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Issue 16 Closed Beta Coming Soon

Amanita

By Amanita,
Posted on: 2009-07-20 16:27 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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Greetings Heroes & Villains,

We announced <a href=”http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/gam...view.html”>I16: Power Spectrum</a> last week and are happy to reveal that the preparations for Closed Beta are in full swing!

We expect to be taking the Training Room offline soon after Comic-Con in order to give a limited number of our players the opportunity to test and share their feedback on I16: Power Spectrum! The Training Room will become available again to all once the Closed Beta for Issue 16 has ended.


Stay tuned for more information and get your palettes ready!

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Now you have observed my awesome troubleshooting and test skills I assume you will allow me into the beta?

 

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Very interesting and exciting to hear that 16 is going beta so soon! Wow.

And very relieving to know it'll be an actual Closed Beta. Those seem to move much faster and make for a better end product than the "Clopen" Beta 15 went though.

If I make it in, woohoo. If not, Testers... make it as good as you can.

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Dear Devs,

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET ME IN I16 CLOSED BETA!!!! PLEEEAASE?????

Thank You

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Don't you guys know, asking for a closed beta invite, will make sure you don't get into the beta.

 

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Invite me to closed beta,... there now I won't be bothered. ;P

 

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Wow, that was... quicker than i had imagined!

Yay, go Devs and go super sekrit beta testers!

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This was my expectation. I suspect they're wanting I16 out the door around the same time The Competition™ comes out.

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Please do not send me an invite. Whatever you do please do not send me an invite. I'm a bad man. A very very very very bad man. No invites for me.

Thank you.

 

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Wow, that was... quicker than i had imagined!

Yay, go Devs and go super sekrit beta testers!

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This was my expectation. I suspect they're wanting I16 out the door around the same time The Competition™ comes out.

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That's probably partly it, but I think they were closer, as i15 was a bit lighter than previous issues.

And they threw me off by not cleaning up i15 forums. It's usually *weeks* after those are gone, but if they are switching to the new forum software... they sorta pulled a fast one.

Still here, even after all this time!

 

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Just popping in to comment that, since I haven't been picked for a beta in ages, I have no fear about complaining about not getting in .

*shakes fist at all the young whippersnappers in the eventual beta*

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I figure closed beta starts near the beginning of August, and runs a month, followed by 2-4 weeks of open. Last time there was powerset proliferation the closed beta lasted quite a while, if I remember (though there were also two new ATs to test at that time).

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Even with all the "Never Gonna Happen" stuff now added, I think this has a chance of being a pretty short beta. September 1st is getting close and it is a Tuesday this year.

 

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Hey how comes we can't have an open beta for all like issue 15?

Or was that because there wasn't anything to TEST in issue 15?

 

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Hey how comes we can't have an open beta for all like issue 15?

Or was that because there wasn't anything to TEST in issue 15?

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Looks like the bandwagon forgot to pick someone up.

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Hey how comes we can't have an open beta for all like issue 15?

Or was that because there wasn't anything to TEST in issue 15?

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There will be an Open Beta for Issue 16. It will happen sometime between the beginning of Closed Beta and the Issue going Live.

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As a few others have said, I would really like to be in the closed beta testing for Issue 16.

I did my best to log in and test and give feedback for Issue 15 (with the schedule I had at the time)... so hopefully that will help my cause.

And also I'd like to be given a slot as compensation for missing the Double XP weekend coming up (you all picked the only weekend of the entire year where I'm out of town).

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Wow! Go beta testers go!

I fully expect to not get into this one, as I was gone and/or running smoothly through all of i15 open beta, I didn't have a single bug report that hadn't been sent a bajillion times already by others already...

At least I'm patient enough to live without new shinies for a month or so if it takes that long to go from closed to open.

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I'm so glad we are getting claws for brutes, and alternate punching animations for Martial Arts and Super Strength. I really needed something to get me interested in this game again. Nice to be excited about something again

 

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-Sit quietly at his desk waiting patiently.
-Watches as everybody else screams, waves their hands and
begs to be invited to closed beta.
-Waits to watch as all the complaints roll in as their not picked
an how terrible the dev's are for not choosing them.
-Smiles an awaits his email or just waits for open beta.
-Either way I GET TO GAME!!!!!

Game on!

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Please do not pick me at all. I don't want in Closed Beta for I-16. I do not want to attempt to try things to make sure that the game is solid. I do not want to be helpful to the devs at all. I see no point in being picked for this silliness when it will not be very much long after Closed Beta that Open Beta, and then Live happens, and then I'll get to see what things look like. No sir/madam, I'm a happy camper to await Live on this. Really, I am. Thanks, but no thanks, I'm good.

/Not real sure that reverse psychology stuff works, but hey, I'll try anything once.

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Please do not pick me at all. I don't want in Closed Beta for I-16. I do not want to attempt to try things to make sure that the game is solid. I do not want to be helpful to the devs at all. I see no point in being picked for this silliness when it will not be very much long after Closed Beta that Open Beta, and then Live happens, and then I'll get to see what things look like. No sir/madam, I'm a happy camper to await Live on this. Really, I am. Thanks, but no thanks, I'm good.

/Not real sure that reverse psychology stuff works, but hey, I'll try anything once.

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It only works if someone doesn't come in and say;


I'll take his spot.

 

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Hey how comes we can't have an open beta for all like issue 15?

Or was that because there wasn't anything to TEST in issue 15?

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There will be an Open Beta for Issue 16. It will happen sometime between the beginning of Closed Beta and the Issue going Live.

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Read please.

I said an open beta LIKE issue 15.

I'll elaborate: Issue 15 was...what, clopen?

Basically they're having a closed beta for this issue since there's actually stuff to test this time around.

The ultimate question, then, is will they listen? (If there's anything supremely [censored] up)

 

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A good closed beta team can get be 100x more efficient than open better. Closed beta can be a very focused search for bugs or other mistakes, while open beta is basicly a giant cluster [censored] where most of the important stuff gets lost in the flood of chatter that fills the forums.

I'd like issue 16 sometime this year...so closed beta sounds like a wonderful idea wether I'm in it or not.

 

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I'm surprised nobody has talked about the Power Customization demo the devs have running at Comic-Con. It was totally awesome to be able to play around with many of the powers that are receiving customization. You can individually tint each and every power in a set (all the same, or each one unique) and see animation of that power while you do (all powers in the set, regardless of the toon's level).

Oh, and the new "direct access" shortcut bar above the entire interface (with click access to each and every step in the character creation routine, in any order) is great! Especially love the new 'Check Name' button on the naming/origin page. (Thanks to Dark Watcher for pointing that out!)

I think you all are gonna love the new interface tweaks -- I know I sure do!

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I'm surprised nobody has talked about the Power Customization demo the devs have running at Comic-Con. It was totally awesome to be able to play around with many of the powers that are receiving customization. You can individually tint each and every power in a set (all the same, or each one unique) and see animation of that power while you do (all powers in the set, regardless of the toon's level).

Oh, and the new "direct access" shortcut bar above the entire interface (with click access to each and every step in the character creation routine, in any order) is great! Especially love the new 'Check Name' button on the naming/origin page. (Thanks to Dark Watcher for pointing that out!)

I think you all are gonna love the new interface tweaks -- I know I sure do!

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We have, in a couple of threads in the main CoH discussion folder.

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