ESF Open Beta? I Believe So!

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As of the last week's meeting, Sunday December 24th, it has been decided that ESF will be OPEN BETA. So what does this mean? A snapshot of the current inteam will be made available publicly, on a bi-weekly basis. That is right, an exact copy of what is being tested inteam will be available to you. This does come with a down side, however. Here is what harSens has to say about the open beta:

"It might be unbalanced, buggy and contains some console commands to make testing easier, that could be considered hacks. If you want to play competitively at a stable server, this might not be the release for you. However, if you would like to take a look in our kitchen, you might want to check this out."

When we say a snapshot will be available, it will be just that. No extra effort will be made to ensure things are complete or stable. The release will contain what ever new stuff has been added on that day of the release. Currently, we are looking into a couple different distribution methods. Once that is sorted out we will begin the open beta! More information will be available later on.

Oh yes, and Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year indeed!
 

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Horay. This is what I suggested atleast a year ago after seeing it work so well with the mod Battlegrounds. Cucumba shot it down as it would use up too much bandwidth though. Anyway, this is by far the best news to come out of ESF in years.

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Wtf.

Stroke of genius.

<3 ESF Team.
 
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OMFG that's freaking amazing LoL
 
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Well, this idea's been on the table for quite some time actually. (read: months)
 
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The team finally got tired of the beta testers' dull personalities =P.
 

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How will you guys handle the bandwidth issues? Will you be hosting it purely on third party sites or what?
 
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so if we find some huge bug's can we report it ?
 

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Oooo... awesomeness!

:p finally a reason to install steam and HL again.
 
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heh heh, this is going to be interesting.

A great and thoughtful gift from the team. I due hope this was entirely your decision and not because you felt pressured by parts of the community who were becoming impatient.

But y'all gotta be on the look out for the following symptoms

1)Multiple "OMG this *insert feature* KICKS ASS :D :D!!!" Threads
2)A storm of "How do I do *insert feature, which will probably be nonexistent*??" threads
3)A couple of "wtf esf 1.3 sucks" threads
4)And of course the "Hurry up and release another beta :)" threads

Godspeed =D
 
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Sub said:
How will you guys handle the bandwidth issues? Will you be hosting it purely on third party sites or what?
We're looking at either Bittorrent or Vapour
 
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Happy new year everyone. (I'd better start putting stuff in the inteam now :x)
 
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Happy new Year Evryone :D
 
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Chakra-X said:
heh heh, this is going to be interesting.

A great and thoughtful gift from the team. I due hope this was entirely your decision and not because you felt pressured by parts of the community who were becoming impatient.

But y'all gotta be on the look out for the following symptoms

1)Multiple "OMG this *insert feature* KICKS ASS :D :D!!!" Threads
2)A storm of "How do I do *insert feature, which will probably be nonexistent*??" threads
3)A couple of "wtf esf 1.3 sucks" threads
4)And of course the "Hurry up and release another beta :)" threads

Godspeed =D
That's why the mod staff exists ;P

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We're looking at either Bittorrent or Vapour
Personally, I think BT might be easier.
 
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So, let me ask this: Will we as a community be able to offer our thoughts and ideas into the game?

And of course: This is by far the best gift you've ever given us :)

Let's have a
 
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You always have been. Allthough now you'll have all the information you need. Hopefully this will cause a lot less useless suggestions :p
 
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Open beta means just that, you will all be involved in the testing progress. This was in the pipe before Kurt went emohack too, what his actions did was basically turn the last of the hold outs against it for it.

You'll be able to fix bugs, complain about the game's progress, and get to voice your opinions before the final 1.3 build.

Suggestions will be handled as they are handled now, if they're good they'll be included in the final deal.
 

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