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WildStar: Next Bonus Beta Weekend Announced
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
The WildStar team has announced another surprise beta event for the upcoming weekend. If you've got a beta key, you'll be able to log into the game from Friday, April 25th throughout the weekend.
With the level cap extension to 25 comes new features to look forward to:
New Adventure – Northern Wilds Adventure is a MOBA style group content experience for you and four of your buddies. Take over the whole map and destroy the enemy base to win, but watch out for the defending faction… they’ll viciously fight to win so come prepared to kick ass.
Whitevale – The Dominion version of Alcatraz, Invading Alien scientists (…that dissect anything that moves), and a sunken ship filled with treasure hungry Marauders are waiting for your arrival. Oh… and a nuclear teraformer explosion has unleashed brain controlling squid on the Exile and Dominion military forces. No big deal.
Hoverboards – Like hoverboarding? Duh. Of course you do. Get your hoverboard at a mount vendor in the capital city!
Abilities and AMPs – Get new abilities to put in your Limited Action Set so you can continue to customize the way you destroy baddies, and unlock more perks in our AMP system.
Unlock more clues to the history of the Eldan – Where did this hyper-advanced race go? What kind of technology and secrets are out there? Where can you get a solid space fish taco on Nexus? Get out there and find out, Spanky.
Source: Wildstarfans.net
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Felt the same thing this weekend, it needs more optimization but they've proven to be very effective in tackling issues even in the middle of a BETA weekend. 1 month for launch makes us wonder a bit if they ll iron everything out by then but at least they've already proven the community what a great team they are.
I never praise developers since so far every MMO dev has been highly disappointing but Carbine is starting to prove themselves as a really good MMO dev team. Even if the launch is rough, I say they pretty much got this.
And the game is so freaking entertaining, can't wait to play a proper MMO again.
Agree with you crusade.
But that is why they are expanding weekend betas, im sure they see whats goin on with ESO, and will try to avoid as much of that as possible.
but at any launch ive learned there will always be some sort of chaos control. I will admit.
Anet did an amazing job at their launch.
@Crusades: I am pretty sure that you are right as at this point in time there is no publisher of proper size that cares one iota about a game being ready or not. We (the consumer) have proved time over time that we are willing to give the game several years to get on it´s feet before the situation becomes dire.
This must be very frustrating for the developers as that most likley cut in to the time before dead-line. But as long as there is no change in the trend there is no point for publisher and financers to extend development time and pour money in without return. Better to release and patch (or in the case of EA most time... Release and bugger all)
So i think we wimply will have to get used to this kind of thing. No point in expecting anything else... Not saying we whould accept this but to expect otherwise from the outset is kind of naive.
This have been a good conversation
With all the betas I've been in, I know I want to play the game, but I don't really want to lose all that I've done so far in a server wipe. I know betas are for working out the issues but as testers I think we deserve to keep our characters or get something for the time we spent in-game.
At least I'm off this Friday to get my AC replaced. It's more time to play.
I've enjoyed the betas so far to the extent I don't want to play knowing it's all going bye-bye and I don't want to ruin the experience of playing the game "for real". With that being said, I expect and support full wipes before launch with any game. The entire purpose of beta isn't to level up a character and keep it, it's to de-bug the game and spot network issues/server load issues.
I'll continue to play the betas but just use the classes/paths I don't really want to play just so the team has one more person playing so they can nail down any/all bugs they're encountering to make a better launch day.
Unless this bonus weekend has the new stat update then there's really no reason to have it.
Or maybe they fixed the new UI and want to test that.
US Server Beta Key
C667-5G2E-CLQD-JDAA-LCZQ
Europe Server Beta Key
RHXE-7UEP-MFLC-CTMM-SVYN
I too won't be in game again until the headstart since I want my progress to count at this point. I will definitely have an army of Chua standing by
Enjoy!
Let me post my keys here as well. IMO this game sucks badly whilst I had high hopes for it...
I grabbed the US key. Thanks alot!