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Alpha Two Phase III testing has begun! During this phase, our realms will be open every day, and we'll only have downtime for updates and maintenance. We'll keep everyone up-to-date about downtimes in Discord.
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Alpha Two Phase III testing has begun! During this phase, our realms will be open every day, and we'll only have downtime for updates and maintenance. We'll keep everyone up-to-date about downtimes in Discord.
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.
First five minutes
Holobiont
Member, Alpha Two
Just got the little popup notification linking me to the forums to provide feedback and so figured I'd give you my impressions of the first five minutes, since I guess they're a pretty important five minutes for any product, so here's the notes I've been making as I go.
Firstly, the downloader works great, no problems. The installation process was quite slow and resource intensive, but we got there. Made a character, my head is enormous and childlike, there's no way to edit it, I'd rather have the hero look. The game world looks fantastic as soon as I log in. There's no setting for which monitor the game will use by default, my primary monitor is not my gaming monitor and this was a pretty common issue with games released around ten years ago but less so nowadays. I can't find a way to use my middle mouse button for keybinds, which is a bit of an issue since with dodge sprint autorun jump/climb you want 8 keys to be used strictly to control movement, 10 if someone wants to turn with the keyboard. Surely some of these could be contextualised or double presses or let me use middle mouse or really anything besides 36 ability keybinds and 8 movement keybinds and then a random bunch of keybinds on top of that. Not really interested in trying to plan a reasonable setup for that right now so logging out and will come back to it when I have time and focus to spare on setting up so I can begin playing the game.
I realise all this sounds pretty negative but I'm honestly very excited about the game and just want to provide useful feedback so that it is the best it can be.
Firstly, the downloader works great, no problems. The installation process was quite slow and resource intensive, but we got there. Made a character, my head is enormous and childlike, there's no way to edit it, I'd rather have the hero look. The game world looks fantastic as soon as I log in. There's no setting for which monitor the game will use by default, my primary monitor is not my gaming monitor and this was a pretty common issue with games released around ten years ago but less so nowadays. I can't find a way to use my middle mouse button for keybinds, which is a bit of an issue since with dodge sprint autorun jump/climb you want 8 keys to be used strictly to control movement, 10 if someone wants to turn with the keyboard. Surely some of these could be contextualised or double presses or let me use middle mouse or really anything besides 36 ability keybinds and 8 movement keybinds and then a random bunch of keybinds on top of that. Not really interested in trying to plan a reasonable setup for that right now so logging out and will come back to it when I have time and focus to spare on setting up so I can begin playing the game.
I realise all this sounds pretty negative but I'm honestly very excited about the game and just want to provide useful feedback so that it is the best it can be.
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Second point, I think the minimum specs might be a little on the optimistic side, 12gb ram in particular does not seem close to enough. With all settings turned to absolute minimum to be safe, including resolution, the game by itself is using 15gb. The recommended specs of 16gb would possibly just about cover it if you had an extremely minimal OS. Using the settings the game recommends for me plus max draw distance takes it up to about 21gb for game+launcher, while just standing still at the spawn point with the options window open. Probably save yourself some of the cost of processing refunds from people with lower end machines if you updated your min specs page.