Founders' Update: Pre-Alpha News! - Official Discussion Thread

[valor 2,135]

In all honesty though, I'm glad that pre-alpha is around the corner to hopefully take the focus off how this forum operates and more onto the game. I look forward to the new discussion topics it will finally bring.

 

Let's stay on topic of Pre-alpha and not try diverging into another forum debate?

[Otto 176]

Let's stay on topic of Pre-alpha and not try diverging into another forum debate?

Is he really?

I thought he was saying it was nice to have some freshwater in the well since it has been dry for so long

[jtoddcoleman 8,970]

Is it me or is the Crowfall Pre-Alpha announcement almost getting no media coverage and attention? Rather disappointing. 

 

We haven't done a press release, yet, only the founder's update.  We will, very soon.

 

Todd

ACE

[Jah 7,001]

Hunger Dome sounds like a great way to make this early testing fun.

[jtoddcoleman 8,970]

ESPECIALLY.... wait for it.....

 

WITH FRIENDLY FIRE!

 

I'm glad you asked.  The answer is: No, not for this test.

 

When we discussed our list of features, we decided that a matchmaking system for teams wasn't high enough priority at this point; it made more sense to use a simple randomizer and apply those engineering / UI / design cycles elsewhere.

 

As a result, friendly fire is turned off, otherwise some people would decide it would be more fun to collaborate with their guildies and skew our data. We are asking you not to put your personal enjoyment (or ego) ahead of our test results.  Now is not the time for testing the fences, because that's not where we put our focus.  

 

You'll have a chance to prove your superiority, I promise, but today is not that day.  Help us by playing the test the way it is offered, so that day comes as soon as possible.

 

Todd

ACE

[arkh 69]

Crowfall testing royale!

 

48 men enter 3 leave

 

I remember us talking about a battle royale kind of campaign type and how the hunger would be perfect for it

 

That other game was going to divide people up by time zones and limit them because they thought they were going to have so many testers, it never happened because people weren't use to real game testing. I see some of the same descriptions here when they talk about just how early this testing is going to be. I think the 25ish cap, whenever it gets turned on, is a great way to make sure everyone gets to experience the game but the downside is you don't find the people who are able to make the kind of serious commitment if unfortunately people stop showing up in the numbers that you need.

 

There was an update awhile ago about testing and it talked about how there would be more of this internal phase filled with testing that people wouldn't want to be a part of because it's so boring in most people's eyes, well there are people who would help with that

 

Coming back from work after a day of coding automated tests: real game tests are a gripe and no one wants to do it for free. Follow a scenario, find unexpected results, try to find a way to repeat, isolate the exact way to repeat it then open an issue for the devs. Go to next test.

 

We'll just have the fun part in those 1 to 2 hours sessions and that's why they are logging everything so they can replay it to see what is happening. I just hope this logging will be available later on like the demo files from quake or shadowbane recordings which let us get some good video editing.

[Azeron 190]

Let the testing begin!

[freeze 3,759]

random teams and no FF...

 

Let's call it the salt dome instead

[mal 2,688]

random teams and no FF...

 

Let's call it the salt dome instead

 

Probably gonna get reallllly salty. 

[piikaa 140]

Come on with the testing already!!!!  Please give us something we can sink our teeth into.

 

[valor 2,135]

I'm glad you asked.  The answer is: No, not for this test.

 

When we discussed our list of features, we decided that a matchmaking system for teams wasn't high enough priority at this point; it made more sense to use a simple randomizer and apply those engineering / UI / design cycles elsewhere.

 

As a result, friendly fire is turned off, otherwise some people would decide it would be more fun to collaborate with their guildies and skew our data. We are asking you not to put your personal enjoyment (or ego) ahead of our test results.  Now is not the time for testing the fences, because that's not where we put our focus.  

 

You'll have a chance to prove your superiority, I promise, but today is not that day.  Help us by playing the test the way it is offered, so that day comes as soon as possible.

 

Todd

ACE

 

There is no "proving", just displaying, but that is neither here nor there.

 

We paid to participate in testing Crowfall and that means we've agreed to help you research what works and doesn't.  Of course we'll all as testers want to help you figure out what is best for CF, but we're still competitors at heart, so I'm sure there will be plenty of extra affairs.

[Joyeuse 268]

Hoping these tests go really well.  Been patiently waiting to crush people on this game. 

[Waikikamukau 297]

Probably gonna get reallllly salty. 

 

Got my snacks ready!

 

[mythx 1,000]

H1z1 champ need to wait until alpha 2 - I might invite Aethos Arma pro. player to increase the overall skill level.

And someone reversed into my car earlier today. 

Not my day to be honest - I hope it's soon weekend..

Edited August 27, 2015 by mythx

[fuey500 52]

Damn looks nice! Can't wait for the beta (since it was too much money for me to get into alpha and support you guys ;.

[warcrimes 502]

random teams and no FF...

 

Let's call it the salt dome instead

 

 

My go to excuse will always be that I got stuck with poorly made socksty teammates.

 

Thanks, Freeze. You play like you steer your wheelchair through a blow tube.

[mythx 1,000]

You can carry your team Freeze! 

[ZYBAK 3,208]

I really dislike only being able to play a certain amount of matches per test session. I completely understand limiting testing in general (for example only having the servers up for 2 hours). But limiting the amount you can test while the servers are up just reminds me of bandwidth caps and is just annoying.

 

I'd rather have a server que or really any other method than just cutting people off.

[hamopeche 777]

I really dislike only being able to play a certain amount of matches per test session. I completely understand limiting testing in general (for example only having the servers up for 2 hours). But limiting the amount you can test while the servers are up just reminds me of bandwidth caps and is just annoying.

 

I'd rather have a server que or really any other method than just cutting people off.

 

queue

 

entitlement

[ZYBAK 3,208]

Used to abbreviating queue to "que" from years of WoW arena. Made a bit of a mistake there.

 

Guess you wouldn't know about those from all those years of writing absolutely flawless code lmao.