Stormgate Dev Tracker

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.

Appreciate the shout-out to our incredible UI/UX devs. We have more to come, so please stay tuned.

First, thanks so much for your support. We’re very eager to release the editor…when it’s ready. It has tremendous potential (our Turf War co-op map was basically built internally by one of our rockstar QA team members), but it will take time for us to get it ready for wider use. In the meantime, if you’re a modder or interested in modding, please join us on the Stormgate Discord where we have a modding channel specifically to talk about our editor. You’ll find a link on the Reddit sidebar.

Thanks again, and I can’t wait to see all of your creations!

Thanks for the support! We have a lot of work left to do, but we’re super excited about where this game is going.

Congratulations on your success! Love that you’re living the dream.

Really glad to hear you're having a good time! Thanks for being part of our community.

Monk addressed Weaver movement in his blog:

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Magmadons are the best stompy bois.

Stormgate is free to check out in Early access August 13. No risk to check it out and see if it scratches the itch. Competitive play shines—wait for our 1.0 to play campaign if you want a more polished experience as it’s still early.

We made a BuddyBot for Stormgate, which can act as training wheels while you’re learning. The UI is also streamlined so you don’t need quite as many inputs to do stuff, we have all the building, units, and upgrades in a compact grid, automated control groups, etc.

It still has a very high skill ceiling, but I’ve found it to be pretty easy to get new players comfortable enough to have fun using all the approachability tools.

Stormgate (I work for the team) is actively developed and free for you to try out on August 13. Our tech is pretty impressive—64-tick servers and we have rollback and global matchmaking. We’re in early access, so you may want to wait until 1.0 to play the campaign as it’s a work in progress. Players are enjoying the 1v1 and 3p co-op as we continue development. We’re going to be releasing an editor too if you’re interested in modding or custom games. You can also wait until 1.0 to try it out, but it won’t cost you anything to check it out next week.

We are taking the servers down for … reasons tomorrow. Be sure to check in. ;)

Pause is coming.