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These animations look so great and I really like the sizes of units and buildings. That gives it a completely different feel compared to other RTS games where a single soldier can be half the size of a small vehicle.
kinda rare those days rts that sacrifice unit size for graphics. it was necessery on the psx and ps2 era becuase otherwise you would not be able to see the soldier due to the combo of low resolution screens + primitive texture filtering on gpus. I mean its not fair to be too harsh on rts of that era having stylized graphics, take majesty for exemple the guys were huge but you could see the animations vs something like stronghold that had better fidelity but the animation were very hard to see.
@@livanbard actually, iirc there was this video that discussed some old rts games. One of them was 3d or something, and the biggest complaint derived from it is the readability of soldiers, players cant decipher one from the other. I think Generals 2 development also encountered that issue as well, trying to go for real scale units and buildings coupled with graphics. Just that this time, the graphics hinder the readability of small units So unless you're very good with visual design and you know how your players interpret each small unit differently, such weird design choices is the right call for your players to know which soldier is what.
Even watching this short clip is more fun than playing most modern strategy games. There is something special about these 2d engines oh and the designs and details are amazing.
I really love the idea of tougher economy units. Rather then them just getting easily picked off it seems like this would lead to more supply line/convoy scenarios which is really cool
I've watched this trailer so many times, it looks so fucking good. I cant wait to play this soon. The music, the atmosphere, everything about it is perfect. I hope the soundtrack used here is in game :)
I think what I love most about this is a hint at logistics between production and resource drop off. I always disliked how resources just magically get used by production buildings
It would be interesting if units and building dropped their value or part of their value in scrap on death. That would make a nice bounce back mechanic. When half your base gets destroyed but you managed to survive, you can refine all the scrap in your base, which would mean more short term income than the enemy has, since they have to move further away to their field. Scavenging past battlefields would also make some secondary income, when all the expansions are dried up. Kinda like in Supreme Commander, but with the main income beeing finite resource patches. I never like how slow the game got in older RA games, when everything got mined and noone had any income.
I just hope its not too micro managey, thats what gets me I like setting my harvesters to go mine and have them do that automatically, its not like I have an entire base to watch over, armies to direct, and an economy I need to keep stable XD
this is the only game I'm looking forward to. love the aesthetic, love the factions, and I love the "recourse logistics". I always felt that sort of feature should be explored more. have you decided how many recourse types there will be in the game?
There will be three useable resource types: Materiel (your "default" resource, like Minerals in Starcraft), Fuel (your more advanced resource type, again like Vespene in Starcraft), and Authority, which is a resource that is not mined and has no logistics behind it, but is instead accumulated through destroying enemies and completing objectives, and is mostly used for support powers such as airstrikes, artillery strikes and other special abilities.
I think it's interesting that this game will have worker infantry alongside the ore trucks. Makes me wonder what situations would it be best to focus on the Ore Trucks, the worker infantry, or a combination of both! 🤔
What gives with the metal/concrete texture/terrain inside of that walled base at 1:00 ? Is that player built like concrete from tiberian sun/Dune 2000?
Currently Powerplants require Fuel resources to stay active; the Powerplant in this video shutting off was just a mistake and I didn't want to redo the take. We're not sure if this feature will remain in the final game though, definitely something to figure out in testing.
This gets better and better, can't wait to see more gameplay! Got a potato laptop so especially exited for this. What are rough spec requirements? awesome jobs lads/ladies!
I keep coming back to this videos, and as a factorio player, I have always wish than an RTS had more emphasis on building outpost and processing those resources. not just magically add them to a pool after taking them to a building you an put next to the resources. Looking at this is exactly what I have always wanted, manage your logistics and sabotage your enemy supply line to weaken them.. cant wait
Hi! This is the second video on this game that I watch. My attention was drawn to the design of the units - this was clearly done by a person who loves modeling! Please try to make the main background (ground) darker so that the units look more contrasting. Perhaps it's worth adding a little bit of saturation to the unit model. And bring the camera a little closer - these models (sprites, yes, yes) are worthy of looking at them!
Is the music in this video going to be in the actual game? I really REALLY love the vibe it has! I can tell this games going to have a unique soundtrack that'll grab peoples attention. Also the detail in the units, structures.. every video I see showcasing this game makes me more and more excited for it! From the scale, to the details and art style, to the gunfire and explosion effects! I am SO happy I discovered this gameeee.
@@dorf-rtsAwesome to hear and thank you for the response! I wanted to ask because I know some trailers have their own soundtracks that were meant to be short and only for the trailers. Hearing this though makes me excited for the games soundtrack even more! You guys are doing a lot of really good work over there in making a unique RTS game and I hope your all doing well and having fun with it. It's been awile since I've seen an RTS like this that's an actual passion project!
love the giant turbo laser turrets. are the smaller turrets in front of the other gate, part of the gate, for aesthetic or some other function like warning or such?
everything looks beautiful, but from my understanding all of the units are sprite based and not voxel, does that mean that all of the terrain in the game will be flat? Since making the ascending state for the tanks and all would be very tricky
Love how massive everything looks. Will map sizes go up similarly? Looking at the one here it's relatively small when compared to units and buildings. Also was it me or did unit corpses/wreckages persist? That would be very cool!
Amazing animations and details! the whole proportions look so nice and with all the little interactive stuff like moving turrets etc, its fantastic! Would love to support the development, but I am very hesitant on continuus patreon support (sorry). Because if nothing comes out of it, all the money is gone. So is there a way to pre-purchase this for example? Or make a kickstarter, where users can buy the game and some other small stuff?
There may be a kickstarter at some point, possibly later this year. I just went the patreon route for now since the game isn't quite ready to demonstrate for something as significant as a kickstarter. There's a number of mechanics and visual improvements I want to make before I commit to something like that.
It's good to mine resources with that huge truck, but I don't know if it's actually possible to play multiplayer because the movement speed is too slow.
ore- "Harvester is under attack." This is very cool, not only the "Harvester" but also infantry/miner(?) can collect the resources too. Animation look very good too. You use the sprite technique like in Red Alert 2 for example, right? (I don't know much but it feel like it.) or something like Factorio? I been looking for an RTS game with "Harvester" aspect (like Red Alert and C&C) in it, not like one of those "Resource Extractor" or something akin to Starcraft system. (They are not bad, don't get me wrong. I just like the Harvester kind of resource gathering system more than those kind.) This look like one of these game and I very much looking forward to it. This is the first time I stumble upon this video/channel/game. Thanks to TH-cam algorithm recommanded this video to me. What platform this game gonne be release on? If it Steam, I'll be buying for sure!
Will attack move be in the game? One thing I love about OpenRA and reason play it over RA2 is the attack move function, it's so nice telling your army, go over there and "krush kill'n destroy" everything on the way.
You can give attack-move orders, yes. Many units while also fire while moving, and also units have behavioral stances you can set, like ordering them to pursue enemies they encounter or to hold fire.
Of you have multiple war factories, can you build multiple vehicles at the same time? Or can you only buld one vehicle despite have multiple war factories?
@@funnyguy3D The idea was actually taken from an old (bad) Star Wars RTS called Force Commander. Although there are a few other RTS games with a similar system, like Act of War and Baldies.
@@dorf-rts oh that's sick that you did get inspiration from baldies! i thought i noticed a bit of things that seemed baldie inspired! act of war is def an interesting choice, i've never played SW FC tho, is that where you got the resource collection idea from?
@@funnyguy3D Oh, you misunderstood; we got the idea for storming base buildings with infantry units from SW Force Commander. I am aware of Baldies, but it doesn't really have much influence on DORF design-wise. As for the resource logistics system, that was more influenced by Factorio, as well as how war in real life requires a logistics game, something that's strangely untouched in almost every RTS ever made.
Mining ore will actually be the primary method of resource acquisition, though it has to be found underground, and the entire subterranean movement mechanic hasn't been implemented yet. So for now I am just showing off surface scrap collection. Also in general, scrap "spawns" from destroyed vehicles and buildings, so to a degree it's a self-replenishing resource, as long as there is continuous battle.
@@cletusmandeletusman2328 We will use a deferred shading/dynamic lighting system similar to Brigador, though actual implementation of this system is a little ways off.
This game looks beautiful, but why they are so slow? And it need 3 different units for resources? Don't look like an multiplayer, but i will play it anyway :D
This faction in general has slower, more defensive units. Also most factions will have multiple units that can gather resources in some capacity, to add some flexibility to playstyle.
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Why no playstation release? 🙏🏽
@MusicIsMyFirstL0ve Rts are a genre designed for pc first and foremost. Would be rather difficult to control on a console.
@@MusicIsMyFirstL0veCuz Playing RTS is impossible on a console
As if PS5 doesn't have kbm support 😂😂😂
Tought it was a Volvo 240 at 0.40 first 😅 you should include that as the ultimate tank😂
These animations look so great and I really like the sizes of units and buildings. That gives it a completely different feel compared to other RTS games where a single soldier can be half the size of a small vehicle.
Half the size of a small vehicle? Too generous a comparison,
Take half the size of a Tank, or the size *of* a tank, looking at you red alert 2.
@@cletusmandeletusman2328 Yeah that’s what I meant. Conscript vs terror or chaos drone or that little gattling tank of Yuris army.
kinda rare those days rts that sacrifice unit size for graphics.
it was necessery on the psx and ps2 era becuase otherwise you would not be able to see the soldier due to the combo of low resolution screens + primitive texture filtering on gpus. I mean its not fair to be too harsh on rts of that era having stylized graphics, take majesty for exemple the guys were huge but you could see the animations vs something like stronghold that had better fidelity but the animation were very hard to see.
@@livanbard actually, iirc there was this video that discussed some old rts games. One of them was 3d or something, and the biggest complaint derived from it is the readability of soldiers, players cant decipher one from the other.
I think Generals 2 development also encountered that issue as well, trying to go for real scale units and buildings coupled with graphics. Just that this time, the graphics hinder the readability of small units
So unless you're very good with visual design and you know how your players interpret each small unit differently, such weird design choices is the right call for your players to know which soldier is what.
I unironically love those stupidly impractical fixed angle gun ports on vehicles you got going.
The way these harvesters eat up the scrap is very satisfying
0:40 I see Wall-E found the armory and decided to have a little fun
I actually did base the harvesting animation on Wall-E a little bit
SO MUCH SOUL
RTS IS BACK BABY!!!!!!!
Even watching this short clip is more fun than playing most modern strategy games. There is something special about these 2d engines oh and the designs and details are amazing.
War miner from Red Alert 2 send greetings! I love the game already!
War miner X Yuri slave miner had child
I really love the idea of tougher economy units. Rather then them just getting easily picked off it seems like this would lead to more supply line/convoy scenarios which is really cool
I've watched this trailer so many times, it looks so fucking good. I cant wait to play this soon. The music, the atmosphere, everything about it is perfect. I hope the soundtrack used here is in game :)
Really hoping it comes out this year, at least in early access, this is the only game im looking forward to atm...
Can't wait to see how this develops, looks great :)
I love the artstyle of this game
Ya looks much more appealing then StormGate
It’s very authentic
The soundtrack for this game is so beautiful.
The artist, if you are interested: misterkad.bandcamp.com/
Love how fights seem to turn into a mess of various projectiles flying.
Also the defensive guns on those large crawlers.
_"Factorio 2 looks quite promising so far..!"_
In all seriousness, *this looks amazing!* It already looks like an instant classic.
I DIG the song and art :)
am i back in the late 90s??? you've done an amazing job with the style.
I think what I love most about this is a hint at logistics between production and resource drop off. I always disliked how resources just magically get used by production buildings
Looks amazing. Somewhat reminds me of Fallout and Factorio.
It would be interesting if units and building dropped their value or part of their value in scrap on death. That would make a nice bounce back mechanic. When half your base gets destroyed but you managed to survive, you can refine all the scrap in your base, which would mean more short term income than the enemy has, since they have to move further away to their field. Scavenging past battlefields would also make some secondary income, when all the expansions are dried up.
Kinda like in Supreme Commander, but with the main income beeing finite resource patches. I never like how slow the game got in older RA games, when everything got mined and noone had any income.
I just hope its not too micro managey, thats what gets me
I like setting my harvesters to go mine and have them do that automatically, its not like I have an entire base to watch over, armies to direct, and an economy I need to keep stable XD
I cannot overstate how excited I am for this game. Very excellent work!
Dang, it's hard to believe it's openRA it looks so good
seriously? i thought this was cossacks
Its almost criminal how many views you get for these really cool snippets of things in development!
wow im just loving this sprite work. the grittyness of it all really brings back the games of my childhood
as a cnc fan and a concept artist. this models and design of this loooks ~FANTASTIC cant wait to play this!
More I see of this game, the more I want it. I hope to see it come out on steam.
this is the only game I'm looking forward to. love the aesthetic, love the factions, and I love the "recourse logistics". I always felt that sort of feature should be explored more. have you decided how many recourse types there will be in the game?
There will be three useable resource types: Materiel (your "default" resource, like Minerals in Starcraft), Fuel (your more advanced resource type, again like Vespene in Starcraft), and Authority, which is a resource that is not mined and has no logistics behind it, but is instead accumulated through destroying enemies and completing objectives, and is mostly used for support powers such as airstrikes, artillery strikes and other special abilities.
@@dorf-rts so like cnc generals promotions/support powers, sounds great!
I love how you're giving each faction a crudton of units.
Will the Barbarians and the Order also have three harvester units as well?
I want to wish you good luck with the game development, it looks very promising!
I know I keep saying this, but man, I can't wait for this game to come out. This makes me feel beyond excited.
Give the Harvester an upgrade and call it "work crew", all it does is add two guys sitting on the roof to take pot shots at any nearby enemies
These harvesters are mesmerizing. the detail.
Music: Mr kad
Album: Venting
Title: Make until you break
Awesome. So well-designed and satisfying just to watch.
Watching this brings some well forgotten joy
Looks great! Well done :)
I think it's interesting that this game will have worker infantry alongside the ore trucks. Makes me wonder what situations would it be best to focus on the Ore Trucks, the worker infantry, or a combination of both! 🤔
Forklift certified?!
They can't be stopped!!!
What gives with the metal/concrete texture/terrain inside of that walled base at 1:00 ? Is that player built like concrete from tiberian sun/Dune 2000?
The game features buildable concrete tiles, which improve unit speed and reduce the possibility of cratering due to explosions.
The music is so chilled
0:16 huh, weird. Why did the powerplant suddenly turned off?
Currently Powerplants require Fuel resources to stay active; the Powerplant in this video shutting off was just a mistake and I didn't want to redo the take. We're not sure if this feature will remain in the final game though, definitely something to figure out in testing.
This gets better and better, can't wait to see more gameplay! Got a potato laptop so especially exited for this. What are rough spec requirements? awesome jobs lads/ladies!
I keep coming back to this videos, and as a factorio player, I have always wish than an RTS had more emphasis on building outpost and processing those resources. not just magically add them to a pool after taking them to a building you an put next to the resources. Looking at this is exactly what I have always wanted, manage your logistics and sabotage your enemy supply line to weaken them.. cant wait
Glad to see you need to be forklift certified to gather resources in this game.
The shoveling animations look satisfying
Amazing, I feel immersed.
this looking amazing!
this is supper fricking cool love watching it cant wait to play!!!!
Nice harvester, brings me back the days of Command & Conquer. Now the next thing to see is base building, is it MCV?
Awesome. It looks like CnC and TA had a giant baby! 👌
D.O.R.F, Broken Arrow, Homeworld 3....2023 is turning into RTS christmas!
Tempest rising
It's great. I cried with delight.
Cool!! looking forward to this!
Hi! This is the second video on this game that I watch. My attention was drawn to the design of the units - this was clearly done by a person who loves modeling! Please try to make the main background (ground) darker so that the units look more contrasting. Perhaps it's worth adding a little bit of saturation to the unit model. And bring the camera a little closer - these models (sprites, yes, yes) are worthy of looking at them!
The scrap harversting reminds me of an ancient RTS called Outlive.
forklift certified dorfs
man those pipes give me M.A.X. memories
Thats looks realy nice.
Is the music in this video going to be in the actual game? I really REALLY love the vibe it has! I can tell this games going to have a unique soundtrack that'll grab peoples attention.
Also the detail in the units, structures.. every video I see showcasing this game makes me more and more excited for it! From the scale, to the details and art style, to the gunfire and explosion effects! I am SO happy I discovered this gameeee.
Most of the Mister Kad music will likely be featured in the final product, yes.
@@dorf-rtsAwesome to hear and thank you for the response! I wanted to ask because I know some trailers have their own soundtracks that were meant to be short and only for the trailers. Hearing this though makes me excited for the games soundtrack even more! You guys are doing a lot of really good work over there in making a unique RTS game and I hope your all doing well and having fun with it. It's been awile since I've seen an RTS like this that's an actual passion project!
The track has a nice groove to it, the game background sfx even add to it. Looking forward to release when I can put it into my chill playlist.
Are you going to consider having a far larger zoom out? Some of the on screen objects are humongous
wow, that looks really smooth, with a pinch of russian heavy collector. ^^
I will look forward for this game.
I really love this. Will it also be a large scale like Supcom?
love the giant turbo laser turrets. are the smaller turrets in front of the other gate, part of the gate, for aesthetic or some other function like warning or such?
I love this style! What those workers digging?
the music sound so dope
everything looks beautiful, but from my understanding all of the units are sprite based and not voxel, does that mean that all of the terrain in the game will be flat? Since making the ascending state for the tanks and all would be very tricky
Love how massive everything looks. Will map sizes go up similarly? Looking at the one here it's relatively small when compared to units and buildings.
Also was it me or did unit corpses/wreckages persist? That would be very cool!
Amazing animations and details! the whole proportions look so nice and with all the little interactive stuff like moving turrets etc, its fantastic! Would love to support the development, but I am very hesitant on continuus patreon support (sorry). Because if nothing comes out of it, all the money is gone. So is there a way to pre-purchase this for example? Or make a kickstarter, where users can buy the game and some other small stuff?
There may be a kickstarter at some point, possibly later this year. I just went the patreon route for now since the game isn't quite ready to demonstrate for something as significant as a kickstarter. There's a number of mechanics and visual improvements I want to make before I commit to something like that.
Certified forklift moment? :0
It's good to mine resources with that huge truck, but I don't know if it's actually possible to play multiplayer because the movement speed is too slow.
ore- "Harvester is under attack."
This is very cool, not only the "Harvester" but also infantry/miner(?) can collect the resources too.
Animation look very good too. You use the sprite technique like in Red Alert 2 for example, right? (I don't know much but it feel like it.) or something like Factorio?
I been looking for an RTS game with "Harvester" aspect (like Red Alert and C&C) in it, not like one of those "Resource Extractor" or something akin to Starcraft system. (They are not bad, don't get me wrong. I just like the Harvester kind of resource gathering system more than those kind.)
This look like one of these game and I very much looking forward to it.
This is the first time I stumble upon this video/channel/game. Thanks to TH-cam algorithm recommanded this video to me.
What platform this game gonne be release on? If it Steam, I'll be buying for sure!
Will attack move be in the game? One thing I love about OpenRA and reason play it over RA2 is the attack move function, it's so nice telling your army, go over there and "krush kill'n destroy" everything on the way.
You can give attack-move orders, yes. Many units while also fire while moving, and also units have behavioral stances you can set, like ordering them to pursue enemies they encounter or to hold fire.
@@dorf-rts Awesome... Awesome to the Max!
Ah, my beloved Tiberian Sun..You looks so freshy
We do not have the engineering to build refineries close to the resource fields. So, you know what? Let's turn our harvesters into war rigs!
nice! good job.
Reminds me of a crab when the harvesters scoop
When i see scrap does it mean we can recover destroyed vehicle and building to recycle or fix it ?
Love it!
putting a gun on the harvester is a pretty good idea.
i fucking love this so damn much
the graphics of this game reminds me rollercoaster tycoon...
Is every faction have a different model of miner?
I guess the Empire (Red faction) likes to use large harvesters
There is a command and conquer vibe
Okay, I must ask. Will the OST album be released too?
Cause all the musics used in the videos are great.
Of you have multiple war factories, can you build multiple vehicles at the same time?
Or can you only buld one vehicle despite have multiple war factories?
Each factory has its own construction queue, so multiple factories = building multiple units at the same time.
Harvester under attack!
ok, so... how bout the other faction, what does the other factions resourcing factories or refineries looks like?
Factorio + Z + C&C + Blitzkrieg vibes. i like it.
and of course, with the structure storming mechanic, Baldies.
@@funnyguy3D The idea was actually taken from an old (bad) Star Wars RTS called Force Commander. Although there are a few other RTS games with a similar system, like Act of War and Baldies.
@@dorf-rts oh that's sick that you did get inspiration from baldies! i thought i noticed a bit of things that seemed baldie inspired! act of war is def an interesting choice, i've never played SW FC tho, is that where you got the resource collection idea from?
@@funnyguy3D Oh, you misunderstood; we got the idea for storming base buildings with infantry units from SW Force Commander. I am aware of Baldies, but it doesn't really have much influence on DORF design-wise.
As for the resource logistics system, that was more influenced by Factorio, as well as how war in real life requires a logistics game, something that's strangely untouched in almost every RTS ever made.
@@dorf-rts true, i can't think of any logistics based rts games off the top of my head, though i think there's a least a couple.
foxhole if an rts? :P
Le van a desarrollar una campaña?
i hope i can run it on my old laptop!
Empire or Order?
Empire. Other factions can also harvest scrap, but have different methods of doing so.
What happens when a scrap field runs out?
Mining ore will actually be the primary method of resource acquisition, though it has to be found underground, and the entire subterranean movement mechanic hasn't been implemented yet. So for now I am just showing off surface scrap collection.
Also in general, scrap "spawns" from destroyed vehicles and buildings, so to a degree it's a self-replenishing resource, as long as there is continuous battle.
I never really dug the design aesthetic of Red alert 3.
Red alert 2 had a very appealing chunky diesel punk vibe.
And that is what I love about this.
What game engine does this game use?
Will you make the graphisme better later or wil it be the same
I think they stated that there will be some changes to how lighting in the engine works
@@cletusmandeletusman2328 We will use a deferred shading/dynamic lighting system similar to Brigador, though actual implementation of this system is a little ways off.
@@dorf-rts Wonderful, Brigador always had incredible lighting for such a pixelated game
This game looks beautiful, but why they are so slow? And it need 3 different units for resources?
Don't look like an multiplayer, but i will play it anyway :D
This faction in general has slower, more defensive units. Also most factions will have multiple units that can gather resources in some capacity, to add some flexibility to playstyle.
I WANT THIS GAME NOW PLEASE TAKE MY MONEY
Will this game be released on Android?
Game pretty. Me like!