How can i access beta for "Trailblazers" tomorrow?

_Flin_

_Flin_
Hi all,
since i am very excited for the Trailblazers update, and wanted to try it out tomorrow, can someone enlighten me how i will be able to do so?

Do i need to install anything?
Do i need to buy anything?
How does it work?

Thanks,
Flin
 

Lhorndra

Lhorndra
Trailblazers will be like any other normal game update.

The launcher will show you that an update is required. After you have clicked on the “Update” button, everything you need will be downloaded. When it is finished, you can start the game as usual, now including Trailblazers.
 

Nowski

Nowski
All we have on this is:

Paul_Crowther said:
Trailblazers will introduce System Colonisation as a beta but in the live game. Keep an eye on our forums, website and social channels as we'll be providing more details on what that all means a little closer to release.
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"A little closer to release" is getting very tight now, since release is tomorrow! Maybe it will be in update notes during the window when service goes down.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
geoffrey.hdt said:
Yeah, so, no beta...
Not sure this is a good thing... :-/
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There's not much alternative.

A beta would pick up on bugs like "if you deploy a colonisation beacon it resets your account" or "establishing a station in a system makes you permanently hostile with the controlling faction" or "Odyssey settlements can only be placed in orbit". But anything that obvious has probably been picked up already, or will be noticed (and fixed) very quickly anyway.

A limited-scope beta wouldn't pick up on all the weird stuff players do on the live server when they're actually playing seriously, or the consequences of giving tens of thousands of players access to the feature rather than the hundreds/low thousands who might log in to a separate beta. Separate betas for things like engineering (lowered materials costs missed the main problem), the BGS (not enough players to trigger the balance issues), the mining rewrite (not enough BGS going on to spot the worst balance issues), etc. have generally failed to be realistic tests.

So something like this where we get access to the feature, but it has a bunch more restrictions than they expect to keep so that they can see what happens in a realistic situation and then relax the restrictions if it doesn't seem like it will break anything is probably about as good as it can be.
 

_Flin_

_Flin_
Thanks all, i just didn't understand the live beta part, obviously :)

I understood it as "it is a beta, but the results will be in the live map".

So it is actually no beta, but an MVP.
 

HRDiagram

HRDiagram
Ian Doncaster said:
A beta would pick up on bugs like "if you deploy a colonisation beacon it resets your account" or "establishing a station in a system makes you permanently hostile with the controlling faction" or "Odyssey settlements can only be placed in orbit".
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These are normal bugs, very similar to what's normally introduced with any updates, not necessarily beta. 😆
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
Basically, it's going straight into the game.
That's the best way to find out how it performs with the entire player-base tinkering with it.

There's likely to be issues and things might need to get reset or rolled-back so there's a good chance some people's time and effort will be wasted so FDev are (quite rightly) calling it "beta" to make people aware of this so they won't moan when they find they have to do something all over again.

It won't help, though.
People will still moan. 🫤
 
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