{"id":10455,"date":"2011-02-03T16:42:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T06:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=10455"},"modified":"2011-02-03T16:42:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T06:42:01","slug":"homefront-pc-version-details-release-date-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=10455","title":{"rendered":"Homefront PC version details, release date change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homefront will now be released <strong><em>on March 17 in Australia<\/em><\/strong> in line with a one week delay.<\/p>\n<p>President and CEO of THQ Brian Farrell recently announced the change in release date on this today\u2019s quarterly investor call:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe moved our Homefront launch date by one week to\u00a0(March 1<a href=\"wlmailhtml:{912E957C-4F18-4B24-83B9-FA97839F0302}mid:\/\/00000187\/!x-usc:x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/8\/\">7<\/a><a href=\"wlmailhtml:{912E957C-4F18-4B24-83B9-FA97839F0302}mid:\/\/00000187\/!x-usc:x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/8\/\">th<\/a> in Australia)<a href=\"wlmailhtml:{912E957C-4F18-4B24-83B9-FA97839F0302}mid:\/\/00000187\/!x-usc:x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/8\/\">.<\/a>\u00a0 We think we have a great opportunity to dominate retail on this date.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While we understand that waiting a little longer for Homefront may be tough, we thought it would be a good opportunity to tide you over with some very PC-specific news of the great additional content PC gamers will receive in their experience of Homefront (created by Kaos Studios and a dedicated PC team at Digital Extremes, headed up by former Kaos Studio General Manager Frank De Lise). Please use the information below, but refrain from pulling direct copy from the body text.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOMEFRONT PC SPECIFIC FEATURES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Homefront will be a Steamworks title and will be available in 3D on PC with full NVidia 3D Vision support. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On PC, you\u2019ll be able to control all vehicles from the <em>1<sup>st<\/sup> person cockpit viewpoint<\/em> as well as <em>3<sup>rd<\/sup> person<\/em>. We also added <em>additional control options for helicopters<\/em>, to give those players looking for more sim-like controls something to get their teeth round. There are three settings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ace<\/strong>: Allows for the best maneuverability, but takes the most practice to master.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Veteran<\/strong>: Balanced difficulty and maneuverability.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rookie<\/strong>: Pick-up-and-play level of difficulty, least maneuverable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Get to grips with P<em>ractice Mode<\/em> &#8211; get to grips with vehicle controls outside the pressures of a live match<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>E<em>xtra vehicle abilities for co-pilots<\/em>, such as a Recon function to the Scout helicopter, with <em>support joystick<\/em> control for all vehicles.<\/li>\n<li><em>Dedicated Server Browser Executable<\/em> to allow you set your own private Homefront servers within 2 weeks of launch. <em>LAN support<\/em> will be included<\/li>\n<li><em>Squad Management<\/em> system for PC, with <em>Squad based VOIP<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Clan Support<\/em> on PC tracking more <em>post-match statistics<\/em> on the PC platform<\/li>\n<li>Homefront will utilize <em>Valve Anti-Cheat<\/em> to counter cheaters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">OFFICIAL HOMEFRONT PC SPECS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Minimum Spec<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7<\/li>\n<li>Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz<\/li>\n<li>2 GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>Shader Model 3.0 graphics card with 256MB of memory<\/li>\n<li>NVIDIA GeForce 7900GS or ATI Radeon 1900XT<\/li>\n<li>10GB of free hard drive space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recommended Spec<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows Vista or Windows 7<\/li>\n<li>Intel or AMD Quad Core 2 GHz+ CPU<\/li>\n<li>2 GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>NVIDIA GeForce 260 or ATI Radeon 4850<\/li>\n<li>10 GB of free hard drive space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NVIDIA 3D Vision Recommended Spec<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3D Compatible NVIDIA GeForce 480\/570 Series GPU<\/li>\n<li>NVIDIA 3D Vision Kit<\/li>\n<li>3D Vision-Ready Display<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i7 processor<\/li>\n<li>2 GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>Windows Vista or Windows 7<\/li>\n<li>10GB of free hard drive space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homefront will now be released on March 17 in Australia in line with a one week delay. President and CEO of THQ Brian Farrell recently announced the change in release date on this today\u2019s quarterly investor call: \u201cWe moved our Homefront launch date by one week to\u00a0(March 17th in Australia).\u00a0 We think we have a<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=10455\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10463,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455\/revisions\/10463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}