Stormgate unveils 3RD FACTION: Celestials - Grubby dives in to explore 

I tried playing a few real games with the Celestials, and I thought my brain was going to melt. They have such wildly different gameplay compared to the other factions that I just could not figure out on my own. Looking forward to there being more guides to them once it enters early access.

ayup, the "So advanced they're just magic" race. The "Krotoss"

I believe we can still bring in anime catgirls if we ask nicely enough

Chat was too funny during this video. "Legally distinct core" as chalkboard scraping sounds floated into my ears. This 2024 RTS race sure is something.

Watch some of the Pro's play Celestial. They are crazy. You can basically build your base right in front of their natural at the very beginning of the game.

This faction is a bit too experimental for me. I'll probably play Vanguard until people figure out how they're supposed to fit into the big picture of the game. Really cool design, though.

Here is an intellectual arguments for generic upgrades- 1. It creates power fantasy - meaning that your units are better in the end of the game than in the beginning 2. It creates timing situations just like tiering works - so you invest into something that takes time and you are weaker during this period, your opponent can build more units instead of an upgrade and try to capitalize on it, but if the upgrading player defends they can get the upper hand 3. It allows for a more risk free early game - when units are weaker and they cannot destroy buildings, to an easier closure of endgame where the upgraded army can go into someone's base and wipe them out in a minute (marine or zergling upgrades) 4. It allows for different interactions in different times of the game - in BW early zerglings beat zealots, but +1 zealots 2 shot zerglings so completely turns it arround. Same is the situation with Archons - +3 archons melt zerglings and they become irrelevant in lategame ZvP. These timing can be used to delay the usefulness of a unit or completely change the interactions. 5. It allows early game units to be able to fight higher tier units if their upgrades are better - so more usefulness from early units. 6. It allows yet switches of army composition of same types of units - so every unit of your bio army is getting better, but you cannot immediately go to mech, so pushing into limitations. There are so many good arguments for generic upgrades honestly :D

is it just me or are their designs a bit all over the place? some are robots, some are alien looking and others look almost completely human.

"I've seen Asmongold play RTS. That's how they do it. One hand." Lmao Around 8:20

Okay, this race is really cool. Like the vibe.

I consider this game to be eBay/ wish version of sc2

That "okey dokey" threw me in for a loop at 4:03. Im like there's no way they put in a voice command from WC in here 💀

Would love to love this game. But the graphics just makes give me this hardcore mobile game vibe...it sucks =(

With their bait and switch for their kickstarter moving the goalposts from "Finished Game" to "Finished Alpha" and trying to gaslight everyone into thinking that's the same and general scumminess around financing this I couldn't be less hyped.

This game look like soulless starcraft with GFX from 2005..I expected a lot from this game and turn out to be a joke..Also i cant tell what are building and what are units for 3rd race is just to hard to differentiate..

Just decided to check up on SG (a noosphere moment), and what do I see? Roblox angels? And a paid release? Is SG going to be alive 2 weeks after the release though lmao? - Adûnâi

I would really prefer more slick or slim artstyle for Celestials. We already have bulky units for Vanguard and Infernals. I would really prefer more medieval look like diablo Angels than this 90s style plastic toys :P

Man all of the game looks, sounds and feels so generic and derivative. Like a weird amalgamation of SC2 and WC3 but with none of their unique and iconic designs. And gameplay wise I don’t see much , if any, innovation either.

As a Warcraft 3 (Fantasy genre, hero focus instead of mass units) fan, Stormgate is just a no-go. Every Stormgate news is a painful reminder that despite all efforts, no real successor in style and philosophy and overall QUALITY of Warcraft 3 is currently in development, by no company on this planet. (Godsworn btw. is a prime example of a well intended game which in comparison to the 20+years older wc3 lacks quality on almost every level of comparison.)

Why do they have a creep system if there’s no Heroes in their RTS?

For how strongly the idea for Celestials is to be structure based, their structures are too fat to use during battle, like you place one and your army already doesnt fit around its range, is something i found. Hopefully fixed on release

Somehow with each patch this game looks more and more like a mobile game. What are they doing?

Is it just me or is the visual design of the units in this game just.. not very good? Nothing looks iconic or memorable.

When he said this is a noob friendly race, I'm thinking, really.

wasn't there an NDA until today evening?

Grubby losing to Jr was lile TheViper getting SilverBoi medal on AoE2’s art of war tutorial mission!

And I'm still waiting for illuminati in helldivers

Frost Giant seriously needs to work on those map tiles. Looks like pre-alpha StarCraft II. I mean like giant archon 3 templars pre-alpha, which is sad.

Some are more immune to NDA than others... I think that's lame.

Terrans, protoss and horde from WC2, so unique

I swear, it looks just like that with me, when I first played them 😂😂😂 "How to I build?"

this game is super ugly, boring, and lackluster

Celestial art style is growing on me tbh

So Protoss but not.

Ugly, with no unique silhouettes. These are a nightmare to pick out in a pitch battle.

It's good to play it blind. This is how new players will play - being a pro player.

They aren't far from anime cat girls though.

I love how they ripped off protoss, Terrance and zero.

My life for Aiur! 💪

Ever play the game "Rise of Legends"?

Why the hell would I play this when I can just play starcraft 1 or 2?

This is absolutely brilliant! Love seeing fresh talent in the industry. Which college is this from?

I hope they😮 move away from StarCraft at home approach.

Visually they look like toys. (I mean toys for kids, wargame miniatures are much better) Gameplay wise they are overloaded with mechanics, but nothing is cool or impactful. If you want to get new players into your game you need some cool things in it: Visual style, lore, original ideas, interesting gameplay elements. Looks too safe and generic for me.

let's goooo, hope they get out of ea soon.

I understand more and more why these people got sacked from Blizzard. Maybe the creators were the problem, while we blame the fall on the creators that were left behind.

Damn awesome, creative race

The artwork iof this game is awful :(

I wish someone would bring Human Resources back from the dead. It looked so unique and fun. I want that RTS game, not this.

To me, sadly this game is too much Starcraft-like which is definitely not my kind of RTS game. Luckily AoE4 is still live but lacking this quality of life simplicity.

I really don't like the unit and sound design.

Props for the Pick of Destiny quote. As for the race...It's too convoluted. Honestly, the more of Stormgate I see, the less I care about the game. It just keeps getting worse with every update. Thing is...NORMALLY, you learn a race through the lens of the campaign, which drops new mechanics and units on you one at a time which is not only not available right now, but as a F2P game, the campaign is not free...so the learning curve is going to be outrageous for anyone who doesn't plan to spend money here. This race looks like The Eldar from Warhammer mixed with a failed geometry test. The way it appears to play...just, please. Just delete this from the game, my god.

Looks sick

Holy moly thats an ugly looking faction, who approve these designs I wonder

i really want this game to succeed, but to be honest faction design is terrible

i really hate the art style

LOOOOL this game looks fkin terrible.

Your brother's ten times better than you, Jesus loves him more

So many backseat devs in chat and comments ☠️

This game looks like crap.

this game will flop so hard D:

If youre listening devs, please make a mechanism for players to control the creeps in creep camps. Nobody wants to watch AI units in a competitive 1v1 game. Its outdated and spectator unfriendly.

is the SC II Reskin Project? i love RTS but this is basicly almost sc2 uglier reskin, no originality at all, its like theyre idea cant move on from SC2

Just decided to check up on SG (a noosphere moment), and what do I see? Roblox angels? And a paid release? Is SG going to be alive 2 weeks after the release though lmao? - Adûnâi