Unit & Building Upgrades in Tempest Rising’s new RTS demo gameplay | GDF & Tempest Dynasty missions

Unlike numbers based upgrades in games like starcraft 2, the numbers based upgrades in Tempest Rising are designed to provide meaningful differentiation in how the game plays out. Structures taking 50% damage from distribution mode means you're able to use it a lot more, which means bigger armies faster and less money spent on repair for the boosted buildings, which means you can be a lot more free with distribution mode. Choices in Tempest Rising have an element of opportunity cost since in campaign you get 1 doctrine point per mission and in multiplayer you have a maximum of 11 doctrines, so you won't have every player getting things like bonus damage on attacking marked units or bonus range or even bonus health or veterancy gain rate. Incremental upgrades like you see in age of empires or Starcraft can be annoying because it's an arms race to keep up with the increments but in Tempest Rising we are trying to target small changes with big impacts that result in meaningfully different gameplay outcomes.

Percentage upgrade is good, if there is an accompanying visual change to a unit, otherwise, it's kind of boring. "Yaaay! Unit fires more rounds. Too bad i don't see extra barrel or extra weapon, to see it do that."

Clearly.I liked it more than Stormgate.

Starcraft 2's campaigns made upgrades impactful in my opinion. With A or B choices offering new units, support powers but also just raw stat boosts made for good replayability.

yeah the upgrades should definitely be for example like modular parts to the tank, an extra AA-gun or a radar or something.

I thought that only Immortal gates of Pyre will be the only RTS game that I'll be looking forward to but this just caught my attention too 😊

Totally agree with the numbers, percentage doesn't even matter when you're in the middle of a firefight

The amount of abilities, upgrades and distinct features is overwhelming. The tone, the characters and the feel are all superb on the other hand.

The main focus of tempest is an sp focused game u can see it clearly

In general terms I think they are on the right line, I see the statistics as superfluous, I see the movements of the vehicles and the troops as formula one, it is not very real, neither are the scales..., it is a lot to ask that a soldier Has it been proportionally smaller than a tank? I also don't like playing melee type rugby, having all the units piled up on top of each other, without any order I see it as third world, in any case the game promises By the way, I hope for a review from you of homeworld 3 without filters....hehehehehe all the best

A hell lot better than Stormgate!

And they should also add a paratrooper; you can control it.

does enemy AI vehicle chase infantry to crush them? if yes, at least i want it a rare occurance or cooldown ability. i don't like when they chase infantry as priority

Nice update on game! Thx for the video!

Excellent demo, and I mostly concur with your viewpoints. Additionally, I noted that the soldier does nothing to deflect the hits from the tanks—such as lying on the ground—and instead gets more than five hits from them. For the Dynasty faction, I think they should include a mobile missile launch platform, mobile artillery, or both that would be something new to game.

Biggest issue I have with the game is the fact it follows through in reliving the old days of C&C while slapping a unit cap to remind me its a modern game that will more than likely turn to tournament play like starcraft. Otherwise had fun

Looks awsome. As a Starcraft player I am looking forward to this.

I'm a little dissapointed with it cause it really feels like RA3/Starcraft with a lot of micro (even the way units bunch up and are funneled through corridors in the map). Was hoping for a more Generals feel (splash damage barely exists in this game). And also, pop cap in a CnC style game???

Let us wait for the MP beta and then we could say more about the doctrines system, for now i dont have much to say about it. My thoughts align with yours about unit formations and blob fights it just seems too messy and without order and that bothers me, but let's see what the future holds for us. Generally the game looks good and i have high hopes for it, the campaign should be fantastic and i am really Happy with the unit design. Samo jako brate !

Tempest Rising looks pretty in terms of graphical fidelity, and it seems to have a lot to offer. But I really don't like that there's a population cap, and I'm not feeling the RA3-style aesthetic or the constricting zoom level. Sadly, I think I'm going to skip this one in favor of OpenRA.