I've played through the first 8 missions of Homeworld 1 and think this remaster is amazing. I don't think purists will ever be happy with any changes and those people can play Homeworld Classic. I mean it's been pretty clear, at least to me, that this was going to be running on the HW2 engine. Can't say I've had any balance problems... mission 5 gave me trouble my first try but second try I aced it and it's been smooth ever since.
I did run into a few bugs:
- carrier I captured in one of the earlier missions can't produce units
- sometimes salvage units don't behave properly and need to be "reset." For example I send two to capture a frigate, one attaches and the second refuses to do anything. I need to detach the first one and give the order again for them to capture
- one crash to desktop in 5 hours so far
- graphics are messed up if you use MSI Afterburner or other overlay programs (not really their fault)
None of these have ruined my experience or anything though. Time to continue my journey home
BTW I needed 6 salvage corvettes for the carrier, 4 for destroyer.