What are your Alpha 2 launch expectations?

With Alpha 2 on the horizon, I wanted to ask the community what their expectations are for the release of Alpha 2. Intrepid has shown off a lot of amazing looking gameplay-loops and game mechanics over the past 3 years, but do you think everything we have been shown will be ready to test at the start of A2? If you could follow the format down below, that would make it a lot easier to gauge where the audience is at. All of these questions pertain only to the launch of Alpha 2. Also, please add anything that you think will be important if it is not covered in the questions below. Thank you.

Persistent Alpha or defined testing periods?

How many biomes present at launch?

Which biomes at launch?

How many / which races will be available at launch?

All Artesian classes available?

World bosses?

Highest level node attainable at launch?

Will freehold exist at launch?

How many players can a testing server hold?

How many servers will be available at launch?

Will there be queues?

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Toothpaste

I guess I will start off.

Persistent Alpha or defined testing periods? - defined testing period.

How many biomes present at launch? - 2

Which biomes at launch? - riverlands & desert

How many / which races will be available at launch? - 2: Vek and Kaelar

All Artesian classes available? - all that have been mentioned

World bosses? - no world bosses

Highest level node attainable at launch? - tier 4

Will freehold exist at launch? - no

How many players can a testing server hold? 3k

How many servers will be available at launch? 8 per region

Will there be queues? Yes

PvP on or off - on

Liniker

I'll reply after the 16th

Toothpaste

Liniker wrote: »

I'll reply after the 16th

How can you have an opinion on everything, but not this?

Let’s see how close you are to what they actually announce! It’ll be fun!

Halae

Persistent Alpha or defined testing periods?
We know that Alpha-2 is meant to be persistent, but I don't know how likely that is.

How many biomes present at launch? Which biomes at launch?
I'm expecting the Riverlands, plus the bay area to the southeast, the encircling mountains, and a bit of the desert across the water to the southeast. That tracks with what they've stated.

How many / which races will be available at launch?
At the opening of Alpha-2? Everything but the Tulnar, most likely. Tulnar rely on the same subsystems as Animal Husbandry

All Artesian classes available?
Nah. Animal Husbandry still needs more work.

World bosses?
Given they were in Alpha-1, I'd be downright shocked if they weren't available.

Highest level node attainable at launch?
Probably only level 4 nodes, which are "Towns". There's just not enough space for a metropolis yet.

Will freehold exist at launch?
Likely, yes.

How many players can a testing server hold? How many servers will be available at launch?
No idea. I have no expectations here.

Will there be queues?
Almost certainly.

Smaashley

My expectations :

1. Bugs
2. Server crashes
3. Performance issues
4. Queues
5. Unfun gameplay because not balanced properly

mfckingjoker

Persistent Alpha or defined testing periods?

- persistent with some downtimes every now and then

How many biomes present at launch? - 4-5

Which biomes at launch? - riverlands for sure, probably desert, rest can't rly say

How many / which races will be available at launch? - probably all apart from tulnar

All Artesian classes available? - probably not yet

World bosses? - for sure, some at least

Highest level node attainable at launch? - 3-4 probably

Will freehold exist at launch? - maybe, unfinished

How many players can a testing server hold? - 2-3k

How many servers will be available at launch? - no idea, 10-20

Will there be queues? - in the beginning, definitely

Also lots of bugs, wipes and server crashes

Toothpaste

Smaashley wrote: »

My expectations :

1. Bugs
2. Server crashes
3. Performance issues
4. Queues
5. Unfun gameplay because not balanced properly

Yeah, of course, but what features will be available to test at launch? Are you thinking that there will be some or most of what they have showed in the showcases?

Primarch001

Toothpaste wrote: »

With Alpha 2 on the horizon, I wanted to ask the community what their expectations are for the release of Alpha 2. Intrepid has shown off a lot of amazing looking gameplay-loops and game mechanics over the past 3 years, but do you think everything we have been shown will be ready to test at the start of A2? If you could follow the format down below, that would make it a lot easier to gauge where the audience is at. All of these questions pertain only to the launch of Alpha 2. Also, please add anything that you think will be important if it is not covered in the questions below. Thank you.

Persistent Alpha or defined testing periods?
Persistent

How many biomes present at launch?
2 with additions every 8 weeks or so

Which biomes at launch?
I don't see how it could be anything other than Riverlands and Desert

How many / which races will be available at launch?
All excluding tulnar

All Artesian classes available?
All shown/stated

World bosses?
All shown with 1-2 as a surprise at launch

Highest level node attainable at launch?
4.

Will freehold exist at launch?
Yes but I expect they will be heavily reworked

How many players can a testing server hold?
No idea. 2-5k

How many servers will be available at launch?
Quite a few. I expect there to be approx. 110 - 150,000 players in the first week.

Will there be queues?
100%

Azherae

Persistent Alpha or defined testing periods?
Persistent but often unstable and broken until 2025.

How many biomes present at launch?
Three, four if we count coastal.

Which biomes at launch?
Riverlands, Shrublands, 'rainforest', coastal.

How many / which races will be available at launch?
All but Tulnar, but not in their final forms.

All Artesian classes available?
Not a chance.

World bosses?
Sure.

Highest level node attainable at launch?
City if lucky, but probably will just break a lot.

Will freehold exist at launch?
Sorta, I am gonna bet they won't actually be 'properly usable', so the Freeholds themselves would be available but most of the detailed playloops around them, not.

How many players can a testing server hold?
1800 before instability starts to kick in within Nodes.

How many servers will be available at launch?
28, 2 for most sub-regions.

Will there be queues?
Only for the first few days.

Kilion

I expect to test a game clearly in development, that is largely bare bones at launch of the Alpha 2. Basic mechanics with weird loopholes and exploits, buggy quests, broken worlds and weather events, skill tree options that don't work, server wipes and so on. If it turns out to run smoother than this - great, more time to look for exploits and bugs. It will be fun - if you aren't there to PLAY the game but to TEST its mechanics.

How many biomes present at launch? Which biomes at launch?
Probably 3-4 (Riverlands, Badlands, Sandsquall Desert + possibly the Jundark)

How many / which races will be available at launch?
Humans, Elves, Dwarfs, Orcs

All Artesian classes available?
Hahahahaha, no.

World bosses?
Yes, but not all.

Highest level node attainable at launch?
Tier 3 cause that'll be enough for the things they will be concerned about in the beginning.

Will freehold exist at launch?
No chance.

How many players can a testing server hold?
I'll say they could in theory go to full capacity right away, but with the limited accesible regions, I say the limit will probably be 2000-3000

Will there be queues?
No doubt about it.

Veeshan

Its relatively safe to assume there be 3 biomes, steven mention like 3 times biomes for A2 2 were consistant and the 3rd changed each time.

Riverlands/dessert was always mention
3rd one that changes has been badlands/jungle and tropics

So i feel it safe to say we will get atleast 3 biomes and 2 of them are riverlands/dessert and third one could be any of the 3 if not more.
Wouldnt surprise me if we get bottom half of the western continent so badlands, riverland, dessert and jundark i dont think we see tropic since it very islandy and were not getting boats start of A2 so i feel it might not make it till boats happen

Edit: Optimisticly this is what im expecting at best, Also new dragon boss they mention might be in the volcano area potentially)

Not optimistic Riverlands/Dessert probaly minimum (Steven in fighter showcase said closer to alpha he let us know what Biomes (plural) will be in A2 so pretty garanteed atleast 2, he also mention assets for 7 are done (But content for 7 most likly not done of course)

wakkytabbaky

i expect bugs and lots of bugs, if not i will be sorely disappointed

KingDDD

Persistent Alpha or defined testing periods?
Persistent world with targeted tests for things like sieges.

How many biomes present at launch?
3. They've shown the desert, riverlands, and snowy mountains (unreal 5 annoucement). The original targeted landmass was 220km vs the alpha 1 being only 70km.

Which biomes at launch?
They've shown the desert, riverlands, and snowy mountains (unreal 5 annoucement) .

How many / which races will be available at launch?
All the ones shown, not all body types in.

All Artesian classes available?
Some bits for all of them with basic loops to see how people like them.

World bosses?
Already seen in a1, I'd expect 12 or so of these.

Highest level node attainable at launch?
4

Will freehold exist at launch?
Yes with a basic loop in place to test land acquisition

How many players can a testing server hold?
6k

How many servers will be available at launch?
20+

Will there be queues?
yes

Toothpaste

wakkytabbaky wrote: »

i expect bugs and lots of bugs, if not i will be sorely disappointed

Yea, but what content will be available at the launch? Intrepid has shown us a lot of great looking in game systems. From all of the showcases they have shown us over the last 3 years, what content from those showcases do you think will make it to the launch of Alpha 2?

Aszkalon

Liniker wrote: »

I'll reply after the 16th

Fair Point. 🫡

Toothpaste

Aszkalon wrote: »

Liniker wrote: »

I'll reply after the 16th

Fair Point. 🫡

I get what you are saying, but you are just dodging the question. How can you have 1.5k posts in under a year and not have an opinion on what you think will be included at the launch of Alpha 2??

Liniker

Toothpaste wrote: »

How can you have an opinion on everything, but not this?

Let’s see how close you are to what they actually announce! It’ll be fun!

I've been wrong on every expectation I had when it comes to dates

I'll give it a try

Persistent Alpha or defined testing periods? - starting in September as NDAed week long tests with A2 folks, and opening in October as a persistent alpha

How many biomes present at launch? - 4

Which biomes at launch? Riverlands, Desert, Badlands and Tropics

How many / which races will be available at launch? - Kaelar, Vek, Renkai, Dunir, Empyrean, Pyrai

All Artesian classes available? - Yes but limited in scope

World bosses? - 3 or 4 bosses like Tumok, dragons, ancients, the scorpion

Highest level node attainable at launch? - 3

Will freehold exist at launch? - yes

How many players can a testing server hold? - 2000

How many servers will be available at launch? - less than 10

Will there be queues? - yes, big ones

darthaden

Persistent Alpha or defined testing periods? Steven has already stated it will be persistent other than downtime for patches. I'd assume at times it'll be play the game normally and at times test specific things.

How many biomes present at launch? However many they have ready and feel they need.

Which biomes at launch? Which ever ones they have ready.

How many / which races will be available at launch? As long as the Vek is ready I don't care

All Artesian classes available? No, but they'll have the main gear ones at least functional

World bosses? Yes a few but not all or polished, we've already seen some in livestreams

Highest level node attainable at launch? probably city

Will freehold exist at launch? Yes, they showed us working freeholds quite a long time ago

How many players can a testing server hold? less than the 10k planned for launch since we won't get the full map. Once more of the map is ready and kinks get worked out the numbers will go up

How many servers will be available at launch? Probably somewhere around 10

Will there be queues? Day 1 yes, after the first week doubt it. Most of us will call out sick or take vacation day 1, by the end of the week everyone will be back to work and many will decide they don't want to test a broken game, they'll wait until they can play a more polished version.

darthaden

My real expectation is 500k players on the server. I left a comment on a YouTube video about how 10k players was the goal per server for launch but I was quickly corrected by someone who's only knowledge comes from watching big streams like Asmongold. There's only going to be 1 North American server and it's going to hold 500k plus players. How foolish of me to trust the guy who started the company that each server would hold 10k players at launch.

Aiyara

Personally I don't really care about races, biomes, freeholds and servers. All I expect and want is a working combat system, working PvP, working state artisan ship so I can get to bug hunting and providing feedback on how each of the systems feel. The content part such as bigger maps different bosses etc.. is not what's most important at the start of A2 in my opinion.

It is not a game launch, not even a beta, it is the first iteration of a consistent non NDA game state with barebone systems so that devs can verify if their assumptions about what they think players would find fun, is indeed so it's easy to change early if needed, and continue to flesh out systems.

Once both players and devs are happy and satisfied about the core systems and basic gameplay loop, then they'd get to add content, more races, biomes etc..

So even if there's just 1 race, 1 node type I would be satisfied as updates roll out

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