If Homeworld was reminiscent of Battlestar Galactica, then Cataclysm should give the player the feel of Alien or The Thing.' Talking of Battlestar Galactica, the rumour of a licensed game proved false (although some chimps have actually made a model enabling ships to be used).

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• Homeworld is back. Sci-Fi Plot 348b. Barking Dog Studios apparently started working on Cataclysm a year before the original game was actually finished.
• Homeworld (1999) is a real-time strategy computer game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment. It was the first fully three-dimensional RTS game. Homeworld was the beginning of a series, followed by Homeworld: Cataclysm (2000) and Homeworld 2 (2003).

Warnings

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Key points

Mod friendly

Small but dedicated community

General information

Relic Entertainment Official site

Encyclopedia Hiigara - A wiki for everything Homeworld related

Homeworld Shipyards - A fairly old but big Homeworld fan site

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

The Homeworld Remastered Collection contains Homeworld, Homeworld 2, Homeworld Remastered Edition and Homeworld 2 Remastered Edition.

Essential improvements[edit]

Patches[edit]

Official[edit]

• Patch 1.1 - The latest official patch

Fan-made[edit]

• Patch 1.2 - This unofficial patch adds some added bug fixes and enhancements to the game. Note that it is largely incompatible with mods.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

Save game data location[edit]

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

Video[edit]

Windowed[edit]

Input[edit]

Audio[edit]

Localizations

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Issues unresolved[edit]

Marine frigate capture bug[edit]

Marine frigates are unable to capture enemy vessels. Once the capture-order has been completed, ship control is never transferred, even with repeated attempts.

This is not a bug. Relic disabled the ability to capture ships that build other ships in Single Player.

Issues fixed[edit]

Windows Vista/7 compatibility fix[edit]

Choppy/laggy camera movement on Windows 7 fix[edit]

Obsolete video card driver error message fix for modern Nvidia cards[edit]

Black screen, then crash on startup for AMD cards[edit]

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Middleware[edit]

System requirements[edit]

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Notes

1. ↑ ^1.01.1File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/244160/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (244160) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
2. ↑When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

1. ↑Pricing | GameSpy Technology
2. ↑Homeworld 2 on Windows 7

When I fired up the Homeworld Remastered Collection for the first time and played through the first few missions of the first title in the series, I actually had to stop for a while and try to sort my memories about the game in order to see what I actually remember and what I had created using the tone and the ideas of the game.

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I played through more of the upgraded experience Gearbox has managed to deliver and I re-discovered my love for the franchise, but as I played both titles, I could not shake the sense that something was missing.

Homeworld 1 and Homeworld 2 are part of the Remastered Collection and the new package comes with a lot of visual upgrades, including improved resolution, better textures, careful use of shadows, and more.

The vastness of space is even more impressive in the modern incarnation of the two titles and the gameplay remains as captivating as it was when they were first launched, with no current titles able to deliver anything similar in scope and complexity.

But unfortunately, Cataclysm, which was launched as a standalone expansion and offers a kind of side story, is not part of the Homeworld Remastered Collection and it seems that there are no plans to update it.

Gearbox seems to have tried to get the code

Apparently, the actual source code of Cataclysm, which is required in order to deliver the improved game experience, could not be located, the problem being caused by the fact that it was created by an outside company rather than Relic.

The story is focused around the Beast, an extra galactic creature which is able to assimilate ships created by other forces and can only be defeated by special weapons.

The gravitas of the first Homeworld is lacking, but the narrative of the small mining clan that improves its abilities and tries to battle this alien presence is uplifting in its own right.

The best part of Cataclysm is that it shows the kinds of side stories that could be created with the engine that Relic developed.

Gamers could envision more games exploring the Homeworld universe, focusing on pirates or traders or more exotic races.

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One of the best parts of the series is that it kept a lot of things vague, which Cataclysm exploited perfectly, and the game is a good case study for the potential full-fledged sequel that Gearbox has been mentioning.