Beta 1 Announcement

[Attackroot]

Hey all,

Some things to know about this announcement. 

1. Feature Lock date - June 12, 2018. This is where they are gonna lock all the settings and use them for the launch of beta. Us alpha players are testing when we can the systems now, and what they will add as we get closer. Right now we are mainly in the break the build testing. They are slowly adding more and more stuff tho and we are just getting on attempting the crash the servers.

Also this date is not set in stone, it could happen earlier, they are hoping we get enough testing done and have everything stable by this time if not sooner to get ready for beta.

2. Beta 1 Date - July 4, 2018 - I know it is strange to have this as a launch date for any kind of testing, but they said this is kinda the middle point for it being to soon or to late. The content in this will be everything that gets locked on the feature lock date. nothing more will be added and nothing will be taken away. As well all know from previous game that when u lock features in one 1 patch, and they release another patch i could break things from the older patch.  (WoW vanilla tuning patches).

Also this date if possible will be pushed forwards if it is ready sooner. I know some people dont like when they give dates and then change them, but in this its a good thing. When and if they have the servers ready for beta 1 and launch then they want to get as much testing in on them as possible and as many players on them as possible. so the sooner they can get even more in the better for the game over all.

also beta 1 people will be getting allowed in sooner to help with testing before Beta 1 launches. And once Beta 1 begins. beta 2 people will be let in early also. this is because they had to pushed the dates back from the original beta dates.

3. Special testing events during both phases - They will be doing unique and special testing events during certain parts of closed alpha and beta 1. it may be things like everyone logs on and pick so many flower or some other gathering materials or logs in and trying to just killed everyone, or anything else they can think of. They have alot of systems in this game that are gonna need testing so expect issues when certain things are being asked to be tested. Also with break the build tests we are trying to play a class and break that, this is more of a login server breaking thing and well as stability in server.

Questions on this Announcement - 

1. Dates - June 12, 2018 feature lock - July 4, 2018 Beta 1.

2. Q: Will we be getting a review of the features of beta around feature lock?

    A: Absolutely, and if u go to the website there is already some info about it. You have the beta 1 doc, you have the check lists. And now that we have a date we will be putting out a road map to beta. and will be updating the road map on a week by week basis. Also we will be doing more media content about more specific aspects of the game.

3. Q: that Packages available will they be changing?

    A: Yes, as we go into beta 1 we will be changing the tiers as we announced before, will be chaning the refund policy as well. Wont be at the begining of beta 1, we will give a 30 days noticed before we change it. 

4. Q: can we send our beta invites as part of this??

    A: No not at the opening of Beta 1, the invites are for later in beta.

5. Q: Since July 4 isnt a Saturday, is it a special test date and will the rest of the tests be on saturday, and will we have alpha saturday tests before that?

    A: Yes, it is both, we are doing random and schedule test. we will be doing that going forward as well. we wanna get all the alphas in and a bunch of betas in over the next 4 months. 

6. Q: is beta one a constantly playable environment or event testing like alpha has been?

    A: Both, because of we know there are different systems that we need testing and some of the need a static world with resources to gather, example in the safe world island building a house u need static resources in the environment to do that. the testing island will be changing more and more. 

7. Q: How much will we see in Beta 1 that we havent seen in the previous builds.

    A: A lot, well just say a lot.

8. Q: Does feature lock mean every race and class?/

    A: No, there is no way in hell we could have every class out in time for that. Feature lock means features locked for that build, it is not the final project. We will need to foucs on fixing features in that build, and then when more builds come out we'll introduce more features.

9. Q: do u think people will forget that July 4 is about Independence day and not about Beta 1?

    A: I don't think anyone will ever forget Will Smiths heroic battle to defend the Earth against aliens.

10. Q: when will we begin to see more fleshed out classes with more example abilities, etc?

     A: Your seeing that now, and will continue over the next 4 months. we have 9 classes to get into balance, we haven't done any of this during alpha because that's not was alpha is for, that's what beta 1, 2 and 3 are for. 

11. Q: will the founder packages that included costume buildings be included before the 4th of July?

      A: No

12. Q: How far are beta 1 build features from the expected release features? and how long are the beta periods expected to be?

      A: beta 1 begin should start 1 year before the release of the year. now we want to get the game out in 2019, that is the plan nothing has changed. but depending on what happens and the support we get from our in and with testing it may happen or it might be pushed back some.. But just focus on beta 1 and then other betas.

13. Q: Good Date, taking the time to get more polished. Do you still categorize it as old school start to beta? If everything goes right how long do u plan beta 1 to last and will it be the longest phase of beta?

      A: Mostly, and do i expect beta 1 to be the longest period? yes i do. We want to get as much of the game into beta 1 as makes sense. we want to have as much in that when we begin testing so we can do all the tuning we need before we go to the next stage of beta. We want to use beta 1 to get as much bugs and problems fix as possible with the features we are choosing, and also we want it to be as long as possible but not be to long, because if we stay at that stage its not a good thing have the same bugs all the time. And we want to get beta 1 done right. we dont wanna rush the phases. but the key is to not put something out that isn't ready. 

14. Q: You said you would start beta early if it is ready... but what if it isnt ready? will u start it any way or push it back?

      A: Push it back and fall on my sword we dont want to push something that isnt ready. we havent spent this much time and money on rushing a product out, we dont do that.  You have waiting far to long to be presented with something that isnt ready. So if we arent ready we will take the heat and push it back.

15. Q: What will be the status of C.U.B.E. during beta?

      A: At some point we will be getting another C.U.B.E. build out and going, but it is not the #1 priority. your going to see parts if it in testing because it is needed but wont have the new polished verison out any time soon. We hired another engineer to work on it and that will help but again its not the priority atm.

16. Q: When will an official game play trailer be revealed?

      A:  Oh, well before beta. we will be having alot of trailers out for people to look at to decided whether or not u wanna kick in. We dont want to have u kick in with out any info with having a no refund policy that just not the way to do it.

17 Q: when will people be allowed to stream it?

     A: We will allow limited NDA streaming during beta one and then sometime during beta we will lift the NDA all together. 

18 Q:  Number of players expected to be in beta 1? ball park?

     A: Umm.. No, i know how many backers we have and we havent talked about that officially. We just dont know how many are going to show up. We are expecting a lot better turn out then what we had during alpha but thats to be expected. But it could be lower then we expect because alot of time people just want to wait until the game is ready. 

19. Q: EU server before or during beta 1? and will US and Eu span up or at different times?

      A: 100% guaranteed. We hope to test the EU server before we even get into beta 1, that was one of our goals and we are also looking at switching from AWS to Google. the engineer that has been working on getting the EU server up has been working on the google platform. but its not a priority before beta 1... but it is a priority for during beta 1. but we will still be working on getting it before if we can.

20. Q: Are there still some big technical challenges left  

      A: Yeah the same one that we haven't talked about over the past week and with massively interview. its mainly How far can we push our stability. there is a long list of things we still need to work on and make better, example: the UI elements making them better or just implementing certain parts of the UI. 

21. Q: When are we going to get more info about the races and the new races.

      A: over the next 4 months, now that we have this date out for beta we will be going back and talking more about the races and other aspects of the game. alot more info is coming over the months so get ready.

22. Q: how much impact did the capital investment have on the date for Beta 1, both in terms of push up the date because you had more funding, but also in terms of did the investors push for an earlier beta date (earlier than you would have otherwise planned)

      A:  This helped with getting more hours into creating the game, by getting more people in to help and aloud us to pick the things we wanted to focus on for this date we picked. but the investors didn't even know the date for beta when they invested. Put we are hiring more people and being aggressive on hiring so we can build a better game not speed it up. 0 pressure from the investors to speed up the process.

23. Q: Crafting in beta 1? and are we going to get more info on the crafting?

     A: in the following weeks we are going to release info. its a big part of the game and we want to give alot of information to you. We wont have cosmetic customization in beta 1. the foundation for crafting is most important.

24. Q: If beta 1 goes well what is the predicted reasonable launch date?

      A: some times in 2019 that's all i can say right now.

25. Q: Will builders brigade start before beta 1 and also maybe halp with scenario main keep/starting areas in main island?

      A: Yes and Yes. 

26. Q: when can we expect to see more beta 1 updates?

      A: More then likely starting in the beginning of March since its the middle of the month now. 

27. Q: Life time sub, and how much longer that is gonna be available?

      A: Through the beginning of beta 1 and and then we arent 100% sure yet, but after that is going to go away, just not sure on how soon. it'll go away in stages as well as refunds will go away.

28. Q: With Net Neutrality being knocked down will it effect launch and cause lag at all?

      A: not really anything that effects us.

29. Q: will there be scenarios in the finished game?

      A: No, we said as a general rule you may have some battle grounds, could we have scenarios?? yes we could for specific events and things, but realistically this game is about Open World RvR. with the exception obviously of The Depths.

30. Q: Will there be some kind of guide for beta, or will players have to figure out everything?

      A: Of course there will be a guide, we have some complex systems in place that with out guides everyone would be lost.

31. Q: Will there be any PVE type stuff like The Depths at all in beta 1?

      A: No, only thing pve in beta 1 will be crafting. Maybe mines that will lead to The Depths but no Depth in beta 1

32. Q: What is the most excited you see in the future over the next 6 months?

      A: Large Scale Scenario like 1000 people in a large scale battle. will be excited to see those. Also a safe island with 1000 or more housing plots with people building on all of them

 

 

This is just the info from this announcement, more info coming soon over the next few weeks.

 

Looking forward to all the trailers they are going to release. And the discussion on all the different systems and features in the game.