Stormgate - The difference a year makes
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Check out some of the progress the Frost Giant Studios team has made on Stormgate over the past year!
Stormgate is being developed for Windows PC and is scheduled for release to Steam Early Access in 2024.
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Can't wait to see what it looks like a year from now!
If it keeps up the same trajectory, no one could deny this is truly next-gen rts. Can't wait!
I just hope they could jump out more from SC2, and introducingb more powerful AI 🤤
Graphics will improve? Lets hope they do
yeah, but AI seems to cost a lot, the first game I saw a good AI is forza motorsport, and I prefer to play against AI than against players.. its so good to have a good ai :D I wish so much the same for stormgate, but I think it wont match the budget @@sop_ness
@@sop_ness this game would be a great opportunity to go with a trained AI but that is probably very expensive to do. Maybe later on?
Gave me that Starcraft 2 Alpha vibes when shown the progession.
This game is going to be great!
Please modifying the viewing so that health bars are behind the units like in Brood War, as least when spectating. Currently the big fights are just a sea of bars attacking each other. It's worse for clumps of small units and it takes away from the action.
an option should definitely be available yeah
Not only behind the units, but also BELOW them. I really hate the current implementation, because the health bars ruin the silhouettes of the units when placed above them, hampering readability.
I really appreciate the studio releasing this! It shows you that they have been working on building this from the ground up and how far they have come while also managing expectations in the process. Well done Frost Giant
Load of crap.
@@ragedapeevo7560well aren't you a charmer lol
Played these games for 25+ years and had a fair few rank 1 spots held. It's just my opinion, the amount of money they had to develop this and this is the crap.@@JollyGreenWizard
25 mil to establish the studio hire staff plan projects and do everything is a major undertaking and while nothing can ever be perfect they did as good as one could under their circumstances. I am sure the game will come out polished and will be a fun experience. What I am worried about is how they take it further into the future and how the game looks 3-4 years down the road. That is the real challenge.@@ragedapeevo7560
Aren't all games built from the ground up?
Just imagine another year of development. Let them cook.
Boiled dogwater is still dogwater.
@@allanshpeley4284 bitter old man
@@Host00Die not really hes stating the facts... This looks worse than SC2 from 14 years ago.
The game still looks like a genric mobile game made by some students. Just terrible - yet the 5 SG fanboys keep posting "LeT tHeM cOoK" lol
More Videos like this so awsome to see the progress such a talented Team!
Beta will be interesting, hard to tell if it's good without playing. Ultimately it will come down to the strategic depth, we already know the engine is solid.
Not a huge fan of creep camps in their current iteration but I like the concept of having map objectives. Map design will also severely impact how the game plays so we'll have to see what they come up with.
Interesting stuff, definitely keeping tabs.
Let’s talk about The terrain side of things in terms of adding more details such as ‘exotic plants’, environmental /visual effects (such as Storms) would really add a lot to the visuals (Lightening Storms and blizzards for example) and different colour mists/fog in some areas and structures like ancient ruins etc to make the terrain more visually pleasing and engaging, such attention to detail really enhances the immersive feeling of the game for both the player and the spectators. ‘The devil is in the details’.
Completely agree. The terrain stands out as being kinda flat and boring. Reminds me Warcraft 2 even. Just repeated patterns, without variation. Also I could see adding a 3d topography aiding in making the terrain signficantly more interesting.
@@kbobkpop
Yeah visually it looks pretty bad, they have alot of work to do in that department. I expected an upgrade from at least Warcraft 3, not a downgrade.
I assume they focus right now on playability and core mechanics instead of fancy visuals with no depth but they really have to improve this. I dont expect Crysis 3 or whatever but simply a visual upgrade, I know it wont touch Starcraft 2 (sadly) but at least make it look better than Warcraft, im sure we got the budget for that.
(Also not to say Warcraft 3 would be ugly, I play custom campaigns in it to this day. This look how they are supposed to look there, its charming and fantastic but after so many years the "new big RTS should look better
Hoping there's another 10-15 steps by the time this comes out. Looks unrefined, loads of potential though :D
Yeah… obviously it’s unrefined that’s what happens when you see dev builds…. Why are you framing your comment so negatively?
@@hastyscorpionYeah, keep believing there will be some drastic difference six months from now. This game looks mid.
The 3 horsemen of the game dev apocalypse
Happy new year from Germany buddies
that is a Big difference indeed. cant wait to see how its gonna look in 2024. Happy new year!
Love how they used Minerals from SC as placeholder for their main resource
Awesome to see!🎉 Happy new year to the dev team!!!
Looking better and better! Hopefully its easily accessible
I love such "we did this in a year" videos :D
bigger the pride, bigger the fall
Great progress! Happy New Year!!
Gameplay first! That's the good approach :)
I know there was probably a good reason for changing it, but I love the old design for the splash damage tanks.
And I can't wait to play it in a year !
It still needs at least one year more.
Dear devs; I preferred the stronger team colours and units with more varied sillouettes. I know you know how to do this from your previous games, Make it happen.
These guys weren't on the creative side at Blizzard. They literally don't know how to do this.
It's come a long way throughout the year, but I really hope some of the decisions made, especially in the art department, aren't set in stone and will be revisited sooner than later. From my standpoint as a viewer, it just feels like a big mush on screen. Especially if you're not playing yourself.
it looks terrible. who ever is doing the art should be totally embarrassed. it is 10x to see what is going on compared to SC2. unreal
Art pass is generally the last to be finalized, not menuch point wasting resources on something you might end up cutting
@@johnnyfive-bc jesus christ this is dramatic. If you seriously cant see what's going on that much then maybe get your eyes checked
@@dekumutant I have great eyes and have watched thousands of SC2 games. I know RTS. You must have no standards.
@@johnnyfive-bc pretty sure that can be fixed, not really that worrying since beta isn't even launched. I'm sure they will address readability.
Awesome progress !!
Phenomenal progress!
Awesome! Cannot wait for this game - super hyped.
Also, Bladestorm ftw!
This is actually encouraging. I want to like this game so bad
Game play is enjoyable. But yes graphics still need some extra polish.
This is the problem. We all want a new RTS and it's clouding our vision. This game is just plain bad.
@@allanshpeley4284 except it isn't.
Take your time. We are waiting.
Awesome to see. You guys are doing a great job. Love the insight
Definitely can see the progress 😊
The game has a long way to go still - but if they keep up improving in big strides, I have full confidence that they’ll get there!
The stark visual leap cannot be undermined but how is it going on the "back-end" of stuff, new mechanics, improved systems from SC2 & so on!.
The technology we've built is arguably our biggest leap forward so far--that includes hyper-responsive gameplay, a working rollback prototype, support for up to 32 players, a globally distributed server network, and more.
Super excited for this y'all! Keep up the insane progress!!
Hopefully this means they've been listening to feedback about the look of the game, and released this to show that it can change between now and release. I know this take may seem a little far fetched, but what can I say, one can only dream!!! 😅😂
I like nearly everything I see about this game except how it looks. I seriously hope they do a major pass on the art style and the technical graphics. Currently it looks like a mobile game made for 9-13 demographic.
I'm convinced. I'm making an RTS fame
Whatever that Canon was with 3 legs looks cool.
Coming along nicely it seems. 2 more years should have it looking real good.
I'd give it 10 at best
I like the higher contrast between the units and terrain in the 2022 builds. Would like to see some of that return for better readability.
That’s what I was thinking. Like yeah, it looks terrible, but i can also understand it better! (Although to be fair there were far fewer units shown in the early beta builds)
A new year with more progress.
Looks great, cool video! I do prefer dec '22s lack of clutter, but can't wait to play in any case!
Damn and they just got all of that funding too. Here's to the next ten years of RTS :)
20*
I still play Warcraft now sometimes and I and many others would play it alot more if Blizzard would have not destroyed it, Reforged killed the majority of the community and literally broke half the game as well as taking out features for years while introducing crashes - they literally downgraded it back to beta, no wonder so many left to make this studio to actually develop something instead of down-velop their passion.
@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi Warcraft3 classic is still great in these days. IF blizzard just make the main game free and sell campaign and upgrade graphic, warcraft would be best RTS forever.
There are some mods that use Reforged graphic that can play on classic version. Blizzard was too greedy 😅.
What's the next stretch goal?
The gfx improvements!! Wow. Hope the deamon puke on the ground that spread like zergs also improve :)
I think you need a custom own font, keep it going, love u and what you're doing!
Can't wait to get my hands on the game.
great progress! nice to see notzerglings running about as well :p
more design up please!!
Can't wait to play this game
I’m not sure: on a wc3 map Terrans fighting minions of hell isn’t the most coherent setting.
Like eating pretzels with kimchi in an ice cream shop.
Pretzels, kimchi, ice cream sounds freaking amazing if you ask me
Very excited for this game! Well done guys, This looks incredible.
ok that progress is way better than i thought it would be gj.
Awesome - keep it up FG!
MOAR MOAR
Can we have something like a dev blog? Really excited for an eventual open beta!
Great work!
I am afraid of them leaning too into the neutral camps idea for gameplay since I am not to big on that game plan for an RTS style game, BUT if it is set in stone for their plans then I hope they do something more interesting with it then +$ and Siege units, I am down for vision control but I would like the idea of hostile world creatures (eggs hatching or something) timing until the MAP attacked players or something like that. Really change up and play with some ideas like that. But I am still looking forward to the game and eating up all the info they release on it.
Yeah I like that idea… Good suggestion and I agree, they need to do something different and not just play it safe. That’s the key thing that defined the original Blizzard, they used to INNOVATE and were not scared to implement new things. So far it looks pretty tame because nothing is new.
Keep going 🎉🎉❤❤
Great progress, I like what I see and I really want to get access to the tests, but for some reason I'm not lucky enough to get the key(
I played SC BW for 6 years and SC2 for 7. Let me tell you Frost Giant has a nice team of artists and developers and they've made so much progress in so little time. It's amazing. However, I wish you keep working on the readability of the game. From the showmatch and this video I can tell you that small units clutter the screen too much and it takes too much time to calculate how many small units are there etc. Maybe make them bulkier or a bit more fat like SC BW zerglings.
FG has a good team of devs, but their artists are terrible. And sadly the devs running the company don't have the experience to know they needed to replace their creative team a long time ago.
Awesomeness
Omg so Hyped for this !!!! ❤
Can't wait!
very impressive, from being 2000 game to 2010 in just a year, something rly worthy to brag about :)
Those in development models better be floating around in the game files damn it.
I feel like this is necessary, a huge part of the community doesn't realise how much can be done in a year and even in a few month. They also compare this way too much to SC2 which is a 10yo game that is very well polished now.
Oh really now? People compare this to SC2 because the whole marketing gig of this game and the reason it exists is as a spiritual successor of Starcraft 2, and when your product pales by comparison of course people will point it out.
@@br3ak_lol someone trolling
@@austinc6973He’s expressing an Opinion, which I happen to agree with. Your comment makes you sound like a troll if anything because you had nothing of value to add? I have contributed by giving some suggestions to what improvements could be made. What you got to add?
@@Wil_Dsense studio head played a huge part making wc3,they got vets from sc1, c&c, and sc2 but somehow this I'd a spiritual successor to sc2? I've watched all the marketing and nowhere did it say this was sc3.
It's a common theme from sc2 players to project there wants for a sc3. It's not sc3. They literally had to release this video because they were getting so much backlash over graphics from a community that hasn't even touched the unfinished game.
It's been ridiculous the amount of negativity from the community.
LETS GOOOOOOOOOO
Very cool
Very nice, let's see Paul Allen's Stormgate
Let's gooooo!!!!!!!!!!
huh?
Muy bonito todo, la parte que me llamo atencion fue esa unidad 0:23
I am pleased to express my appreciation for this short passage of music used in this clip sounds excellent! It’s ticking all the boxes. Very Well done on that front. I massively hope this is a taste of the Soundtrack for the Game. We just Hope they may improve upon the visual aspect, making the units more distinguishable and give the designs more character depth and feeling. I have the faith FrostGiant will get it done.🥶🩵
I think it will be fun if the feel of the shot improves like SC1
love the music
I hope for the same video with title next year
Seeing this kind of video without the iconic "clicking" noises feels weird ;p
Frostmoore hungers
Let's GO
how much will it cost tho?
To play? Nothing. It's F2P
TBD
@@user-ur4nl6dq2x nothign is truly free to play
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses" (Henry Ford)
Stormgate is just trying to be a faster horse
Not true. It's an ugly faster horse with a smashed in faced.
I don't like sc2 because I feel like there's a little bit too much micro management, but they eased up on that. Something else they also did was make comebacks more viable. I actually like it a lot! Do you know if there's anything else different? The quality of life features alone made me want to try it out.
I hope Frost Giant Studios will introduce a faction of aliens where the girl aliens have huge boobs and butts and wasp like waists, and the boy aliens have huge wangs and muscles for days! Oh, I guess I hope the game will be nice as well.
ya know, there are places you can go to see those things.
*takes notes*
Ok, go on...
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS@@FrostGiantStudios
Looks half decent, hopefully not just a SC2 replica
No that would be ZeroSpace, this is SC2 + Warcraft
This is for all the people saying that they don't like the artwork or how the game looks. BE PATIENT! It will get much better!
no it wont... these are a bunch of middle age men who should be kicked out of the game design/dev world. there is a reason they arent doing big stuff for big-budget games.
The thing is I don't want to be so much better because then I won't be able to play I have a laptop with a ryzen 5 5000 and integrated graphics if this game gets really good graphics so many people including me will not be able to play
@@djoctavio1234 I'm sure they'll have settings for that just like they do for SC2. Actually, pros often play with low graphics settings.
@@keizan5132 yeah but the thing is you can find a middle ground you can find graphics that are good looking and can still run on low end machines
this game looks better and better
I'd love to see this game explode with popularity after it goes gold.
Definitely glad they're creating a spiritual successor to Starcraft/Warcraft. The gameplay is good, but the graphics and models in there look like something from a bad mobile game and generic from some of the gameplay and its trailers (in which assumingly most likely cutscenes when the game is fully released). I thought I would be seeing graphics very similar to Starcraft 1 and 2, but this just looks cheesy and lame IMO. I'm still backing it and of course, not preventing me from playing it, but that's just a huge criticism I have for this. Hopefully, the gameplay and story will be good but will wait and see.
I wonder if we're going to be able to do visual packs, like in wc3. It'd be nice to be able to put in custom models and mess around with it. I think the tools should be there with the map maker.
Big Lenny is 18 forever bro
This is awesome. Gives a great perspective of how far it’s come. And it gives me a lot of appreciation for its current form. Most importantly, it’s super exciting to see the potential the game has as it develops.
readability went down 😭.
I hope they can make the units look less grey so you can actually tell things apart.
Can't wait to see Starcraft 3!
Happy new year! Can't wait 🎉❤
I'm so glad you guys decided to do more signed collectors editions. I swapped my backing as soon as I saw that. Oddly enough, I had SG wish listed before I even knew it was on Kickstarter lol. I'm hoping, at some point, you guys do animated series like Arcane, and then move into the MMO field. I'm sure I'll be old and decrepit by then, but it'd be cool to see.
Ah yes, make an MMO and ruin their business like blizzard did.
This is fantastic! At this rate it may actually look passable by the year 2100 and not like a soulless mobile game from 2009! Cant wait!!
Lol
I think the "Tornado Attack" in the newsest version looks out if place.
It looks like Warcraft 3 only stupider
And yet still people will complain about the graphics. You guys are making great progress can't wait to play!
It looks awful. Unfortunately, a lot of you guys drank the coolaid and aren't holding them to a higher standard.
This was supposed to be the "next generation spiritual successor to SC2" yet somehow looks far worse than a game that was released 14 years ago.
Because the graphics so far aren't up to par, period.
💯@@allanshpeley4284
What many don't know is that graphics are one of the last things to be optimized. I think that in 6 months they will be up to par and the haters will go to the cave.
@@allanshpeley4284 did you not bother to watch the video? The graphics are temp filler work in progress and they will be updated and polished before full release as the game is just entering beta meaning the art you are criticizing was from the alpha... this is basic game development 101 make the engine and gameplay mechanics work before the graphics otherwise you end up with something like Cyberpunk 2077 where sure everything looks nice but nothing runs or plays well.
Looks like the game needs 2 more years
I'd say more like 75 years.
age 38 , playing starcraft broodwar and WC3 and SC2 for whole of my life ! THIS GAME DONT HAVE SPIRIT guys ! this is just another rts game...with all respects this is not a game can make me sit and play over and over...
Finally someone who sees the light...This demo suckd hard...I couldnt play it for longer than 30 mins it was that bad..The only rts demo I played longer than that was 9 bit armies. That game reminded me a lot of old school Command and conquer but I just wish it was so pixely but thats the thing..
B-but the screenshots on Steam just after the announcement of the game in JUNE 2022 show the game in better state with better graphics. How is that possible?
Oh. You thought games with only $35M in funding are immune to overselling and underdelivering. Sorry that's not just a AAA studio thing.
Game is good, but not enough icing on the cake
Please make some changes to this game before it's too late. At this point in time it's just not it. But I will never give up hope