Once Again: I am not affiliated with DORF or anything, I just think this game looks awesome and want to play it! Here is a link to DORF's Steam Page: store.steampowered.com/app/2388620/DORF_RealTime_Strategic_Conflict/

Thank you for the coverage! Also just FYI, the tank destroyer's shot being blocked by the wooden fence at 14:24 is an oversight. Objects (such as walls) can block enemy projectiles, though we forgot to disable this for the fence when this particular teaser was made, since obviously a wooden fence blocking an anti-tank round is very silly.

Man, D.O.R.F looks like the most exagerrated sequel to Red Alert 2. I can't wait to play it.

I got chills when Grant said "and then there's this tree!" Exact same feeling as when Tychus said "... it's about time."

Grant so excited about the double turret tank that I just wanna also point out the massive giant guy chucking sea mines at 7:24

Love how the vehicle design basically is done by five 13 year olds on two gallons of monster energy. Looks very promising to me.

The artstyle looks old and "nostalgic" but the mechanics are insanely "modern". It's actually kinda insane

This game almost feels like they looked at all the advice Grant gave in the "The Next Major RTS Will Fail, and Here's Why" video and said "Yunno, yeah, that makes sense!" Then summoned the spirit of RTS itself, infused it into their devs, and just got to WORK! It looks AMAZING!

This looks like what happens when the Hot Wheels kid, the little green army guys kid, and the Lego Mindstorms kid all meet at the playground to settle their differences in the blood ring

Honestly the thing I like the most about this game is that you can easily tell what units belong to what faction. Advanced units are NWO ramshackle scrap units belong to the Warbands and the big railway gun users are the Imperials. I really appreciate how easy it is to tell.

I just read on rhe steam page that you will be able to CAPTURE enemy factories and then build THEIR tech so you can build from multiple tech trees. That sounds insane and like it could be a lot of fun.

This game feels.. like a true spiritual successor and a child of KKND and RedAlert 2

I think a major reason why everything looks instantly recognizable for its function, is because they're very subtly but also not-so-subtly paying homage to Red Alert, CnC and even stuff like Mental Omega etc. Like, that's definitely an infantry production structure because its so classically similar to the Hand of Nod. That big head building has so much Yuri's Barracks vibes. The presumed vehicle production structure/factory on the left at 4:02 kinda looks like a GDI factory. The superweapon (coz what else can it be??) at 8:22 looks a lot like the General's Shockwave mod superweapon for Leang. The particle effects and stuff are very like the screen chaos you could expect from a Mental Omega campaign mission. Very cool and definitely a pseudo-nostalgic RTS that will be very exciting to play!!

That Barracks is 'The pointy-finger of not-NOD'

The unit designs all being wild is a great thing for differentiation and silhouettes. Starcraft gets a lot of that free just from being aliens, but a C&C style where everything is just tanks and infantry is going to struggle, but this inventive and "real scale" look is a great help.

I love seeing Grant get super excited about something!

With How excited Grant was about that double turreted tank, I wonder how he'll fdeel when he sees the Baneblade in Dawn of War

Actually, did you know there was a tank with two guns called the Grant in the second world war? There was! It's called the M3 Grant, and was a modification of the M3 Lee, both of which entered British service. The Grant variant deleted the radio operator crew position from the Lee, adding the radio to the commander's position, as well as changing the turret, which deleted the machine gun turret-on-turret of the Lee. So yes, there has been a double-gunned tank historically called the Grant!

The detailed 2D spritework reminds me a lot of Brigador. Looks like an amazing game, they really captured the appeal of late 90s/early 00s RTS flawlessly.

"And then there's this tree!" - GGG 2023 Truly timeless

I'd been following DORF's progress for some time, especially since one of the devs showed some of its stuff in the C&C Community Discord server. I'm as excited as Grant is to try this game out!

Grant: There's never been a multi turreted tank in history before M3 Lee, Bane Blade and Leeman Russ would beg to differ....

Whatever it is, I can't escape the premonition that DORF in German is literally village and that it's a SimVillage thingie :)

Damn, D.O.R.F. really came a long way. I'm excited to try it out once it's released. 5:45 I can fully agree, it is almost exactly how it played in my mind when i played C&C as a kid - and hell, even now it plays like that in my mind and im over 25yo.

7:06 I remember KKnD (Krush Kill 'N Destroy) from 1997 having Monster Trucks as units and it was the least weird unit. Basically a Post-Apocalyptic RTS where one of the side are mutants with scorpions, mastodons with mounted cannons and giant crabs with mounted rocket launchers. If you haven't seen it, you should check it out.

It's not in the trailers and the description is somewhat vague but I think the best part is that it has logistics and production nodes. I don't know how far they'll go with it - it would be super cool to have an rts with a complex economy where resources do not just magically teleport around. It looks like they are going for it which is awesome if true

Oh I saw this on Steam! Super psyched up for it. The game is very clearly inspired by Command and Conquer and Red Alert 2, right down to the construction side bar, and repair and power buttons. We even have a not-Hand of Nod and Kirov airships. In terms of the individual unit designs, they kinda remind me of an old RTS called Original War. And I just love how at 7:25 Grant is soying out over the design of that tank, and doesn't comment on that freaking huge ass giant chucking sea mines at it.

This game looks really interesting. If it's gonna have a campaign mode, than I may buy it.

I love that I think I can see some factions within the video, like there's the more mad max-y sort of units, then a cleaner Osprey sort of group that has Goliath mech guys, and then that one alien with plasma looked like a third faction. I could be totally wrong but I hope it's got some madness like that!

This looks amazing! The idea of having somewhat real scale units always seem to good to be true in a normal unmodded game because of how difficult it'd be to balance but this trailer gives me hope that they can pull it off.

Showed this Trailer to a friend and we both instantly wishlisted the game. Going to be showing it to a couple of more people I know like RTS. This looks fucking amazing.

i dont really want play rts right now, but that brutal and cool energy is overflowing me. it deserve place at my wishlist, thanks for this video. ps. added stormgate because you mentioned it

I've been keeping half an eye on DORF since some of the earliest gif previews were shared around in the OpenRA community, like two years ago, but this now is the first time I've seen the actual trailers. I dunno if the final game still is, but the early prototypes for DORF were built off the OpenRA engine. IMO Everyone should know about OpenRA. It's basically a community remake of the old C&C Engine and incredibly fun. C&C, RA, D2K are released, TS and RA2 are in progress.

This does look really nice. And like the older C&C, look to be a more macro focused game where units don't have too many castable abilities. That's one of my biggest problem with SC2, while the cast abilities and high tempo make for great competitive play, it actually reduce its nature as a strategy game--strategy is meaningless if you are insufficient and outmatched in the micro department. There does appear to be somewhat of an inconsistency in setting, in that some stuff appear improvised while others are super high tech. But that's acceptable in a game that is more focused on fun, not every game need concrete lore. I did notice that compared to many other games, the unit/structure of the game meld a bit more into the background. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. On the one hand, it's more realistic and less jarring. On the other hand, it might be hard to find certain things at times. But assuming the macro focused, brute forced push feeling bears true, this won't be a problem. You don't need to see and target fire things as much, just roll over everything, seen or unseen.

Gotta say, style wise it sure looks a lot like Brigador. Not that that is a bad thing of course.

ohhhh D.O.R.F. I've been following this game for YEARS, I was in love with the artstyle the moment I saw it

Ordos vs Soviets vs the Forgotten and I'm loving every second of it.

"We're gonna watch another video, you're not allowed to leave!" with that infectious level of excitement? I never dreamed of it.

You wouldn't believe the smile this created on my face. As soon as Grant mentioned it had a steam page I went and wishlisted it, before he was even done talking about it. I want this game.

Id heard about this game a while ago, and I was wondering why KZfaq had not recommended any videos about it to me? I was honestly getting a bit worried that somebody into RTS knew something I didnt and I shouldnt get my hopes up about maybe getting oldschool C&C style RTS with proper basebuilding and everything. I am glad to hear your excited about it and I hope to see more maybe possibly?

YES ! You found DORF ! I love this game, and it really needs a bigger spotlight !

7:28 It's a Char 2C with the back turret missing, an additional front turret, and a hull mounted cannon. It feels like Late Great War and Interwar France. Also, I guess it has a bit of B1 DNA in it with the hull mounted cannon. Peak French Tank Design, would use to crush my enemies. 7:50 But Grant, the Grant tank already exists. It's a variant of the M3 Lee! 7:55 Who's gonna tell him?

Pretty cool that they showcased a lot of different player colours instead of having a faction be blue and another red.

Dorf is something I've been watching for a while. Been really into cnc mods like mental omega so it immediately caught my eye. Come to think of it, Mental Omega might be something that interests you. It's easily my favourite CnC even though it's a mod. It's interesting to hear about how wishlist works. I tend to favourite games instead of wishlisting them. Partly a preference thing I guess.

Oh it's been LOOOOONG on my wishlist. This looks like classic 90s RTS on modern hardware. I got serious old school C&C vibes

Wow Grant 5:55! I couldnt have said it better myself. That sentence alone is the summary of this video.

7:40 multi turreted tanks have been tried in history, but it has been found to be very ineffective. But it really fits this estetic

Okay, that giant m3 grant joke was genius. We need more of these in games.

Dude, this takes me back to my childhood, playing Red Alert 2 while eating goldfish in my dad's home office. And back to a few years ago when I discovered the Mental Omega mod for RA2 and fell in love with the game all over again. This looks so good! I can't wait for this to come out!

It looks like Red Alert 2 mixed with Metal Slug units. The middle red tank at 2:30 looks almost exactly like NOP-03 tank, down to team colors. And then other units are just crazy enough to be from those games, that big red cannon could literally be end level boss.

I adore how big of a smile this puts on Grant's face the entire time.

The Command and Conquer vibes are very heavy. From the unit designs to the music. It feels like I just found an old Frank Klepacki album from a lost Command and Conqure game and I am for it. Like man, this is a nice return to form from classic Voxel style RTS like Dune and C&C.

"And then there's this tree" Idk why, but that got me lmao. Like no context, no elaboration, you just said it and moved on lol. Had me cackling and I don't even fully understand why haha

If the gameplay and controls are half good as the presentation this is gonna be great. If they add a campaign with a ridiculously over-the-top story, they'll have the real C&C/red alert successor. One of the reason why most Petroglyph games don't keep your attention is that the units are pretty boring to look at or listen - except the mobile base giant mech in Universe at war, I don't remember much of the game but I remember those guys.

Can't wait to play this game, it seems amazing! Thanks for having me as a subscriber and sharing this with me!

>multiple turrets on a tank Oh grant. The interwar tank designs are CRAZIER than just two turrets. And that's the ones that actually worked and were used.

Super happy to see your support of indie RTS! DORF looks cool!

DORF and Tempest Rising most anticipated RTS ever

The 2d / orthographic camera helps a lot! The animations are also very quick and snappy. Some units don't even use an animation, like when the infantry stand up (4:22). I particularly like how they did the lightning effect.

I really love esthetics of the game! Like this old style from 2000 or even earlier. It is awesome! Thanks for making this game even more popular, Grant!

Wishlisted this months ago! So glad you covered it!

Grant trying to name a tank after yourself and not paying attention to a giant garGRANTua standing just next to it 🤣

Thanks for sharing this with us with such an enthusiasm! ^^

Something that seems to be often overlooked in design, but which they do very well here is having very different silhouettes for each of their vehicles. It makes it very easy to tell what is what at a glance, which is very important if you're going to have a large variety of vehicles in the game. It's easy to end up with a lot of very similar designs that just have different weapons and patterns, but those can be hard to tell apart at a glance, especially when there are a lot of them. The overall silhouette of something tends to be the most immediately recognizable part of the design, and those feel very different here. And yeah, this feels very much like old school C&C, which is great.

Thanks for this video grant! Realised that I didnt have stormgate on my wishlist, I've now tossed this AND Dorf (because this looks INSANE) on it. I really hope both devs get as many views as possible.

That barracks definitely pays homage to the Hand of Nod, the iconic Nod barracks of the command and conquer series. :3

Look at the chaos of this i immediately think of mental omega and how chaotic it was xD

Oh THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH GRANT! You've just beaten Lowko, Pig and every other SC2 caster out there for me! Much love!

"If you have a basic amount of taste" best thing I have heard this year XD

The first time I've been excited for an RTS in a long time. Love the retro gritty look.

Instant wishlisted. This is amazing, I can barely wait for it!

Immediately wish listed, wish you had opened the steam shop page and showed us the pictures there. They are also awesome and some of the guys here might miss out of them now.

Wow this trailer is fantastic. Pushes all those Command and Conquer buttons. Music slaps too.

You should have watched the steam release trailer, it's EPIC, and there's faction descriptions at the beginning ! I love the fact that you found it, I'm really excited about it as well !

The good news: It will be more focused on the 3 different faction's campaign over the multiplayer. The bad news: It won't be released for roughly another 2 years, as confirmed by the developers in the steam forum. Only 2 people are working on this game. The hopeful news: The developers mentioned that they won't rule out the possibility of early access on the steam forum.

had this on my wishlist for a while now really looking forward to it

My first thought when seeing this was "oh they are definitely going with the red alert feeling for trailer"

When I first saw this trailer I shared it with everyone I knew BEFORE I picked my jaw up off the floor. I was absolutely stunned and so excited.

"Well Grant, it's been fun seeing you nerd out about Command & Conquer's retro spir- *"You're not allowed to leave,"* "WELL OKAY THEN."

All i want from DORF is for someone to make a Starcraft 1/BW mod like they did for Factorio. Star Command and Craftquer Also Suprememe Commanders had functional multi-turreted vehicles. and if you google Grant Tank, There seems to be an IRL tank called the M3 Grant Tank, which is twin turreted and sometimes shown to have an MG ontop. fascinating.

I love how there are so makt crazy things going on that Grant missed the giant throwing a spike ball. 😂

Is that a giant throwing bombs at 2:30? Whoa

Never wishlisted anything on Steam this quick before. Thanks for the heads-up, Grant! 😁🤘

It looks like someone saw Red Alert 2 and said "What if er turned thst up to 1000?". Also we can totally see the dopamin kicking in Grant!

Love the subtle way to hint at the existence of the actual WW2 Grant tank ;p.

A small note on the "real scale" point - everything you see in C&C already _is_ real scale. Even in RA2 and 3 I'm pretty sure. Absolutely uncertain about the one that I can only say bears the cursed number 4. Some games, like C&C and SupCom, make the lore and the gameplay work together. Some, like StarCraft, make them clash so violently you'd think Clang is somehow involved. Renegade games pretty much confirm that this much thought did go into the designs from the beginning. After all, they were built to be immersive, with Westwood going as far as making Tiberian Dawn's installation process a part of the experience.

Hope this game gets the attention it deserves. Thanks for showing it to us Grant!

There's some interesting design choices being made here. One thing I'm noticing is a lot of the vehicles seem to be able to fire while moving. This is much different from older RTS' where you really had to stop, attack, stop, attack in order for units to be able to attack and move. Infantry look like they're still doing stop-fire, but the vehicles don't.

Found that Game a year ago or so and it pushed all the C&C Nostalgia buttons in my head and iam super excited for it.

Looking forward to Grant playing DORF lemons only! Or any other challenge. Or even a regular playthrough! The only issue I can see with the game so far is that some units look too much alike (like the different flavours of trucks in the "Mad Max" faction). They're a bit hard to tell apart at a glance, for me at least.

Glad to see I’m not the only one hyped about D.O.R.F.. From what I hear, this game isn’t balanced around competitive crap as much as it is casual fun, which is GREAT! A lot of developers seem to forget that, at the end of the day, what made the 90’s to early 2000’s RTS games so legendary was because they were… well, fun!

I love this Ball of Doom. You can literally attack your enemy with garbage-dump-sphere!

The logo and some of the banged together look of at least one of the factions made me think of ye olde KKND series! Not necessarily the deepest RTS, but man do I love the presentation those games had! Going to keep an eye on this DORF thing too!

6:24 And it's practically an OG Red Alert Tesla Tank too with the dome and strange hull, bulbous shape too!

this looks INCREDIBLE! Can't wait for it!

15 seconds into the video, already added the game to my wishlist. Hell yeah for good old RTS games.

My favourite genre of game is smaller devs going "You know how that big publisher fucked that series? What if we just... Made the game, but good, instead?" E.G. Sim City vs. City: Skylines

"They should name it after me." and I'm like yeah, if anything, they're gonna name that literal giant in the frame after you since you didn't even mention it :D

The thing that looks like a tricycle is a truck body with Tractor wheels on the back, which is driving backwards. If you look at the shot of it where the back wheels are visible, that's clearly a truck cab on the back.

Some of these vehicles look like what if Metal Slug bosses and mini-bosses are RTS units. They're crazy done right