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An Update on Alpha One Schedule
LieutenantToast
Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
An update from our Creative Director regarding Alpha One: https://ashesofcreation.com/news/2021-03-12-an-update-on-alpha-one-schedule
🧡 We thank you all for your continued support, patience, help, and feedback as we head toward our major Alpha One milestone.
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Formerly T-Elf
That's definitely the goal here - making sure we take the time to polish up both so that folks can see and appreciate all our team's hard work, and so that we can ensure you all are able to test what we want you to be focusing on
Honestly expect it to be pushed back to 3rd Quarter as more things become apparent in the next 2 months of testing.
They will do a couple more monthly tests. They will find a few more concerns. This will yet push back Alpha 1 a little bit more.
Pre-Alpha Testing
March
April
May
June
They arrive back into their Offices on July 1st. This gives them Onsite capability to navigate any issues with servers or bugs and allows them to finish content that was planned for Alpha 1.
Alpha one starts July or August
Set your mind for that and chances are they make those dates. That to me is the realistic scenario that I kind of wish they would just admit.
I understand that there are reasons why Steven was lead away from using project managers in the early days and he has owned those decisions.
I believe there's still room for improvement in Intrepid's project management, so that they assess the percentage of deliverables completed against published schedule(s) and draw conclusions sooner. This is nothing to beat Intrepid up over and one weeks notice does show a huge improvement over previous notice to testers. Steven's a smart guy and knows how to be successful far beyond my credentials.
A quote from my Engineering career that I'd like to share:
"The beauty of not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise and isn't preceded by a period of worry and depression".
I use this as a measure for how bad things could be without any project management. The point is that a business needs to know as soon as something isn't on target so that appropriate corrective actions can be taken to get things back on track or so that customer expectations can be managed.
Sorry, I'll step down off my soap box now!
It's coming from my heart, I wish you all well.
Hello,
How do these scheduled tests equate to the test phases from the Kickstarter campaign?
Here are the upcoming tests as stated in the article:
Alpha One Preview: May 14 to May 21, 2021
Alpha One test: June 1 to June 30, 2021
This is what is stated in the Kickstarter for the Alpha tests.
Alpha - Phase 1
Alpha - Phase 2
I am assuming Alpha - Phase 1 is equivalent to Alpha One. I also assume that means there will be an Alpha Two that would equate to Alpha - Phase 2. Would this be correct?
I am trying to gauge when testing will open up to more people.
Thanks.
Yes, that's correct! Any packs that include "Alpha - Phase 1" as described on Kickstarter will be joining us for our Alpha One testing, and any packs that include "Alpha - Phase 2" will be joining us in Alpha Two, which is planned to be our persistent Alpha state!
Not as of now, but in the last livestream they stated they are considering possibly opening up sales again for Alpha 1 keys.
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Can't see any details on the inclusions for it....
was that alpha 1 or alpha 2?
I have just found out that Alpha One access may be offered through packages in May. I purchased my package at the very end of this month and am now fearing I may be excluded from Alpha One testing as a result. Due to the change in time of the Alpha One start date, will those who purchased the $250 package which includes Alpha Two, be grandfathered in during the Alpha One testing?
Check out the start of the latest dev stream on youtube - there will be upgrade paths for Alpha one access.
Its gonna cost you another 250$ if you wanna upgrade to A1, Steven said it was a 500$ package.
because i bought a pass for the alpha two, and i was wondering how its going
Any update wrt that?
I'm excited too but you have to let them wake up and get out of bed first haha
/me begs "Take my money!"
Waiting for Alpha one news...
https://ashesofcreation.com/news/2021-05-04-brine-and-bounties
So they aren't selling keys, they're just selling packages again not keys just for alpha testing?
if you want an alpha key you need to upgrade a pack you ready own OR by a new pack with the alpha 1 key