Alpha - What are you planning to do first?

Riverside

Riverside
Chrystoph said:
Alpha and Beta testing are SUPPOSED to be about finding faults and bugs in the code, not about first look and feedback.

The fact that Frontier has conditioned the community to expect this just shows that greed, on both sides, is still one of the Seven Sins.

The idea that I need to pay extra to be heard is heinous.
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I think it might have started with that intention before the game launched, and maybe there will be some good feedback that will come out of it but I think most people will probably treat the 'alpha' as early access & most of the game design & balancing is probably best left to professional game designers.

The stage you have in mind is presumably what David Braben & the community team have been playing around with :)
 

Riverside

Riverside
Andro said:
Anyone with a huge memory remember if Horizons had a free public beta period?
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Horizons beta was a paid for option, I remember it included the 1.4 beta too (Horizons was 1.5/2.0), although later Horizons betas were opened up to everyone 'for load testing'.

The 2.1 beta was a bit of a tell, engineering with fish was really popular & the revised NPC AI went through several updates that were interesting to test in a fully fish engineered ship with little consequence in the beta, then with the final release having engineered AI immediately while the playerbase hadn't yet upgraded their ships was a bit of a shock :) There were other issues too, took a while for it all to settle down.

Lots of people don't play the same way on a test server as the live one, the feedback is of limited use imo & it's not until the changes reach the live game that the real picture (for balancing) emerges. I'm sure there will be tweaks based on feedback after launch this time too :)
 

CMDR Maxus

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Chrystoph said:
I'm just going to refuse to PAY to perform testing.
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Personally for me, ED has scratched my gaming itch for 6 years, so a little tip now and then, like the occasional store purchase or paying an extra $20 for early access to test out the latest features is really not a big deal.

Its also great for those who don't pay either, because of all the youtube streams.
 

Edith_The_Hutt

Edith_The_Hutt
I didn't pay for beta with either the kickstarter or Horizons and felt left behind as a result. This time FOMO has encouraged me to spend an extra £10 to try things out early and to let me learn from my mistakes in a consequence-free sandbox.
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Mr T said:
I'm not in the Alpha but I'd like to see someone using a jetpack. Especially seeing as the devs didn't in their walk-through video. I volunteer @Rat Catcher ;)
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I'm on that one! I'll probably need to examine, closely, the results of 'grit rash' on our fancy new spacesuits...
CMDR Karrde Sun said:
Yes I volunteer rat catcher for something too.. how about aiming calibration for the goliaths? I'll stand by and document the results :p
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You can wing up with me and use the vanity cam to record the awesome explosions :ROFLMAO:
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Riverside said:
Lots of people don't play the same way on a test server as the live one
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I see your point...

It is my intention to spend the first couple of days just 'finding out' (depending on the 'modularisation' of the alpha release) then play 'normally' to see how it all integrates.
Not the most scientific approach, nor is my normal particularly intense gameplay, but I do tend to do a bit of pretty much everything the game offers so may even find the odd hiccup.
 

Andro

Andro
Stamford Rider said:
Start from scratch, on foot, to see if I can get enough spondoolix together by the end of the alpha to buy a ship, (or if it all breaks horribly first.)
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Curious to see if there's an Odyssey new player start scenario. They've said you can play entirely without a ship (hopefully new players realize the convenience of having one though), so I wonder if choosing an Odyssey start when creating a CMDR doesn't even give you the free sidewinder. Maybe there's a tutorial mission you can do to earn it. Just speculating.
 
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