On September 11 2025 19:12 _Spartak_ wrote:
I don't think current campaign is "dogshit" by any reasonable definition. The mission design is quite good. Calling it dogshit is proving my point about the bar being unrealistically high.

there are much better custom maps in sc2 than SG campaign

Miragee

8543 Posts

10 hours ago

#5262

I guess I have to try it before the servers will shut down (if I can connect to the servers now, that is). When they first launched the campaign, it was indeed dog shit. And I didn't like the campaign of SC2, either. I thought vanilla SC2 campaign had horrendously cheesy writing, especially for the characters. So in my case, I don't think SC2 set the bar very high...

Manit0u

Poland17340 Posts

9 hours ago

#5263

On another note, I wonder if FG might be liable for a fraud lawsuit. In their Kickstarter campaign they noted that the project was fully funded to release and they just need this extra money for physical deluxe editions etc. That falls under false advertising I think.

Not like there's much point in kicking a dead horse but this might be something that they'll also need to deal with.

Here's a bit more info (no lawsuits mentioned, just the timeline of events leading to this day):

RvB

Netherlands6230 Posts

8 hours ago

#5264

On September 12 2025 18:46 Miragee wrote:

Show nested quote +

It was bad writing but the gameplay was very good. Best rts campaign by miles. Games have bad writing in general.

Harris1st

Germany6944 Posts

8 hours ago

#5265

I think the campaign and the gameplay in general are fine now. But like it was said, "fine" is too little too late.
And for me the biggest thing was always a balanced 3v3 mode. And this is still nowhere to be seen.

JimmyJRaynor

Canada16755 Posts

7 hours ago

#5266

The bar is the RTS options on Steam. There are far better games to play on Steam. Tim Morten going down the "perception is more important than reality" garden path is an attempt by Tim to diminish his level of of responsibility. He is just an orphan in a storm... poor Tim. Living on the most valuable real estate in the world where its summer 12 months a year. Poor Tim.

It looks like Frost Giant tried their best and failed. meh. Going with UE5 was big mistake very early on in their game making process.

Cyro

United Kingdom20300 Posts

3 hours ago

#5267

I am 99.9% sure at this point that Spartak is a third or fourth Tim Morten alt.

Tim's been caught with proof linking him to several alt accounts which write in exactly the same fashion and post during the same hours. They defend Tim at every move that he makes (good, bad or terrible) and attack anyone who says anything about the game which could be viewed negatively, including feedback that just says that they would like improvement in X area because it's not good. It is insane, control freak behavior.

For a sample, see one of the other proven alt accounts - https://old.reddit.com/user/voidlegacy
Screenshot incase he goes back and deletes them..

He turned his filter off because he thought that these comments wouldn't be traced back to him, but they were.

It makes much more sense that there's one more account that he didn't screw up and accidentally link to himself directly than it does for some unknown and unpaid hero to get solo admin rights on every FG community before they have even named the game, and then act in exactly the same manner as a full time job.

ChillFlame

132 Posts

2 hours ago

#5268

I genuinely think Sparty is not an alt. He is terminal stage shill, but not an alt. At least not Tim's.
Voidlegacy lexicon matches perfectly with Tim's. That's not the case with Sparty.
There were also some insides from Voidlegacy, like mentioning the same games in the same order as Tim at the conference a couple weeks after.

ChillFlame

132 Posts

2 hours ago

#5269

But yeah, Fluffy is 100% Tim's alt (proven, and admitted by FG)
Voidlegacy is 99%.
There was documented case of Tim forgetting to log off, and praising his game.

When I read comments of Voidlegacy, I thought he was some aggressive teenager :D
Imagine being CEO of IT company and wasting your time arguing with haters using alt accounts.

Gorsameth

Netherlands21772 Posts

1 hour ago

#5270

On September 13 2025 02:59 ChillFlame wrote:
But yeah, Fluffy is 100% Tim's alt (proven, and admitted by FG)
Voidlegacy is 99%.
There was documented case of Tim forgetting to log off, and praising his game.

When I read comments of Voidlegacy, I thought he was some aggressive teenager :D
Imagine being CEO of IT company and wasting your time arguing with haters using alt accounts.

It says everything you need to know about Tim and why this and his previous c&c project failed the way it did.

Jeremy Reimer

Canada993 Posts

55 minutes ago

#5271

On September 12 2025 01:08 _Spartak_ wrote:
Screenshots above look far better than the ones below. Even on the subreddit, which is notoriously negative about the game, the art improvements were considered a big positive even if most of them didn't think it was enough.

Edit: For context, the above message was comparing the screenshots from the initial gameplay reveal of SG with screenshots from the current build, claiming that the former were better.

Frost Giant layered on so many special effects, shaders, and lighting effects that occasionally Stormgate's screens turn into indistinguishable blobs of grey and blue, especially during the darker parts of the day/night cycle. (Incidentally, the day/night cycle turned out to be totally pointless, because there was no in-game effect for it)

This resulted in the Early Access "bad art style" screenshots being much clearer and easier to distinguish units on, which is kind of hilariously sad.

Hider

Denmark9396 Posts

35 minutes ago

#5272

On September 13 2025 01:29 Cyro wrote:
I am 99.9% sure at this point that Spartak is a third or fourth Tim Morten alt.

Tim's been caught with proof linking him to several alt accounts which write in exactly the same fashion and post during the same hours. They defend Tim at every move that he makes (good, bad or terrible) and attack anyone who says anything about the game which could be viewed negatively, including feedback that just says that they would like improvement in X area because it's not good. It is insane, control freak behavior.

For a sample, see one of the other proven alt accounts - https://old.reddit.com/user/voidlegacy
Screenshot incase he goes back and deletes them..

After going through some of Sparktaks post. Yes I agree it's very suspicious. Majority of the posts are Frostgiant PR. Similarly to VoidLegacy very littile game-specific-detailed discussions. More surface level.

Voidlegacy, however was a lot more obvious as he effectively acknowledged that he had the exact same employment experience as Tim Morten.

I think Sparktak may be someone affiliated with Frostgiant but not Tim Morten.

The user seems affiliated with Guardians of the Atlas as well. https://www.youtube.com/@GuardiansOfAtlas/videos. If anyone can find shared an employee with shared experience in both companies it's likely Sparkak.

_Spartak_

Turkey418 Posts

8 minutes ago

#5273

lol

Jeremy Reimer

Canada993 Posts

2 minutes ago

#5274

On September 13 2025 05:15 _Spartak_ wrote:
lol

For what it's worth, I don't think you're affiliated with Frost Giant, apart from being a moderator on /r/Stormgate.

It was hilarious that voidlegacy turned out to be Tim Morten though. That will never stop being funny.