I've been anxiously waiting =) I saw a post about alpha a month ago and it did say something about beta a month later...So? =) Are we there yet? Are we there yet? ... I would have upgraded to alpha but I've been swamped with work so figured I would not get the benefit from it and now I'd hate to upgrade for a day or something. Though you deserve extra money, it's a little bit tight right now and I can wait, but an update with any guestimated time frame for beta would thrill me. Thanks!
Oh, ok. I just saw this blog post: http://www.uberent.com/pa/2013/07/25/planetary-annihilation-alpha-two-thirds-through/ ... saying there was about a month left which would mean yesterday or today or something. Is there like a milestone timeline or anything like that somewhere handy? I guess it doesn't matter, but that post got my hopes up =(
Nope, closest we got to a date is September, otherwise all we know is that the Beta will start sometime After Alph and Before Release. Mike
Uber will likely begin beta once they have interplanetary, orbital and fully working models in for the basic unitset. During beta they will likely be working on the pile of Commanders they have to do, unit interaction and balance, and stretch-goal stuff, like Galactic War, Gas Giants and the documentary. So once the Alpha guys start clamoring about "INTERPLANETARY SO KEWL SO FUN SO FRESH" you'll be getting to play soon.
Cool thanks guys... Hmmm, now debating upgrading again. But I know I'll likely only get in like a few hours of playing if that with my schedule.
in the best case for beta players it will start on 1st September and in the worst case on 30th ^^ I hope its sometime in the first week of Sept. On the other hand, I think they want to get interplanetary gameplay in before they launch beta.
I searched quite a bit for a post about multiple commanders to no avail. I see they talked about 4 commander skeletons in earlier streams but that's all. I gather by using the phrase skeleton these can be tricked out in certain ways similar to the planet biomes and settings. Is this what you mean by pile of commanders? Or am I missing something?
Well on top of the 1K and above Commanders, part of what we've been told is that they want to provide a lot of commanders to help offset the fact that we will all be using the same unit pool but so far all we've seen aside from the Alpha, Progenitor, Delta and Theta is one clip in a clip track that had some commander concepts, thinking back to it, I don't think any of them will fit with the bipedal rig they have now. The original idea is that the rigs would help streamline the commander creation process but I do have some concerns about the rigidity of the Rigs, check the Alpha commander Sticky in the Backer's Lounge to learn more about that. Mike
