For what event specifically? all TANC replays are always made available within a day or so. But for other events it depends on the organizers. I recommend going to the #tourney-discussion channel inside the official SG discord and looking for the event you want to replays for to ask there.
I rather enjoy playing stormgate. But I am not fond of the current iteration of Celestial vs Celestial. It's the one matchup I think was much better in the last version.
Besides the poor state of the game in general, an easy way to make camps less risky to take would be if the person taking the camp got a free tower in the camp that the enemy have to destroy to take the camp from you. This means they can't just take the camp you sacrificed units for for free. Immortal: Gates of Pyre does this (and I suggest checking out that game in general, it's way more polished than SG despite being barely known about).
I think GameFriend should have ended the Game at 8min30 , he wasnt active with his army and should have been doing constant damage and harassment... instead his units were inactive and not attacking the buildings on the ramp etc...
Well ... that was a sad ending in the last game... Seems there are still a lot of balance issues to solve. A lot of units barely do any damage at all.. it seems very clunky still, like they're throwing paper. But granted that its still only the beginning and we dont know what will change in the release version tomorrow
Esports is the worst thing to happen for game balance because pro players inevitably bitch and moan about every little detail to end up ruining the game for literally everyone else, Rainbow Six Siege is a good example of that
It looks to me like the Vanguard focused on Vulcans but their slow speed made it hard for him to put pressure on infernal expansions leading to the infernal having enough resources to beat them down even without weavers. Regardless two nice games.
the game also needs to be interesting to watch, especially for big leagues, which it just isn't imo. They probably want to push it to big leagues so they can get more investors money or more public awareness. They pretty much designed and budgeted it to be a big game. Is it attracting enough people? Personally I think the hype is mostly gone now, the marketing screwed most of it up. Should have saved some money and focus on releasing a complete game done for PvP, instead of EA and live service
Totally fair, but i think in part the issue of making a game watchable can be fixed by the community. Either by way of creating tools themselves (see for example CaptureAge for Age of Empires 2, which began as a community project), or by adapting their presentation to be more enticing (Tetris and Excel for instance). Also, its worth noting that FG has yet (to my knowledge) drop money on esport. Not that they have not spend any on it, but from my understanding they are not trying to push esports via direct investment as say for instance Riot or Blizzard would.
@@SebastianAdico I won't disagree casters can make or break the entertainment value. But the game just isnt that exciting to watch. Even the SC2 broodlord infestors era, there's still plenty good interactions prior to the late game. Imo the main issue is they plan to have some kind of scene this year, when the game is still pretty undercooked. The creep mechanics don't feel impactful and almost like a tacked on mechanics etc. most likely it will ruin first impression and set back any type of major eSports scene potential until grassroots shoes there's a consistent high viewership.
This one was honestly kind of frustrating. Although I'm not as down on Ardents as some folk, I think it'd be pretty obvious after the first game that repeatedly trading them into kri on an open field wasn't going to be a winning play here. If he'd just taken some time to gets some rox he could have have started producing some vectors which with the micro displayed here could have been very effective against the kri.
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I remember waking up at 6-7 am on weekend and playing with ~300 ping on TANC APAC, or staying around 2 am (before i fell asleep) to also play a bit in TANC AMER just to add that 1 more player to the bracket and contribute myself. I'm really looking forward to all upcoming Stormgate tournaments, no matter of their size, time or server. Keep up the good work with TANCs and everything else ^^
That is correct, and I don't challenge anything from that statement except the last part. There are many great competitive games out there without competitive scenes. By the same token, there are scenes out there for games that are hardly seen as competitive, yet they developed into it, like geoguesser or Farming Simulator. It's easy to offload the responsibility of creating an esports ecosystem to some "other" group or person. After all, if the game is good, then surely someone will make tournaments, right? But as I state in the video, if the game is good, you, me, and others, should be conscious of the fact that we are contributing to these see and ask ourselves if we want to contribute more. Being a great game is 80% of the way to having an esports scene, but the game alone cannot carry that last 20% of the way.
I like to think of the difference between community vs product as the difference between (some) speedrun communities vs the big esport events. Obviously some of the larger speedrun events are getting big enough to want/need sponsors and all that, alot of it is very small and just a big passion project. That's what makes a good scene in my mind, having a great time not really the money.
That 2nd game wasn't very good. The Celestial player just massed argents and didn't tech at all. Notice that Mixu had a balanced army comp of many unit types. Argents aren't very good units. They're decent in the early game and that's it.
Since TANC has a swiss stage to start, it does seem like the Argent mass was good enough to get past it, but in a bo3 it does start to show its weaknesses.
After the NDA listed I described the Celestials to someone. Their immediate concern was that nonsense like that first match would happen all the time. That isn't what I've seen happen mostly but it was funny to watch a match proving it could happen
I caught that last game on Discord. It was nice to watch, simply because I'd seen a lot of Celestial building pressure giving infernals trouble and it was nice to see an infernal player keep calm and wriggle out from under it.
