ZeroSpace new 2025 demo gameplay shows a true campaign singleplayer experience in the making!

[@KlausWulfenbach]

The "respawning" main characters can be easily explained that "off screen" they were brought back to HQ and it took them a little while to heal up. Makes sense to me.

[@perafilozof]

Could be. Thank you for adding your idea to explain this!

[@AtticusKarpenter]

Its pretty standard. Even in games where heroes are "magically resurrected" (like Warcraft 3) this is still just a gameplay feature, and in the story if hero dies - he dies for good, no possibility of resurrection mentioned.

[@perafilozof]

@@AtticusKarpenter Yeah, but sci-fi games lack the "magic" abilities. Sci-fi games have the burden of explaining their tech.

[@AtticusKarpenter]

@@perafilozof if there is teleportation tech in the game, then its not a problem. Nova in Covert Ops campaign of SC 2 "teleport into Command Center when received critical injury" (and while she respawn even animation played that actually shows how two little drones patch Nova up with some nano healing rays inside a protecting capsule)

[@perafilozof]

Ah well. That is a good point! Thank you for mentioning that one

[@64-Bit_Dragon]

The mass effect thing was indeed noticeable when I watched shadowfury play part of the campaign

[@perafilozof]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on it. Which faction do you like so far?

[@perafilozof]

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[@JD-dm1uj]

My game to buy in 2025, outstanding, now we just need articulating pieces on vehicles, tracks, wheels, etc., much better balance, and the factions need to be finished.

[@perafilozof]

All true! Thank you for sharing your interest and thoughts about the game! Which faction do you like?

[@JD-dm1uj]

I like all four a lot, though if picking one, the Protecorate, and mercenaries, Dread Raiders and Arandi

[@perafilozof]

Thx for sharing!

[@OodldoodlNoodlesocks]

it's one of the few RTS games I'm really looking forward to because of its robust singleplayer content. Sadly the demo crashed for me every time so hopefully they get it sorted out :)

[@perafilozof]

Yeah, my campaign crashed too :) Same experience! Thank you for sharing and I hope you will enjoy the full game too

[@OodldoodlNoodlesocks]

@@perafilozof Apparantly something to do with avx optimization. Turning that off in game settings supposed to fix it but I uninstalled already :P

[@perafilozof]

Ah, ok thx for the reply

[@EduFirenze]

My problem with modern rts games is that I don't have investment. I'm replaying StarCraft remastered and as soon as I hear the music and the units, it takes me back to my teenage years. It's tough competing with that.

[@perafilozof]

That is nostalgia. That is something you have to get over in your own mind. I feel that every time I play Warcraft 3, AoE2, Fallout 2, Heroes M&M3, Morrowind, Homeworld, FreeSpace or a hundred other games which marked my childhood. But I totally get you btw. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this.

[@khoid]

There were 3 co-op missions. Defend temples, Day & night defend a cannon, Escort a mech. It was really fun though the limited heroes was kind of a bummer.

[@perafilozof]

Yeah, I am not sure why they limit the heroes and units you can use in those mods. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. I personally like the Escort a mech mission the most, you?

[@khoid]

@@perafilozof For some random map kept giving me the defend temples mission. My favorite was day and night mission since there's actually a use for walls and turrets. It also benefits players who play as the Grell.

[@perafilozof]

Yeah, it is very random. I haven't even gotten the day and night mission in all my attempts.

[@chrisjackson1215]

Looks like legal distinct Terran, legally distinct Zerg, and legally distinct Protoss to me.

[@perafilozof]

Haha, I hope you can get past that :) Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this game!

[@EduFirenze]

legally distinct salarian in that cutscene

[@pougetguillaume4632]

It's actually a little more distinct than that. The grell have an ability to increase the power of a single unit making unit retention fairly important believe it or not. The humans aren't anywhere nearly as defense minded as terrans with jetpack dudes and also jetpack mechs. They have 2 playstyle from what i can gather: heavy mech and walker/infantry which is very mobile. The 3rd faction the legion aren't legally distinct protoss in any way. Their base units are even more swarmy than the grell while having access to the most powerful high tier units. They may look like zerg and terrans but they don't play the same.

[@perafilozof]

Hi and thx for the comment and breakdown.

[@AtticusKarpenter]

Nah, Legion is a Mengsk commander from Starcraft 2 Coop, nothing Protoss-like about it. Humans are closer to GDI from Command and Conquer than to Terrans.

[@pencilswordfish]

Tried it and the control feels nice. Crispy and responsive units. Probably the closest one to SC2, but in a Mass Effect-ish setting/aesthetic/sound. Feels very solid.

[@perafilozof]

Hi and thx for sharing your impressions and experience with the demo. It is nice to see more people realizing the potential and liking the production values. What other demos have you enjoyed?

[@pencilswordfish]

@@perafilozof Only got into two! This one and Tempest Rising. Both have huge potential.

[@AtticusKarpenter]

This is hard for me because i hate Mass Effect aesthetic (just from my feelings, i can't pinpoint exact issues that i have with it. "Rubber faces" as aliens instead of more inhuman ones? But then again, i don't have issues with Protoss) but absolutely love Starcraft. And this game have their joint vibes, so i'm very mixed.

[@perafilozof]

@ Agreed! Thx for the reply

[@perafilozof]

@ Yeah, I totally get you. That is why I said they need to work more on these.

[@NoxFlex]

For a demo, it's pretty good

[@perafilozof]

I agree! Thank you for sharing! What demos have you enjoyed these last two weeks?

[@user-wz4bo3br7n]

Interesting most comment sections about zerospace are pretty positive. This one is super negative

[@perafilozof]

Hi and thx for the comment. I think it is because I have fewer StarCraft 2 fans on my channel than C&C fans. Which is OK, since I am that way too. But I respect all of these games.

[@samikazbe]

game has a lot of potential but needs to sort out the basic. I have had several issue selecting my units, WASD not default for moving around? and if you remap key, it's become unplayable. Game has a lot of potential and I am quite excited about the Galactic war section. Looks like a Helldiver 2 but in RTS.

[@perafilozof]

Hello and thanks for sharing your experience with the game and your impression of it. I hope the potential is not wasted and the game reaches a wide audience. Which faction do you like?

[@khansimeoni5292]

WASD is not default for RTS pretty much universally, I found the hotkeys pretty intuitive (although I do have other RTS experience so I can't speak as a new player, and I never tried rebinding) Selecting was a bit jank, control groups work fine (space to select army is amazing) but the selection box sometimes needs you to click a second time to confirm a selection which is super unntuitive

[@samikazbe]

@ I agree it was not default on the older RTS. But moving the mouse on the side of the screen doesn't move me on the map. So, how am I supposed to move around easily? The arrows? no way, too far...

[@matteoooo4791]

I dunno man, most of these scifi rts look like uninspired clones of sc2. Only titles I'm hyped for are tempest rising and the scouring

[@jesse76th96]

Tempest Rising is literally a C&C offshoot but yeah its prob the best new rts next to Beyond all reason.

[@perafilozof]

I get you. I really do. But when devs don't copy StarCraft, no one shows up to play... the duality of RTS gamers at work.

[@commanderwookiecopc806]

The writing and world feels very generic, I feel a very distinct lack of sauce.

[@perafilozof]

I think this is due to this being very early and very in development. I hope you won't judge it on the basis of such a early look. But thank you for sharing your impressions do make sure to play the demo yourself!

[@jeusmarcomascarina4102]

Because starcraft and Warhammer have base book already. Warcraft does that too. That is why fell off when they make new story.

[@megajlaing]

Battle Art!

[@KijinVult]

Clone crafted and Rebooted find no deliverance ☝️

[@perafilozof]

Huh? Not liking the gameplay?

[@KijinVult]

@perafilozof Not match. Another clone. Zero new ideas. "Universe at War" & even "Grey Goo" was better.

[@perafilozof]

Ouch! Have you tried Moduwar in that case?

[@talhaovais4570]

I tried its demo , have a bad experience with it, Gameplay is not fluid as shown in their gameplay trailer dont know, i have played every RTS game with High Settings and end every RTS with Fluid Gameplay but this one is looking for Higher GPU with Minimum 12 GB VRAMs for 60 FPS and High Terrain map with high Zoom in Detail Army Models. They introduce 2 Layout Controls at Start one with their modern twist and other is Classic RTS layouts still its confusing. I Pre-bought Tempest Rising for $12.89 on steam, happy with my Purchase.

[@perafilozof]

Hi and thank you for sharing your impressions of the demo. That is totally understandable, they are still very early in the process of making the campaign and the optimization will come later too. I hope you will enjoy Tempest Rising greatly !

[@diego2817]

the animations looks a little bit cartoony to my taste

[@perafilozof]

The ones in the cinematics or in gameplay?

[@AHappyCub]

What is it with many of these new RTS and using shit in-game UI, the old "bar" style UI is WAY better than any of these so called "minimalist" UI

[@perafilozof]

It is still a work in progress, but to tell you honestly, I don't mind the UI setup in ZeroSpace. Don't know why exactly, just works for me. Have you enjoyed any other demo during Steam's RTS fest?

[@AHappyCub]

@@perafilozof Tried Global Conflagration, and the UI is still awful and way too small, hope they'll change that, havent tried ZeroSpace tho but it looks interestiing outside the UI

[@perafilozof]

Thank you for sharing! I hope they do improve the UI for higher resolutions !

[@jeusmarcomascarina4102]

If another one people said they don't like knock offs. I can't understand what game they want to play. If they want starcraft just play starcraft. At least it's just demo not a fully paid game unlike stormgate that has Kickstarter and became fully driven monetize game later.

[@perafilozof]

Hi and thanks for sharing your thoughts on it. Have you tried all the game modes?

[@Danteyke223]

Why does this look like a weird version of a LOL game ? with lanes and everything

[@perafilozof]

Hi and thx for the comment. What lanes?

[@H4Hamburger]

I was thinking the same thing lol

[@jeusmarcomascarina4102]

Becuz of map shading ​@@H4Hamburger

[@Tombitp]

Cause you are born after LoL release, for me who play RTS's before, LoL is just washed out and blasphemy of RTS games.

[@perafilozof]

Preach mate !

[@yaallahyamuhamed497]

the game is 50 GB!!! not worth it.

[@perafilozof]

I am sorry to hear that. Hope your SSD/Internet situation improves

[@yaallahyamuhamed497]

@@perafilozof thanks

[@uros.u.novakovic]

I just tried the demo and it was a major disappointment to me. Everything feels so low budget it's insane. 50Gb for that? Laughable.

[@perafilozof]

Hi and thanks for sharing your thoughts on it. I am not sure why is the download size a big deal? FPS games have gone up to 100GB.

[@uros.u.novakovic]

@@perafilozof Because huge filesize suggests high quality assets and graphics and such. Here I suspect that 45GBs are just for those cringe pre-rendered cutscenes that have not been put through any compression. The game itself does not look good to justify 50GB, not even close.

[@perafilozof]

@@uros.u.novakovic AAA companies do the same my fiend... no one respects our SSD space.

[@uros.u.novakovic]

@@perafilozof Again, it's not about the filesize. It's about how I expected much more from a game that's 50GB for a Demo. it turns out that the filesize is only because of the cinematics and the game is just meh. Long story short, I did not enjoy this demo. The campaign especially was buggy, frustrating to play and very cringe dialogue. The visuals also didn't spark joy. I see that there is a lot of hype on the Steam forums about the demo so more power to you all. I simply did not enjoy this. It is better than Stormgate, sure. But not by a lot in my eyes.

[@brianshrimp5824]

Game looks like a starcraft knockoff.

[@jeusmarcomascarina4102]

It should be because if not no one will play it.

[@JD-dm1uj]

Your nutsack is a knockoff

[@perafilozof]

This is a recurring problem but not exactly in the way you think. When people make a new RTS that is different then StarCraft no one comes to play. When someone makes a StarCraft like RTS people come to play but say it is too similar... The duality of RTS fans

[@brianshrimp5824]

@@perafilozof Im not saying the game play is, look at the units they look like a 1-1. They need to do like Tempest Rising with their CNC clone.

[@Barbarossa97]

Terrible zoomer design

[@DannyRhym3z]

Looks extremely unimpressive

[@perafilozof]

Hi and thanks for sharing your thoughts. I am sorry to read that and hope the full game will leave a better impression on you.

[@tehpip1337]

Just played the demo, this must have been the single most uninspired piece of software I have ever had the misfortune to waste my time on. Deleted after 10 minutes, will never look back.

[@jeusmarcomascarina4102]

Uninspired of what?

[@JD-dm1uj]

Your loss

[@parkershea]

I did the same thing. Generic in every sense.

[@perafilozof]

I am sorry you think so and hope you will give it another chance when it is finished.

[@perafilozof]

Hi and thanks for sharing your experience and impressions of it. I am sorry you think so and hope you will give it another chance when it is fully finished.

[@shawnmorrow8350]

Don't like that this game is MMO.

[@perafilozof]

Its not. It just has a mode that lets you play a mode that reminds of an RTSMMO. Otherwise you have lots of single and regular multiplayer modes.

[@quantum_microscope]

bad collisions

[@perafilozof]

More like they overlap with each other too much. I don't like that part. Which faction do you like?

[@zbigniew2628]

It is probably for better pathing...