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Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
[off topic] The multiplayer game that got you hooked
Do you remember when you found yourself immersed in a multiplayer game for the first time? Hope you are able to share where this journey started for you 
For me it was playing the original Doom on PC with a friend in the early 90's. We played mostly at night because it required a dial up modem connection that would tie up the home phone line. We played on average around 8 hours a night for several months, until our girlfriends finally gave us a stern ultimatum. We complied with their wishes, but by then it was too late. I was firmly hooked on multiplayer games from that point on.
For me it was playing the original Doom on PC with a friend in the early 90's. We played mostly at night because it required a dial up modem connection that would tie up the home phone line. We played on average around 8 hours a night for several months, until our girlfriends finally gave us a stern ultimatum. We complied with their wishes, but by then it was too late. I was firmly hooked on multiplayer games from that point on.
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The friend I played these games with back in high school knew that I had a slightly unusual hardware setup: my internal modem routed it's sound directly through my Soundblaster 16 card. When I dialed out, the modem sounds came out of my system speakers instead of a small modem output speaker.
So when I dialed up his home phone on friday night to play one of these games, and if he wasn't ready, he picked up the phone and (while hearing a modem screech on his end) said, "I'm not ready yet!" knowing that I'd hear him through my computer.
I'd wait five minutes and then try dialing him up again.
The things geeks did for amusement in the days of TCP/IP gaming.
Playing Rise of the Triads, Hexen, Heretic, Unreal Tournament, on my 66MHz Pentium. Soundblaster 16 ... omg.
That's same processor speed I started multiplayer gaming on too!
I was using a AST Advantage 486 DX/2 66MHz , Cyrix Processor system. Passively cooled baby, no fan yet on those processor heatsinks!
Of course, it cost us $400 to upgrade from 8MB to 16MB of ram back then..... so yeah, some things have improved over time.
That was also the same computer I played my (THE?) first 3d MMORPG game, Meridian 59. I had to upgrade the computer from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95.
That was my sole reason for upgrading the operating system, a online game.
And thus started a long history (addiction?) of upgrading for games....
*sigh*
You had to have played Duke Nukem 3D too, right? I mean, that was another must have game of the era...
and yes i was able to play a single player shooter on dial up .. worked pretty good actually. in a year i had my fist highspeed(ish) dsl and built my own pc with a ....geforce 5200x ultra gpu. man i thought i was stylin.. Medal of Honour ..all highest settings. lol
First game that I really remember experiencing in a multiplayer setting, and I was hooked forever after
Probably the first multiplayer online game I enjoyed playing is the first game I worked on for Activision - MechWarrior II: NetMech.
The guy I paired up with on teams lived a few rooms down the hall, and we'd be yelling at each other across that expanse when one of us was out of ammo, so we could kill each other and deny our enemies any points for killing us.
Good times....
I actually didn't like playing MW4, because they didn't allow 3 gauss rifle setups anymore.
But as for online, XWing Alliance.
( Long live the New Republic Navy- which is still going as a clan all these 20 some years later...)