Can we PLEASE talk about optimization a little bit? I’m not tech savvy at all and my computer is old but it can run every single mainstream e-sport on medium-high at 90-100 FPS and in order to get stormgate not to explode I need to put everything as low as possible on the absolute lowest resolution in nonborderless fullscreen.
Did you install the latest NVIDIA drivers? For some players, this has made a big difference.
Oh I didn't know it will be F2P on release, that's great to hear!
When I go to the Steam page for Stormgate, the first buyable option is the "Buy Stormgate: Early Access Pack" for £21.99. Clicking on the Package Info shows two items, Stormgate for £33.99 and Stormgate: Early Access Pack for N/A showing a £12 saving over the individual game. That's why I thought the game would be more expensive on release. Interestingly, the Deluxe and Ultimate packs have the base Stormgate game set to £21.99. Not sure why that one option is different.
I'll just wait for 13th and see what gets unlocked. Looking forward to trying out the Celestials.
Yes, Stormgate is free to play! The reason Steam shows a price tag on it is because right now we are in an Early Access preview period for backers and supporters, so it shows the lowest price you can pay to get into the game today.
Feel free to wait until August 13 and play for free if you’re on the fence!
Free hero for backers and ultimate pack is definitely more rewarding than what was originally offered (two campaign chapters and a fog of war skin). As to speculating what that hero might be according to the roadmap we will be getting two coop heroes later in 2024.
I speculate one of those heroes will be Ryker on account that his model is already functional in the campaign. The second hero I believe will be the arch angel with a sword that we see on the new promotion art. It makes sense that celestials will get another hero as they only have Auralanna for coop compared to the other two factions.
I personally hope the free hero will be the celestial hero as it makes up for the fallen celestial that Warz should have been in the first place.
No spoilers, but I hope you'll be pleased with our next hero...
Audio level is one thing, having no sound effect at all is another. I heard you do have sound engineers, so how did this completely unpresentable sound design go through? Exo, Atlas, and so many more have no attack sound and it kills the experience much more than you might think.
This is really an "Early Access" release and some audio/sounds are not implemented yet. (Please remember that we're not a large development team by AAA standards.) We're aware and will be adding these sounds to the game before 1.0.
Great responses across the board, but I'm a bit disappointed there's no addressing criticism of the story, in particular how derivative it appears to be of StarCraft and Warcraft.
We are planning a separate post from our game director about our vision for the future of campaign and I believe we'll touch on story there. Rest assured that we're reading and absorbing the feedback.
That's a very wrong take.
- There is no reason to assume people who liked your game didn't like it from the start but because they liked your game they played more.
- There is no reason to assume that a person hating your copy paste story from warcraft would like it in hour 30.
Also the only comments you make are on threads that are somehow positive - ignoring mountains of negativity from pricing to gameplay to story. Which only shows that you are quite happy with what you made people pay for.
We're working on a lengthy standalone post that specifically addresses the negative feedback. That's taking a little longer as it includes specific steps we're taking to address that feedback.
god bless that engineer. do you have an address where I may send him cookies and a thank you card?
That's really kind of you to offer! I'll just screenshot your response, share it with him, and I think that'll be thanks enough!
Whoot! Awesome!
Any idea how frequently there would be posts?
I learned from pre-announcing the roadmap to not announce these things until they're ready. Please stay tuned, we're working on it!
Sort of on that topic, but for an old man like me who can't keep up with discord chat logs, I do hope they start posting weekly or bi-weekly community updates, kind of like what SC2 had during LotV. It's good to have a sense of what they are focusing on at any given time, especially because there is going to be so much to do at once that they will need to prioritize, so it would give a clear picture of what is getting changed and when.
The current plan for the update is a blog on playstormgate.com, which would be cross/posted here.
Loved the game so far, and loving watching streams during work. I have family in the game development industry and see that it's hard and complex work. Keep it up. Hopefully the community can reign in some of the more negative communication behavior over time, but I'm sure there are plenty of people like me who see a lot of greatness and even more potential.
Thanks so much for the support!
I haven't played campaign, but the 1v1 experience has been great and I am really enjoying myself, so thank you for that! I really hope FG can get a 2v2 ladder going soon
We’re excited to see the positive response to 2v2. This was something one of our engineers championed early on and worked on on his own time so that we can get it into the game. I’ll make sure everyone knows that there’s appetite for a 2v2 ladder, though to set expectations, if we were to add it, that’s not the kind of thing that we can throw into the game very quickly as we have a lot of competing priorities.
Thank you. For the love of god please address fully custom hotkeys. We need a straightforward answer of if/when they will be implemented.
We KNOW about hotkeys. Trust me, we've been hearing it from our first pre-alpha! It's just not something we could put into the game while the base game/underlying UI was still being developed.
This is Early Access, not our final release, and more fully customizable hotkeys are absolutely part of our plan for 1.0 (if not sooner). It's something we'll address specifically in our upcoming update(s).
We’re working on it. There’s a lot to discuss and we’re planning to cover a lot of ground.
UPDATE: Posted here! https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormgate/comments/1ehseqi/early_access_preview_learnings_and_feedback/
This is something we’re tracking and looking to correct in the near future.
Hey folks—updating here: We'll have more to share on this soon as folks want to know more about it, so we're planning for a blog with details. (It came together very recently.) Stay tuned as we want to answer your questions!
I wish you the best of luck with sorting out the feedback, I hope you all don't take the abundance of hate posts to heart.
The game is really fun, PvP is awesome, and you legitimately fixed a super niche bug that I found annoying last patch, and I am super grateful for it!
Keep up the good work!
Thanks, man! Appreciate the support (and the bug reports)!
Honestly, with the majority of games being PVE, no wonder the game has been pretty mixed in reception. They've really pandered to their competitive audience which is fairly small, but vocal.
This is incorrect--campaign players are a major priority for us, but that content is not as "far along" or polished as other parts of the game because those have been in development longer and more thoroughly tested by players. Campaign is very fresh content--it was never part of our beta testing process, so this is the first time players outside of the studio have gotten their hands on it. The feedback we're getting now will help us make it better--that's one of the biggest benefits of Early Access.
Why didn't we focus on campaign first? Well, the team needed to build 1v1 first as it's foundational work; they then used those tools to build 3P co-op... which was then used to start building the campaign fairly recently. We still have the upcoming 3v3 mode and our editor coming as well. Back to PvE, I'd say that Campaign-focused players who want a more polished experience should check back with the game for 1.0 while we continue to expand and improve it.
I'm glad to hear your opinion changed after spending more time with the game. We see this a lot -- for example, if you filter Steam reviews to remove those that were written with under an hour of playtime (snap judgments), they're much more positive. You're another example of how once people sink their teeth into the game (and get over an initial bad impression because they were expecting a more polished product), they're having fun.
We have a lot more work to do, but I appreciate you coming in to share your new perspective. Hope you love the improvements that we have in store. Thanks again for being part of our journey.
When are the art and graphics updates coming given that's been a major issue for many people, including many of the online reviews? Even a 'limited' teaser of what the future will look like would set many of our minds at ease.
Other than art and graphics 3v3 would be nice!
Early access release was just the beginning--we still have a long road ahead and it's important to remember that the game still has a lot of development time before we reach 1.0.
And yes, 3v3 is coming, along with improvements to many other areas of the game. We'll be discussing that road ahead in more detail soon.
Thank you so much for the kind words and support. Stormgate is a labor of love for this team and we will forever be grateful to all of you who have joined us on this journey.
Early Access is not the final destination, it's only the beginning, and we have so many more stories to tell and improvements to make as we continue working on Stormgate!
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