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Phase I of Alpha Two testing will occur on weekends. Each weekend is scheduled to start on Fridays at 10 AM PT and end on Sundays at 10 PM PT. Find out more here.
Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
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.
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He still has a following as all steamers which is good giving attention to the game. But his content is so desperate on AoC than making his own identity, he is going off the deep end at some points.
His own lack of knowledge on development (like most people) makes him have bad takes than a normie watches it (in this case) and believes they are faking it. Which can be akin to what people thought of with cyberpunk 2077. Though it makes 0 sense to be saying faking it as its in development and you see Steven playing it live.
Granted i guess you could try to make a argument everything is faked and pre recorded but at some point you need to touch grass and take a break from following alpha development. When you are just running with negative energy in fear of trying to counter your own hype or reliance on the ip.
I remember people saying the same shit about some of the Riverlands streams like this one
point out that there was nothing beyond that zone so it could only be a scam lol
or in this one where the minimap was cut and not working, also in the riverlands lol
Lionhold is just the name of a node close to the spawn zone, Steven clearly teleported to that desert zone and there's not a working map so it saves the last location
maybe they just don't have loaded the whole world for the showcase, its normal, they have done this before like here we can clearly see in the same zone for 2 streams the Tower of Carphin was missing... because the map wasn't loaded for that particular showcase build
there's many other examples, tbh people just have no grasp on what is a game in development... open development is funny, its like a bunch of kids looking at a doctor performing surgery, and giving opinions on what they think is right or wrong lol
So, I took the advice of CROW3 this weekend, and decided to go outside by visiting one of the United Sates' fine National Parks. No bugs, cool breeze in my hair, and all the peace and quiet in the world to think....to think about why Intrepid would decide to give us a tiny unpolished glimpse of the Desert Biome.
@Liniker @Nerror I would like to point out that I never said the word 'scam, or in no way alluding to that this game is a scam. I believe 100% in Steven and Intrepid, I understand that the development process for an MMO takes a long time, and that this is a true Alpha and things are subject to change.
So, I think you bring up a good point. This was a showcase for the skybox, lighting, and wand. Why would they need or want to show the desert, especially in the dark? It's obvious that they are trying to hide something. They are trying to hide the lack of detail with dark shadows. They are trying to hide the surrounding area by using weird camera angles and deleting the mini map. This was the first time we saw the Desert. Of course we are going to be looking at all the details of the area, notice all of the imperfections, and compare it to the Riverlands/ other showcases. They could have done this showcase in the Riverlands and there would have been no doubt.
However, Liniker does have good explanations for why the area was called Lionhold and the lack of a mini map.
And @Mag7spy also shared a good explanation as to why flat featureless areas show.
The reason why this is relevant is because this is a misleading marketing practice. Intrepid is basically saying, "look, we told you we have a desert biome, here it is, we arnt going to be in A2 for 3+ years." When in actuality the desert is still in concept. Its misleading just like selling crossbow cosmetics when crossbows aren't even usable weapons. (We still dont know what weapons will be usable in A2) You are showing (advertising) us something that looks cool, but doesn't actually exist in the real game, and that is misleading.
Nice. 🤗. Which park?
I camped in Big Bend National Park. It was beautiful. Thank you for asking.
The Voices from beyond the Stars are whispering that the Desert Biome is a Lie and just part of a digital World that quite literally doesn't exist. But these Voices are partially filled with the Craziness of certain Copium-Addicts who thirst for the World of Verra nonetheless.
Maybe it will be there in the Alpha Two. Maybe it will be added only after Alpha Two. Maybe the Gods allow it only to be seen when their Lord and Master Sir Steven allows it.
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What if they add/remove trees? Are you still going to bitch about it not being the *actual* area, and deceptive because it doesn't look *EXACTLY* the same as it did, in Alpha-development?
My, what a terrible company Intrepid MUST be, for the final product looking different than it did, before development was finished....
Heaven forbid a preview not be the precise, completed product. As SS had mentioned, they'd had many requests for peeks at different biomes. It's possible they just wanted to show what their desert-biome can look like.
When I pitch for clients, very rarely do I show a finished product. I present mockups, an idea of what the final could end up looking like. Same in this scenario, we are the client being pitched by Intrepid.