Stormgate Closed Alpha Update - Gameplay and Community Tournaments
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- Stormgate has been in confidential pre-alpha and alpha testing throughout 2023. Now we're ready to pull back the curtain and share a look at what we've been up to... with more to come.
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Frost Giant Studios thanks community member Chris Culp for recording and editing this video.
I love how this truly feels like an alpha test and not some marketing shenanigans. And I ABSOLUTELY love the fact that Frost Giant are keen on developing a great game first with it's own core mechanics, and everything else later - This doesn't feel like a forced e-sports feature only game but an RTS that will (and already is) grow it's own tournament potential just by existing and having players feed all their enthusiasm into it! Great work :D
lol cringe
@@whitneysmiltank Tbh it's more cringe to say cringe these days XD
@@WakoDoodle "XD"
Raeven sigues vivo amigo? Que cuentas?
I love how there is an idiot born every minute.
I clutched the final victory 😭(4:40), Scarlett did clutch like every other victory tho
All those familiar names at 4:13 make me so happy. Glad to see the big name sc2 vets supporting the game.
Man, these early tournaments with veteran players from sc2 is so reminiscent to me to the early gsl days in 2010 with bomber, MC, nestea, fruitdealer and others coming from sc1. the vibes are amazing, i cannot wait to get my hands on this game and am looking forward to what the esports is going to develop into. thanks frostgiant!
Yeah that were bizzare and exciting times, new crazy builds emerged all the time
man those are IDs I haven't heard in awhile. brings me back!
I've been following you all since Frost Giant was formed, I'm so excited to finally see people playing.
PARTING'S BACK?!
BIG BOI RETURNS
YEEEES
I am a Korean student who had enjoyed the StarCraft series.
I started playing StarCraft through my older brother before I went to school, and I watched the StarCraft 2 expansion pack come out while I was in elementary school.
Now I'm preparing to enter college, and I thought the StarCraft series would only remain in my childhood memories, but when I heard the news about Stormgate, I was so excited because I thought I could feel the fun of those days again.
In particular, as someone who mainly enjoyed campaign, arcade, and co-op mission, I liked the fact that there was such content as well as 1v1 leather. (Of course, after watching this video, I think 1v1 leather will be really fun, and I will play all the content when the game is released.)
I'm very grateful for making such a great game and for the frequent, high-quality communication.
I wish you the best in every aspect of this game, the studio, and all future games the studio will make.
I really appreciate you so much again.❤
Thank you for the kind words! Best of luck in college-maybe your school will have an esports or PC gaming club that will play Stormgate?
It is such an insane pat on the back to the engineers that the alpha tests have been so stable that real tournaments are possible. This game is gonna have amazing technical bones. I am so excited!
I'm curious if some of the recent (10 yrs] devops tools have made it easier to test the "bones of the game" and get data on improvements dynamically before deploying a community stress test.
I appreciate the direction you are taking with these videos
Haha the naming of the alpha-tests made me smile!
Keep the RA2 references coming!
I really like how the rythm of combat is looking right now. A little slower than brood war, a bit faster than warcraft 3, it looks to be in a good place not to be exceedingly APM intensive and reward different playstyles that don't necessarily rely on heavy short term damage through instant micro tricks, with perhaps potential for even more larger scale, longer term strategic/tactical focus, while of course micro will still be important. It should also make the overall game more playable / enjoyable by slower / less experienced players or players who don't necessarily enjoy playing super fast all the time but want to play a strategy game.
Longer battles allow players for more micro
Yeah i mean no matter what 500 apm do what 500 apm do.
@@greuju depends. First of all you don't get overly punished for not looking at the right place for 1 sec. Then depending on how much need for optimizing there is during various moments, more apm doesn't neccessarily give much benefit.
@@prometheus112 we can just agree to disagree. I've played rts since I was 7, and I think if the game requires more apm than dota, higher apm will skill gap lower apm players. You can simply get away with more mistakes if you're faster than your opponent.
@@greuju sure but at some point more apm gives less benefit, and how much you lose from being slower depends on the rythm of the game. I also played RTS since i was about same age
The future of RTS looks bright with Stormgate and ZeroSpace leading the charge, excited to play this game
Zerospace haha you Mean Stormgate and Tempest Rising dude and yes Aoe 4. Zerospace 4/5k steam wishlsting stormgate 35k tempest rising 34k
Dont forget about "Immortal- gate of pyre" ! the team from bliizzard and in my opinion the graphic and gameply is better than Stormgate !
@@haakonglindtvad5489 well i don't really care about tempest rising or D.O.R.F. since i'm not particularly a fan of the C&C style so i mentioned the ones i cared about
Yes rts future looks very bright thanks to stormgate, zerspace, aoe4, tenpest rising and immortals gates of pyre - really excited for all of them
AoE 4 is also very good
Best SG video so far, I think this is going to kick the hype train into high gear.
Thought the exact same thing, we can only hope🔥
I'm personally excited for PVE content more than PVP but I'm glad the team learned a lot from how their community labbed this closed alpha.
Same! Seeing those tables that people have made already and the rush tactics, meminds me why I don't play PVP :P I prefur the fun of a longer match than any buzz I get from a quick and boring win in a few minutes.
yeah, after seeing the roguelike mode in homeworld 3, I'm hoping stormgate goes harder into SC2's sorta half-story, mostly objective focused mode
like, I'm not saying it isn't going to be fun, but going into the game and knowing I'm going to have a death ray that can reach out and touch anything on map hits a bit different from selecting a card mid match.
coop campaign is going to be a blast most likely, only innovative thing I liked about RA3.
Your team has a kind of passion for stormgate that I haven't seen in a dev team for a long time. My friends and I are supporting this amazing work all the way through!
I love that you guys started this! I cant wait to get my hands on it. You guys are legends
Really nice Video great work
Holy crap seeing Mana, Parting, the Spanish brothers, Scarlett and more makes me feel like 2012-2013 Starcraft 2 again
Can't believe how good this game already looks. Great job Frost Giant! Looking forward to more updates soon.
Its so cool to see Fan from HOTS and PartinG from SC2 playing in this 🥰
Looks great, I hope that the final product has memorable OST, like Starcraft with those guitars.
Good luck!!
Realy cool to see all the c&c influence in unit design veterancy economy and UI acessibility. Then we have warcraft style maps and objectives with a slowed down starcraft control and micro for combat. L hope this game will unite a bunch of rts communities, since right now it would help solidify the reborn of the genre for a mainstream audience.
So many big name players helping test!
Loved to see Parting fighting
I've seen other recent RTS games, but this definitely gives off that familiar WC3 and SC2 look. Really like the particle effects and bloom, enough to make it look pretty without it being overdone.
It looks like a SC2 clone with WC3 elements, so unoriginal.
@UnsaltedCashew38 I mean they basically created that artstyle and it looks better than ever.
@@calebrobinson6406 Considering SC2 came out in 2010 and was the last Blizzard RTS. Any modern RTS will look better. Yes the art style is fresh but the unit movements and style of play seems like a copy paste of SC2.
Omg. This was such a good update! I feel so hyped about the quality of pro players and casters helping/playing/strategizing together on a joined Discord server. This is such a brilliant move from Stormgate. The information/feedback you guys are getting must me priceless! #Keepupthegoodwork!
Siiiiicccckkkk I'm so excited to experience a new competitive RTS again!
Wish u guys all the best. RTS games were my childhood. The first games I got with my PC were War3 and Aoe2. You have a long road ahead but I know you will make something special. And not just u guys, but all RTS studios that want to make something special deserve praise for what u do.
Oh, the music is so good! It gives me shivers.
awesome, awesome... AWESOME :D :D :D
Please take your time with this game. I know it surely is in high demand and people are eager to see it released, but dont let that desire to give the people your produect to become a release that is foolishly early.
This video is gold. I see u guys are having lots of fun so far. Can't wait to play it
The future of RTS is bright
dang, Scarlett living the life taking names in multiple closed alpha games at once 😁
Wow, that is awesome to already see player tournaments in alpha! I hope to play the beta version!
FCKING JEALOUS that i didnt get invited XD looks like a great game in the making! Grand rising to Frost Giant Studios :)
Things are looking great. The FG team are really flexing their experience.
Please more Videos like this, This really Feels good to see from you guys. id love to see more Turnaments, Very Good Video.
Absolutely insane. I am so happy the RTS community is this enthusiastic about this game. I dared not hope you'd reach as high as you'd aimed but it seems like you are WELL on your way there. Best of luck!!!
Do you know are they gonna add the mod support ?
@@midnightblue3285Yes. We are going to give players a powerful new editor-the same tools we’re using to build Stormgate-to support custom maps and mods. We’re really excited to share more once we’re further along.
@@FrostGiantStudios Nice!, will there be a HDR, RTX and DLSS support too ?
Time to Kill too long and matches being all about creep camp means the competitive scene will be DOA. People will likely make custom competitive games until Frost Giant realizes when you try to appeal to everybody, you end up appealing to nobody. SC2 will continue to be the best RTS for probably about a decade unfortunately. The formula is there, no one wants to follow it.
@@bartonfile6569 Am I only one who doesn't like and found out the art design poorly designed ?
Taking inspirations from WC3, Starcraft, C&C, and Red Alert. I hope this game will become one of the best RTS and bring the golden age back!
Welcome back commander.
What a time to be an rts fan! What a great day when stormgate news comes out. Absolutely amazing video. It’s so interesting and heartwarming to see insights from the playtest and all the trivia and fun bits. Great work to everyone involved- developers, players and the whole rts community! Also great seeing scarlet and catz participate and share love in the rts community even tho they are working on their own game and a potential rival. Thank you to everyone ❤
As much as i understand the pvp aspect, I'm here for the campaign and eventually custom map possibilities . Wishing you good work !
Thanks for the update! Love how active the community already is
Now THIS is what I call an update
I can’t wait for Grubby to start playing and streaming this game.
He has been loyal to the WarCraft 3 game since Gandalf’s time, and the Blizzard devs have never listened to his advices for improvement.
Can't wait to see more videos. I'm so excited watching these tests :) My RTS's soul count on you guys
At this point even though I really want to play the full game as soon as possible, I'll just wait patiently because this is already looking awesome. I can't even imagine how good the full game will be.
Excited about all that stuff, really interesting ! Wish you all the best :)
Yo, this is actually looking dope!
Love including recognition from the community by name!
This looks really good! Fingers crossed for testing, I'm misssing good RTS game and Stormgate looks awesome for an alpha test! Good luck, Frost Giant, the future of genre is in your hands!
Looks beautiful! Will wishlist and sign up
This update hyped me up, just remind me of playing broodwar back in highschool, probably wont be as good player as i was back in the day but iu will definetly play this
We can’t wait to get you back into RTS!
So incredibly cool how much thought and love the testers poured into this. ♡
I'm loving what I'm seeing and can't wait to sink my teeth into co-op vs AI whenever it's available :D
Big Ups for making progress videos like this, exactly what we want to see!
Seeing names like mana, lucifron and parting is so amazing. I'm hype Scarlett is also involved. The eco zerg goddess is one of my favorite players and I'm bummed I didn't catch the game.
So thankful to be a part of it and loving every minute of it. Can't wait till the release!
Looks like so much fun!! I'm excited to explore a big new juicy RTS
Allready a better developer then most tripple A studios....
Thanks for your content.
Cant wait. Hope the Lore and campaign will tell an Epic story like WC and SC
This is looking great. The unit responsiveness seems right. It feels like starcraft 2 with a touch of warcraft 3.
I hope you guys include ground breaking campaign stories. I am not competitive I just have been playing SC campaigns since ages ago over and over and still love them to the stars
Loving the red alert references in playtest names :*
For the Algorithim! Good work Frost Giant! I have been thinking of this game ever since the Frost Giant Announcement! Please save RTS!
So far it's looking great! Hopefully Ill be able to play it soon!
I'm so pumped for this game. Thanks to all the Frostgiant Devs / associates for all the hard work and great communication. Crossing my fingers to get into the next playtest.
All I can say when I look at these is: too fast, too much Starcraft, miss Warcraft.
Thankfully mods are another big strong focus of them so we have to see but so far im not convinced since well..if I want Starcraft I can play Starcraft which also looks endlessly better than this boring cartoon stuff, even Warcraft 3 looks better.
It looks like a SC2 clone with WC3 elements, not very original.
I can't wait to get this game in my hands!
What a beautiful video! And what a great alpha, this is how you balance out a game, you let some pros have a good ol' brawl! :D
This content is better than any traditional marketing.. hyppped
I died laughing at Sgt. Fluffles.
I like how the community is helping with balance
So massively jealous but can’t wait to play myself one day
This IS what a blizzard…I mean Frost Giant looks like. Really stoked for this.
The future of rts gaming looks bright with Stormgate, aoe 4 and Tempest Rising
Im really looking forward to Stormgate!!!!!
Oh my God. I'm looking for this day from the very first day of announcement. I like rts, no I LOVE RTS. Strategy is my favorite type of game and I believe in you. You are the only hope for whole rts genre. 🙏
The potential for custom maps is insane.
Was luckz enough to try it! Fantastic and a lot of fun!
Do you think damage output is too low?
@@jumpyman23 I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say, but I'd say for the most part they landed where they said they wanted to (iirc between sc2 and wc3, around BW) so as a SC2 player I like it. You can also sort of see it in the unit comparisons part of the video.
Thanks for sharing all the fun that you and the closed testers and their viewing parties and highlights that we missed due to not being permitted to
Im in love, thanks Devs! Cheers!@
Holy moly, looks amazing and way too similar to StarCraft mechanics, thats beautiful! Hope I can play the next alpha :)
so unbelievably psyched for this game
Great job, Frost Giant. I’ve been following you since you guys emerged. I like what I see in these vids.
Alpha build, so I know, but I’d like to see more impactful effects in battles. As it stands, the units don’t feel like they are doing any damage to one another. Sound, visual design, and physics go a long way in making the battles feel impactful and satisfying.
For example: a widow mine hitting a bunch of marines has a satisfying concussive sound, followed by marines screaming, and corpses flying everywhere. It makes the user want to use widow mines just because of how good it feels for them to connect.
this is why we have the internet. so you can make comments no one cares about. good job. yes, alpha.
@@Jurand80 You do know that by replying, you proved that you cared, right? I mean, it somehow offended you, which is sad. Do you often find yourself triggered by innocuous suggestions you see on the internet?
Good to see you taking the time to build the foundations of a great game. Many games discount how important things like pathfinding and unit Ai are, the little things. Looks like you guys are covering all bases
I can't wait to play this!!!
Can’t wait to play this game
The hype got real when I saw PartinG 🤩
Very exciting to see the future of RTS, and very nostalgic to see a lot of familiar names from the starcraft community in the footage. Would love to hear more about co-op modes and 3v3s in future test/updates
Hopefully this game creates a nice large community for RTS returning to mainstream gaming.
LET ME IN!!! LET ME INNNNNN!!!!!
omg let me in 😭😭😭😭😭😭
So excited for the game! Thanks for all the updates (:
So exciting, can't wait to try out Infernals.
Did anyone notice the music???!!! Sounds AMASING!! BTW guys keep polishing the game and pls make it look not that toony!!! You have the potential!!!
Awesome video, thanks for the look in for those of us on the outside
Can't confirm fully yet, but one thing I'm beginning to appreciate about Stormgate... "Unit Names". SC2 has been so lazy with unit names by just adding "-er" to a verb. Can't wait for release!
Wow! So pumped to see more from the infernals! They are definitely the faction I’m the most interested in right now
This game looks incredible! I cannot wait to try it after watching this video.
So happy to see TLO Involved, SC2 early champ
I think this is awesome and exciting, I cannot wait to try it myself. This is so great that you are communicating with us about the progress and listen to players' and community's feedback.
The game looks very fluid and neat especially for an alpha, units do not seem to be cluncky or to have big pathfinding problems. I was gald to hear that on the technical side of the equation things were looking bright. Everything breathes quality even if the game is far from its final form.
Combat pacing and dps seems to be iun the sweet spot, I really can't wait to see how things will be with the second faction.
Tower rush being the first strategy used has given you the authentic RTS seal :P.
i can't overstate how glad i am to see damage values being reasonable with no aoe nukes everywhere
Yeah my least favorite things about StarCraft 2 are things like widow mines, disruptors, storm, etc. - "lose your whole army if you look away for 1.5 seconds" and such
Agreed to both comments..
can actually have a fight now.
Widow mines, or any set and forget unit is WAY too OP for mid players. I know how to get passed them, but consider the APM to do that vs what the mine does.
You hit E to place the mine. That’s 1 tap.
I have to forward scout with my lords, not get hit.. then army up in range, keep lings back, use 2,3,4 control groups, range shot kill it.
For 1 mine, all that….
Serral clears them fine. Agreed and true. Most players are in the gold/plat/dia range. I play random and easily the most ridiculous unit for no effort is widow mines. It eats gold/plat/dia players.
1 shot gets off, most gg out. That is super insane, from pressing E 2 minutes ago that you even forgot you did.
@@QQ-qz5ft Oh no look everyone this poor Zerg has to micro something!
@@tuhaggislol
It's a different beast sc2 you can lose your army way faster, but with macro rebuilding it crazy fast. If units die slower in the game, it will make a bank in resources. Idk I can't wait to try it. Dodging nukes were not hard in sc2.