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{{Infobox video game
| title = Homeworld: Vast Reaches
| image = HomeworldVastReaches.jpg
| developer = FarBridge
| publisher = Gearbox Software
| released = May 2, 2024
| genre = [[Real-time strategy]]
| modes = [[Single-player]]
| platforms = [[Meta Quest 2]], [[Meta Quest 3]]
}}
'''''Homeworld: Vast Reaches''''' is a [[virtual reality]] [[real-time strategy]] game developed by FarBridge and published by [[Gearbox Software]]. It was released exclusively on the [[Meta Quest 2]] and [[Meta Quest 3]], with plans to release it as a PC VR title later in 2024. It is a part of the ''[[Homeworld (series)|Homeworld]]'' series of games.
The game takes the mechanics used in the other ''Homeworld'' titles and adapts them for use in a VR game. The player controls units in "control groups," which allow for easier control in the VR setting. The plot takes place between the games ''[[Homeworld]]'' and [[Homeworld 2|''Homeworld 2'']].
== Gameplay ==
''Homeworld: Vast Reaches'' is a real-time strategy game set in space. Gameplay, as in most real-time strategy games, is focused on gathering resources, building military forces, and using them to destroy enemy forces and accomplish an objective. The game features only a single-player mode, as opposed to other ''Homeworld'' releases, which included multiplayer and skirmish modes. The campaign consists of a six to eight hour story-driven campaign broken up into 11 levels.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Stapleton |first=Dan |date=2024-05-02 |title=Homeworld: Vast Reaches Review |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/homeworld-vast-reaches-vr-review |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=IGN |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Stapleton |first=Dan |date=2024-04-03 |title=Homeworld: Vast Reaches Has the Homeworld Vibe Down Pat |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/homeworld-vast-reaches-has-the-homeworld-vibe-down-pat |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=IGN |language=en}}</ref>
To adapt ''Homeworld'' to [[virtual reality]], ships are managed by the player in "control groups," and the player builds units and manages each control group with virtual reality gestures and controls.<ref name=":0" /> The central ship of the player's fleet is the [[Mother ship|mothership]], a large base which in previous ''Homeworld'' games was where ships were constructed and upgraded. Resources can be spent by the player on building new ships; unlike in previous ''Homeworld'' games, ships are no longer constructed inside of the mothership, appearing instead directly inside of control groups. Buildable [[Spacecraft|ships]] come in a variety of types, which are discovered over the course of the game as the story progresses.<ref name=":0" />
The Quest gives the option to play the game in [[augmented reality|mixed-reality]] mode – the Quest's outer cameras will place the game's ships inside of the player's room around them.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Switzer |first=Eric |date=2024-04-04 |title=Homeworld: Vast Reaches Proves VR Is A Great Place For Real Time Strategy |url=https://www.thegamer.com/homeworld-vast-reaches-vr-preview/ |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=TheGamer |language=en}}</ref> The Quest 3 uses its color cameras while the Quest 2 only supports a black-and-white mixed-reality mode.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Camera controls use a combination of gestures, the player's vision, and the Quest controller triggers to allow the player a wide freedom of movement.<ref name=":2" />
=== Plot ===
The game's plot takes place between ''Homeworld'' and ''Homeworld 2'', when the Fleet Command Karan S’jet has disconnected from the mothership.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Space Strategy: ‘Homeworld: Vast Reaches’ Brings the Classic Series to Meta Quest Today {{!}} Meta Quest Blog |url=https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/homeworld-vast-reaches-launch-meta-quest-3/ |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=Meta |language=en}}</ref> Because of this, a new and more aggressive Fleet Command, Tyrra Soban, takes over as Karan teaches her how to manage the fleet.<ref name=":0" /> The fleet fends off a new enemy, which ''[[IGN]]''{{'}}s Dan Stapleton described as a faction of "techno-fetishist bureaucrats [...] that are easy to hate."<ref name=":0" />
== Development ==
The development team built ''Vast Reaches'' for VR from the beginning, focusing on the challenges of creating the controls for a VR ''Homeworld'' game as one of their top priorities.<ref name=":3" /> The release of ''Vast Reaches'' was announced on April 23, 2024 on social media, with its [[Meta Quest]] release date confirmed for May 2, 2024 and a PC VR release date later in the year.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-23 |title=Homeworld: Vast Reaches will bring the space RTS to VR headsets in May |url=https://www.shacknews.com/article/139602/homeworld-vast-reaches-vr-release-date |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=Shacknews |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kaser |first=Rachel |date=2024-04-03 |title=Homeworld: Vast Reaches is series’ first VR title, launches this year |url=https://venturebeat.com/games/homeworld-vast-reaches-is-series-first-vr-title-launches-this-year/ |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Reception ==
''IGN''<nowiki/>'s Dan Stapleton gave ''Vast Reaches'' a mixed review, calling it "an unsatisfying lite" version of ''Homeworld''.<ref name=":0" /> Stapleton noted that although the game captured the series's look and feel well, but that the simplified controls in VR were "underwhelming" and that it takes away some of the details that made ''Homeworld'' memorable.<ref name=":0" />
== References ==
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{{Infobox video game
| title = Homeworld: Vast Reaches
| image = HomeworldVastReaches.jpg
| developer = FarBridge
| publisher = Gearbox Software
| released = May 2, 2024
| genre = [[Real-time strategy]]
| modes = [[Single-player]]
| platforms = [[Meta Quest 2]], [[Meta Quest 3]]
}}
'''''Homeworld: Vast Reaches''''' is a [[virtual reality]] [[real-time strategy]] game developed by FarBridge and published by [[Gearbox Software]]. It was released exclusively on the [[Meta Quest 2]] and [[Meta Quest 3]], with plans to release it as a PC VR title later in 2024. It is a part of the ''[[Homeworld (series)|Homeworld]]'' series of games.
The game takes the mechanics used in the other ''Homeworld'' titles and adapts them for use in a VR game. The player controls units in "control groups," which allow for easier control in the VR setting. The plot takes place between the games ''[[Homeworld]]'' and [[Homeworld 2|''Homeworld 2'']].
== Gameplay ==
''Homeworld: Vast Reaches'' is a real-time strategy game set in space. Gameplay, as in most real-time strategy games, is focused on gathering resources, building military forces, and using them to destroy enemy forces and accomplish an objective. The game features only a single-player mode, as opposed to other ''Homeworld'' releases, which included multiplayer and skirmish modes. The campaign consists of a six to eight hour story-driven campaign broken up into 11 levels.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Stapleton |first=Dan |date=2024-05-02 |title=Homeworld: Vast Reaches Review |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/homeworld-vast-reaches-vr-review |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=IGN |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Stapleton |first=Dan |date=2024-04-03 |title=Homeworld: Vast Reaches Has the Homeworld Vibe Down Pat |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/homeworld-vast-reaches-has-the-homeworld-vibe-down-pat |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=IGN |language=en}}</ref>
To adapt ''Homeworld'' to [[virtual reality]], ships are managed by the player in "control groups," and the player builds units and manages each control group with virtual reality gestures and controls.<ref name=":0" /> The central ship of the player's fleet is the [[Mother ship|mothership]], a large base which in previous ''Homeworld'' games was where ships were constructed and upgraded. Resources can be spent by the player on building new ships; unlike in previous ''Homeworld'' games, ships are no longer constructed inside of the mothership, appearing instead directly inside of control groups. Buildable [[Spacecraft|ships]] come in a variety of types, which are discovered over the course of the game as the story progresses.<ref name=":0" />
The Quest gives the option to play the game in [[augmented reality|mixed-reality]] mode – the Quest's outer cameras will place the game's ships inside of the player's room around them.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Switzer |first=Eric |date=2024-04-04 |title=Homeworld: Vast Reaches Proves VR Is A Great Place For Real Time Strategy |url=https://www.thegamer.com/homeworld-vast-reaches-vr-preview/ |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=TheGamer |language=en}}</ref> The Quest 3 uses its color cameras while the Quest 2 only supports a black-and-white mixed-reality mode.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Camera controls use a combination of gestures, the player's vision, and the Quest controller triggers to allow the player a wide freedom of movement.<ref name=":2" />
=== Plot ===
The game's plot takes place between ''Homeworld'' and ''Homeworld 2'', when the Fleet Command Karan S’jet has disconnected from the mothership.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Space Strategy: ‘Homeworld: Vast Reaches’ Brings the Classic Series to Meta Quest Today {{!}} Meta Quest Blog |url=https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/homeworld-vast-reaches-launch-meta-quest-3/ |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=Meta |language=en}}</ref> Because of this, a new and more aggressive Fleet Command, Tyrra Soban, takes over as Karan teaches her how to manage the fleet.<ref name=":0" /> The fleet fends off a new enemy, which ''[[IGN]]''{{'}}s Dan Stapleton described as a faction of "techno-fetishist bureaucrats [...] that are easy to hate."<ref name=":0" />
== Development ==
The development team built ''Vast Reaches'' for VR from the beginning, focusing on the challenges of creating the controls for a VR ''Homeworld'' game as one of their top priorities.<ref name=":3" /> The release of ''Vast Reaches'' was announced on April 23, 2024 on social media, with its [[Meta Quest]] release date confirmed for May 2, 2024 and a PC VR release date later in the year.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-23 |title=Homeworld: Vast Reaches will bring the space RTS to VR headsets in May |url=https://www.shacknews.com/article/139602/homeworld-vast-reaches-vr-release-date |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=Shacknews |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kaser |first=Rachel |date=2024-04-03 |title=Homeworld: Vast Reaches is series’ first VR title, launches this year |url=https://venturebeat.com/games/homeworld-vast-reaches-is-series-first-vr-title-launches-this-year/ |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Reception ==
''IGN''<nowiki/>'s Dan Stapleton gave ''Vast Reaches'' a mixed review, calling it "an unsatisfying lite" version of ''Homeworld''.<ref name=":0" /> Stapleton noted that although the game captured the series's look and feel well, but that the simplified controls in VR were "underwhelming" and that it takes away some of the details that made ''Homeworld'' memorable.<ref name=":0" />
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
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