Warhammer Beta Update

Garthilk · 10-08-2007, 12:29 PM

Recently, all WAR Beta participants received a letter stating Mythic's plan to end this phase of the closed beta test this Wednesday, October 10th. As you may recall Mythic has periodically closed Beta testing before, their last closure being in March of this year, to focus on major improvements and polish. The next phase of Beta will reopen in early December with plenty of new and improved content, art and systems for our beta-testers.

Mythic is very proud to have reached this point in development. Beta has been going very well and the testing community is extremely active. Excitement around the game continues to grow and the team is looking forward to enhancing many features already in the game as well as continuing to add new features to an already great game.

Based on player feedback and Mythic's observations they have set the following major development goals:

Improve open field skirmishes and battlefield objectives with major enhancements.
Provide players with even more options to customize their character through their abilities and visual appearance.
Continue to enhance Public Quests and the PQ System.
Prepare the elves for their release into the world!

When the beta reopens, existing testers will be invited back, as well as many new faces. Shortly after re-opening the doors, Mythic will be inviting the first wave of guilds into the beta to really get things rolling.

Rowhin · 10-08-2007, 12:33 PM

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and both say that this is a good thing to do and it will not affect the release date

Kilrogg-WHA · 10-08-2007, 12:33 PM

Just fyi, the other thread about this was merged with this one but there was a database error and Garthilk is trying to get it back

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tazzy4u2 · 10-08-2007, 12:33 PM

Not sure if thats good or bad news!
And by a public announcement will be made soon...is this a private announcement i shouldnt be reading?

Term · 10-08-2007, 12:34 PM

Rip Warhammer. You Were A Good Tease.

Kilrogg-WHA · 10-08-2007, 12:34 PM

This news was already posted on other sites. The 'public announcement' we refer to is a post on the WAR Herald later today.

Truce · 10-08-2007, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Garthilk

In the post Jeff says this pause in external testing will serve as an opportunity to refine and polish the games core mechanics as well as introduce game systems previously unavailable to testers.

So they're basically taking the external server down for a really huge patch that will take well over a month? Are they reworking existing features or just implementing a whole bunch of previously planned stuff in one huge push?

I hope their announcement later has some general information for those of us not in the beta on what all will be changed during the extended downtime.

Arctos · 10-08-2007, 12:40 PM

I dont think this will hurt the release at all actually, for how much stuff they are trying to keep in secret and for how long Beta's normally run they probably got what they needed from round one, shut down to add more clean up what they have and then they can do a larger scale with guild and more people in general beta and get it out in Feb or March.

Dashel · 10-08-2007, 12:40 PM

I'm trying to spin this in my head to be a good thing, like maybe it's to keep some gameplay elements top sekrit! But overall not sure how this could be good.

Speeder · 10-08-2007, 12:40 PM

Hope this message wont be followed by "we are pushing release date yadda yadda..."

Kilrogg-WHA · 10-08-2007, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Speeder

Hope this message wont be followed by "we are pushing release date yadda yadda..."

What if it is... but it's announced by this guy?

Dashel · 10-08-2007, 12:43 PM

What if they open it back up and we find out the only playable races are halflings???

Term · 10-08-2007, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Dashel

I'm trying to spin this in my head to be a good thing, like maybe it's to keep some gameplay elements top sekrit! But overall not sure how this could be good.

Don't bother. Hope is the first sign to the road of disappointment.