New RTS from Warcraft and StarCraft veterans smashes through nearly every stretch goal in $2m Kickstarter campaign, even though it was already fully funded
New RTS from Warcraft and StarCraft veterans smashes through nearly every stretch goal in $2m Kickstarter campaign, even though it was already fully funded
Stormgate's devs must be happy with this result
What was the last new RTS? I wouldn't be surprised that a fanbase that trends very hardcore is extremely hungry for a new game in the genre from experienced devs
Yeah, big studios have largely abandoned rts because micro transactions and season passes destroy the genre. Milking the players is just too hard.
It got abandoned way before the monetization issues. It's an extremely difficult genre from a technical perspective. Networking and keeping in sync is far more difficult for an rts than any other type of game. Then path finding is also a difficult problem, too poor and units fail to move through choke points, too perfect and you can reveal unknown information, do different speed units march together or not, if units March together how far away do they try to group up vs going to the destination.
Before you even get to design of the game there's a ton of technical hurdles that other styles don't have.
Warhammer Total War sure seems to have that solved - rip off prices for DLC but they know Warhammer fans love it and will pay.
AoE 4 maybe?
Halo Wars 2 is my bet.
(Command & Conquer Remastered if rereleases count)
Petroglyph had Grey Goo and the 8-Bit family, but those are decently old now. They've been pretty much the only game in town for quite a while, sadly.
AoE4 just had a huge expansion
I hope they focus on the fun. With that pedigree of devs, I think they'll get the balance good and have good maps, but that illusive fun factor needs to be there. (Like what the Torchlight devs did after some left the Diablo teams.)
Give me a decent storyline and coop play and you've got me
I believe they got you already if those are what you're looking for
For some reason I never looked into co-op RTS games, are there any great ones out already?
Starcraft 2 pretty much pioneered it AFAIK. It's free to play, so you can try it out without giving blizzard your money if you want
StarCraft 2 has a coop mode which is a ton of fun imo, around 18 different commanders which range from "small spin on an existing race" to "essentially 5 hero characters and no units". You play with a friend or queue up with a random other player and play from a pool of amped up campaign missions.
No other game comes to mind, but Stormgate also promises a 3vAI mode, which will be playable next week on Steam Next Fest.
I’m kinda pissed that I just hear about that after the kickstarter ended :(
try BAR - beyond all reason
Gave it a look previously. Doesn't have story campaign or coop though, which is what I'm after
Yes please. It's been sooo long since a good rts.
I only just got the link between Warcraft and Starcraft.
Starcraft is like Warcraft in space.
They should make a World of StarCraft game too lol
https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/StarCraft:_Frontiers
They cancelled it
Eh I would go with Starcraft Universe or Galaxy of StarCraft.
StarCraft would be boring if it were just a single world.
Actually world of Warcraft isn't even a single world, it's more like worlds of Warcraft now.
Give me lan support and im in.
I tried the demo this morning - tons of fun! I only played one match, but it played extremely well. Very StarCraft + warcraft 3.