Stormgate Dev Tracker

Did you read our recent blog about the Future of our Campaign?

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Have you seen Return to Oz? The stuff of my nightmares!

Hey DrBurn-, thanks so much for sharing your perspective. Your support means a lot to our team. I will definitely pass on that you want a random co-op hero option! Hope we get matched up together in-game!

According to our community members, Stormgate apparently plays very well on Macs using NVIDIA's GeForce Now, but I haven't tried it, personally.

We are super grateful to Carbot for creating our logo and for being such great friends of the studio. We look forward to future collaborations with Carbot that we can share...

Fellow Heroes of the Storm fan here, glad you're enjoying the game!

See you in the global finals in 2025!

You can play the game for free and that's totally OK!

If you like the free campaign content and want to purchase more to support development, you can. It's totally up to you, and we understand players may want to wait until 1.0. before making that decision.

We released a blog recently detailing our vision for the future of Campaign as it continues developing during Early Access. You can read it here: ...

Yeah, no one noticed on our side either! The reviewer was correct when he said "It is possible that Frost Giant simply made an error in the FAQ." As soon as we learned of the error, we asked Kickstarter to correct it and to clearly label the entry as having been updated.

Our game is free to play—no need to wait to play once we release on August 13! Waiting on campaign sounds like a good idea if you want to experience it in its final form.

We definitely notice all of you who are supporting us. Thank you for being there for our team. :D

Will also share the request for Art Deco skins with the team. Keep the suggestions and feedback coming!

I’m glad you liked the preview for the “war-torn Resistance” Vanguard skins! I’ll check in on our plans around them and will share an update once I hear more.

Thanks so much for your support, fellow busy dad! It means a lot to our team.

The Early Access pack for $25 includes optional in-game content (which you can also purchase in the future if you want to fully unlock a co-op Hero and more campaign missions.) We’re also adding a bonus paid Hero to everyone who buys an Ultimate pack.

You can always wait for after you try out the game for free before deciding whether you want to support the dev team, but doing so now would get you into the game today.

We still have a lot of work ahead, but we’re excited about where we’re going. Hope you have fun in the game!

In the eventual “Esports Hall of Fame,” Lucifron and VortiX should absolutely be enshrined for being top competitors in so many different games.

Our game, Stormgate, is a spiritual successor to the Blizzard-style RTS.

Our free Early Access release is this coming Tuesday, August 13. (You can buy an Early Access pack to get in now, but I would only recommend that if you are happy with playing games that are still in active development.)

Our dev team includes many team members who worked on StarCraft II, including our chief architect who was responsible for that game's pathfinding and game feel. Our team built tech (we call it SnowPlay) that layers onto Unreal Engine 5 that makes it the most powerful and responsive RTS engine to date. For example,we're 64-tick, meaning the client responds to player inputs 64 times per second--most RTS games are 8-tick, and SC2 was 22-tick, which is why it still feels so great to play. That tech also means we can do stuff like include rollback netcode for smooth online play, something you typically only see in fighting games.

We also have global matchmaking and a...

We updated our in-game welcome message to confirm that we are working on our body proportions for cutscenes. We look forward to sharing that progress with you in future updates!

Thank you! All the credit goes to Monk for the write-up and our hardworking team for getting this patch ready and delivered so soon after our Early Access preview release.