Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Nov 16/17 thoughts
CROW3
Member, Alpha Two
A few specific suggestions in no particular order, ignore anything that’s already planned:
- Weapon swapping has very little feedback, and needs a better success indicator (could be a sound, or a visual). Sometimes it’s instant, sometimes it’s not - so I’ve found myself mashing the button, resulting in a few deaths and a lot of close calls.
- Mouseover info is a must have. From player names, mob identity, or gathering node names, etc etc. I feel like I’m playing half blind without the ability to quickly id something sans LMB click.
- Whoever worked on the visual differences between mining nodes has earned a couples days off in Mexico. The contrast between nodes is great, and after a few hours I’ve become an expert at identifying basalt. Same with trees - I can identify larch from a mile out.
- The prevalence of mining node types is super wonky - I didn’t realize sapphire was SO much more common than copper. Copper is the bane of my existence. 😉
- Someone mentioned this in another thread re: safety upon login. I don’t think we need to be ‘safe.’ But, I do think the load sequence needs to be adjusted so we don’t fall through the world, or pull mobs before the game is ‘ready.’
- Is the plan for PvE content around a node hub to be lvl 10 then rise with the node development? I moved to Winstead at lvl 5 to start contributing, and found it was too high level to do anything meaningful. This would result in the starting area really becoming a practical stomping ground until levl 8-10.
- Mini map zoom needs to work with the mouse wheel. Ditch the zoom buttons.
- Allow detarget by LMB, currently have to ESC
- Weapon swapping has very little feedback, and needs a better success indicator (could be a sound, or a visual). Sometimes it’s instant, sometimes it’s not - so I’ve found myself mashing the button, resulting in a few deaths and a lot of close calls.
- Mouseover info is a must have. From player names, mob identity, or gathering node names, etc etc. I feel like I’m playing half blind without the ability to quickly id something sans LMB click.
- Whoever worked on the visual differences between mining nodes has earned a couples days off in Mexico. The contrast between nodes is great, and after a few hours I’ve become an expert at identifying basalt. Same with trees - I can identify larch from a mile out.
- The prevalence of mining node types is super wonky - I didn’t realize sapphire was SO much more common than copper. Copper is the bane of my existence. 😉
- Someone mentioned this in another thread re: safety upon login. I don’t think we need to be ‘safe.’ But, I do think the load sequence needs to be adjusted so we don’t fall through the world, or pull mobs before the game is ‘ready.’
- Is the plan for PvE content around a node hub to be lvl 10 then rise with the node development? I moved to Winstead at lvl 5 to start contributing, and found it was too high level to do anything meaningful. This would result in the starting area really becoming a practical stomping ground until levl 8-10.
- Mini map zoom needs to work with the mouse wheel. Ditch the zoom buttons.
- Allow detarget by LMB, currently have to ESC
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Took me a while to find it as well.
The rest I agree.