Stormgate Dev Tracker

Our novel approach to global matchmaking with globally distributed servers has allowed us to bring together players from different regions for playtesting with solid results. You can read more about it here:

https://blog.hathora.dev/launching-stormgates-open-demo-during-steams-next-fest/

Originally posted by Othman2019:

Originally posted by FrostGiantGerald:
We're moving super quickly--the next playtest kicks off at the end of the month.

how to get into the playtest?

You can become a Founder via Indiegogo and get access to the upcoming closed beta test here:

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Originally posted by keymash: hurry up already :D

We're moving super quickly--the next playtest kicks off at the end of the month.

See you in Frigate!

Originally posted by ✪ Cartermatic:

Originally posted by FrostGiantGerald: Third faction will not be announced during Steam Next Fest. That will come later this year.

curious when we might be able to play team vs team games with buddies instead of just vs ai? obviously 1v1 is probably the main focus for competitive, but games w friends is always fun

Our 3v3 mode will be introduced after we release the game to Steam Early Access (this summer, if you're in the northern hemisphere)... Read more

Our player community was overall very positive about how we approached F2P with StarCraft II, and we plan to use that as our starting point. We don't plan to introduce P2W microtransactions, or any mechanics that create artificial annoyances or limit playtime. Our goal is to give players ways to pay for more of the content they enjoy, such as campaign chapters for Story or more Heroes for our Hero-driven multiplayer modes, as well as cosmetics for those who want them.

Otherwise, the core 1v1 experience will be free, which we feel is great for the health of the community (to increase the player pool for matchmaking, for example) and to make our game accessible and welcoming to more players than past RTS games.

We plan to support GeForce Now, if all goes well, which should be a good solution for Mac users.

Third faction will not be announced during Steam Next Fest. That will come later this year.

We are going to be inviting Kickstarter backers with wave 1 beta access soon after the conclusion of the Kickstarter campaign (which ends in less than 24 hours).

Hey Jesus, I really appreciate you asking and wanting to support our studio. It means a lot to us and we're grateful for the support.

Valve is an important partner for us and Steam policy does not allow for pre-sales that include beta access for Early Access games unless they are offered as part of a crowdfunding (Kickstarter) campaign.

We hope you enjoy playing our beta for free on February 5-12 during Steam Next Fest and we're sorry that we can't get you into the game any sooner than this summer, when we'll be in Early Access and open to the public.

Thanks again for your show of support!

Just chiming in to say this was a really cool thing to read. Thanks for putting your trust in us -- we will do our best to make sure we stay deserving of it.

We can't wait to share co-op too--the team is working on it. :)

We're working on it! Things are moving forward nicely, but this is a process and good things come to those who wait. Looking forward to having more to show soon.

Originally posted by Araon: I'd say it's just a reflection of a lack of trust, which is honestly waranted. With the insane ammount of big releases that keep marketing the next revolutionary product only to come out boring, unplayable or greedy, or all of the above - people are just sick of being lied to.

On the surface, Stormgate looks about as perfect as it can be. F2P with no p2w, single player, pvp and coop,hand-crafted engine to manage things that RTS games need which not many other games require, thus it not existing in many "off the shelf" engines, a comprehensive editor for player generated content...
If that's all true, it's going to easily be one of the best modern RTSes out there...

But that's just the thing - ...

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Thanks for checking out our gameplay reveal! Hope you love playing the game. <3

Originally posted by Kai: I dont mind the artstyle, i mind the lack of effort put in such artstyle. needs more detailing, animations for units, buildings and map objects, effects, shiny and glowy stuff

We're pre-alpha. <3

Magic: Good questions! More on demons later this year.
Melee: Our SCOUT unit currently has a slow on his bite. We've seen Lancers be an important part of most armies in our internal playtests. Melee feels pretty strong, I'd say.
Mayhem: We haven't revealed the next tier of units...

Thanks for supporting our game!

We're starting with one, then adding another, and then . . . who knows what happens next!

We have confirmed that we're going to have more than two, in case that helps.

Hi, everyone. We were recently notified of an error on our Steam Store page. It incorrectly showed that we were planning to provide full audio voice over for every language we will support (even for languages that only exist in written form!) This was a human error, and I'm sorry that this set the wrong expectations around our localization plans for some of you.

We want to one day localize Stormgate with full voice over in as many languages as possible. That said, voice over localization is a time consuming and expensive process, so this may happen long after our official launch—and we may not end up being able to provide it at all.

For our official launch, we aim to provide subtitles for even more languages than we currently have listed, but that is still to be determined. We will update our Steam page again if and when we’re ready to confirm support for those languages.

I had no idea people were so passionate about trees!

I hope you come away from the PC Gaming Show reveal feeling like we satisfied at least some of your curiosity! :)