EB2 RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED: August 2014

[Ludens]

I struggle with that terminology.

That's good news. For the record, though, the "terminology" comes directly from the twitter message.

[Kull]

That's good news. For the record, though, the "terminology" comes directly from the twitter message.

Quite true, and we'll almost certainly call the first release a beta. I just wanted to go on record with my thoughts on this because when most people hear the word "beta", they expect a buggy, unstable product. That won't be the case here, although it will be obviously incomplete in several areas.

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

Damn. There goes my summer holiday.

<£600 holiday money diverted to new PC>

[Dwarf]

i am so happy right now :D:D:D

[Cybvep]

@Kull Wow. Here I thought that EB1 was impressive enough, and now you give us this. It seems that EB2 will be even more awesome than EB1 AND there will be fewer problems with CTDs even in the mod's early open beta stage. Great news.

[Kull]

@Kull Wow. Here I thought that EB1 was impressive enough, and now you give us this. It seems that EB2 will be even more awesome than EB1 AND there will be fewer problems with CTDs even in the mod's early open beta stage. Great news.

INCOMPLETE. That is the key word you folks have to remember. EB1 has all the bases covered and EB2 is not there yet and won't be for some time. However, it has all the added benefits of the M2TW engine and we are working VERY hard to make is as immersive as possible upon the first release. That said it is remarkably stable for a 1st release product, and the team deserves a lot of kudos for that. Many months were spent in isolating and killing bugs that had been with us for years. And the worst ones were fiendishly difficult to track down.

[V.T. Marvin]

To reinforce Kull's point - the fact that we are not currently experiencing any persistent CTD-causing bugs does not mean that there not any in there. It is impossible to test the game as thoroughly and to experience all possible permutations of different factors as would be the case after massive testing once the game goes public. We do have faith in our product, we trust that the community will enjoy it, BUT do not let the hype to get the better of you so that you won't be disappointed once you get to actually play the game yourself. The first release will hopefully by fun and enjoyable, but indeed an incomplete version of what are we aiming for...

[Eastern Foot-Rocker]

Damn. There goes my summer holiday.

<£600 holiday money diverted to new PC>

Same here man...

[leonardusius]

Good to hear that. What about the beta testers ? How to apply for that ?

[RawPower]

Amazingly good news:) Congrats EB team!

[Kull]

Good to hear that. What about the beta testers ? How to apply for that ?

We already have a team of beta testers and probably won't bring in new ones. Thanks for offering though!

[V.T. Marvin]

In essence whoever plays the game in its first-release form (August 2014) will actually thereby become a beta-tester as long as he/she provides his feed-back and/or bug report.