Checking in on game status

I was an early backer eligible for one of the Alphas, but I'm not able to devote any time to testing for now, but I remain interested in where this game is in development. Main questions:

1) When will a persistent world be up for Alpha or beta testers to play in 24/7?
2) Is there any rough sense of when this game will be available for beta or release? Every time I see a discussion about this in other game forums, the answer is generally "years from now". I came here for a more accurate assessment.

Thanks for any updates.

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JustVine

MMOJunkie wrote: »

1) When will a persistent world be up for Alpha or beta testers to play in 24/7?

No current date has been set. We do not have any information on possible time frames at this time.

2) Is there any rough sense of when this game will be available for beta or release? Every time I see a discussion about this in other game forums, the answer is generally "years from now". I came here for a more accurate assessment.

Beta is much further away than Alpha 2. That's all we know for now unfortunately. I really wish I could give you an accurate assessment.

Be on the look out for emails regarding spot testing though. There is no indication that will or will not happen this year but it's a good bet given current progress and general community comfort levels.

Edit: I would add, however, Steven has lately been much clearer about Alpha 2 parameters in terms of what they plan on having ready and what tests they want to run. So that's certainly a positive trend.

Taleof2Cities

Just to add to the good info that @JustVine provided, Steven said in the February Stream that eight (8) biomes will be available for testing in Alpha-2.

That's up from the five (5) I think that were in Alpha-1.

Caww

still drooling...

Argone

There will be an update regarding A2 in 1 or 2 months, id expect an Alpha 2 within 12 months, which they have indicated in past streams will be a much longer test that they aim to have all core systems available for by the end of the Alpha. So i could definitely see Alpha 2 persisting for 6 months or so before going down but who knows. Game launch, maybe 2 years?

MMOJunkie

Ok, thanks guys, appreciate the updates and that squares with what I've been hearing through the grapevine. See you again soon!

Veeshan

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Just to add to the good info that @JustVine provided, Steven said in the February Stream that eight (8) biomes will be available for testing in Alpha-2.

That's up from the five (5) I think that were in Alpha-1.

plan was to be able to get to 35 too that he accidently leaked :P however that can change and i think half the map i recall hearing somewhere in one of the ashes videos.

alpha 2 will probaly be this somepoint i suspect im going on a wild stab and i reckon it be wround june/july as the goal but thats just my hunch

Happymeal2415

Argone wrote: »

There will be an update regarding A2 in 1 or 2 months, id expect an Alpha 2 within 12 months, which they have indicated in past streams will be a much longer test that they aim to have all core systems available for by the end of the Alpha. So i could definitely see Alpha 2 persisting for 6 months or so before going down but who knows. Game launch, maybe 2 years?

Alpha 2 will persist until launch

Veeshan wrote: »

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Just to add to the good info that @JustVine provided, Steven said in the February Stream that eight (8) biomes will be available for testing in Alpha-2.

That's up from the five (5) I think that were in Alpha-1.

plan was to be able to get to 35 too that he accidently leaked :P however that can change and i think half the map i recall hearing somewhere in one of the ashes videos.

alpha 2 will probaly be this somepoint i suspect im going on a wild stab and i reckon it be wround june/july as the goal but thats just my hunch

Considering the last we heard they're still fleshing out combat I doubt it will be this summer. Probably not even this year if I had to guess

Nagash

Always found it odd how alpha 2 is persistent yet the betas are the own thing

Atama

Nagash wrote: »

Always found it odd how alpha 2 is persistent yet the betas are the own thing

I would assume that Betas will also be persistent, Alpha 2 will just be the first stage that includes persistent servers.

I also assume "persistent" just means, "until Alpha 2 is done". And then you'll be wiped before Beta. In Alpha 1, we got wiped after every short testing period.

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