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I actually agree with this take, I didn’t see your comment on Discord or I’d have mentioned to the mods that you weren’t out of line. I believe we should hold ourselves to a higher standard. We are.

Hey, Reddit. This has been a tough couple of days. We don't have an official statement from our CEO out there because he was evacuated due to the recent fires affecting Southern California. A few notes:

• We have close to 50 employees working on Stormgate these days. There was no call for the team to review the game from our leadership.
• A few team members messed up and left reviews, and yes, that includes our CEO. He's human, is passionate about our game, and yes, he should have known better. We should have had a firm policy and education on this, which we're instituting.
• We are making it 100% clear that any communications related to our game coming from our staff needs to include a clear disclaimer of their connection to the game.
• Once Tim is back online, we'll make sure a disclaimer is added to his review or have him remove it. I don't know when that will be, unfortunately. He's dealing with other priorities at the moment.
  
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FYI, Geoff supports some indie studios without AAA budgets with a number of no-cost "editorial slots" at his showcase events like Summer Game Fest. We're super grateful for his support.

Helpful steps the community could take include being an active contributor to our discussions here and on Discord, playing the game, submitting constructive feedback, inviting your friends to join you for our 1.0 release, and leaving a positive Steam review.

As for more direct contributions to the game, that gets complicated. I’ve personally received many offers from modders to help with our editor, for example, but we’re still a ways away from being ready to put those tools into players’ hands for testing.

Thanks so much for your support!

We plan to continue communicating our development progress, like with our most recent patch notes, the art reveal videos, and dev blog. That said, we are going to put a lot of effort into making our 1.0 launch moment as successful as possible.

Thanks for asking! First, it’s important to recognize the tremendous support we’ve received from RTS content creators. They’ve been amazing.

As for broadening into other “Blizzard game communities,” I feel like we’ve been taking steps in this direction already. MrLlama from the Diablo community (I remember him as MrLlamaSC) did a great interview with Ryan Schutter on our aspirations for the editor. Hearthstone’s Trump (also TrumpSC!) streamed our game during one of our beta reveals. And then of course, Asmongold and Esfand from the WoW community came together for their awesome reveal of our 3P co-op mode, which put our game in front of a big new audience outside of the RTS community. They were all amazing to work with and we’d love to do more.

We’ve had former League of Legends pros and top players from CS also express their support for what we’re building as you’ll find that pro players from many PC genres first fell in love with competitive gaming through RTS.

I had that trophy made as a reference to this amazing SNL skit: https://youtu.be/3e0tszep890?si=QJrI-1UXjS61nFCu

Tim M commented on this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormgate/comments/1hhyi8p/comment/m30n85o/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

My personal favorite memory was Simu Liu's visit to our studio. I was fully expecting to meet a Hollywood movie star who was just looking for a business opportunity, but I couldn't be more wrong. Simu is a genuine, earnest, and passionate fan of RTS who really wanted to just show his support for a team looking to revive his favorite game genre.

All of our voice actors, including some of the biggest names around, have been tremendously supportive of our game and in working with us in spite of our limited resources. You'll find that many of them have a past connection to RTS and we are lucky to have had their support.

Beyond being an RTS fan, Simu was super warm and kind, too. He brought a giant stack of books for our team, did individual meet-and-greets and took photos with the entire studio, and played an EPIC showmatch against his longtime StarCraft 2v2s partner on one of our earliest prototypes. His skills are legitimate, too--I'm pretty sure he's a masters-l...

I can share my perspective in being part of the playtests and observing the playtester Discord. The Team Mayhem playtesters have provided us with a lot of helpful feedback and I’d say that testing has been proceeding smoothly and we are seeing meaningful progress. The testers are also producing some solid memes, like this tribute to Albino’s nerf-worthy Kastiel.

https://preview.redd.it/pjn1jyu4y18e1.png?width=1058&format=png&auto=webp&s=a2b68065d2c3dd18be008c090aea62a34864afc5

A bunch of the Frost Giant devs hopped in and played with our testers on patch day and we had a good time--even if it did feel like many of us were figuring things out considering how much has changed since we starte...

Hey, appreciate the heads up that you feel like we're forgetting Team Mayhem, but this isn't the case. Tim addressed this specifically in the blog.

"Our top development priorities are now crystal clear: the Campaign and Versus (1v1) play (our “moment-to-moment RTS gameplay”), followed immediately by our Team Mayhem mode."

Team Mayhem is still important to us and it's actively being playtested. This is an "order of operations" situation where our foundational modes are being worked on first, but Team Mayhem is next in line.

Hey, folks. This is not the official question thread--please remember to submit your questions in the thread that'll go live on Thursday!

My poor kids--they're going to be fatherless for the holidays.

My 11 year old and his older brothers have all been playing Bloons TD 6 and love it. It's remarkably deep and a great intro to strategy gaming.

I feel attacked after watching this short. (And so does my own Lancer.)

+1, great channel, would recommend.

Thank you for letting us know you're enjoying the progress we're making on co-op!

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This is a good subject for us to tackle in a dev blog, I think.

1. Is there any plan to test basic things like Time To Kill, unit speed, overall pacing of the game or what we have now i set in the stone?

Yes, we are planning to test Time to Kill in an upcoming patch. The thinking now is to slightly reduce the TTK by a notch or two to accelerate combat and see how that feels.

1. Is there any attempt to redesign Creep Camps or are they set in stone?

Creep Camps are an early design and one we plan to continue experimenting with and refining going forward. We plan to do some work to make these camps fit within our universe more cohesively–what you see now is largely a gameplay placeholder for testing purposes and lacks the visual design and worldbuilding that we’d like them to express in our final iteration.

The rewards they provide and how important they are to the flow of any given match are also areas that we are going to closely examine as development continues.

1. Is there a pla...