Posts made by Specter

@ryatsuga The NDA prohibits such thing.

@wolfkomodo46 The pre-alpha forum is open to the testers, that's why.

@jetah Even if you manage to find the download, your account won't be able to log in.

@nozy Only those who were invited will be able to download the client.

@successfulgeek I can see you just fine, but your hero profile username isn't the same as your account/forum username. Maybe that's the problem.

@suruq We handpicked the participants from among the most active members of the community. It's very unlikely they won't show up.

@gaiactic The servers will be wiped at the end of each time-limited testing phase and before the release.

@willdragon For banners, put this in your sig:


@lucigano If you win a weekly drawing, you might get selected for the pre-alpha. We're handpicking participants among the weekly drawing winners though, so you would have to be really involved at this point to have a chance.

and also, when is next alpha phase? & how will they had those keys out?

After the pre-alpha, we'll continue with alpha 1 and beyond. Access to those testing phases can be bought by backing Fractured.

@eurav A point chart beyond 21 indeed wouldn't make sense.

@logain I assume the devs will keep that in mind. One of the things that will be tested is performance, and in order to get a good view on that the devs are going to need testers from all over the world.

@frost No, we encourage everyone to not disclose they were invited. We won't kick participants from the pre-alpha for mentioning they were invited, but it can make life more difficult for those who do when people start begging participants for juicy secrets.

@EvolGrinZ All invites for wave 1 have been sent.

@Logain Probably a mix of both. I think it will depend a lot on the test results. The servers will obviously be down when a new build gets pushed, and maybe when the devs are out of office. It's hard to say, Prometheus can give a better answer.

@eurav There are some ways to get attribute points beyond the ones set on character creation, for example from talents. However, the stats on gear in Fractured are different from those in for example WoW. You won't find a +20 strength/+15 constitution bodyplate or anything like that in Fractured.

Alright, you can start spamming F5 now. Do keep in mind the first wave is very small so don't be worried if you don't get an invite.

@j4po Nope, only the pre-alpha is.

Just a quick update, progress towards the pre-alpha is going well but there are just a few more bugs that need to be fixed before the devs believe the build is ready for the pre-alpha.

@lightspoon They will determine whether localised servers are needed during the alpha/beta, not after release.

@lightspoon There are no plans for RP specific servers or anything like that.

@gofrit

Don't know if they have planned to test multi-localization server on alpha/beta, but better to concentrate on one at first.. @Prometheus says ping is not a problem from Italy to NA...

The devs will start with one server at first. If players from certain regions are having latency issues, they will consider opening more servers.

The PvP, Alignment & Crime spotlight contains info about friendly fire.

If you flag yourself as Good, you are not allowed to perform hostile actions against any other Good or Neutral player. There are several ways this restriction is applied – some common cases being:

You can’t use basic attacks and targeted spells against Good or Neutral players.

Your AOE abilities cause no damage or negative side effects to Good or Neutral players.

@tulukaruk

some are worried that it already started without them.

That will no doubt happen considering how small the first wave is going to be. Will we give an announcement when it starts? Probably, considering the fact we can't keep it a secret anyway due to the public post/thread counter on the pre-alpha subforum.

With that said, I strongly urge everyone to tone down their expectations because quite frankly a lot of people here are making it sound like the pre-alpha is going to be a demo with lots of content to play. in reality the pre-alpha is mainly aimed at testing things like performance, not features. It's the alpha test for alpha 1.