I put together a development roadmap infographic to help explain what will be happening, in what order, in which client, and who gets access.
Edited: Ok, I see what you meant about the features. I misread that.
This seems well-intended, and a helpful kind of thing, but IMO, something that should be deployed by SBS, not the community, even if they make us wait a little longer. Creating expectations out of well-intended error may still be messier than it is helpful, in the end.
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The infographic is simply the current publicly-available information gathered and presented in a visual format. That's all.
Yeah, I edited my post to reflect my misread. Apologies. I agree it's a useful infographic to have. I just want something from SBS, and at this point, I think we've mined our assumptions about what they've said previously to death.
Hopefully Caspian's State of Elyira next month will put things into better perspective for all.
One interesting question might be; if prelyria's intent is to rapidly iterate on features, and then to achieve feature-complete gameplay, why would there need to be a ramp-up to feature complete in the alphas and betas? All that needs to be put in place between the two clients is the updated graphics and textures, which I wouldn't think would introduce any sort of bugs.
I think Prelyria also uses simplified animation rigs, so there's a chance for bugs to creep in there.
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Prelyria is 0.5.0. Alpha1 is 1.0.0. After Prelyria, and before Alpha1, is 0.6.0, 0.7.0, 0.8.0, and 0.9.0. That's why there is a ramp up.
However, I think Prelyria will continue through Alpha2? I think it ends when KoE ends. They will function in conjunction with each other.
u guys forget that alpha and beta access is a product....
also: expo isn t during beta 1 and beta 2 ?
Posted By Tyrgrim at 04:42 AM - Fri Nov 22 2019
also: expo isn t during beta 1 and beta 2 ?
Nope. Never has been. It's the last phase before launch where we get to set the stage.
Posted By Tyrgrim at 02:42 AM - Fri Nov 22 2019
u guys forget that alpha and beta access is a product....
also: expo isn t during beta 1 and beta 2 ?
I don't think of alpha and beta access as products. Any player achievements made during them will be wiped before Exposition.
