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In Imagine Earth, players must protect and nurture a fledgeling space colony while wrestling against the forces of corporate greed and climate change. Brian Martel, Gearbox Software's Chief Creative Officer, has great love and respect for Relic's brilliant, fun and innovative franchise and personally spearheaded Gearbox Software’s acquisition of Homeworld from THQ in 2013. Its sequel, Homeworld 2, launched in 2003, and was similarly praised by critics for its innovative controls and changes to multiplayer. Following its release in 1999 by publisher Sierra and developer Relic Entertainment, Homeworld received several Game of the Year awards and redefined the RTS genre.

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The Homeworld series has a long legacy and is regarded by many as one of the best strategy series of all time.

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Anyone who purchases Homeworld Remastered Collection will also receive free access to the Homeworld Remastered Steam Multiplayer Beta when the collection releases on February 25, 2015. As a free bonus, this collection also includes the original versions of Homeworld and Homeworld 2 with compatibility updates, preserving the purest form of the original releases. The collection includes Homeworld and Homeworld 2, painstakingly remastered by Gearbox in cooperation with key members of the original development team and members of the series’ passionate fan community. While this feature is just at the beginning, you can already find something mystical when you explore enough desert planets.Homeworld Remastered Collection updates and introduces the landmark space strategy games to modern audiences. The new system not only benefits the stations, but also any other structure. Also, as a bonus for defeating a pirate station, it has treasure inside. This means a pirate base will spawn fully capable of defending itself. The challenge was that, blocks had to be placed and connected either afterwards or right away to a controller block that may or may not have been placed yet.įurthermore, the system is now able to spawn specific follow up structures, in this case, turrets. One deciding feature of pirate stations is, that they use a new placement systems, that enables randomly generated structures to use advanced blocks like weapons or docking. Most parts of this new station is randomly generated, and it's planned to make it even more random. Pirate Space StationsĪ whole new type of station has been added to spawn in the universe. If you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, you might get involved in a space battle between NPCs. Not only the pirates but also the trading guild sends out ships across the universe (and those to NPC factions are just the beginning). Patrolling pirates will avoid faction space stations, but pirate stations will still attack as long as they are not destroyed. They will also send out parties from their stations to nearby players, as long as that station is not destroyed. They will randomly patrol the space, and try to raid enemy ships. If a player repeatedly shoots a shop, the trading guild will send out a fleet against him.įurthermore pirates now operate much more focused.

One of the first example of this new system is that shooting a shop now actually has consequences.

The system works in ticks and can handle thousands of ships at once. The whole database migration from the beginning of the year was targeted to do exactly that as efficient as possible. It abstracts a ship to a name, and can move it across the universe whether it's currently loaded because a player is near, or only an entry in the database. This system is a new layer on top of the AI, that is already in place. Also, multiplayer servers were cluttered with spawned ship files of enemies that were very rarely used.Īfter lots of hours of work, a new system has been implemented: AI Universe Simulation. While the AI was now a potent opponent, it lacked the ability to fly across the universe on its own.

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This update introduces the new universe wide AI simulation system, as well as new generated pirate space stations, and ruins on planets.īefore I talk about the new features, here is a great let's play to start you off:ĭespite spawning AI, the universe of StarMade still felt somewhat lifeless, especially in single player.