Dropping enemies into the Sun | Sanctuary: Shattered Sun RTS Combat & Base building demo gameplay

This is what the future of RTS looks like thanks to Sanctuary: Shattered Sun, an indie game project by visionary developers who have added levolution to the RTS genre as a gameplay map mechanic. You can not only shatter a Dyson Sphere and drop entire enemy bases down into the Sun, but also freeze rivers and lakes to trap navies or drive down the ice and attack the enemy base. So is this a Supreme Commander or Total Annihilation successor or a revolutionary game in its own right?
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Chapters
0:00 Levolution in RTS
0:22 an Indie grand scale RTS
0:49 Three game demos
1:22 Pre alpha development build
1:52 Amazing performance!
2:10 Supreme Commander successor?
2:34 Survival demo & Three factions
2:56 Difficulty levels
3:14 Starting & Fog of War
3:34 Commander & Engineer
3:51 Building synergies
4:21 Resources storage & Streaming eco
4:38 Queuing orders to units
5:10 Engineer station building
5:28 Strategic zoom and map overview
5:44 Construction range & Defenses
6:11 5 tech tiers and controls
6:31 Land, air, naval & Titan units
6:53 Alloy and energy economy
7:12 Mass production of units
7:41 Detailed animations and base building
8:24 Unit formations and orders
9:02 A lot is a work in progress
9:17 Map Levolution effects
9:42 Freezing lakes and rivers
10:02 Energy shields
10:24 Different tiers of units
11:07 Turrets and other Defenses
11:46 Titan incoming!
12:10 Destroying Titans
12:32 Very early game version
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Sanctuary: Shattered Sun is the upcoming sci-fi real time strategy on a grand scale, with both base building and unit combat featuring a commander unit, three distinct factions, just two resources, three technology levels, a streaming economy system, weather control and it is set on a Dyson Sphere built around our very own Sun in the distant future.
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On the surface of an artificial world built around the Sun three factions fight for dominance and they can not only shatter this Dyson sphere and drop entire enemy bases down into the Sun, but also freeze rivers and lakes to trap navies or drive down the ice and attack the enemy from an unexpected angle.
This, my fellow real time strategy fans, is what the future of RTS looks like thanks to Sanctuary: Shattered Sun. An indie project by some of the most talented and visionary developers I have ever meet in all my years of showcasing new and upcoming RTS games.
I have to thank these developers at Enhearten Media not just for their incredible effort in what amounts to adding real time levolution to the RTS genre, and pushing the envelope further than ever before, but also for this incredible access to not one, but three working demos of Sanctuary: Shattered Sun. I think that now, you finally see why this grand scale RTS has this particular title, if you didn’t already realize that when I previously showcased it on my channel.
All the gameplay you will see here was recorded by me in these demos but do keep in mind that this is a pre alpha development build. Meaning only some of the planned content and features are implemented right now. The rest are still work in progress so for example you can build bombers in one faction, but they don't have any weapons yet, or take some of the higher tier Titan units for a walk but they don’t have anything to fire with.
I must say I am very happy with the scale and performance of the game. True I have a very good PC, but the number of units you can watch fight each other in the performance demo is just astounding.
As I explained in my previous showcases of Sanctuary: Shattered Sun, this game is based on a system of progressive technological tiers like some of the most well known games of the grand RTS strategy sub genre: Supreme Commander or Total Annihilation. It also features the Commander robot as well as a streaming economy made up of Alloy and Energy.
This part of the gameplay is what I tested the most in the third demo called Survival, and with all three available factions: EDA, Guard and Chosen. Even the fog of war in this game is still work in progress.
The commander unit and the engineer have similar construction options, but movement speed is much higher on the engineer so it is the constructor unit you want to use to build alloy extractors on extraction points marked in yellow around your base and across the map.
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[@perafilozof]

I hope you will enjoy this look at early gameplay and tell me what you think of this Levolution in RTS.

[@ethanforster]

I absolutely love games like this and Im so glad to see BAR and Sanctuary Shattered Sun developing together. Its perfect to have a spiritual successor to both Sup Com and TA.

[@perafilozof]

Well said my fellow fan! Being able to test one and play the other regularly at the same time is like living the dream of an RTS player. What are you playing most right now?

[@ethanforster]

@@perafilozof I've been playing a lot of BAR with friends. I've just been keeping up with the development and watching videos of sanctuary shattered sun I'm hoping they do a public beta soon similar to BAR

[@perafilozof]

Yeah, that would be best. But they do have a Kickstarter coming, so we will see what kind of a demo / beta they release.

[@jacksheldon8566]

And zero-k !

[@andrewboyer7544]

This really looks like a worthy successor to Supcom. I would love to see more naval combat. My favorite maps always had big naval engagements in Supcom. Long road ahead but I cant wait.

[@perafilozof]

Hi and thank you for sharing your thoughts on this game with us. I am glad to read that. Hope you will enjoy it, and sure, I will post some naval combat as soon as it is available. What do you think of the factions so far?

[@andrewboyer7544]

@perafilozof they did a good job mimicking the flavor and style of supcom with one faction being really normal and one really alien and something in between. I am very optimistic about this game.

[@epmcgee]

At least one of the devs involved came from Gas Powered Games

[@perafilozof]

Thank you for the reply

[@volodymyr_budii]

​@@epmcgeewho?

[@zardzewialy]

The amount of map evolution reminds me how Populous:The Beginning worked with all the god powers your shaman had from sinking land into the sea to erupting volcanoes in the middle of enemy base. Some maps looked nothing like when they started after some time played.

[@perafilozof]

That was actually a fantastic game to remember in this context. I am so glad someone mentioned it. I forgot about it myself while making this video. Great comment

[@TranneLRK93]

I absolutely looove the look of it. I love Supreme commander and am still playing FAF. I like BAR as well, but always missed the supreme commander ecstatic. Supreme commander always gave me the feeling of "realism", the ranges of weponary, the size of the experimental units as well as the massive explosions of nukes etc just looked really immersive. Something that BAR never achieved. This game reminds me of this scale of game. I really hope, that this might become a worthy supreme commander replacement for me, as supreme commander is really old now and needs all the quality of life updates that BAR has as well as better pathfinding.

[@perafilozof]

Hi and thanks for sharing your thoughts and impressions of Sanctuary with us all here. I am glad to have more fans of this subgenre here who have been around and tested all the games. I keep going back to BAR as it has most QoL features and it has a new and expanding playerbase. But I do agree about the realistic look of SupCom and what this new game will bring back.

[@TranneLRK93]

@@perafilozof I get that. The larger player base is nice and the QoL features are hard to live without afterwards. My friend base is also kind of torn between the two games. Some prefer BAR others FAF. I love the diversity you get between the different factions in FAF. Another friend hates BAR, because he feels, that early harassment is broken when you can run around with a few bots and kill all infrastructure in seconds. He is used to be able to defend well with the Commander, something that seems to be not so easy in BAR.

[@perafilozof]

Yeah, being able to defend early on is a skill in BAR. Something you have to learn or live with the fact you will never be good at it.

[@Trifler500]

I've never heard of living on the *outside* of the Dyson Sphere :)

[@perafilozof]

Yeah, it is a new idea here. But the lore explains it. Which faction do you like most so far?

[@TranneLRK93]

@@perafilozof have to look into the lore. I would have thought, that this might be hard, with no light from the star.

[@Trifler500]

@@TranneLRK93 Yeah. You'd be relying on using solar energy collected on the inside to run heaters on the outside. I guess the benefit is you could make the Dyson Sphere a lot smaller.

[@Trifler500]

@@perafilozof Hard to say this early, but the one attacking you looked cool graphically :)

[@perafilozof]

Thx for the reply!

[@devilkhan3302]

Total Annihilation feel. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. it looks promising

[@perafilozof]

Indeed it does! Thx for the comment. What do you think of the factions so far?

[@epmcgee]

At least one of the people involved came from Gas Powered Games which made Supreme Commander.

[@devilkhan3302]

@perafilozof they look very good so far. Each side is more different from each other. Take planetary annihilation, only one "side". A good game although it could have been better. Still think that TA was way better, granted the GFX are dated. SC might have been the successor. Still though Loved the TA games.

[@perafilozof]

Thank you for the reply!

[@emb_music_official]

The ultimate next gen RTS. Cant wait for it

[@perafilozof]

Hehe, same here. Feels like a true next gen game, but has a lot of work yet to be done on it. What do you think of the factions so far?

[@WojDestroyer]

WHAT? T5??? Uber Experimental? :O so cooooool!

[@perafilozof]

Hehe, yeah :) Thx for sharing your excitement about this game with us all. What are you playing now?

[@WojDestroyer]

@@perafilozof Man I am playing Riftbreaker / Kenshi ;) also idk how I missed that Sanctuary will have up to Tier 5 units in game - since you know every RTS like Sup Com has up to T4 named Experimental ;) this is such cool info I got from this vid. Thank you for vid perafilozof ;)

[@volodymyr_budii]

T5 are end gamers. They were in supcom(Mavor, Yolona, Paragon, etc), but still put into same t4 section

[@perafilozof]

No problem. Thank you for the reply. Enjoy you gaming and come back again for more similar new games

[@aetherial87]

Even in this unfinished state I can't wait to play this.

[@perafilozof]

Hehe, well, I hope you get to play the upcoming beta / demo coming with Kickstarter. Thank you for sharing your impressions of the game. Which faction do you like the most so far?

[@JohnMiller-zr8pl]

It looks amazing!

[@perafilozof]

Don't I know it :) can't wait to see it finished and to play with you all. What are you playing now?

[@lightingbird]

Very impressive. I'm extremely interested!

[@perafilozof]

And I am super happy to read that. More gameplay will be published in the coming months so stay tooned in. Which faction do you like most so far?

[@Alexandragon1]

Thx for the showcase video!

[@perafilozof]

You are welcome! Thank you for the comment! Glad you enjoyed it! More such videos on this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CFpLi_MlTb6PIgLkXQM632Y

[@Alexandragon1]

@@perafilozof Thx for the playlist! :)

[@perafilozof]

You are welcome!

[@Alexandragon1]

@@perafilozof :)

[@Tentacl]

If those possibilities also don't melt GPUs and CPUs it sounds really interesting.

[@perafilozof]

So far their work on performance and optimization has been exemplary if you consider for a mom the look of these units and buildings and the quality of the textures on them all

[@gregglazewski7557]

cant wait!

[@perafilozof]

Me too, for the full version. Thank you for sharing your excitement.

[@blender6895]

just what we needed

[@perafilozof]

Me too :) Thank you for the comment. What do you think of the factions so far?

[@starkindler1134]

Man, this game looks like BAR or Zero-K but... just better in every way! I'm very excited!

[@perafilozof]

Hehe, I am happy to hear that and hope you will enjoy it a lot. Thank you for the comment. Which faction do you like most so far?

[@riufq]

Good strategy games are the one using Environment to their advantage.

[@perafilozof]

Exactly. And I hope this game makes that it's top selling point. Thx for the comment. What are you playing now?

[@CyborG73rus]

I just hope they will avoid Supreme Commander perfomance issues. Those memory leaks on larger maps, especially vs AI were horrible.

[@perafilozof]

Yeah, don't I know it. So far this looks good on that front, but it is too early to call it. Thank you for the comment. What are you playing now?

[@WojDestroyer]

9:16 - it is Reclaim ;)

[@perafilozof]

Ha?

[@shadowkhan422]

Looks kinda cool . That said ... The in game factions dont seem very bright . Unless they can repair the Dison sphere , ripping out chunks of it seems like a very dumb idea.

[@perafilozof]

Hehe, true. But are we fixing the only Planet we have after tearing it apart with wars, mining and deforestation?

[@volodymyr_budii]

The Sanctuary is absolutely massive, and these holes are not that big to it in comparison, and yea, they can repair it. If destroying a small bit of the sphere is gonna help you defeat the enemy faction faster, it means they will be able to do less damage in return.

[@shadowkhan422]

@@perafilozof True.

[@gbishel]

If the sun is under the surface. what if that in the sky that illuminate all?

[@volodymyr_budii]

Sanctuary has holes spread all around it, which let a bit of light out, which is then reflected back on the surface my mirrors in space

[@perafilozof]

What the other person wrote. What do you think of the factions?

[@markomilosevic720]

Ovo ce da bude najaca igra na svetu sto se tice scfi rts

[@perafilozof]

Samo da je završe onako kako su planirali :) Hvala za komentar! When they actually finish it in the way they planned. Thank you for the comment!

[@markomilosevic720]

@@perafilozof Ja jedva cekam da je kupim

[@eleven2435]

If the scenarios plays outside of a Dyson sphere, then where the sun light comes from?

[@perafilozof]

Mirrors in orbit that reflect sunlight escaping through holes.

[@eleven2435]

@@perafilozof Yep that sounds ok!

[@aspecterr]

Viva la Levolution

[@perafilozof]

Haha indeed! Great comment! What do you think of the factions so far?

[@User_92020]

Any RTS games similar to command and conquer?

[@perafilozof]

That is already Playable or upcoming? Because there are many.

[@tiefensucht]

This game is so far away from release that I may never play it. I mean 4 years to this point, this may take another 4 years and who knows what will happen on this long way. I wonder how they even fund this?

[@DarkPhychic]

By the Time This Releases,It will look much outdated.

[@perafilozof]

There will be a Kickstarter at the point that it is playable and players like yourself can make sure it is worth giving money for. Thank you for the comment. What are you playing now?

[@perafilozof]

Hopefully not, but I understand that fear.

[@Erictraiven]

How much time till release?

[@perafilozof]

Full release? A lot... unfortunately. Some sort of Beta / Demo, soonish. What are you playing now?

[@Erictraiven]

@@perafilozof nothing in terms of rts, im waiting for stormgate tempest rising, AOMR

[@perafilozof]

Ah, ok, understandable. Thx for the reply.

[@impelau]

Вижу Убежище - ставлю лайк.

[@perafilozof]

хе-хе, спасибо

[@marekkos3513]

the walking animatons looks so bad .They should work much more on walking animations.Probably thats is why, there are so many tanks looking units

[@perafilozof]

Hi and thanks for sharing your thoughts and u impressions of the game. I do hope they improved those too. What are you playing right now?

[@marekkos3513]

@@perafilozof Supreme commander and Doom 3 ;]

[@perafilozof]

@@marekkos3513 Thx for the reply

[@revolver2750]

Rip did't post my comment let's try again.. I am really loving this game but it worries me so much. I saw some kind of stretch goal when they reach a milestone they will implement ai. But unless at the point you want to redo everything the ai is going to be the most basic rudimentary shit there is.. That worries me. If the ai is stupid i am not going to play this game. You cannot really add ai after the fact things need to be taken into account when making sometime to work with ai. If they want to do it right later they have to throw away large chunks of everything... It looks good some units i do not vibe with but might grow on me , does look like a copy from supreme commander what is radically different? Sure levelution is cool and the map is probably a test map , more for showing it off then being a good map. But i don't see much naval play on that map if you can just shut it down, how long does that take enough warning?

[@perafilozof]

Hi and thank you for the comment. I see this one :) Yes, they have "this" AI testing, but they want good AI that can use tech tiers and give players a good challenge. That is costly. I understand it is a core feature of any RTS, but these folks don't do anything half-baked. They could give us bad AI with tons of cheating going on, but they want to give us proper AI. Not what you have in most RTS where the AI is close to brain dead and can only compete against the human with x10 resources. It is a very interesting way to base development on. So we all have to wait and see how it turns out. Thank you kindly for this comment and sharing your thoughts and fears. What are you playing right now btw?

[@revolver2750]

@@perafilozof Supreme Commander still it is just that good. With the LOUD mod the ai is actually smart and very competent. I wish they had the source code they could do so much more. Yea i do want it to succeed and beat or be comparable to supcom we need more games like it.

[@perafilozof]

Yeah, but it is old, and few people want to spend the time required to do so. Most want to make something new.

[@volodymyr_budii]

1)This stretchgoal is 2 years old and may very likely be outdated 2)Devs are making the game being easy to mod, so regardless of tyeir kickstarter success, modding in AI is only a matter of time. 3)There will be plenty of different new features, like commander chassis, drones, armor( second HP line for EDA, that can be cheapely repaired on units, or can be additionaly put on buildings to increase HP), regeneration and transmitter mecganics for Guard, shield shenanigans gir chosen, some multilehhed units being able to walk across hills etc, all units with 4/5 or more legs moving omnidirectionaly, tons of QoL features, different nukes for every faction, new units/experimentals with new concepts, and so much more , since we didn't hear almost any interesting stuff about air and navy yet, but obviously, devs didn't have time to implement all of it yet. If you want to make a wonderful uniquely designed and decorated house, you furst have to build the foundation, the walls, the roofs, and of course on the stage of this construction, it is gonna look boring, similar, and uninspiring, but only after you are done with it, youcan start painting the house, setting furniture, backyard and everything else that would make it good and unique. Right now, devs are only finishing the core of the game to make sure it works, and after it is done, they could start working full on unique features and mechanics. Just give them time. 3)No naval gameplay because navy wasn't properly implemented yet, devs have focused on making land( and air after that) work first. Those few ships were put there to show possible strategic ysage of weather control. 4)Even if Sanctuary was a complete copy paste of supcom, it would have still been completely worth it for proper multithread optimization, pathfinding, connection stability, better graphics, much more accessible modding( which was already proved on practice on their discord server, when one of T5 patreon members who got access to pre-alpha started meddling with units and giving them different weapons) and bunch of QoL features. 5)Idk, but I guess your warning about possible weather change is you scouting that enemy got control of that particular building or seeing that he is going for the destruction of one. If you don't want to have your navy frozen, keep control of that area and preferably, have a backup plan in case it does get frozen(also, devs were talking about possible ice breaking ships)

[@perafilozof]

Oh nice, great info and breakdown there my friend! Thank you kindly for this comment and helping out with setting the record straight on these features. I agree with you 100% and hope such features become playable for all of us.

[@Orici_Vintarion]

what dyson sphere works with the population livin on the outershell ?? "confused" if i can drop down the enemies into the sun im on the wrong side... and where is the light coming from when the sun is "below" me..... just so many questions

[@perafilozof]

Hi, you can learn more about it in the games discord, but as for the lore the mirrors in orbit reflect sunlight escaping through many holes. What do you think of the factions so far?

[@spaceman9599]

One to keep an eye on @splattercat

[@perafilozof]

Hehe, true. Thank you for the comment