Tempest Rising GDF Faction Unit guide, Intel points & Support Powers | 2025 Steam demo gameplay

The Tempest Rising demo is still open and I want to talk about the GDF faction and give you some important tips and gameplay advice on playing with them. I will cover GDF base building, intel and credit economy, units, their uses and abilities as well as the support powers the GDF has at its disposal. Tempest Rising demo on Steam: https://sbx.gg/tempestrising-perafilozof

✅Tempest Dynasty faction tutorial: https://youtu.be/MuTOWPutwSc
💠Tempest Rising playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRYGjguAn0CHLwHTglnpoCoQ_2UFPyrUn

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Chapters
0:00 Tempest Rising new Demo
0:30 GDFs strengths
0:59 Eco opening build
1:23 Rush opening build
1:56 What you have to learn
2:15 Early army makeup
2:39 Gathering and use of intel
3:07 First doctrine
3:36 Punishing a greedy opening
4:20 Fight over map buildings
4:50 Drone operator ability
5:15 Field scout ability
5:34 Eco opening & defense
6:19 Engineers & neutral buildings
7:02 Mid game choices
7:23 Expanding resource collection
7:48 Support beacon - support power
8:26 Building Bunkers & Scouts
8:56 Harvester tips
9:15 Basic Army building
9:37 First combat & turrets
10:09 Satellite Uplink tech
10:18 Grenadier unit
10:33 Repairing vehicles
10:57 Specialist Pod tech
11:10 Sniper Specialist
11:26 Comms Officer Specialist
11:49 Comms Rig unit
12:14 Shieldmaiden unit
12:34 Laser Doctrine synergy
13:02 Network gameplay mechanic
13:18 Marking Doctrine synergy
13:33 Communication jammer - support power
13:58 Air Control tower tips
14:31 Queller & Armor types
15:04 Condor & Base sniping
15:59 Trebuchet & Tempest Charge
17:00 Tempest Air Strike - support power
17:18 Spy Drones - support power
17:48 Hijacker Specialist
18:01 GDF turrets
18:27 Riot trooper unit
18:54 Riot medic Specialist
19:05 Riot Van APC
19:20 Riot drop - support power
19:34 Drone Mauler - unit
19:48 Drone Assassin Specialist
20:03 Scrambler unit
20:38 Skycrane Carrier unit
21:00 Peacekeeper unit
21:13 Drone Control unit
21:26 Ambush protocol doctrine synergy
22:00 Conclusion

👓Game Previews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRYGjguAn0CFpLi_MlTb6PIgLkXQM632Y

The Tempest Rising demo is open for a few more days and I want to talk about the GDF faction and give you some important tips and gameplay advice on playing with them in the form of this video tutorial.

I will cover base building, economy, units, their uses and abilities as well as the support powers the GDF has at its disposal.

The first thing you have to recognize is that the GDF is strong in the early and very late game. The middle game is where you have room to lose to the Tempest Dynasty faction and I will explain and give examples of all three situations.

So let's start with a very typical skirmish match vs a normal Tempest Dynasty AI which is about the most ubiquitous situation most of you will probably find yourself in. And later we will watch several multiplayer pvp situations.

Naturally you have to start with a power plant, followed by a Tempest Refinery. This is actually where two possible openings for the GDF faction diverge. You can choose to go heavy on the economy, the so-called eco opening and build another tempest refinery, followed by a barracks and a vehicle bay to be able to start producing more harvesters. This is dangerous and risky but can pay off big later.

The other opening is a rush style which plays on the GDF advantage in available unit types for the early game. Because you have a cheap and very fast scout and anti infantry vehicle, the Sentinel, as well as the hunter tank, while the Dynasty Faction has to tech up to gain access to a tank like vehicle. This opening requires you to put the pressure on the enemy and keep pushing into their territory and deny them expansions into new tempest fields as well as to prevent them from capturing the neutral buildings on their side of the map.

You do this by first having map knowledge to which buildings you need to send your cheapest infantry to occupy them and deny your opponent access to them. This of course means first learning the maps and their layout which with the keyboard shortcut keys and special game options are the basics you need to know and to build on.

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