A quick question about the future RTS

[Nageta]

I know this game is a long ways away from being realsed and takes place in the past. But how far in the past. I ask because in grim dawn the gun is a thing. When was the gun invented in this universe. Will the RTS have guns, muskets, blunderbusses. I don’t care if guns are included but I feel like its the most none lore spoiler question we can ask. Because even if the krun dont use guns its still nice to know if the games time line takes place before or after there invention.

[Croc]

I hope they allow us to build these beauties that are in many places in Grim Dawn just teasing:

[ZeulMaster]

Looks like a Gas fart siege tank xd

[Nageta]

I didn’t even think about those. I forgot they had tanks. But that’s kind of the point of the question. The invention of the gun effects what kind of units we’ll have. The demolitionst wouldn’t even be a thing. It will effect things a lot.

[Smitherson]

Given that cast iron bombs and napalm-like incendiaries both predate the musket by at least 3-5 centuries, you can have a big chunk of the demolitionist arsenal anyway. The only iffy explosives would be thermite mines and the canister bomb.

[Volek]

I assume magic in the world of Cairn existed before the grim dawn, so magic-powered thermite mines might be a thing even 3-5 centuries earlier. Canister bombs seem primitive enough to be around earlier as well.
Not including some units that look and act like Demolitionists kinda feels like wasted potential. At least big guns like cannons should be there if Cairn had a similar timeline to ours from the middle ages to the renaissance.

[ZeulMaster]

Age of Cairn

[krell_154]

I seem to remember somebody from Crate saying the RTS will be set in the past relative to events in Grim Dawn. But I might easily be wrong

[Volek]

no, you are right, that’s why I speculated about cannons earlier. I don’t remember the exact quote but i think it was several centuries.
edit: Or maybe there was no quote and my mind made it up. The only quote I can find right now is “pre-grim dawn” which can mean anything from a few months to a few millenia.

[Toxophilix]

I seem to remember reading that it’s going to have Arkovia as a playable faction, so is presumably before the unpleasantness with Uroboruuk.

[Volek]

The Erulan empire and iirc the Kurn were mentioned as playable factions as well, at least Erulan should have access to some heavy firepower. The Kurn are leaning more on the berserker/shaman side so I doubt they’ll have cannons and stuff like that, maybe some chaos-infused catapults (some tribes of the Kurn already dabbled into Ch’thon worship before the grim dawn)

[anachoret]

@Volek

maybe some chaos-infused catapults

Or Stompephants

[medea_fleecestealer]

Not seen any exact period mentioned myself. There’s this

@medierra

After much back and forth, we’ve decided to set the RTS in Cairn. It’s pre-grim-dawn though, so no aetherials, although there may be some cthonic elements.

We wanted to give it more of an historical civilization feel but with fantasy elements, since I think straight history is kind of limiting in terms of what you can come up with for interesting units and abilities.

So in terms of setting it will be a bit more Age of Empires but with some magic and fantasy units, alongside more traditional army units. In terms of gameplay feel, it will be a bit more toward SC2.

Also this

@medea_fleecestealer

Got a little bit more info from the dev stream of the 29th August looking at the upcoming v1.2 patch and announcing the 3rd expanison for Grim Dawn.

With the 3rd expansion we’ll be meeting the Kurn and learning about their background/history which features in the upcoming RTS game.

RTS will feature the Kurn, Eurlan and Arkovia.

Mammoths might feature prominently in the RTS.

Both from the RTS game thread.

Crate's Grim Dawn Related RTS Project

I wouldn’t and would worry about RTS quite a bit. They are a tricky genre to pin down properly. But i feel like we have been gettin a steady stream of RTS trough the years that all fell flat on their face, since all of them seemed to focus a lot on the competitive multiplayer side quite a lot and left the more numerous casual scene barely any content when it came to map making and campaign. But boy, as someone who followed a lot of RTS, its such a hard genre to do justice. One wrong thing can m…

[ZeulMaster]

They look like Battle for Middle Earth 1 and 2 war elephants

[arivus]

looks like it gonna be asymmetrical RTS then