72 replies to this topic

[Mason Grimm]

You guys DO realize that "Summer 2012" can mean any time up to September 22 right? I'm just sayin!

Beta could, if needed, be a looooong process

[Solarflux]

I do hope to make it into the closed beta. Would be awesome!

[Chuckie]

Adridos, on 19 April 2012 - 10:22 AM, said:

Technically speaking, it is closed beta, just with pre-defined people, times and places where you play.

No technically its post Alpha, but Pre-Beta..

Mason Grimm, on 20 April 2012 - 04:40 AM, said:

You guys DO realize that "Summer 2012" can mean any time up to September 22 right? I'm just sayin!

Beta could, if needed, be a looooong process

Crossing my fingers for big announcement on the Closed Beta the 25th.. Which would give them a few months of closed Beta.. and if Memory of my other Closed Beta experiences went.. they will have closed Beta testers play at set schedules.. (2-3 times a week) take input and slowly open the playing as the game smooths out.

I would expect Open Beta is when the servers will go live 24/7 barring maintenance shutdowns. Again if my previous experiences are any indication, they happens in 2-3 months after Closed Beta. So May looks like the PERFECT Month for a more inclusive Closed Beta to get started.

Just curious how inclusive or exclusive it will be, what the NDA says, etc.. Because I can see the board going real quite in a few weeks between the start of the closed Beta and the Open one

Edited by Chuckie, 20 April 2012 - 05:22 AM.

[Rejarial Galatan]

LordDeathStrike, on 19 April 2012 - 08:38 PM, said:

summer 2012, thats like june 1st right, first day of summer cause summer is june july and august in north america.

thats right folks, they have given us the open beta date, 6-1-12

or does summer start in may, i forget.

Summer: http://www.almanac.c...summer-solstice
Hate to say it, but we are waiting till ATLEAST near the end of june if they <pgi> goes by this

[trycksh0t]

Short answer: Later.

[lavar]

I can't wait for the open Beta, I went out when right after I registered last year and bought a new pc, so I could get the most out of the MW experience. It is about time someone took this on and I for one can wait to see what the outcome is. The teasers and trailers have me drooling.

[Nick Makiaveli]

Adridos, on 19 April 2012 - 10:22 AM, said:

Technically speaking, it is closed beta, just with pre-defined people, times and places where you play.

Semantics. It is a type of closed beta, but it is not what people generally refer to as "closed beta". This kind of nonsense doesn't serve any useful purpose. It only feeds the trolls.

[Thunga]

i would rather have a longer beta, to make a more finished/polished product. I have been in several games that should have waited to be released to clear out some bugs. I just heard about this game and hope that it gets to the devlopment and press that it needs.

[Atlai]

It comes out December 20th.....so we only get to play one day

Edited by Mason West, 06 May 2012 - 07:20 AM.

[bebop1200]

Kind of new here...Just finding out about all of this when is this all suppose to jump off
Have all the mech games surprised that its comming back really excited to hear this.


URG FOREVER..if anyone remembers that clan..

[Kargush]

Mason Grimm, on 20 April 2012 - 04:40 AM, said:

You guys DO realize that "Summer 2012" can mean any time up to September 22 right? I'm just sayin!

Beta could, if needed, be a looooong process

I wish you'd run with Norwegian Summer for that. It'd be last half of June, all of July, and the first 3 weeks of August.

Then it'd be winter.

[Long Draw]

If it's an Indian Summer, that could go into October, maybe November lol!

[ENDMYSUFFERING]

Helmer, on 19 April 2012 - 12:05 PM, said:

Summer started 2 months ago? Where are you? I believe they meant Summer 2012 for North America

Summer 2012 officially starts June 20th
Summer 2012 officially ends September 22nd


Cheers.

Maybe he lives in Texas like me. We have Summer, Summer, Summer, football, and Christmas.

[Orzorn]

Every time someone mentions open beta, they push it forward a year.

They just pushed it forward another year...

[Handy]

Mason West, on 06 May 2012 - 07:19 AM, said:

It comes out December 20th.....so we only get to play one day

Miyans were wrong bout the world ending. They didn;t count on leap days. So the world should have ended 500 years ago.

Flametrace, on 06 May 2012 - 09:27 AM, said:

Maybe he lives in Texas like me. We have Summer, Summer, Summer, football, and Christmas.

Or he could live where i am, and it be like winter(cold), winter (cold), winter(cold),summer. As soon as it starts getting warm here, we consider it summer.. Our spring isnt really a spring, its more of a lighter winter =) Wyoming and its dam pmsing weather =)

[Insidious Johnson]

can't be much more than 3 mechs and a bay away.

[Helmer]

Handy, on 06 May 2012 - 01:08 PM, said:

Miyans were wrong bout the world ending. They didn;t count on leap days. So the world should have ended 500 years ago.

Too soon?

Cheers

[Deathz Jester]

Atleast this game wont end up like Starcraft Ghost

[Kargush]

Handy, on 06 May 2012 - 01:08 PM, said:

Miyans were wrong bout the world ending. They didn;t count on leap days. So the world should have ended 500 years ago.

Actually, they sort of did. Or rather, their calendar doesn't actually account for it, but when you compare dates there is a system to find which date in the Mayan calendar coincides with what date in the Julian calendar.

It's still all BS about the end of the world, but that "they were wrong cuz leap year" meme needs to die. Incidentally, the Mayan calendar doesn't "end" it simply moves into the next cycle, just like ours goes from 31st December 2011 to 1st January 2012.

EDIT: The last time the Mayan calendar went over from one cycle to the next was in 1618, IIRC. And guess what: the world is still here.

Edited by kargush, 06 May 2012 - 05:32 PM.

[Volthorne]

Definitions of different stages of "Beta":

Friends & Family: Every near and dear to the Devs gets to play to their hearts content. Everyone else is stuck outside looking in through 3 panes of frosted glass. Lots and lots of bug squishing and testing is done.

Closed Beta: A decent sample of people who have registered are selected to participate in a pre-release version of the full thing. Bugs are fixed, more rigorous testing of systems and balance. The lucky ones get to play all they want (typically). New content is usually not added, because the existing content is being polished to perfection.

Open Beta: Everyone who has registered (or is going to) will be allowed to play the full release. Since F2P games are never "complete", there is no proper final version; New content is added at regular intervals.