Stormgate Dev Tracker

Beta is slated to begin this year. It will continue into next.

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Please note that this was temp game designer art and the goodest boi pictured here is not part of Stormgate

Gameplay

• On Speed by Frost_ChrisF
• Destructible Trees by Frost_Swifty
• Rapid-fire questions including Faction diversity by Frost_monk

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Hi everyone, thank you for joining us for our AMA!

Across the team, we were amazed by the quality of the questions from this community. We are lucky to have you with us on this journey.

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Unfortunately, I don't have enough answer all these questions, but I wanted to share some insight to my games vs TLO. TLO has been helping us playtest for a few months now. For some reference, at my peak, I was high NA GM in WoL. And TLO is TLO.

• On his first day, after playing around a bit and learning all the units, he took ~2/10 games off of me. I was going easy on him, but on that day, I learned I could no longer go easy.
• After 1 week or about 10 hours of playtime, he surpassed me, winning over 50% of our games.
• If we were both trying our hardest today, I don't think I could take games off of him.

I think it just goes to show the immense skill difference between a decent player and an actual pro and how those skills transfer over.

Hi JonasHalle! As Tim said, we plan to show you more of the Infernal Host later this year.

We don’t have a date set for non-NDA testing or Early Access, though we are aiming to expand the testing pool and get Stormgate into many more players’ hands next year. We need to get through these initial tests first and take in player feedback before we can assess when the time is right to open the floodgates to the public or open the game up to streaming.

how will the damage and armor system look like?

- more like sc system (just numbers) or wc3 system (percentage based) ?

- how many armor and attack types?

See this response for above!

- different upgrades for different unit types?

Though we tentatively have weapon/armor upgrades ...

To add to Aaron's comment, I ran the Teamliquid Map contest, which was the contest used to feed into SC2 ladder maps for many years, so this is a question near and dear to my heart. Though this is technically a level design question, I see it as very much a faction design issue as well. From this perspective, we'll utilize the following strategies:

• Taking into account map design when designing units. Reapers, Siege Tanks, and Liberators, early-game speed Zerglings, and the easy availability of drops were especially limiting to map design in SC2.
• Adding what we call faction-specific early-game defender's advantages. This allows players to more easily defend pushes (though perhaps with a cost) without overly relying on the map design.

1. Yes, because of our production schedule, we were only able to show low/mid-tier units in our gameplay reveal. We have lots of thoughts on how to balance these high-tier units versus low-tier units.

• First, we'd want all the higher-tier units to have definitive weaknesses. For example, maybe an end-game unit can ONLY break turtles.
• We'll have late-game upgrades for low-tier units that put them back into the game.
• While early-game units will cost a similar amount of supply as they do in Blizzard RTSs, end-game units will cost more supply. Our thought here is that extreme late-game viability (at the time when resources are plentiful but you hit the supply cap) in Blizzard-style RTS depends primarily on supply costs. At an extreme example, a Battlecruiser costs 14x that of a Marine but only 6x supply. To that end, we'll be balancing supply cost more on extreme late-game viability, which will allow "end-game" units to not be the end-all/be-al...

Our attack/armor counter system will leverage a tag system similar to SC2. We found this to be a good compromise between an approachable system that doesn't require the memorization of an attack/armor chart and one that introduces granularity in terms of HOW hard units can counter each other.

One small difference is that some units will be able to gain bonuses against multiple types of other units instead of just one. This KINDA exists in SC2 where Banelings deal bonus damage to Light units and Structures, but it's done in a less systematic way.

Armor will grant % damage reduction instead of directly reducing damage by the armor amount. This is similar to systems that WC3 and many MOBAs use such as League or DOTA. Specifically in our game, 1 armor will grant 1% effective HP against physical damage. 100 armor will double your effective HP.

While we enjoyed the interactions we've seen throughout the years with breakpoints when you upgraded attack/armor (which ...

Thank you! Some people on the team did, in fact, take some well-earned vacation time after our reveal. I'm planning to take some time off myself, too!

Hi everyone!

Quite an exciting week we’ve had, right?

We recently revealed an early look at pre-alpha gameplay from Stormgate, our upcoming real-time strategy game, and a spiritual successor to the Warcraft and StarCraft real-time strategy games. You can watch our gameplay footage on our YouTube channel to get caught up. We are humbled by the incredible reception to our reveal.

We’re gathering members of the Frost Giant Studios team to drop in here tomorrow, Friday, June 16, to answer your questions.

The AMA will begin at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 7PM CE...

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