship mission: "I'm gonna send my destroyers to blow it up" YOU FOOL, YOU FELL FOR THE CLASSIC BLUNDER! Also always send salvagers at any capital ever. I promise you the corvettes may blow up in one shot but the ships don't have perfect accuracy. Enough corvettes will be enough to overwhelm the ship and grab on and disable the ship.

The great wild lands mission I actually secured the carrier and destroyer. I use my strike craft to swarm and occupy the enemy whilst my salvagers had a guard detail pushing straight through.