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Alpha Two testing is currently taking place five days each week. More information about Phase II and Phase III testing schedule can be found here
If you have Alpha Two, you can download the game launcher here, and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
Fresh Eu server on may 1st?
Raptin
Member, Alpha Two
In the post about phase 3 being delayed to august 4th it states that the american realms will be merged and that "Additionally, for those who prefer a clean slate, a fresh start Realm will be available on May 1st, offering a completely untouched experience."
Does this mean it's only a fresh start server in america or does the EU get one as well?
Does this mean it's only a fresh start server in america or does the EU get one as well?
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From what Intrepid has said so far, the fresh start realm on May 1st is confirmed for NA. They haven’t explicitly mentioned if the EU region will get its own fresh start server at the same time. So unless they clarify otherwise in the coming days, it’s probably safe to assume the May 1st fresh start is NA-only for now.
That said, it wouldn’t be surprising if they spin up an EU fresh start closer to or during Phase 3 in August, especially if there’s enough demand or performance reasons to separate it out. Might be worth dropping the question in the next livestream or official Discord too.
Fingers crossed for some news soon!
Resna and Lotharia will be permanently taken offline to concentrate efforts on stress testing on Shol. Since this is a fresh start, testers will have to create new characters.
They didn't mention the EU side of things.
There is only one. The Eye of Shol shall shine upon us all!
And this "We may or may not be wiping for P3" just to try and FOMO people into the Shol server they didn't want to be in, is just sly and manipulative.
There will 100% be a wipe. Even if Intrepid keep saying there might not be all the way up until P3 - there will be a wipe. Simply because that is the only sensible thing to do. Intrepid will not have money to keep several servers alive, while barely anyone plays on them (i.e. the current situation) and Shol will be dead by the time P3 comes around and will be even deader, because we'll get fresh servers at that point.
Anyone who thinks that a promise to not wipe Shol will somehow change people's attitude towards testing is simply deluding themselves. The ones who truly care about such a trivial matter are in a very small minority. There's way more people who care about exploiters playing on the same server, or Pirates, or potential Asmonglers, or P2 Vyrans, or just the simple fact that there's only one server which goes against the main point of the game (dynamic world that creates different stories, and all that).
And there's of course the fact that barely anything has truly changed since P1, so that's a massive factor as well. Yes TTK is better and gatherables will supposedly be random enough, but the mob grind is still there, the corruption/pvp system is still broken and incomplete, nodes barely work, world is anything but dynamic, mobs still drop full loot (though of course for some this is a positive), questing is non-existent.
All of that shit is a much bigger influence on people's decisions than "will they wipe the server 3 months from now or not".
P.S. none of that is to say that this level of horrible communicaiton is excusable. I've been saying for years that their comms are shit. Either due to internal planning going awry, or due to attempts to hide info in hopes for a different reaction, or simply because they dunno how to properly rely info about open development because no one has written a book on that yet (though some have attempted the process itself afaik). But it all keeps being a mess.
Pre-May server changes were also poorly communicated, but that was partially understandable with the P3 delay decision and uncertainty about player numbers.
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