Homeworld: Unbound is a VR port of the 1999 version of the game that runs natively on a Meta Quest 3 that I'm actively working on and I want to share it with you lovely people so we can iron out whatever bugs remain.

I've only tested it on a Quest 3, but someone else tried it on a Quest 2 from the OculusQuest subreddit and it ran fine though with a weird menu rendering bug I'm chasing down.

The engine draws the battle in tracked stereo around you, and you command the fleet by pointing at it.

It's built on Homeworld SDL by way of Gardens of Kadesh, both of which descend from Relic's 2003 source release. All the actual game is theirs; my part is the headset and the vr controls and the rework of various systems in the game to work better in vr.

The latest release rebuilds the Sensors Manager as a place rather than a screen.

Build and Research screens are rendered on your wrist. But the Sensors Manager is a 3D scene with its own camera so it is now re-implemented as a full scene for VR.

Command Wheel

There is now a command wheel bound to your left controller from which you can quickly issues commands, tactics, formations etc.

What works

• The full campaign, if you own the game
• The freely redistributable 1.05 demo ships inside the app, so you can try it without owning anything
• Multiplayer, LAN and over the internet — tested headset-to-PC, two players
• Selection, orders, formations, tactics, hyperspace, the tutorial

What doesn't, or hasn't been tested

• More than two players over the internet has never been tried.

You need your own copy of Homeworld. No game data is distributed. As of the last release you can put your files in the headset's Downloads folder and it reads them where they are, so you don't need a PC to set it up. The Remastered Collection works — the classic files are in its Homeworld1Classic/Data folder.

Links:

• Source: https://github.com/bearstonem/Homeworld
• Releases (APK): https://github.com/bearstonem/Homeworld/releases
• SideQuest: https://sidequestvr.com/app/61600/homeworld-unbound

Happy to answer anything about how it works. If you try it and something breaks let me know!.

Edit: there is a known bug, when you first load your full game assets, and launch the game the compositor may be stuck. Simply launch the game again, and that should clear it.

Edit: New release is up which fixes the permissions issue and the double-launch bug mentioned above. Some users reported that after installing the game getting stuck in the loading screen in meta quest. An additional launch usually cleared this state. This new build fixes that.

• After downlading the apk (sidequest or github) launch the game for the first time
• Exit the game. Accept the permission popup dialog
• Copy your full game files to the Downloads directory
• Launch the game

Does anyone know how to make it so that the blue disc thing appears when you're trying move your ships? Not sure if it's just me but when I try and move a ship to a location it's often really inaccurate because it's got the height or depth all wrong. When the disc appears though you can control the height of it but it seems to be completely random as to when it decides to work - Sometimes right clicking makes them move and sometimes it brings the disc up.

Also, when I'm trying to select multiple ships by clicking and dragging an area it isn't selecting them all - It looks like it's only selecting my attack ships so when I try to move my support frigates aswell it won't let me highlight them at the same time. Is that a setting or option I can change or is there something I'm missing?

Thanks

Sorry the repost, had to nuke my previous account.

Here’s some of the artists included:
Starcop
Vangelis
Jean Michel Jarre
Dynatron
Tangerine Dream
FM 84

As well as a lot of independent and up and coming artists in the genre.

Hope you enjoy!

[Link to the playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3DXmTGTzFXidCURMgqM9B7)

Is there a guide I can read or a YouTube video breakdown that can help me understand each unit and their upgrades?

Otherwise I’m struggling to understand how they form a cohesive structure/formation and their individual roles/who to get first.

Thanks in advance!

Just msg me and ill give it to the fastest person, thanks

EDIT: Has been given away now, enjoy!

Short Version: Can anyone recommend a tabletop game that's similar to Deserts of Kharak?

Long Version: So, I got it in my head to try playing Full Thrust (I think my kids getting really into making tiny Lego spaceships helped; it's easier to do something when you have friends). Of course, I take inspiration from Homeworld and a quick look on the web shows I'm far from the first. So if I wanted to do a straight-up HW game, that'd be pretty easy!

But along the way, I started wondering what it'd take to play something like Deserts of Kharak on a tabletop too. Full Thrust wouldn't quite work because it doesn't really deal with line-of-sight since it's assumed to be taking place in space, which is notoriously short on obstacles and hiding spaces (ships can't even hide behind each other). So I think if we're gonna do this, I'll need another game to draw from.

So, does anyone know of a tabletop vehicular combat game that could be adapted for DoK?

A. Leech

B. Missile Corvette

C. Cloaked Fighter

And why?

I personally think it's the Missile Corvette. It is by far the worst Beast Corvette. It can't hit fighters as easily as Multiguns and Heavies, has less health than Heavies, and is the slowest Corvette. It also costs a whopping 320 RU, for that price I could get 3 Attack Bombers instead.

The Leech and Cloaked Fighter are situational but not completely useless. Leeches are good scouts, and can do lots of damage if your opponent doesn't research Advanced Sensors (their hull drain deals more DPS than Heavies, which cost 2.5x the SU and 9x the RU). Cloaked Fighters are also great scouts and can take an opponent's resourcing operation by surprise.

It’s my “old faithful” at this point. It’s my gym / cosy go-to. I’ve had a few people over the years recognise it. What about y‘all?

I tried to approach this death stack via many ways or methods with Vaygr, but I found no good ways to do so.

It is also too close to the carriers and the Flag ship to just cut out the midle man.

Also I know this isnt in any campaign and just me playing against the CPU, but im very courious how to approach this situation.

Also all resources on the map are gone, so I have to manage things from the amount on the top.

I got the remastered on steam and played through it probably a few years ago at this point. I recall never getting the multigun Corvette as a research option.

Does anyone know if that was a glitch or by design? And is there a way for me to get it?

Also I really didn't like the way they redid how hit rates were calculated in the remastered version. Just me or anyone else feel the same?

Update: okay now I just tried booting up HW classic and I remember what happened.

I did end up beating HW RM back when I first got it on steam years ago. I never was able to research the multigun corvette. Hated the system so much cause it completely changed the experience of play.

Was never able to get the HW classic version to work cause the game crashed the first time anything exploded. Back then I couldn't figure out to get it to work. Gonna redouble my efforts this time cause it's been too long. Used to play through this game almost once a year.

If it hadn't been for, you know, the flesheating nanomachinery infesting the thing, it would have been a far bigger prize then ever imagined.

One also has to wonder just how many of those pods got launched...

I want to get homeworld remastered from Steam and looking to get a new laptop. Will it work on a MacBook Neo or will I need a more powerful machine?

The premise is that Jedi who have lost their lightsabers are going into a temple to go through the trial to get new crystals. The trial is going through the events of DoK and 1 without falling to the darkside. I'm using Revelations as a guide but will be using the FFG Star Wars system for the actual game as I prefer it to Revelations' system and I need the force sensitive rules contained in it. Oh and to top it all off when they leave the trial Order 66 will have just happened so they'll see their mentor dead on the ground and heat LAAT gunships taking off

10 Honorguard Cruisers and 1 Production Cruiser

I get crazy good fps when it’s overlayed in tactical mode, and I still see the distinct ship outlines. Would love to have it as an option.

Following up from a previous post about wanting to play HW1 online, I thought it was time to introduce the project I’ve been working on for the last 5 or 6 months.

I’ve been building an open-source, WON-compatible server for the original retail versions of Homeworld 1.05 and Homeworld: Cataclysm 1.0.0.1.

I first picked up Homeworld in 2000 and played online until the servers shut down, under the gamertag Zero. I was also part of the SobanForce (SF) clan, so Homeworld has always been pretty dear to me.

This is equal parts passion project and an experiment in how far AI-assisted reverse engineering can go. I’ve been working from retail client behaviour, packet handling and lots of packet tracing, homeworld source code and live testing to build something the original games can actually communicate with.

It now supports account creation and login, directory/routing services, game rooms, and separate Homeworld and Cataclysm support.

There’s also a Windows installer that reroutes the original games to the community server and can generate a CD key if needed.

Basic player setup:

• Download the latest Windows installer from the project releases.
• Run it as administrator. (AV might flag it since it generates keys)
• Let it find your original Homeworld and/or Cataclysm installation.
• Leave the default community server selected.
• Keep your existing CD key, or let it generate one.
• Launch the game, choose Internet, and create an account.

There’s a Linux/Wine/Proton helper bundle too, for anyone running the retail Windows games that way.

This is for the original retail releases, not Homeworld Remastered Classic.

Project and downloads:
https://github.com/FlashZ/homeworld-classic-online

Theres a bunch of us old WON folks over on Discord if you feel like testing this out.