STORMGATE: 10 TIPS I wish I knew BEFORE I started...

[@WintergamingTV]

This gameplay is from the official Early Access build (released July 30th). It is significantly more polished than anything we've played so far, and I'm starting to get that same sort of itch as early SC2 learning a new RTS! Note all the tips are for multiplayer 1v1, I'll be honest I didn't touch campaign or co-op yet (I didn't play it for 4 years in sc2 either xD).

[@stalwart56k]

The campaign looks awful

[@kevinhainline8232]

Gotta say, I'm a big fan of the lack of intro. Straight to the point is so satisfying

[@kaizukisentenhyakurai3741]

Bruh we click info videos for info not intro, amirite

[@michaelrevell1501]

All those years spent playing Stormgate before learning those tips were wasted. Thank you for saving us the time of all the painful Stormgate years that you had to go through.

[@SoumyadeepChanda]

The maps look really good compared to before!

[@Reqkuiem]

In the rear with a beer. Almost spit my drink out when my worker said that today.

[@MalcolmRobinson-lx8ms]

Thanks Winter. I got better at StarCraft because of you. Now I will dominate in Stormgate!

[@subroman9877]

Also, in the video settings, setting sharpness to something higher (like 0.5-0.7) makes the game look a lot better IMO; it makes the units and models look crisper and the details on the models clearer.

[@Bartok62O]

youre totally right, thanks

[@WGSeries]

Useful info, thx winter. I would have to get used to the easier macro mechanics and QoL changes in stormgate. I approve of them and I think its for the better. RTS is an already difficult enough genre compared to fps/moba, etc you don't really need to battle with the engine and mechanics. Especially, since technology has improved a lot since sc2 has released. Let the computers do more calculations - the job they are supposed to while we enjoy the gameplay more. I am sure that Blizzard back in 1998 would have implemented more QoL changes if they had the ability then and now we have!

[@mickeyromeo]

we have starcraft at home, honey

[@Mr-ji2im]

​@@Mindstangle just went down to 54% 😂

[@illiaokonskyi3677]

Intro is perfect, will wait until 1.0 release and play the campaign, but before just wanted to support dev team with my vote

[@JollyGreenWizard]

Knowing I can change the menu to F10 and cancel to Esc single-handedly re-convinced me to try the game when it comes out in full. I was horrified when they announced that cancel was Y by default.

[@CoL_Drake]

frame generation for everyone with a 40s nvidia card works perfectly and check what DX you guys using. the default dx11 gave me 16 fps, changing it to dx12 gave me 74 fps

[@joshuajohnson714]

The game immediately stands out as looking better and more polished

[@chrisrey2516]

Wow I wish this guide was out when I first started 3 years ago

[@IsaacFNghost]

i remember where i was when I was watching the first ever gameplay/announcment livestream for Stormgate! (Driving back to C-school up the coast of Cali listening). hard to believe it's finally here and ready to actually play! cant wait to try it out and see how it compares to the king

[@Tomshaaaa]

Scroll smoothing on 'high' was a must for me. Otherwise push scrolling felt super janky.

[@ShemTime]

Tanks for the content, really excited for the future.

[@zypher779]

perfect timing before the free release of stormgate, just few more days boiss

[@vsok2685]

Not playing this wandagame now, not sure I can easily get it from my home reg, but ur casts and approach are awesome so one shall refollow ur second channel indeed. Ty ty P. S.: can't do last part, never left it seems 2be

[@carlonryan180]

You better make individualized guides! We are counting on you.

[@Blind240390]

thanks to WC/starcraft I still use ctrl +3 for an example for base or Bob plus other for groups of building same type ( ctrl 4 all unit buildings : adding another shift 4 , ctrl 4 ) . I don’t know I get used to it and I feel okay with it, I don’t like this hot keys changes ( for an example yes hot keys from game shows you which unit you can build, but it doesn’t show quickly which are building in specific order in building which provide unit - can be game changer. For an example do you already order few range units and you need melee tank units. But I don’t know. Maybe someone will like it. I like this game after all. Warcraft was too slow, StarCraft was too fast for me. In this game speed is balanced. Fits me. I can easily manage producing, attacking, defending, macro generally. Despite hate and reviews I believe in devs.

[@chrisa.4384]

Tbh, this game really should have "upgrade branches". Things like maybe you can choose between Bob's that mine faster or two Bob's in one that Mine the same speed as before. The idea being.that if you think it's a macro game, you choose the better mining. Maybe just for etherium so it works for certain builds. While if you expect a lot of worker harass, having twice as many to kill makes it a lot harder to just clear them all out. Then you do this with other units like lancers. Faster or tankier etc etc. That way you'd have a lot more ability to truly be an individual while playing the game. You can have the guy who's "really good at base defending and being greedy then late game booming with extra etherium mining". And stuff like.this is important. You need to have the top players have clear ways to make themselves noteworthy to make an rts last. On.the backs of people actually good at the game are the millions of drones trying to replicate the success of successful players. That's what keeps these sorts of games alive and thriving. If this game never gets a pro scene, there will never be the drones replicating them to create a player base.

[@しらこ-465]

Thanks for this video! Looking forward to jumping into this game finally. Been playing Warcraft 3 on again recently (on w3champions) and hope some of those skills transfer over haha

[@TheMasterMakarov]

I think stormgate has raytracing - maybe that is included in ultra settings - and this is what could be causing performance issues - of course you can always just dlss quality it or get 2x fps for a hard to tell if it is even on feature being off

[@KallTorak]

Fantastic guide, ty

[@TheJaredLive]

The map looks better than before. But still needs to be better to atract the masses.

[@atlan5139]

Yea, always just gotta remember this isn't a blizzard game, this is an indie studio with a fraction of the budget SC2 had.

[@allanshpeley4284]

@@atlan5139 Frost Giant had $41M to work with, most of which they've already blown through. SC2's budget was never released (outside of a publishing error by the WSJ stating it was $100M, which they quickly corrected). Stormgate may be the biggest budget RTS in history for all we know.

[@atlan5139]

@@allanshpeley4284 I can say with certainty its not lol, you have to realize the sheer amount of people who were working on SC2, with a longer dev cycle and far more backing on top of massive marketing compared to stormgate. That 40 mil Frost Giant got was what sustained the whole company not just Game budget per say too. I agree theres certainly some issues with Stormgate for sure for the budget but if you are trying to make the argument it was more expensive then SC2 then your just looking to shit on Stormgate with things thats are clearly false.

[@martinkrauser4029]

@@allanshpeley4284 lmfao no, it very much may not be the biggest budget rts

[@marinav3905]

Gotta say, 69% brightness does look perfect 😎

[@TheStephaneAdam]

It's starting to look like something fun!

[@fana7ik]

Thanks for the content :)

[@austinollinger82]

Thank You!

[@JustAnotherPerson3]

"1.1 Shameless plug" Nice:)

[@illiaokonskyi3677]

Bought ultimate early access pack, mostly am interested for the single player story mode... have not too much time to play but will check from time to time the company mode

[@shadowslayer-dv2pq]

when is the new winterstormgate channel dropping XD, ill be an insta sub

[@teachmehowtodoge1737]

I see Serral 🐐 👀

[@michaw2209]

He y guys, How do you bring your camera view to the latest announcement or warning? In SC yo would press spacebar, but how do you do it in Stormgate?

[@hounddogzepp]

I see a GOAT on screen

[@joaoxkira]

Nice tips

[@DabPanda710]

How do I stop mass hedgehog vs Celestial?? thanks

[@jack1best]

more celestial tips please

[@ibthepro]

So a sneaky strat could be, send your workers to steal the enemies therium quickly with 50 workers

[@TheRealXartaX]

It's ok, talk about your hardware as much as you want. On an unrelated note, I have a 4090 and an i9-13900k set up with a custom made water cooling loop.

[@WGSeries]

Did you experience any issues with your i9-13900k? I read articles about recent crashes and instability that even intel had addressed publicly and with a hotfix.

[@TheMasterMakarov]

o7 salute to a soon to be burnt cpu

[@TheRealXartaX]

@@WGSeries I've only had an issue with one specific game: Total War: Three Kingdoms. And only that game. It would spin up my CPU to a billion degrees. However, I found script fix that made the game chill out and not request 100% of my computing power. Besides that, no problem. I usually run at 30-40 degrees (celsius).

[@Blaizepotts]

You sir sound like a Kenedy

[@IsaacFNghost]

i kept selecting my workers and hitting B to build in my first match and it really screwed me up lol. i rebinded the Q of the quickbuild menu to B but idk if ill keep it that way

[@Rockmaster867]

69% brightness? I can get behind that 😂

[@SticksAandstonesBozo]

Why is he talking like a newsie in 1907

[@allanshpeley4284]

Will this run on my Galaxy S from 2010?

[@SttarDustt606]

Wdym by manual download so you dont install geforce experience?

[@VeryBadPlayerTV]

I look at all the decisions the company has made and it honestly leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I wanna support them but so far they have not left a fantastic image

[@manjiy4185]

like what?

[@VeryBadPlayerTV]

@manjiy4185 the multiple fund raises for game development, into more asking for money, into patreon pack, into now pre ordering the game. It's wild if your not a absolute sc2 fan boy what your willing to put up with

[@manjiy4185]

@@VeryBadPlayerTVIdk I just pre-ordered the game and i'm having fun. I don't to put up with much. And making a video game (specially an rts) is extremely expensive. If they did not do theses fun raises I wouldn't have a fun game to play right now.

[@martinkrauser4029]

I had a fair bit of fun with it even in closed beta and haven't spent a cent on it, and will have whole lot of fun more after the early access goes free-to-play in like ten days so that image is looking pretty good to me and I don't understand folks who think that "this software business had multiple development funding rounds" is some sort of blistering criticism. y'all must be new to this whole "tech business" thing and then complaining about Frost Giant dev's and execs wages when they're below industry standards is giving some heavy "touring musicians should sleep in vans" vibes ike what in the actual heck do you think it costs to pay senior developers in california? these aren't fresh graduates on their first internship you either pay people right or you don't start a company

[@VeryBadPlayerTV]

@manjiy4185 there are plenty of ways to make money that don't come off as scummy as what they did. Again they did like 3 different fucking patreon fund raises and kept asking for donations. Then released a early access for 30$ on steam.... it's one of the more blatant please let me milk you of money moves I've seen. Too many fan boys to call it like it is

[@carlosbravohuaman3827]

gracias por el consejo el problema es que no hay subtítulos para español latino de todas maneras gracias

[@victorbozhkov7121]

Just to think I wasted years playing the game without knowing this...

[@boops1312]

good pacing

[@dubzNA]

the seo master

[@jayg1552]

Automagically

[@bradencluster4739]

Automagically.

[@MrVeryfrost]

What tips to press? I need more details.

[@sardauk3038]

I swear I read "Tiberium" instead of "Therium"

[@LordHypnos4]

If this video gets 1,369 likes you'll do this guide again right after

[@10manan]

Aww no sc2 today :(

[@francis9523]

Thanks for the content but I still prefer Gates of Pyre over it.

[@Jack___13]

Tip #1: Play SC2 instead.

[@L_Calvo1]

👍

[@IsaacFNghost]

If I buy the early access can I play stormgate today? Or still not yet?

[@atlan5139]

it should be out in an hour if u purchase early access

[@IsaacFNghost]

@@atlan5139 thanks for the reply!

[@pumpkinpie8235]

It looks like crap tbh

[@fishlobs]

good stuff i learnt stuff here ty winter

[@PreceptorLive]

i want to play i want to play i want to play i want to play... but im broke :c

[@JohnDoe-rb4pq]

I like turtles

[@Compulsive_LARPer]

Stormgate *seems* to be slowly turning in to the true spiritual successor to SC2, by carefully skirting around copyright. It *seems* to be actually happening, after all! Or so I hope ...

[@trumpwonBIGLY]

winter you still don’t even upgrade you’re gaunts

[@thomassoutherton619]

AUTOMAGICALLY?

[@seamusallen3839]

Hullo- Game designer here (not affiliated with Stormgate)! In general, we usually don’t want suggestions from folks for what they would like to see when they run into something that needs improvement- instead, being super specific about how the issue in question made you feel, how you reacted to it, what exacerbates/ameliorates it, what circumstances it shows up in most, etc is the most useful feedback you can give! Suggestions are ok too and I’ve received amazing inspiration form playtester ideas in the past, but in general you can think of it this way: you wouldn’t go to a doctor’s office and start suggesting treatments. Same deal here. We are professionals and we want to help you- knowing as much as we can about the symptoms is the best way for us to do that.

[@Laenthal]

It looks generic AF mobile cashgrab non-title..

[@allanshpeley4284]

Indeed. Can you believe they raised $41M for this?

[@martinkrauser4029]

which ones exactly, so I can go play those instead waiting for this?

[@Shimshamer]

My opinion is here

[@timothymcbearington9692]

Great info in your video! However, your delivery is really weird and hard to listen too. I don't mean this comment to be mean. I mean it as constructive criticism.

[@cestseb]

why are the graphics worse than starcrafts lol

[@unkindguy88]

STARCRAFT STILL BETTER😂

[@teachmehowtodoge1737]

Can you play better? 🤔

[@whitefog8]

So he just talks like that all the time then?

[@ihasOfficial]

I didn't realize people talked like this unironically..

[@karenzilla8130]

What do you mean?

[@Mr-ji2im]

Games mid tbh

[@nafmtigia]

oh god not winterstarcraft, this guy is gonna kill the game even if it was good

[@tertozer3543]

Game still looks like a soulless mobile game.

[@teachmehowtodoge1737]

Minecraft? 🤔

[@martinkrauser4029]

here's a fun fact: Starcraft art direction was explicitly intended to be store-brand Warhammer 40K after a licensing deal with Games Workshop fell through and I will say that it freaking shows in how bog-standard uninspired 90% of the units look. Protoss look best and Zerg has some iconic designs, but Terran are absolutely cookie-cutter. On average the models don't look particularly imaginative, particularly not when compared to what they were trying to copy - even in the sequel with Blizzard as an enourmous company. Stalker looks like a tower defense game reject. Roach? ... and the Ravager lmao? Come on. Stormgate models look great in my eyes. I particularly like the Weaver, the Kri, Robot Dog, the Lancer, the Vector, and Celestial buildings. They are cool af. The worst models like the Hornet I find are at least serviceable. I think the unit designs show more ingenuity and originality than SC2 art direction - and in fact so do dozens of these "soulless" mobile games. If you want to see actually terrible art direction, a great example would be Blizzard's latest RTS attempt with W3: Refunded's new unit models. You can dislike the cartoonish stylization (I don't), but droning on about "sOuLlEs" compared to Starcraft is a bit too much. Pipe down, Patricia. The game you're coming from to talk shit about this one is literally a rip-off. I know you're used to looking at four types of "generic man with gun" and "bug monster" for like a decade now, but do get a grip and take a honest look at it. You'll realize that SC2 put function first and did that marvellously, but is not particularly imaginative in most of what it does. We good now?

[@teachmehowtodoge1737]

@@martinkrauser4029 sad fact. Minecraft is more popular than both 😞

[@martinkrauser4029]

@@teachmehowtodoge1737 I don't understand the meaning of saying that or or why that is supposed to be sad. Minecraft is the most hardcorest game out there. Last I checked, you can't build a an actual functional computer in any RTS game.

[@ILOVEDRAGO]

Nobody cares about this game, cast more SC EVO COMPLETE, you baked duеchman! 😡

[@danicule8671]

They just keep making these games easier and easier. I will stay with BW, where apms matter.

[@finrodfel06]

Oh no, other people can enjoy my game now :(

[@TheStephaneAdam]

I'll take more involved and interactive maps over APM. Giving myself carpal tunnel syndrome over a hobby ain't as attractive as you'd think.

[@Draeckon]

That's okay, you won't be missed.

[@WGSeries]

BW? At least switch to SC remastered dude. Treat yourself a bit you deserve it with all those years in pain.

[@teachmehowtodoge1737]

Reach the top 10 on the ladder, and I'll be convinced it's easy. 😏 keep us posted. 😆