Alpha/Beta OS?

Hello,

This is maybe not really important for the release people, but for the >-20$-not-windows backers. Will you bring out the alpha/beta for OSX and Linux too?

I mean, in the worst case I will use bootcamp, but maybe interesting for some backers.

yours Yourtime

I don't see why they wouldn't. :lol:

They probably can but they might be buggier than the Windows versions.

As an OSX developer, I'd be happy to hunt for engine and game bugs on Alpha/Beta releases.

well who not ^^.

I have the feeling TA had a bigger developer fanbase than many other games.

I'd be very very impressed if they managed a simultaneous platform release/development.

The engine is built multi-platform from the ground up. Currently already runs on mac/linux/windows.

The exact timing of alpha/beta released is TBD and we may stagger them a bit and/or concentrade on particular platforms at particular times.

Hah, great.

As long as I get my OSX fix in the end I'm fine either way.

There was a time when I'd grudgingly reboot to windows to play a game or two, but lately I find myself just not bothering with a game if it's windows only. In fact I don't bother with games unless they run on windows, mac AND linux anymore - even though I jumped ship from linux to mac over six years ago.

As you can imagine I'm not going broke on games any time soon. Thanks for letting me finally spend a little, Uber!

Just make sure to give us a notice that the alpha will start at date X, as soon as you know X, and try to hold that. I would rather have the alpha a week later than have the startdate jump around.
I need to have vacation for this, so I need to make sure I am not too involved in projects@work at that time.

thank you!

On the topic of running Bootcamp, I've occasionally had issues running games on my mac under Bootcamp. I have more than enough specs for running this (good computer, 64-bit windows 7, etc.), but was wondering if this game will run without any issues. I am, of course capable of running this on the OSX side, but I like to keep all my games on the Windows side of my computer. Since I'll be in the Alpha and onward, I plan on testing how well things go with Boootcamp, because I don't know how many others in the Alpha/Beta will be running under Bootcamp especially since there will be an OSX version. I expect that there won't be any issues, there rarely are, but thought I'd ask anyway.

I think you will probably be the very first person, including the guys at Uber, to test PA under boot camp. So I guess you will get to find out the fun way.