
Unfortunately, Homeworld Remastered Collection uses the Homeworld 2 engine, so you have to baby your units a little more than fans of the first game may remember.This can make the difference between getting the jump on your enemy and getting caught with a meager force. Spread ship construction between your mothership, carriers, and shipyards.If you try and research and build every ship, you run the risk of having an unbalanced attack force and being overwhelmed. Find which ships fit your playing style and research their technologies first so you’ll have a template for the fleet you want in your head before you start the game. Researching and building ships takes a ton of time and RU.Build multiple resource controllers and keep them as near resources as possible to maximize collector turn-around time.
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Make sure your resource collectors aren’t having to sit around with the cargo bays full waiting to land. Your best bet is to build a few and keep them docked via the Launch Manager so that if an enemy takes your mining operations out, you can jumpstart a new RU flow. If you lose all your resource collectors to the enemy and you’re out of RU then you’re going to have to start retiring units to get enough money to build more. The most important concern while playing is to ensure you have a steady supply of resource units (RU). Don’t wanna move straight through a minefield on the way to your destination? Use waypoints to plot around it. After pressing ‘M’ to bring up the movement disc, you can hold shift and move the mouse up and down to set which height you want to move as well as horizontal movement. Don’t forget to utilize vertical movement. If you’re plotting long-range attacks or movements, this is the screen to use. Pressing spacebar brings up your sensors manager, which allows you to see a representation of all resources and units, both friendly and enemy on the field, and issue orders and select units. This allows you to quickly snap the camera in another direction and lets you still use the mouse to control your units.
Use the arrow keys to pan the camera instead of holding the mouse on the edge of the screen.
You’re in full control of the camera, so if you’re not careful it can be easy to suddenly find yourself disoriented. These tips are geared primarily towards online multiplayer gameplay, but can also be applied to campaign or vs. The 3D camera and movement add another whole axis to worry about that some may find disorienting, and the fairly strict strengths and weaknesses of the units may lead to defeat if a cohesive unit strategy isn’t considered. Although Homeworld Remastered Collection is classified as real-time strategy, there are some elements that set it apart from its brethren.