How to Reproduce
- Run mission 2 from Homeworld 1
Description
The game just closes, and the program exits without warnings or dialogue boxes. This also means that if you are in the middle of the mission or near then end and it exits. You would need to restart the mission from the beginning.
You are able to reload from the start of the mission a second time and play through it. However other missions along the way also caused this.
Personal Notes
I loved Homeworld. Played it when it was first out back in 1999. Loved it then, love it now. The remastered is true to the original Homeworld feel. I still get the nostalgic feeling when focusing on ships close up and watching them do dive runs on capital ships, while the capital ships are firing their anti-ship guns back. Watching this just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. The beauty of it all, the attention to detail. The remastered collection has just built on top of that beauty while leaving the core gameplay the same (if it works why mess with it).
However .. the gameplay of the original still makes me angry sometimes. There are some really cool ideas on the gameplay. The most interesting being the one where all ships that you have that survived the current mission will go with you onto other missions. This is awesome, only if the game didn't feel like it was going out of its way to destroy any cool ships you have and not giving you any resources to rebuild your fleet.
One mission was you had to have your ships protect your mothership from on-coming asteroids by blasting them into space dust (or small particles that didn't do as much damage while your repair corvettes try and repair all damage as quickly as possible) The problem is if you didn't have a big enough fleet then your screwed, cause there is barely and resources to harvest to rebuild. With any resources there are, on floating asteroids as they float slowly out of the map (just fast enough to outrun any harvest ships) With all the asteroids coming you also have to have your ships dodging them else they get destroyed. I lost 1/4 of my fleet to those stupid asteroids, and I had a fleet bigger then the fleet cap because I was converting any ships my salvage ships could get a hold on.
Another mission you had to fly through the aftermath of a supernova (imagine extreme radiation) to attack a garrison station. Problem is that the radiation is deadly (of course) and will damage/destroy any ships not protected by space dust. Figuring out the space dust was difficult due to the nature of the 3D map and the space dust not being clearly defined. My tactic ended up being sending my frigates and capital ships in formation surrounded by some fighters. If my fighters start taking damage I would usually have enough time to move the fleet deeper into the dust cloud while maybe only losing 1 fighter, not maybe even none.
There aren't many games that I would obsess over from my past like Homeworld (and Total Annihilation) but the remastered collection is well worth it to me and let me go done memory lane (and fustration)
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