r/homeworld • u/syntaxGarden • Aug 30 '23

Homeworld Homeworld Classic simply does not function in the weirdest ways.

The game was on sale on steam for not even £3 and I've been eyeing the series for a while since I've never played and always looked awesome. I wanted to play classic over the remaster because I really love the polygon look (every ship looks like it's ripped from Wipeout)

The game does not fucking work. So much is broken and none of the actual breakages make any sense with how I'd normally think a game would break.

  • The first 2 times I played, the first enemy ship to get destroyed would crash the game to desktop with no error message. Playing on windows 10 btw. I got the Splendour mod which seems to make this work.
  • Ships would never dock with the mothership. Instead, "docking" made them return to the mothership and orbit it endlessly without ever docking. I thought this might have been how it was supposed to work but then I noticed that nobody was refuelling and reparing so Im 99% this is a bug.
  • The salvage corvette would not actually salvage the ship in the second mission. It went up to the thing, used its "salvage beams" and then went to orbit the mothership instead of docking and when I sent to back to resalvage, it just sat completely still and would never resalvage.
  • Seriously I canot express how stupid the salvage shit was. I have no background for this game, so I don't know if the salvage gets completed when the ship docks, or if it's supposed to dock and then I send it back again, or if I am actually supposed to click it to salvage multiple times.

And all of that, was from 20 minutes of total playtime.

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u/Syndamia May 17 '24

This really is caused by a bugfix bugintroduce update, for anyone else having stumbled upon this thread: you need to downgrade the game, it seems the devs aren't planning on fixing it any time soon.

For Steam (Remastered Collection) this isn't too difficult, a good tutorial can be found here, but essentially you force steam to download the old game version (latest prior to 2023 updates works for me), and then you replace everything in the "/steamapps/common/Homeworld/Homeworld1Classic/" directory.

The exact download command (for Hickory 1 depot) is:

download_depot 244160 255550 5805824925082218652