Pre-Alpha Test requests

Slapshot1188

@Raph Has seen fit to grant me access to his playtests.  They will run tonight and Saturday.   It's Halloween so not 100% sure I will be on tonight but I will do my best.

We are allowed to post screenshots and give verbal descriptions so....

If folks have specific requests for me to test or screenshot please post below and I will be happy to try and get it done for you.

Elidien_ga

The gods of All Hallow's Eve have seen fit to bless me as well and I am excited to be a tester. I have tested MMO's back to SWG so I am excited to be involved with one again. I too am happy to answer questions via my personal experience but for me, and having kids, most likely it will not be tonight.

Slapshot1188

So far so good.  The music kind of made me think of The Last Starfighter which is a really good thing!  No it's not the same, but it's what jumped into my head once it loaded up.  Now I just have to wait 5 hours to play it...

MaxBacon

Slapshot1188 said:

@Raph Has seen fit to grant me access to his playtests.  

Ralph is a meanie, been trying to get access for a while.

Slapshot1188

MaxBacon said:

Slapshot1188 said:

@Raph Has seen fit to grant me access to his playtests.  

Ralph is a meanie, been trying to get access for a while.

Maybe it's because you keep calling him Ralph?

Slapshot1188

Current extent of character creation  ( hey at least there are a few races!):

Slapshot1188

Some shots showing fully zoomed in and fully zoomed out from the same point.  Seems like a significant variance:

Slapshot1188

Someone set some trees on fire:

Slapshot1188

The Inventory screen.  And a Crafting Station (It didn't do anything for me but maybe I need to level a skill to use it).

Slapshot1188

Fooling around with my "Ranger Tool" I set a tree on fire.

Then it looks like some unexpected PvP as I could set environment on fire which then set players on fire.  The person in the second photo is trying to replicate it but seems to be targeting a player directly and it's not working...

Slapshot1188

Help Screens including an explanation of the Skill page

Slapshot1188

So now more people have picked up on the "indirect PvP" I started.  Others are now trying to burn each other to death.  Emergent Gameplay!



Servers being rebooted now.  They say it should only take 3 minutes. 

Yes, we had a bunch of lag.

Terazon

My time in the playtest told me they are on to something here for a certain kind of player, not sure I am that kind of player tbh.
 It has a long way to go for sure

MaxBacon

I'm more into the simulation type approach they are going with, world more dynamic, similar to everquest next pitch which was dedkill by evil Daybreak.

Slapshot1188 said:

MaxBacon said:

Slapshot1188 said:

@Raph Has seen fit to grant me access to his playtests.  

Ralph is a meanie, been trying to get access for a while.

Maybe it's because you keep calling him Ralph?

Names are HARD

Slapshot1188

I just found out you can be IronMan and fly around a bit.  Now I am obsessed.

Slapshot1188

MaxBacon said:

I'm more into the simulation type approach they are going with, world more dynamic, similar to everquest next pitch which was dedkill by evil Daybreak.

You can use the tools to burn trees, freeze terrain... had to use it to freeze lava so we could get to a POI.   They turned of the ability to modify terrain beyond that for this test but I think it will be in Saturday.

Tiller

No desert terrain?

Slapshot1188

Tiller said:

No desert terrain?

I logged off.  Did not see Desert.  I saw forest, mountains, icy, lava, water... maybe there was desert but I didn't see it.

I'll try and verify next time unless @Raph Pops in

Raph

Not on this planet. It's a test map, it doesn't have every sort of biome on it.

Elidien_ga

I had fun and I got to experience some of that emergent PVP as I died on login. Someone cooked me like the goose at Grandma's on Christmas.

I enjoyed doing my iron man thing too and Seeing the biomes. Loved the ice/snow!

I wonder if I can freeze the lava. I will have to try this next time. Also, I kept putting out trees that were on fire by freezing them. Sorry folks, too much Smokey the Bear in me growing up.

Slapshot1188

Elidien_ga said:

I had fun and I got to experience some of that emergent PVP as I died on login. Someone cooked me like the goose at Grandma's on Christmas.

I enjoyed doing my iron man thing too and Seeing the biomes. Loved the ice/snow!

I wonder if I can freeze the lava. I will have to try this next time. Also, I kept putting out trees that were on fire by freezing them. Sorry folks, too much Smokey the Bear in me growing up.

Yes you can freeze the lava Elidien.  It's how you can get some of the discovery nodes. And yes it was me burning you until I saw your name

Elidien_ga

No worries, it saved me the trouble of testing the tools on others since I already knew that it would cook someone.

I did the Ironman thing with the lava to get the nodes. Now I feel stupid.

Slapshot1188

Elidien_ga said:

No worries, it saved me the trouble of testing the tools on others since I already knew that it would cook someone.

Yeah I didn't do it too long so as not to annoy people.  More of just a few minutes to show what can happen when players have tools and then to see if it would in fact work under a respawner... LOL

Raph

Slapshot1188 said:

So now more people have picked up on the "indirect PvP" I started.  Others are now trying to burn each other to death.  Emergent Gameplay!

We did warn all the early testers that we have not put in any of the mechanisms for PvP protection for environmental stuff yet.

Scot

It's like players want to PvP or something.

Elidien_ga

Scot said:

It's like players want to PvP or something.

Nah @Slapshot1188 just wanted to cook me. Probably some leftover forum disagreement. Funny part is as I spawned in, all I see is light and then I realize I am on fire. I see someone extending a beam of fire at me and I was wondering if A - this is normal and expected; B - its a bug; c - something is killing me and they are trying to help me; d - they are killing me. Once I died and respawned I ran away. I give the hilarity and confusion a 9/10.