Homeworld Free Download for PC is a real-time strategy computer game released on September 28, 1999, developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment. It was the first fully three-dimensional real-time strategy (RTS) game. Homeworld was the beginning of a series, followed by Homeworld: Cataclysm (2000) and Homeworld 2 (2003). In 2014 Homeworld: Remastered (Homeworld HD and Homeworld 2 HD remakes) were announced by the new intellectual property (IP) holder, Gearbox Software. The remakes were released on February 25, 2015. An upcoming game, titled Homeworld: Shipbreakers, is currently being developed by Blackbird Interactive.
Homeworld was developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment in 1999. Author Arinn Dembo wrote under the pseudonym “Marcus Skyler” some of the game's background descriptions. Sierra/Vivendi maintained ownership of the Homeworld IP.
Sound engine
There were five hours of audio developed and included for the final Homeworld version. Due to the limited computing power at the time (e.g. Pentium MMX CPUs) and the limited delivery medium (650 MB CD-ROM) the developers had to write their own data compression routines. While the resulting product did not carry the Dolby Surround logo it would use the rear speaker if the PC was connected to a Dolby-2 surround sound processor. Homeworld Download free Full Version.
Sequels
In September 2000, Barking Dog Studios released a stand-alone expansion, Homeworld: Cataclysm, based on the Homeworld engine. Taking place 15 years after the events of Homeworld, the story centers on Kiith Somtaaw (a Hiigaran tribe) and its struggles to protect Hiigara from a parasitic entity known as the Beast. A full sequel, Homeworld 2, was released in late 2003. The game pits the Hiigarans against a powerful, nomadic raider race called the Vaygr.
Support legacy
Despite the end of support in 2000 by Relic and Sierra with patch 1.05, Homeworld remained mostly compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Graphical glitches may occur when not using the software renderer. OpenGL may be enabled by running the game in compatibility mode of Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 5). As the game is locked at a 4:3 aspect ratio, widescreen resolutions may be applied by editing the registry or by applying an unofficial patch with further fixes.
Source code release
In 2003, Relic released the source code for Homeworld to the game community; to work with the code one must sign a license agreement and become part of the Relic Developer Network. The source code became the base of several source ports to alternative platforms, like Mac, Linux, Pandora, Maemo/N900, or Android using the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) cross-platform multimedia library. As the source code's license requirements limits further development significantly the game's community aims for a re-licensing with the new IP holder Gearbox. In September 2013 Gearbox responded positively to the idea for a re-licensing of the already published source code, noting their efforts in supporting the modding community. Homeworld Game free Download Full Version.
Relic and Homeworld franchise went to THQ
When Relic was bought in 2004, the future of the franchise was unknown. In September 2007, THQ announced it was in talks with Sierra/Vivendi to acquire the rights to the series. These talks are reported to have finalised sometime in November 2007 with the title's trademark being updated to indicate THQ's ownership. After the acquisition, several Relic Entertainment founders and Homeworld developers left Relic Entertainment and founded Blackbird Interactive in 2007, to produce a space RTS without the Homeworld name and franchise license.
Gearbox purchases Homeworld IP
THQ went bankrupt 2013 and the rights to their games were auctioned on April 15, 2013. A Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to acquire the Homeworld franchise by the independent development studio, Team Pixel, finished with approximately $70.000, but was not the highest bidder in the auction.
On April 22, 2013 it was announced that Gearbox Software acquired the rights to the Homeworld franchise as the highest bidder in THQ's auction, with $1.35 million. On July 19, 2013 Gearbox announced the release of Homeworld HD and Homeworld 2 HD remakes, along with the original versions of the games, for 2014. The stand-alone expansion Homeworld: Cataclysm was not announced for a remake, despite the outspoken interest of Gearbox, as it has been reported that the source code for this game has been lost while others report that potentially former developers have a backup and that the audio assets are available.
Additionally, Gearbox has granted Blackbird Interactive, a studio employing members of the original Homeworld development team, permission to use the Homeworld IP. Blackbird will restructure its upcoming game Hardware: Shipbreakers as Homeworld: Shipbreakers.
Homeworld Remastered
Homeworld HD was renamed to Homeworld Remastered Collection on March 6, 2014. After missing the original deadline in 2014, Homeworld Remastered Collection was released on February 25, 2015. The collection is released exclusively on the digital distributor Steam despite an announcement for multiple platforms. Also available for preorder was a physical boxed collector's edition which included a Mothership model, but not physical software, only a Steam redeem code. The standard collection includes the original and remastered versions of Homeworld and Homeworld 2. Both original versions, dubbed «Classic», are recompilations of the original source code with some compatibility fixes, while the «Remastered» versions are both built on an updated HW2 engine. The remastered versions have high resolution textures and models, new graphical effects, remastered audio, recreated cinematic scenes and support for HD, Ultra HD and 4K resolutions. Multiplayer for both games is combined into one centralised mode. Apart from the graphical updates, other game aspects were changed: for instance in «HW1 Remastered» as also «HW1 Classic» the end-track by «Yes» is missing due to licensing problems, and from the
«Classic» versions the LAN multiplayer mode was removed. «HW1 Remastered» changed the game mechanic noticeably as several features of the original HW1 engine got dropped due to the transfer to the HW2 engine: for instance the fuel system, ballistic projectile simulation, and tactical formations are missing or ineffective. The game's community tries to fix these shortcomings themselves via mods, for instance by emulating the original ballistics system via the limited modding API's possibilities. A retail version with an installation disc but requiring activation via Steam was published by Ubisoft and released on May 7, 2015.[43] As of May 18, 2015, Steam Spy guesses by freely available Steam web API data that around 220,000 copies of the Remastered Edition were sold by Steam.[44]
Plot
For thousands of years, the Kushan survived on the arid planet Kharak, corralled into the temperate geographical poles by a vast hot desert. Scarcity of arable land and natural resources had colored Kushan history with near constant warfare between the many clans. One day, however, everything changed: A satellite detected a huge spaceship under the sands of the Great Desert. It carried advanced spaceflight technologies. More importantly, a stone with a galactic map bearing two coordinates was found: One, located at the outer rim of the galaxy, was Kharak. The other, located near the center, bore a name so ancient it was common across all their languages and dialects: Hiigara, «Home».
The discovery united the clans of Kharak. They worked for nearly a century on building the «Mothership», a vast ship that would bear 600,000 of them to their destination. Technologies that never existed before were developed. Central to the Mothership was Karan S'jet, the scientist who integrated the Mothership's control system into her own nervous system. She became the core of the Mothership and was known as Fleet Command.
The maiden voyage of the Mothership turned into a tragedy: As scheduled, the Mothership performed its first hyperspace jump, disappearing from its location near planet Kharak and appearing outside the Kharak solar system where it expected an engineering crew on board a support ship, the Khar-Selim. Instead, it found a hostile alien fleet that had destroyed the Khar-Selim. The Kushan managed to defeat the raiders and return to Kharak, only to find it in flames. Those left on Kharak were all dead. The chosen 600,000, in suspended animation, were the last remnants of their people. Once the cryotrays with the sleeping people were loaded aboard, the Mothership left Kharak behind for good.
The Kushan began their journey with an act of revenge on the fleet that had destroyed Kharak. Having captured an enemy frigate, they learned that the ships that had destroyed the Khar-Selim and attacked the Mothership, the Turanic Raiders, were mercenaries in the service of the Taiidan, rulers of a tyrannical interstellar empire. The Taiidan Emperor had ordered the destruction of Kharak merely because the Kushan's development of a faster-than-light drive was a violation of a treaty signed four thousand years before — a time that predated Kharak's known history.
The Kushan became aware of well-fortified Taiidan outposts along their way and set out to circumvent them. Their course took them through many hazards — a dangerous asteroid field, a turbulent nebula known as the Garden of Kadesh, in which a huge fleet of zealous adversaries lay in ambush, and a mysterious ship that took possession of whatever capital ship approached it. Occasionally, they were visited by the Bentusi, a benevolent race of space traders who sold them advanced military technology. Homeworld game free Download for PC Full Version.
Concerned that the Bentusi were giving aid to «the Exiles», the Taiidan Emperor orders their destruction; the Kushan fleet engaged the Taiidan and defended the Bentusi. The Bentusi revealed that the Kushan had once ruled their own empire long ago and were defeated in a great war, exiled from their homeworld and left to settle on Kharak. In gratitude for the Kushan protecting their tradeships, the Bentusi promise to summon the Galactic Council to consider the Kushans' claim to Hiigara.
The Kushan later gave sanctuary to a defecting Taiidan rebel, Captain Elson of the destroyer Kapella, who rallied others to his cause. With the help of Captain Elson and his rebellion, they penetrated the Hiigaran system blockade and engaged the massive Taiidan fleet, commanded by the Emperor himself, in one last epic battle. The Emperor mysteriously lashed out at Karan and put her into a coma, leaving the Mothership paralyzed. But despite the loss of their Fleet Command, and the superior numbers and strategies of the Taiidan fleet, the Kushan managed to destroy the Emperor and emerge victorious. The Galactic Council arrived shortly thereafter and approved the Kushan's claim to Hiigara, which turned out to be a beautiful lush world. Karan S'jet, who awakened from her coma after the Emperor's death, survived the extraction from the Mothership, and was the last person to set foot on Hiigara. Homeworld Free Download Torrent.
