What is the next Alpha phase?
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at a guess i'd say the next phase of alpha will be trading and travel, maybe with some minor missions thrown in just to keep it interesting.
i guess we'll find out when we find out
i guess we'll find out when we find out
Alpha 4 when it arrives is supposed to be travel and trading, and yes that would mean we were close to beta. However Alpha 3 has only be released for about a day and we've hit a major bug. Many off the Alpha testers have been struggling to get into multiplayer and spend most of their time watching a microwaved orange Sidewinder or Cobra. Those that have been lucky enough to get through report problems with docking and hyperspace. I certainly don't see Alpha 4 arriving any time this month. Perhaps premium beta might be here by mid May, but that is only a guess.
Alpha 3 is seriously broken. The options pages are clunky & don't work properly. Bindings & settings get forgotten when it crashes. Then you have to have 20 or 30 attempts to get into the game, meanwhile it's guzzling your monthly bandwidth allowance at an alarming rate as it frantically tries to contact everyone in the instance.
If you get into a game then either it crashes (in which case you go back to my third sentence) or the space station vanishes in front of your eyes. If it doesn't then you have to submit docking requests every few seconds because the station keeps telling you they've made an error. I hope you enjoy repeatedly scrolling through side menus to make the same request time & time again.
If you manage to get inside the station & dock, then have a flutter on the lottery - Lady Luck is smiling on you today.
In short - Don't hold your breath for alpha 4.
If you get into a game then either it crashes (in which case you go back to my third sentence) or the space station vanishes in front of your eyes. If it doesn't then you have to submit docking requests every few seconds because the station keeps telling you they've made an error. I hope you enjoy repeatedly scrolling through side menus to make the same request time & time again.
If you manage to get inside the station & dock, then have a flutter on the lottery - Lady Luck is smiling on you today.
In short - Don't hold your breath for alpha 4.
Beware the Ides of March!
Hopefully they will make requesting docking clearance a keyboard shortcut.
Well, it is rumored to be Trading and Traveling, which sounds like very close to beta.
At this point alpha 3.0 have lot of rewritten things, which means there's improvements, but there's also new bugs introduced, one of them not allowing to play MP. Depending on how soon FD deals with primary issues I see 3.0 going from two weeks to 1 month. But it is all guessing
If you send a docking request it should keep you in a queue or auto re-request docking permission if denied.
It's not rumoured. It's stated quite clearly by DB in the dev diary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIrcOLEdrvw&feature=youtu.be
Based on feedback, here, alpha 3.0 has many serious bugs. This is normal, more we advance in the development, and more the difficulties are piling up. Alpha 4 will come when alpha 3 is completed. Soon (TM) ...
Based on feedback, here, alpha 3.0 has many serious bugs. This is normal, more we advance in the development, and more the difficulties are piling up. Alpha 4 will come when alpha 3 is completed. Soon (TM) ...
Yeah, adding major new mechanics on top of existing ones is bound to cause issues and the more they put in the more likely issues will come up.
At least with beta, the major mechanics should be in place and should only need tweaking.
Based on feedback, here, alpha 3.0 has many serious bugs. This is normal, more we advance in the development, and more the difficulties are piling up. Alpha 4 will come when alpha 3 is completed. Soon (TM) ...
I wouldn't call them serious without insider knowledge. They are just show stoppers, and it's nothing new for alpha. However I want to point out that was released knowingly with MP bug so they already working on it - they just didn't want to delay release any further.
Well, it was also stated that trading and traveling will come first
At least that's how you could interpret it. That's why I was careful here.But anyway, there's nothing else left for alpha...so yeah, 4.0 is trading and traveling. And then comes beta.
...Alpha 4 will come when alpha 3 is completed. Soon (TM) ...
And by Soon™, he means Alpha 4 will be around mid April
Yeah, I kind of agree with this. It almost seems like the current alpha version would completely change complexion with just a couple of things fixed. They seem major because of the extent to which they break the game, but it's not like a litany of disasters. I reckon things are much less bad than they appear.
Yep, it's a bit like if a couple of builders have finished your house down to every last detail EXCEPT they gave you the wrong key so you can't get in!