8/28/2023 0 Comments E x starcraft ii![]() ![]() I mean, I like sci-fi vs fantasy, I like giant mecha, I like RTS gameplay with an emphasis on onroading and cooperative play options, so far everything I’m seeing here has my attention.Īll it needs is a bunch of dinosaurs showing up and eating everyone and I’m there on day one with my dinosaur army. I know it’s early days and I’m hesitant to gush too much, but considering Frost Giant has people like Kevin Dong working on its co-op content - the person behind StarCraft 2‘s co op commanders - I am cautiously optimistic about this game. We should have a chance to see more Stormgate very soon, as it’s scheduled to be featured on the PC Gaming Show on Saturday, June 12, so perhaps we’ll get a few more details. Frost Giant Studios is talking about 2023 for the beta - you can sign up for the beta now on the Stormgate site - so I wouldn’t expect to see the game out before the end of 2023 or early 2024. We don’t have a release date for Stormgate quite yet. ![]() It’s something I hope the devs keep in mind as it’s a huge barrier to new RTS games getting players. I am very interested in the some of Frost Giant’s stated goals of introducing new players to the genre by breaking down barriers that keep people from playing RTS games, and making sure that unnecessary complexity doesn’t interfere with new players picking up and playing the game. The game is pre-alpha at present, so it’s hard to talk many specifics. Remember, the entire MOBA genre exists because players modded Warcraft 3 and that led to juggernauts like DOTA 2 and League of Legends, so who knows, maybe in ten years we’ll be talking about an entirely new genre of games built inside Stormgate. The in-game editor will be the same tools the game’s developers are using to build maps, and I’m really interested to see what players get up to with that. Stormgate also has an in-game editor so people will be able to make their own content for the game (something we’ve seen in other RTS games but which I always applaud), as well as custom matches and a spectator mode so you can watch people play, which I find super helpful for learning a new RTS. I can’t pretend that I know every RTS well enough that I can say with confidence that it’s brand new, but it’s certainly not widespread and I’d love to see more attempts to get RTS games with cooperative modes like this. Still, it’s a welcome focus for the genre. There’s also talk about other cooperative play options but at present there’s not much detail. ![]() There’s the typical 1v1 competitive esports gameplay, of course, but there’s also competitive 3v3, where three players on each side lead their own armies into the fray, and a 3vE mode where three players team up to battle the game’s AI. Well, for starters, there’s an emphasis on social gameplay in Stormgate that I haven’t really seen to this extent in previous offerings. How is Stormgate different from other RTS games? I am so hoping we get some spin on faeries and elves, maybe something like the Tuatha De Danann of Irish myth or the Vanir of Norse myths but with a cool science-fantasy tinge Like the Asgard in Stargate or the Celestials in the MCU. Frost Giant says we’re not going to be limited to just playing demons or humans - mysterious other factions (at least one, maybe more) will be joining the fray. tech setting, although I also do hope to see some bleed through - a giant demon with a chainsaw sword taking on a battle mech with specific runic magic carved into its superstructure would absolutely be my jam. So far so good - I’m a sucker for a magic vs. A twenty-foot-tall mecha vs giant demon monsters? Sounds like a party. Luckily, the humans do have big robotic mech suits to fight the demons in. The demons return through the Stormgates that the game is named after during periods of intense solar storm activity, leaving an already almost-wiped-out human race to battle for their survival. ![]() Whatever this apocalypse was, it left humanity fighting against an invasion force of demonic alien beings, in a fantasy vs. Stormgate is an RTS game set hundreds of years in the future after an apocalypse of some kind. Here’s what we know about Stormgate so far. And with Blizzard out of the RTS genre, Frost Giant seems poised to succeed. While there’s still a lot we don’t know, we now have some basics to discuss for the game that’s aiming to be the spiritual successor to Blizzard’s big RTS franchises. ![]()
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