Beta access? (

*** Actually, a lot of you are getting invites starting Monday. Just that new bugs are found with every new build, and there's still a ton of features missing. I also want to have the chance/time to be online with you guys to guide you on how to play etc, since there is no tutorial right now. ***

** 0B1 is the only person outside of the DEV team that has access, mostly to test steam integration.

** A lot of you on this forum will get invites on Monday, then in about 2 weeks anyone who signed up for the beta will get an invite as well.

** Trying to clear out most of the game-breaking bugs right now -- For example, on the latest build, there's a new feature I needed where it shows the charge of your beam weapon systems in a graded way -- but somehow it broke the force field GUI, where the larger ships you couldn't charge the portside force fields. There's actually over 200 bugs I've been reporting, and the team is working on. Since there are only two programmers (this is a 5 person team after all) its taking a lot of time just clearing out bugs.

** On this internal beta, all class III variants/starter ships are unlocked and free to use, and the higher tier variants need to be 'unlocked'. But with every account, you'll be given 1000 credits to unlock ships etc, so mostly to test and make sure all these unlocks work properly.

** Since its an internal beta, it won't show up on steam -- you go to the '+ add a game' button at the bottom of your steam account, and you'd be putting in a special code I'll be sending you. That will install the game and let you start a Spacewars account as sol/genari.

 

I'm also wrapping up on the small map that will be used for playtesting, even this small galaxy map has taken me xxxxxx hours to finish, with over 100 region/combat maps to make.