Alpha 2 & other releases

Are they gonna announce a schedule for the next phase of testing? also who else is super excited for the next set of testing !!!!

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Tulima

JustVine wrote: »

Things will speed up significantly if they find and fill lead system dev, lead economy dev, and jeff's previous role. Current progress rate is due to a talent gap not their natural speed.

Veeshan wrote: »

i have a feeling they keep some thing hidden too as a surprise

In my mind, A2 is not coming until some time in 2024. I hope you are correct but I prefer to be pleasantly surprised rather than disappointed.

JustVine

Tulima wrote: »

JustVine wrote: »

Things will speed up significantly if they find and fill lead system dev, lead economy dev, and jeff's previous role. Current progress rate is due to a talent gap not their natural speed.

Veeshan wrote: »

i have a feeling they keep some thing hidden too as a surprise

In my mind, A2 is not coming until some time in 2024. I hope you are correct but I prefer to be pleasantly surprised rather than disappointed.

I think the reason I am willing to be more optimistic is the above but also just me scorching A2 to start with only approximately half those things (including several classes.) And release the rest as A2 goes on.

That still means I think its summer 23 though not this year.

24 might be more accurate if they are less compromising (everything on that list and a lot of polish) and go even longer without the positions I mentioned. So I don't think you are being at all unreasonable in your expectations.

Tulima

JustVine wrote: »

I think the reason I am willing to be more optimistic is the above but also just me scorching A2 to start with only approximately half those things (including several classes.) And release the rest as A2 goes on.

That still means I think its summer 23 though not this year.

24 might be more accurate if they are less compromising (everything on that list and a lot of polish) and go even longer without the positions I mentioned. So I don't think you are being at all unreasonable in your expectations.

Starting A2 with half of the things listed is an approach I never thought about as an option they could go for. If they would go for this route then an earlier release can be expected.

But I think they should try to have at least an early iteration of all points in their list I posted earlier at A2 release. Why? Even though IS stated A1 was a technical alpha people stilled judged it as a complete game. A2 will be persistent and first impression of its content and I think first impressions can be important. Perhaps not for you and me but there are a lot of doubters out there and if there is not a lot of content/features since A1 then we will see the good ol' "AoC is a scam" in the MMORPG subredit.

Sengarden

If I were to attempt a logical guess based off of @Tulima 's list, I'd wager that's about a year of monthly updates yet to come, judging by the size of the more recent updates we've seen. Add some wiggle room to that for polish and ensured cohesiveness between all the systems, and we're probably looking at next Autumn at the earliest.

I’m sure that they’re well along in many areas they haven’t discussed yet, but I somehow doubt there’ll be a whirlwind 3 hour livestream in December full of video coverage showing off the remaining half dozen systems we’ve been waiting on and a January A2 reveal.

That being said, they seem to be constantly hiring new folks in all development areas, so maybe that rate of content creation will increase exponentially as we get closer to release? Hard to say, but I'm keeping my expectations pretty far out.

Voeltz

I believe they are a lot closer to Alpha 2 than most people think. I'm basing this on what has been shown so far, the fact that they are now using Unreal 5 which is supposed to speed up the development process, and the amount of new people they have brought onto the project. Steven has said that they don't want to reveal everything about the game before it releases for multiple reasons. This is also why the level cap for Alpha 2 will be 35. Like others have said, they don't have to reveal everything that will be in Alpha 2 before it's announced. More than likely, there will be some stuff in there that wasn't covered in the monthly updates. Since it will be a persistent Alpha, they will continue to work on and add things to the game leading into the Betas and eventually release. Most of the fine tuning will be done during A2 because they want player feedback, so all they really need is a good baseline to start.

I predict we will be getting an announcement by the end of the year at the earliest, or by the end of Summer next year at the latest. Summer 2023 would mark 2 full years since Alpha 1

Romancyy

Tulima wrote: »

This is the list of things they want for alpha-2 I gave a green X for things they have showcased in the update videos and a question mark for the combat system as they showed some progress but still a lot more to go.

As you can see, there are quite a few Xs missing, so the beginning of 2023 is a bit too optimistic. My optimistic prediction is no earlier than 2024

Edit: This is just what I can remember from the monthly update videos. They may have completed more things but kept silent about it.

We don't know if all these will exist at launch of A2 or be added in as it goes. Also have not seen does not equal not done or close to done.

Mahes

We will not hear anything about an Alpha 2 start this year.

We will be lucky to hear something by the end of summer next year that states Alpha 2 will start 1st quarter 2024.

There is just to many things to add to the game from the point of alpha 1 too alpha 2. Alpha 1 gave players a taste of what they want to produce. Alpha 2 Will have a lot of flavors to try. Add in the fact that they want this to be fairly bug free before testing and it really is going to be a ways off.

I want the game out now. There is a real content drought in the MMO market. If this game had been made ready to go this year and had actually been ready, they would have printed money. Luckily for them, there is not a whole lot of competition for the quality they are creating coming out in the next few years. Liberty is the next game but that is Korean.

They can take there time but just keep in mind that the longer it takes, the increased chance for a big company to step into the waters. For the moment the waters look pretty clear..

Mag7spy

lets go 2026 release only 4 more years xD

akabear

Release and Alpha timing will not just be about the development completion but also about timing for release on market.. ie if this year was a possiblity, then Oct-Dec would be poor strategically as there is a AAA title about to be released that might absorb too much of a chance

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