Kickstarter Update #49. Anyone Else Got This Email?

Anyone else got this email? Is this a big thing?

I heard it was a hoax propagated by KS in order to screw with the 11th Project to break the 1 Million Dollar Backer mark for no reason other than 'the lolz'. </sarcasm>

It s a thing, from Uber via KS, how is it NOT a thing?

You mean this one?

Oh. Well first, I thought you were serious at first. It sounded like farfetchedly big news, and I heard it nowhere else yet.

Why isn't this big news posted by a dev on these forums? Dev posts on these forums are usually big news, emails get skipped over easily if your anything like me.

Oh sweet salty Christ please tell me that I just barely posted ahead of him. If he posted that ahead of me, and I didn't see it, I swear i'm going to be so...

I think I may have ninja'd you

What's the big news exactly? They're letting retail-tier backers in a bit early, sure, but other than that it's basically stuff we know - They've been working hard optimizing, they can't wait to show us new units, unit cannon and warp gate are coming (well that's pretty cool). We've known that new units were coming, the only big news in the email is that new players are coming. No new patch or anything yet...

Well.....He says units are coming soon.
And he says that in a week or so, they will start handing out keys to retail backers.

im betting a patch to come down in 5-6 days involving some major stuff.

Just a hunch

and then some instability. Major stuff equals instability until stability is brought back. way the cookie crumbles.

....Unfortunately

Then the most likely spend a week of constant builds to fix the instability. Creating the idea for new players there should be a build every day. Which they'll be sadly mistaken and then their expectations would be brought back to reality because builds only come out when they're ready.

Happened to FireFall already. Been there, got the tshirt

Big News is that anyone is about to play Beta. For anyone playing since alpha this might not be the expected big news. For anyone waiting for playing the game, it's a big news. More than anything else, we have Uber communicating with us and stating they'll be able to deliver what has been promised. Just as a reminder, they are working on far more advanced builds than the current one we have. So to me, this news means, "guys, do not worry, your concerns are being worked on and it will come soon". To me it's a big news.

I think this is more like a stress test (i think) see if the backend can coop with all the players.
And there not playing on advanced builds then us, it's been stated by garat multiple times.

Honestly I feel like this could be Uber shooting themselves in the foot more than anything. We already have enough talk about doom and gloom based on the current state of the Beta, and letting if the 44,000+ people into the Beta isn't really helping in that regard.

Best of intentions maybe, but it could do more harm than good.

Mike

Its giant news. It keeps face with supporters. It prepares for the event of missed deadline for release and extended test. It hints at large pass of nearly finished things all coming it at once, i might be wrong but possibly doubling the ingame units. Lastly, i don't think there will be as many bugs this time as they have mechanics in the game and most new stuff will be things built on an existing functioning units template.

Altho it hasn't been said, that they will not release in december, i think you're right. I think everybody will be so happy they can all play, and then tell us all they will postpone release, which is perfectly acceptable better late then never ^^ no one will care that much anyway since they can all play.

Maybe this is the admission they'll miss the December release. I personally have no qualms about this, and now nobody else should either unless for some reason they've booked off 2 weeks late December especially to play PA gold. I hope they don't just say "we're gold" when really they aren't because they now have the excuse that anybody can buy in at retail price for instant access. I'd hate to see them thrown in with the SotS2 / X Rebirth crowd (even though that would be an unreasonable comparison, nothing is more scary than an entitled gamer scorned).

I've just got access and so far I'm amazed with the game. It's a Beta, but it looks amazing and stuff is exploding where it should be exploding, and the AI beat me and this other guy. The interface is nice too!

The interface is a temp stand-in for the good one coming
So if you like this simplistic style UI (i do) then the one they'll be releasing to us "soon" should blow our minds.