Homeworld 3, the third mainline installment in the series of real-time strategy games originally introduced by Relic Entertainment in 1999, has received updated PC specs following the team’s success in further optimizing the performance and gameplay of the title ahead of its release on May 13 on Steam and the Epic Games Store, developer Blackbird Interactive and publisher Gearbox Software have announced. Complementing the lowering of recommended specs are a year one roadmap and Collector’s Edition of the game, which includes a 14-inch physical Khar-Kushan Mothership, Homeworld 3 soundtrack by Paul Ruskay, and other bonuses.
Store links:
Collector’s Edition links:
Collector’s Edition contents:
| Physical Goods | Digital Goods |
|---|---|
| 14” Khar-Kushan Mothership | Homeworld 3 base game Steam Key |
| 3” Hiigaran Destroyer Figure | Homeworld 3 Year One Pass |
| 1.8” Hiigaran Torpedo Frigate Figure | Homeworld 3 soundtrack by Paul Ruskay |
| WW2-inspired spotter playing card deck | Multiplayer customization set (includes: banners, ship decals, icons, name colors) |
| Homeworld 3 logo keychain | Play 72 hours early (on May 10!) |
A look at those goods:
Year-one contents include:
- June Free Content Drop: New challenges and artifacts.
- July Paid DLC: New playable faction, new faction-starting fleets, artifacts and faction emblem
- August Free Content Drop: New challenges, new artifacts and new map & system.
- October Paid DLC: New playable faction, new faction-starting fleets and faction emblem
- Fourth Quarter Free Content Drop: New challenges, map and more new content.
The roadmap in full:
Updated PC specs:
Old PC specs for comparison:
A story synopsis:
Homeworld’s game-of-the-year winning story continues. Since the end of Homeworld 2, the galaxy enjoyed an age of abundance thanks to the Hyperspace Gate Network. Cycles of plenty and war have come and gone. Now the gates themselves are catastrophically failing and Karan, who has passed into myth and religious idolatry, is the key to the mystery threatening a galaxy’s future.