😂

Thank you for telling these wonderful lores. Just wonder why the Homeworld videos being shortened from glorious 30 mins to under 15 mins while there is a lot more to cover in later episodes?

Grunting

fun fact: the mothership from homeworld 1 is likely the second fastest ship in the galaxy during the events of homeworld 1 with only the great harbour ship of bentus being faster. reason is the massive range that the hyperspace cores give.

It's such a great moment after spending the entire journey listening to the Kuun-Lan's captain refer to her as a mining ship. I did not tear up a little bit with pride when I was a wee lad upon hearing it.

Or right before battle with the beast, when Hiigaran captain showed them respect as warriors. Still nothing beats shouting damn ancient monster called Bentusi like scolding a dog!

Yes.

@@wojszach4443 I got in a lot of trouble for that mission bentusi;)

agreed

If you really think about it, Isaac Clark from Dead Space trilogies gone through the same character arc as the Kuun-Lan.

Melodrama counts as personality now? Do you think Tom Cruise is a good actor, too?

​@@DoremiFasolatido1979It's melodramatic to react to your people being eaten alive with horror?

I was actually reading that bit a day or two before, and I'm just like "lol". What a detail to add for a Somtaaw unit.

@@MacsLore I even got an art piece commisioned of well short stack waifu based off that from a good artist and getting a second... I may need help.

@@MacsLore Arinn Dembo was both the voice of the recon pilot and the writer of that bit of background material;)

@@mjd11452 can you share It please

@@mjd11452 Show us the short-stack! You know, respectfully 🤗

This is some good additional lore to the history of Kiith Somtaaw that I left out of this video since in the end I thought it was more suited for the inevitable Kiith Somtaaw Overview/Cataclysm video. But since it's here, have a pin.

Hehe.

Outstanding work ♥ Great to see so much passion still around. Homeworld was my first ever PC game and still is my all time favorite. It really is a journey the likes you rarely see (in gaming)...

It sadly will likely never be remastered. The source code is lost.

@@thorveim1174 same thing happened to games like strife and they still got a remaster via reverse engineering the code

@@cropathfinder The Legend of Pirates of the Caribbean Online is a similar story after the original shut down part of the community rebuilt the game using the info from any game clients they could get assess to should be even easier on a single player game

Moral of the story: don't deem source codes of anything as simple disposable items that don't deserve preservation.

@@michaelandreipalon359 definitely and keep backups so it doesn't get corrupted like that one mass effect DLC. Tho i don't think anyone really gave a shit about "pinnacle station"

It took three weeks of work, but damn I can't argue with the results.

Yeah this was the Fallout New Vegas of Homeworld

No wonder, this was made by the studio that made Bully and later dissolved into Rockstar games

Same here, about the Purifying Flame bit, though it might have been mistranslated from Discharged Rusty Pickaxe, I suspect. As for commitment, I rebuilt the ship in Space Engineers, was quite a thing to behold... did not find the Beast, but one similar called KLAANG, half the ship blew up, the rest drifts powerless through the void somewhere. On calm nights, when quasars sleep, you can hear the faint biiip biip biiip of my KuunLaan...

@@ShrekMeBe Such is fate of most Hiigaran motherships .

I wish you the best of luck.

Unfortunately it did not age well, but by all means: Try it and have an open mind. Behind that ancient graphics with low resolution and low frames is an absolutely stunning story with great people just doing their best in a war despite being mere miners.

@@leereiyuu What do you mean it had not aged well?

@@michaelandreipalon359 I mean you can barely play it nowadays. But it is still an old 4:3 aspect ratio game, you cannot raise the resolution to anywhere near where we are now etc. This would have been a perfect candidate for a remaster.

@@leereiyuu Thankfully, there are mods that can remedy that.

Maybe if gearbox finally makes that every ship class represent one of K'ith of Higarian society, they will be represented in interceptors or even better, destroyer or battlecruisers (but problem is, Cataclysm is officially non cannon, which is shame because they would be most likely put into mining vessels)

@@madkoala2130 The main reason is that the source code was lost due to Barking Dog being absorbed into Rockstar games and didn't want to make the game from scratch so it's easier to make it non Canon instead of giving the fans what they want. Personally I would say Cataclysm is still more canon to me than HW2 was. Sometimes the same studio doesn't have to make an expansion just to be Canon, heck even Hellfire for Diablo is the only official expansion for it and many still love Fallout 3 so yeah

I think both the Beastslayer's emblem and the regular Kiith Somtaaw emblem can be used for multiplayer ship design. Hopefully, we'll see an explorer-class vessel, or maybe even the Kuun-Lan herself during the campaign. I mean, why else would they show Kiith Somtaaw's emblem at the end of Deserts of Kharak if they didn't want people to get excited over more of one of the community's favorite Kiiths in the future?

​@@alduintheanti-dragonbornWell ido hope that we get to see some Easter eggs from previous games, maybe even some remnants of the beast or even meet up with some Somtaaw vessels. I'm sure that whatever we get from HW3 it's going to be epic beyond reason. For me the music from the legendary Paul Ruskay is going to make it just perfect

Here what I learned. These miners from the Karachi planet followed the science and military leaders into space. Once they got their homeworld, they decided to switch to modular mobile bases like Explorer class due to being useful in the ability to switch modules easily but to take advantage of newer tech whenever needed or replace lost modules whenever they were compromised. The hiigarian didn't know until they came back after they had fought with bentusi in order to get them thinking right again. They saw changing type of module might be better in long term ships like the mothership in homewolrd 2. Give them credit for requesting a custom ship that proved to be useful when despite times call for changes through your journey. I believe they reference this in homewolrd 3 by the protocol enacted in the campaign.

The Beast War will be covered sometime after I finish doing Homeworld 1. Then I can go ham on all the detail in Homeworld Cataclysm.

Eventually, yes. After HW1

I've said this on twitter, but it's worth saying again: Thank you for the work you and your team put towards making Homeworld Cataclysm.

@@MacsLore you are most welcome...about a quarter of the cat team are still making games together under the Kerberos banner, and watching something like your piece puts new air behind our sails after rough days. If there is anything about cat or hw1 that I can answer, within professional discretion;), feel free to ask or get in touch!

You've all done enough, Cirulis and co.. Same for your work on Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon.

@@michaelandreipalon359 thank you again, it does our heart proud to know anyone got to play and enjoy our lil Treasure Planet game!

Fortunately for us, Mandalore in his review of Homeworld Cataclysm said that when he checked with the studio, HWC was considered to be fully canon. While that does mean some lore consistency issues, it also means our beloved mining Kiith is truly a part of the universe.

Hope they do more heroics come HW3.

TAKE US BACK TO KHARAK- *boom* I retire those guys when ever I used them, always felt bad for them

Yeah, actually. The breakdowns were heavily influenced by the Freespace command briefing animations. I believe my actual thought process of the time was "wouldn't it be cool to try something like that here?"

FreeSpace missions briefings are the best briefings. Same for Ace Combat's.