I just looked at our most recent list of voice actors who are contributing to Stormgate and I was so hyped. We plan to announce our full cast (beyond those names we've already made public such as Simu Liu and Chris Metzen) a little later into development, likely sometime during Early Access as we begin preparing for the release of 1.0.
Our first third faction content will be released to our playtesters April 30 (barring any unforeseen delays) in our Frigate closed beta—which will be confidential/under NDA.
When we made the decision to push back the testing date to get more playable content into the next playtest, we also decided to move the public (non-playtester) reveal to the future—no date for that just yet.
If you’re a playtester, you’ll be able to discuss the third faction and provide your hands-on feedback on the private playtest Discord channels.
We’re looking forward to working with our players to make Faction #3 awesome and can’t wait to get what we’ve built so far into our testers’ hands at the end of the month.
We’re glad you enjoyed the video! The upcoming playtest will give you a first taste of our third faction. From my perspective, it’s quite different from anything we’ve ever done before. Hope you enjoy checking it out.
So, from what I understand, there will be no more "creeps" to kill, the camps will be purely captured by just standing with units there? I hope it is that way. Because even though I liked to go wander around the map killing creep units, it was really frustrating knowing that the best way to capture the creep camps were by cheesing the creeps AI, and just going for overall shennanngans to be able to kill them fast, earlier as possible, and spawn as many fiends (or get as many veterancy) as possible.
That is weird though, because from the last update, they said that they hired a new dude to make some art and he was doing the art for the new creeps for the creep camps. So I'm not sure now if the new creep/camp system will actually have creep units to be killed, or not.
I can confirm that in the current design, you have to clear the creep camp for the capture point to activate.
Originally posted by keymash: hurry up already :D
I’d recommend not giving up on the SC2 campaign and watching some RTS content creators who’ve made excellent educational video series. That said, you identify a common problem for the genre compared to others when it comes to welcoming new players. RTS can be really challenging. Tower defense games may be an easier starting point for becoming comfortable with RTS.
We’re aiming to make Stormgate more approachable to new players than the previous Blizzard RTS games members of our team worked on, without lowering the skill ceiling.
When our game is out, maybe try starting off with campaign, customs, and co-op vs AI—those modes are a much better starting point for learning than trying to dive directly into competitive play.
/picardfacepalm
Is this an April Fools joke or is Stormgate going to get a better art style?
Edit: Samwise is a treasure.
Not an April Fools joke and we agree--Sammy is awesome and we couldn't be happier about working together again.
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