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Apparently, the Closed Beta is being shut down this week and only 4 beta weekends are planned before
skyline385
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Just found it out.
Also, to take part in the next Beta weekends, you must pre-order or have a lvl 32+ character from the Closed Beta.
This seems kinda odd seeing how they just released a big patch this week and the end-game patch having been released just about 1 1/2 months ago iirc.
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They promised optimization patch , which never came, and would be rather silly do it after you cut of main beta, so I doubt they will even bother doing optimization, even after admiting game wasnt optimized back in December.
They said there will be 3+ weeks open beta before release as well, another lie?
They are saying that there will be an Open Beta close to launch but that's it. I haven't seen any other info on this.
I couldn't even get past level 3. The game was so boring. It reminds me of every other MMO currently out there. Boring quest hub after boring quest hub
Source please?
The news says players who pre-order have access to beta. It doesn't say only those who pre-order can play in beta. The game is still a few months off. I'm sure they will still have several beta weekends and give out more keys.
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I was able to get into the Alienware beta test and right out of the gate the game is having FPS issues.
folks keep stating "It hasn't been optimized, give it a chance" . Nothing in today's patch notes about this process and the dev's on twitter are not responding to it either.
Is the weekend tests running a different build? are they going to optimize?
The current state of the Alienware beta to me is a turn off if this is the way to game is going to play at launch.
They have said optimization is one of the final things they do before launch, its March.........June is launch.
"kindergarden sucks so rest of life must be terrible"
- Improved visual performance throughout Auroria.
- Optimized frame-rate performance throughout Everstar Grove.
- Visual performance has been improved throughout Grimvault.
- Visual performance has been improved throughout Illium.
- Thayd: Various architectural changes have been made to improve game performance throughout the city.
- Celestion: NPCs have been optimized to increase performance throughout the zone.
- The Skywatch Soldier demographics have been adjusted so they do not impact server performance.
- Wilderrun: NPCs have been optimized to increase performance throughout the zone.
- Fixed a client performance issue where the frame rate would drop when the character's stats were changing frequently (e.g. when under the influence of multiple stat altering abilities).
Game is playable just fine. And still 2 1/2 months to go. You can always cancel your preorder come open beta if its not good enough by then to your liking.
And the explanation for the beta changes can be found here outside the official forums: http://www.reddit.com/r/WildStar/comments/209s1d/explanation_behind_recently_announced_beta/
/pass
Unless I see or hear of some radical changes based on the feedback given to them I won't be pulled into this one.
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I read their reasoning from the official Beta forums but that doesn't mean i agree with it. The game is unpolished with lots of bugs and people only got about a month or so to test the endgame. Even ESO had the Psijic order Beta going on for a long time. This game is still 3 months from release and unoptimised with not a significant amount of testing done. You don't turn off the closed Beta in such a state.
I read their reasoning from the official Beta forums but that doesn't mean i agree with it. The game is unpolished with lots of bugs and people only got about a month or so to test the endgame. Even ESO had the Psijic order Beta going on for a long time. This game is still 3 months from release and unoptimised with not a significant amount of testing done. You don't turn off the closed Beta in such a state.
Well in that case I guess we should all PANIC because im sure Ncsoft have never published an mmorpg before and obviously have no clue what theyre doing. And Carbine after working on the game for like 7 years is willing to drop the ball with 2 1/2 months to go, right? You do realize that closed beta testers have been going at the game for many months now and endgame content such as raiding as been tested by at least some? And you do realize that Ncsoft has their own paid testers inhouse yes?
Yes you could look at it as a glass half empty situation. You could take examples like Warhammer or AoC or SWTOR and say "aha! incomplete games and incomplete endgame!". But in all those cases, regardless of how much testing there was or wasnt, it was either the games launching just unfinished or being managed by rookies. So if WS launches incomplete, which it certainly may, the amount of testing it has or hasnt got wont change that one bit.