Homefront – сюжетно-ориентированный кинематографический боевик, в котором сценарий играет важную роль. В работе над сюжетом игры принимали участие известный голливудский сценарист Джон Милиус («Апокалипсис сегодня», «Красный рассвет») и бывший сотрудник американской разведки.

Авторы придумали реалистичный геополитический сценарий, согласно которому экономика США будет окончательно уничтожена второй волной кризиса, а набравшая политической и военной мощи Новая Корея (образовавшаяся в результате объединения северной и южной Корей) взорвёт над ослабленными Штатами ядерный боезаряд и оккупирует запад страны. Народ Америки, лишившийся регулярной армии, но не сломленный, продолжит сражаться с захватчиками, ведя против них бескомпромиссную партизанскую войну. Их главная задача – поднять восстание в Сан-Франциско, который стал базой оккупационных сил.

Главный герой Homefront - профессиональный лётчик – волею случая становится одним из повстанцев. И теперь ему предстоит пройти огонь, воду и медные трубы (то есть много бегать и стрелять, пилотировать вертолёт и танк, устраивать диверсии и взрывать вражеские объекты) и максимально приблизить час победы!

Минимальные:

* Intel Core 2 Duo/AMD Athlon X2 2.8 GHz;
* 2 Гб RAM;
* 10 Гб на жёстком диске;
* ATI Radeon 1900XT 256 Мб/NVIDIA GeForce 7900GS;
* Direct X 9.0c - совместимая звуковая карта;
* устройство для чтения DVD, интернет-соединение (TCP/IP)

The Homefront team is pleased to announce that PC Patch 1.0.5 is now available for download via Steam. A summary of a number of the changes can be found below.

MINIMUM PC SPEC:

- Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7
- Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz.
- 2 GB RAM
- Shader Model 3.0 graphics card with 256MB of memory
- NVIDIA GeForce 7900GS or ATI Radeon 1900XT
- 10GB of free hard drive space

Recent changes:

Client feature additions:
- Downloadable content pack 2 support.
- Ability pack 1.
- Server blacklisting support.
- Server image banner support.

Tweaks/Fixes:
- Fixed a voting logic issue.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the player from scrolling the player list in the pause menu.
- When The replay playback ends the user should be brought back to the recorded games menu instead of the main menu.
- Fixed a HMMWV stats issue in the Armory in Multiplayer.
- Spectator mode and demo recording mode now show the kill crawl.
- Players can now launch a recorded game by double clicking it in the replay menu.
- Fixed an issue that could cause vehicles to not be reliably destroyed when exited multiple times.
- Fixed an erroneous team kill messaging issue.
- Fixed a shadow bias issue which was causing strange looking lines to appear on a number of textures.
- Fix for unicode issues when downloading the entire global banlist. The BOM was not being added to the beginning of the unicode banlist data, which would break reading it.
- Fix for global banlist download: HttpDownloader can now download files that are chunked (if content-length is not received in the http headers).
- Fix for potential random drop from full dedicated servers.
- Fix for doubling of scores after match reset.
- Fix for stand to prone in water on crossroads after crouching.
- Fix for server side restart (scoreboard issues).
- Fixed issue with server leaving intermission causing a crash.
- Fixed problem with LCD manager not initializing or shutting down when using the checkbox under gameplay options.
- Fixed issue with weapon time played stat.
- Fix for minimap weirdness on team vehicle spawn.
- Improved spectator mode smoothness.
- Fix for being able to go prone in water. Does not prevent a player from going prone and then standing up in water, but I think players would have been able to do this before.
- Fixed 1st person air drones clipping through the ground on BigBox.

Balance:
- MP870 Shotgun
- Decreased full damage range so that weapon is less effective at range.

Dedicated server feature additions:
- Dedicated server tool frontend support for banlist end dates. When banning you may choose between a temporary or permanent ban, and temporary bans allow expiration date selection.
- Added a file chooser text box and imports for image banners to the dedicated server tool.
- Dedicated server tool now prompts for banlist on creation of new profiles.

Fixes:
- It is no longer possible to make a server with private slots reserved for a null clan..

NEW FEATURE – DEMO URL

* A DemoURL can now be specified in the server playlist, this is used to indicate the location of stored demo files to user’s in-game (see the multiplayer options screen). A good practice for server admins would be to share the demo folder via FTP, this would allow users to grab demos of games they starred in, and also (very importantly!) allow users and anti-cheat authorities to download evidence for cheat reporting. Incidentally, it is now possible to dump all users unique steamID's from both in-game, and in-demos to the console or text file (this will make reporting abusive players and enforcing bans incredibly easy).

Improved Squad Based Gameplay

* Players will now re-spawn at a point nearest to the closest member of their squad.
* Squad mates will now be colored blue on the mini-map and full-screen maps.

GAME BALANCE

* RPG's now deal additional damage to HMMWV's
* Lowered m200 and m110 sniper rifle damages. The only 1 shot possible is now headshots.
* Flak jacket now has a lower BP cost, and a slight effectiveness buff.
* Diablo damage adjusted
* Weapon is taken out of ADS and accuracy decreases when jumping.

OPTIMIZATIONS & FIXES

* The Rhino drones weapon attachment was not being properly moved with the Rhino drone on dedicated servers, causing the rockets to fire incorrectly. This is now fixed.
* We have added some animation optimizations for large player games.
* Several UI related improvements were added for large player games .
* Fixed scaling text zooming on Battle Commander when opening up the battle chat or squad UI.
* Switched the buttons around on the load out rename confirmation dialog to better abide by conventions.
* Improved SLI/CrossFireX support.
* A few reported issues with WinXP 64 bit edition have been addressed.
* Improved menu navigation with analogue controls.

General Improvements

* User feedback for kicks and bans has been improved.
* The intermission lobby now displays clan tags.
* Text chat is now possible in the kill cam, spawn selection, and intermission lobby screens.

New Settings & Control Options

* EnableD3D10/11 is now accessible via the system settings menu.
* Mouse acceleration is now accessible via the controls menu.
* Mouse smoothing is now accessible via the controls menu.