Before you play Homeworld 3, try this VR game as a primer

digitaltrends.com:

Homeworld 3 launches next week, but there’s a game Homeworld fans who own a Meta Quest 2 or 3 should check out right now. Homeworld: Vast Reaches, which came to Meta’s VR headsets on May 2, is a prequel set between the events of the first two Homeworld games. This VR game offers up the core Homeworld experience in a novel niche of the video game medium.

It’s not as deep or complex as Homeworld 3 looks, but it doesn’t need to be. Vast Reaches immerses players in the franchise’s universe once again and reacquaints them with the basics of its real-time strategy combat ahead of a highly anticipated new entry on PC. As such, checking out Vast Reaches should make this last week of waiting for Homeworld 3 a little less painful.

Homeworld, but in VR

Homeworld: Vast Reaches was developed by FarBridge, who has previously worked on VR games like Walkabout Mini Golf, Dragon Fight VR, and Jar Wars. Made with Gearbox Entertainment’s support and blessing, it boils Homeworld down to its core elements and rebuilds it in VR. Players control a new Fleet Command connected to Karan S’jet’s Mothership, which is the conceit behind how players view battles.

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This is a Homeworld game, so several large-scale space battles break out because of all the political squabbles happening in the story. During those missions, players command “control groups” of ships to gather resources and attack enemies by pointing at them in VR. To come out on top in a fight, I have to strike the right balance with which units I build and put in each control group. I also need to determine when and where to collect resources, fight, and activate other abilities that are on cooldowns. It’s simpler than the PC games but still hits all their core gameplay tenets.

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