Homeworld 3 has suffered a number of delays on its road to launch, but it seems the game is actually sticking to its May release date. In fact, publisher Gearbox is detailing the game’s post-launch content, which will focus on the game’s roguelike-flavored multiplayer mode, War Games, with additional free challenges and three paid DLC content drops which you can acquire via the game’s $20 Year One Pass.
“Today, we’re happy to share our year one roadmap will you all! These updates are aimed to provide players with a variety of content for the War Games game mode such as new challenges, artifacts, classes, systems, maps and playable factions. Here’s what you have to look forward to in the year after launch…”
- 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.
Gearbox has also provided a better look at the what’s included in Homeworld 3’s very pricey $175 Collector’s Edition.
Finally, in a bit of a departure from how these things usually go, Homeworld 3’s PC requirements have actually been lowered prior to launch. Here are the new ones…
Minimum
- Graphics Preset: Low
- Resolution: 1080p
- GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1060, AMD RX 480, Intel Arc A380
- CPU: Intel i5-6700, AMD Ryzen 5 1600K
- RAM: 12 GB
- VRAM: 6 GB
Recommended
- Graphics Preset: Medium
- Resolution: 1080p
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX 1080 Ti, AMD RX 5700, Intel Arc A580
- CPU: Intel i5-9600k, AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
- RAM: 16 GB
- VRAM: 8 GB
High
- Graphics Preset: High
- Resolution: 1440p
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2070, AMD RX 6600 XT, Intel Arc A770
- CPU: Intel i7-11700K, AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
- RAM: 16 GB
- VRAM: 8 GB
Ultra
- Graphics Preset: Epic
- Resolution: 2160p
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3080, AMD RX 6900 XT
- CPU: Intel i7-12700K, AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
- RAM: 16 GB
- VRAM: 12 GB
RT Low
- Graphics Preset: Ray Tracing Low
- Resolution: 1080p
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2060, AMD RX 6600, Inten Arc A770
- CPU: Intel i5-9600K, AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
- RAM: 16 GB
- VRAM: 8 GB
RT High
- Graphics Preset: Ray Tracing High
- Resolution: 1440p
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3080, AMD RX 6900 XT
- CPU: Intel i7-11700K, AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
- RAM: 16 GB
- VRAM: 12 GB
RT Ultra
- Graphics Preset: Ray Tracing Epic
- Resolution: 2160p
- GPU: NVIDIA RXT 4070 Ti S, AMD RX 7900 XTX
- CPU: Intel i7-12700K, AMD Ryzen 7 7700K
- RAM: 16 GB
- VRAM: 16 GB
Homeworld 3 launches on PC on May 13.
