Stormgate Grand Final: HasuObs vs. FanHotS 

Nice to hear Khaldor casting :') brings me back to the earlier days of sc2

I think the reason some people don't like the game's appearance is the contrast between terrain and the two factions. In Starcraft2, there is a lot of the same materials, colors and textures in the terrain that match the units and building, as well as plain old nature. There is also more organic patterns in the map layouts. This helps harmonize the game's look. If Stormgate was to add that to their maps, I think some people would like the look of it a lot more.

Glad to see you making Stormgate casts Khaldor, looking forward to more!

Just finished Fan's Imperius game and get to enjoy this afterwards lol

Khaldor Hasu Fan !! What a day to be alive!!!!

Love seeing the progress Frost Giant is making on this game! I don't really understand what certain people don't like about the look of the game. I know some of these are placeholders and work is in progress, but everything looks fine to me. No part of it looks bad to me!

Nice to see you 3 together! Im not really a RTS enjoyer, but love the people playing it

Holy crap thats HasuObs on my youtube and its not 2011. Awesome.

Nice to hear your voice again Khaldor, wish Wolf could be alongside you. Takes me back to the GSL days.

I'd take gameplay, responsiveness and fluidity over graphics everyday of the week. How many AAA titles have we had that have wonderful graphics and play like tosh recently. So long as there's enough variation in each faction to develop counterplay and new strats then they're onto a winner.

We love heroes of the storm!🙌

I'd say the biggest gripe with the graphics for me right now is the maps themselves. The still mostly rudimentary terrain and tilesets seem to really clash with the buildings/units right now. Balance wise I think the doombringer (infernal dropship) needs looking at, it just seems so ridicuously fast. A proposed solution is perhaps lowering it's move speed when it's filled up is a solution here? (or lock the movement speed behind an upgrade). Perhaps also look into how much units it can transport at once. It is allready a mobile shroud area which is pretty strong in itself.

Fan vs Hasuobs,casted by your bruddah Khaldor,feelsgoodman!

Side step King!

I really like the art style personally.

Half-man, half-orb -- Hasuorbs Fighting!!

this was so much fun to watch !

tbh, you cant say too much about graphic and sounds. they are clearly placeholder

Did zou seriously get the Stormgate youtube handle :D

FanHOTS RTS Gawwwd

Khaldor! Stormgate! POGGERS

god i love khaldor havent seen him in years! where were you bb?

I really enjoy the graphics of the game. It's easy to see the units and interesting to look at. I don't want to watch a grey brown grimdark mush.

Nice. FanHots in SG 🎉

Watched it live :)

KHALDOR!!

its really nice to hear you again casting an RTS mate :) hm ... maybe homestorycup stormgate ... a man might dream ... i always had the best talks with people at hsc :)

Fan crushing it

Is this the developers channel, are they reading criticism here? Stormgate has the same art style as Warcraft 3, bulky, like overinflated baloons. Not my type, but I can live with it. But I would love if this game were more like Broodwar, with sieges on the map and blocking off areas. Right now I see too much melee vs melee, which I find a bit boring. But I love that these aren't insanely huge armies like in SC2, that then evaporate in a second.

takes me back to wc3. da geht der archmage DOWN! 😁

I heard people say dogs are too strong. Did you watch this replay? Infernals are unbothered by dogs.

no matter what graphics might be changed, the style is here to stay so it doesnt really matter if u like it or not, if u wanna play the game you have to accept that this is the style its very simple xD i think its good because this comic style ages well, as more realistic as you go as worse your game ages and as easier you see outdated graphics

Graphically this looks closer to a mix of Wc3 and Sc2 than Sc2 looks close to Sc1. Personally I don't hat it, but considering that there has more time passed between Stormgate and Sc2 than between Sc1 and Sc2 (releasewise) and Sc1 and Sc2 are supposed to looke similar, while Sg is not, this is not good at all, it's sad. If I didn't know anything about Sg and you'd show me footage telling me that it was released one year before Sc2 I'd be "Wow, looks good. How come I never heard of it?", but I wouldn't be doubting the year of release.

Complaining about graphics when the game has more than a year left in development is just silly. The gameplay is what really matters anyway. Worry about the "paint" after.

Infernals definitely op in the current state of the gamd.

run doggo run!

Spoiler protection, you have failed me. Love SG already tho.

Is this some Heroes Unite? :)

transport shadow looks like a knob

why the f are dogs that fast

As for graphics - it's a bit like LoL vs Dota for me. I just don't like the candy-clean esthetic, and it especially clashes with RTS for me. There are notable exceptions ie Army Men using toy soldiers and somehow coming out of it gritty. Or HotS where it's more tongue in cheek - but those last two embraced the candy and made it it's bitch Heisenberg-style. But there's an easy visual aid - everything I find "meh" esthetically about StormGate - ZeroSpace gets that itch perfectly, despite having fairly similar graphics. But ZeroSpace has a bit more detail, and it all goes towards making it just less... sterile. And when it comes down to it, a good RTS should retain it's tone when dialed down in graphics settings, because people will often want to do that if it ends up giving any edge in performance or visibility. So if this is still negotiable, please take a look at that title. Well, when it comes to map and units. It's control menu looks like an unfortunate WinAmp skin from 1999.

Stole the stormgate channel name. Are frost giant annoyed? Good to see you casting RTS again

Anyone else, but please, not the least funny, always smiling Khaldor

While I don't hate the graphics, sc2 is quite old by now but looks 10x better than this game currently does. The parts that stand out to me as lacking are sound design and especially the aesthetic of the maps. Beyond that it's hard to say, difficult to judge the buildings and units when they just look out of place on the map.

Am i dreaming

HasuObs damn i missed seeing him ^^

That was weird to watch, i mean that this human race seems to no have time to properly set his unit etc. And got flooded everygame. It looked like there is some balancing problem.

Visually it just looks terrible, and the argument about how smooth it is to control doesn't make any sense, they aren't mutually exclusive. Look at any frame in your video, 18:50 as a reference, Therium looks sharp, terrain, buildings and units are all a muddy mess but the health bar on top are sharp. It looks like part of the game is running at different resolutions, and at all times. But the worst part is infernal design, the colour scheme is red, gold and greyish black. Look at 17:25, everything is in that colour scheme including the infernal terrain, it's a huge grey blob.

i dont like the graphics because it looks like an animated kids show, thinks are kinda chunky and look like playdoh. Also thematically it looks like multiple things mashed together. Robots that seem to be inspired by police with smiley faces vs beasts and cartoony monsters from hell? all taking place in a warcraft 3 map. Needs alot of work imo

Vanguard buildings seem so uninspired graphically. "It's early" is not an excuse for me, first impression matters. I already don't wait for release, so probably won't play or watch it regularly, or not at all.

Weird to see fan playing an rts

its really not as much an experience thing as vanguard is just severely underpowered right now. All of these games were complete walkovers, their skill gap is not THAT big.

... top 30 in the ladder out of 65 players? gtfo!

Whoever this HasuObs is, very bad