Homeworld 3's Weird Meta (skirmish gameplay analysis)

PROCLAIMER: This video is not a paid ad, unlike most of the others. I'd never take a bribe to shill a game or otherwise give preferential or censored coverage. I'm a Homeworld player of 25 years since the demo of the first game, and I wanted to make this to evaluate Homeworld 3 and give my findings impartially and with basis in my expertise and history with the games.

I decided to get to the heart of the gameplay of Homeworld 3. No better way than a 1 vs. 1 against the AI. I wanted to do actual MP (and I usually always would) but I read about people waiting in the lobby for 10m and I definitely wasn't risking that happening while I'm recording this all in one go.


#homeworld #blackbird #gearbox

0:00 intro
1:20 explaining the oversimplified economy
2:40 explaining how research is not a system of choice, but a pace forcer
4:00 contrasting Homeworld 3 resource spot spam with C&C ore fields
4:55 showing the "firing cone" of fighters, contrasted with HW1's fixed rotary cannons.
5:10 fighter backing-up hiccupping in mid-space
10:00 already saved up almost 30k(!!!) because the game expects me to SPAM loads of crap.
10:25 explaining how the old economy was always deeper and richer and more meaningful (it was still actually part of the game, whereas this game wants to obviate it)
33:40 explaining how range and the capital ship balance should feel
44:00 destroyers in "aggressive" being totally braindead and PASSIVE.
46:00 destroyers being absolutely pathetic against a similar number of frigates
46:05 frigates blobbing around me like hoverflies because destroyers are so terrible
46:00 a frigate prancing past my battlegroup utterly pathetically
47:30 my heavy battlegroup in "aggressive" being politely pacifistic towards the mothership during the flyby


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