Massive Let Down

[MightyGorgon]

Long time RTS fan and I can't help but be massively disappointed with this game. Here I thought we had a team of developers who were passionate about making the next great RTS game; now I look at this game and just see a bunch of disgruntled ex-employees.

This is just starcraft, but worse, and with an uninspired new coat of paint. Even if they somehow make the balance perfect, why should anyone care at all? Whats the draw of this game? Having Heroes to use and level up each game has not been replicated in a major RTS, and I genuinely thought Stromgate would at least have that. But nope, there are no hero units in multiplayer, and yet they added neutral units on the map. Only three factions and can all be easily compared to their SC counterparts. The lame and overused direction of generic demons and angels, with a mix of what can only be described as, Terrain from SC, lmao.

Thought we'd at least get more of a warcraft 4 if they wanted to go the "Rip off my old company" route. Now you have me rooting for Blizzard to announce starcraft 3 lmao

[Ryeloc]

Yup, the developers really fumbled this big time.

[[SNP]Rancor]

Originally posted by MightyGorgon:

Even if they somehow make the balance perfect, why should anyone care at all? Whats the draw of this game?

The game being actively supported and having new UMS coming out without having to sign away your ownership of anything you create to Activision

[Lelouch]

heroes will be in 3v3 mode

anyway game is f2p so you can't really talk about a scam... but if you were a 250$+ founder than you can definetely be disappointed. That's why I never give money to a game without actually playing it.

[spamoconnor69]

The aesthetics and art style makes it feel like a Newgrounds version of Starcraft.

I've put countless hours into SC2 on my potato PC (GTX 1060-6gb, 32gb ram, 4c/8t processor) with no stuttering or issues whatsoever but it was barely able to keep up on low settings. For an uglier game, it sure does take a lot more out of my system. I understand that it's EA but my mouse was hilariously freezing/stuttering, making the game almost unplayable.

I'm sure the technical problems will be ironed out but the gameplay itself needs a lot of work.

[Auron]

Originally posted by spamoconnor69:

The aesthetics and art style makes it feel like a Newgrounds version of Starcraft.

Newgrounds Starcraft would probably be funnier than Stormgate.

[Lyin-Oats]

TBF, the backend engineers who worked on the engine and gameplay deserve praise. It's just as (if not more) smooth and snappy as SC2 with all the gameplay QoL you'd expect from a modern rts, but everything else from the story, art style, and monetization is just garbage tier.

Game isn't even out yet, and we're getting nickel and dimed for every mission and coop commander already. Character design is generic at best (ugly and uninspired at worst), and the mobile game artstyle is just off-putting no matter how much I try to force myself to like it.

[Zerachan]

The mistake anyone may have done was to believe these guys would actually have been the blizz veterans,rather than those that infested the company later and ruined things.
It's not that difficult to actually confirm things.
Btw, gotta love how blockade is missing the imba exo's, also with lvls lose his cheap frontline tankers to get something more expensive supposed to be meleedps although those seem to pretty much just have the same dps bonuses as lancers but without the lancers tankingbonuses, and lose his mechhealers+areadispellers/hasters eventually too, as those skills aint granted to his combatmedics.
The promote topbar skill is crazy good but blockade is lacking that too.
(Some units simply benefit too much from veterancy and not necessarily get it with ease, since absolutely everything benefits from veterancy even transports and workers.)

Well,he can make flakturrets for extra cheap atleast. =p
(Those are pretty good, incase you didn't notice.)