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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nanfoodle

I don't know a MMO that's launched many servers that will host 10k + populations on each server. Also at the same time using new server tech never used live on a large population. My guess it may be very messy for months. I plan to play allot but expect to get to very little at the start.

PenguinPaladin

Im here for liniker's reply

Khronus

I expect absolutely nothing always. Anything that we see will be what they want us to work with. The more work we put in, the faster the game comes out. The more real effort the testers put in, the more likely the game will shift (ever so slightly) in a way that favors what they are looking for.

Toothpaste

Well that was a doozy. Im in the process of tallying up the results. Will have them out later today. But, I dont think a lot of people were expecting what was announced. Overall, IMO, I think the Roadmap telling us what will be in each Phase was pretty hype.

Liniker

PenguinPaladin wrote: »

Im here for liniker's reply

wasnt too far from what I was expecting tbh

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 (got this wrong lol)

How many biomes present at launch? - 4 (its actually 3)

Which biomes at launch? Riverlands, Desert, Badlands and Tropics (no badlands)

How many / which races will be available at launch? - Kaelar, Vek, Renkai, Dunir, Empyrean, Pyrai (this one was the biggest mistakes, but I honestly don't care I think races are just "skins" until we have racial augments, so having 1 or 9 races doesn't change much)

All Artesian classes available? - Yes but limited in scope (I got this right)

World bosses? - 3 or 4 bosses like Tumok, dragons, ancients, the scorpion (I got this right)

Highest level node attainable at launch? - 3 (I got this right)

Will freehold exist at launch? - yes (only by phase 2)

How many players can a testing server hold? - 2000 (its 3000, even better)

How many servers will be available at launch? - less than 10 (I got this right)

Will there be queues? - yes, big ones (100% got this right lol)

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