Beta dates announced!!

[Freebird]

Closed beta will begin on February 22, a week from today. Emails will be sent out to beta accepted players about mid-next week. They are only starting with 50, but then will slowly build. There is an open beta that will have up to 10,000 players. There will be a second sign-up for open beta. If you missed the first time, there will be another opportunity. Will post when that happens.

Lots of info from last nights shoutcast. Read through a synopsis here.

http://www.planetside-universe.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=2503

[Stang]

I got the beta already cuz Im well you know ME :).

[Spinning Hat]

OMG Stang is here!!!!!

[jonnyb]

share the beta foooooooooooooooooooooo!

[DaRB]

no, dont do that, that'd be stoopid

[Walks on Clouds]

Share some spoilers with us, though. :P

[Freebird]

Erm....seeing them beta emails haven't been sent out, they start about 2 weeks from now, methinks Stang is pulling all of your legs.

[Ghryphen]

:haha:

[Walks on Clouds]

:stupid2:

[Stang]

Me pull a leg, neva :).

I have connections :D.

[Spinning Hat]

She likes to pull the third leg, to make you forget she's robbing you blind. :lol:

[Freebird]

Wow.....where do I sign up? :silly:

[skoog]

we should be hearing something soon..... right...


maybe one of us got it atleast so they can post some screenies.

[Freebird]

The first 50 are expected to hear this week sometime. Then they slowly add more and more people. The open beta will have up to 10,000 people (from what I've read) so the chances of some of us playing in some form of beta are good.

[Spinning Hat]

yeah. But do we know if we applied in november, if we have to re-apply for Open Beta?

[Walks on Clouds]

I'd re-apply, if I were you. Wouldn't want to miss it, eh?

[Freebird]

Good question. I'll see if I can find out.

[Walks on Clouds]

Whether you'd want to miss the public beta? ... I don't get it, you ought to know that, right? Who were you going to ask, anyway? :p :p

[PsychomanX]

God I wish they would just do it already.. I am so tired of wondering if I am not suck enough to be beta.. LOL

[Freebird]

It's not a public beta, per se. It's just that it will be a stress test and they want up to about 10,000 testers.

If I post on the PS forums, I usually get a well informed answer...not every time, but a good number of times.

[PsychomanX]

argh they sent the official first 50 emails from corporate last night which was said by smokejumper himself. So if you did not get the email today your not in the first 50.. They said they will be adding more and more each week.. Then the will load test.. Smokejumper said the number 20,000 so I am sure we will get in then.

[Splidz]

Is the signup for the second chance at beta up yet? Where is it?

[Splidz]

P.S. I'm gonna lie about my system specs and say what they'll be in a couple of weeks instead. And maybe add some exotic components or a wacky OS config, just so that they can use me as a guinea pig for other poor souls with weird configs.

[Freebird]

I didn't make first round. :(

[Blackfire]

Originally posted by Splidz
P.S. I'm gonna lie about my system specs and say what they'll be in a couple of weeks instead. And maybe add some exotic components or a wacky OS config, just so that they can use me as a guinea pig for other poor souls with weird configs.

Hmmm... let's see... you have a Cray T500. Yeah. And you're running Dr. DOS on it as the OS. And you have a TNT RIVA graphics card - which isn't compatible with the cray architecture, but you got in there with some jumpers and a soldering iron and tricked the system into thinking one of the pipes was an AGP bus.

Try that one.

[Splidz]

^^^ Bua ha ha ha ha.

"Hi, I represent the thousands of hard-core gamers out there that now use cutting-edge military supercomputers for hi-speed graphics performance. This is an ever-growing market segment and frankly, if your game doesn't run well on my modified Cray, I think you'll lose a lot of customers."

[Spinning Hat]

They ask for dxdiag.txt file to see your sys config.

[Blackfire]

True. And you KNOW how hard it is to fake or alter those .txt files. ;)

[Spinning Hat]

:lol: I know, I kow... XMEN Iceman made the Beta. w00t!

[Freebird]

Wow! Did that just happen today?

[Splidz]

Originally posted by Spinning Hat
:lol: I know, I kow... XMEN Iceman made the Beta. w00t!

NICE! Get him in here and on the private forum! We want screenshots, NDA be damned! We can be trusted not to spread them, he'll never get caught. And he can black out all the parts that might possibly identify who he is, just in case...

[DaRB]

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[Walks on Clouds]

Cool. Congratulations to Iceman, then.

[Spinning Hat]

I'll see if he'll come on over and do that for us.

[XMEN Iceman]

Howdy, Sorry but due to timing I missed the first session for testing. The next is tomorrow afternoon.

We shall see what it is like. :)

[SmackDab]

I know about NDA and all that but I think a lot of us have a high hope for the game, please let us know if we are wasting our time here so we can get back to ownage on Tribes1 if that's the case.

[Spinning Hat]

Ice, I'll get you access in a minute...