I16 Closed Beta


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I wonder will the invites go out in waves today?


 

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The test server is up now and you can mess with the new character creator...

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Access to the character creator is allowed regardless of whether you've got beta access or not. It's just anything past the character creator that's covered by the "NDA." That being said I can't get past the login server (it's telling me it's down) so I haven't been able to play with the colors yet.


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Access to the character creator is allowed regardless of whether you've got beta access or not. It's just anything past the character creator that's covered by the "NDA." That being said I can't get past the login server (it's telling me it's down) so I haven't been able to play with the colors yet.
I know that, but I've been expecting them to work out a way to lock out the log-in so that only those accounts with beta access can even get that far. I wouldn't be surprised if they finally made real effort to do so with this particular Issue.



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Why do that? Every other closed beta has allowed access to the character creator, it at least gives the people who aren't in beta a chance to look at some of the costume-related features.


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The test server is up now and you can mess with the new character creator...

Dark Radiation Blasts = awesomesauce
Wha? I can't login... Are you pulling our legs?


 

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Wha? I can't login... Are you pulling our legs?
yeah I can't login either.....
What gives man!!?!!


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The test server is up now and you can mess with the new character creator...

Dark Radiation Blasts = awesomesauce

Are you sure you're not in the closed beta and just didn't realize it?


 

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Are you sure you're not in the closed beta and just didn't realize it?
The rest of us would at least be able to log in. I think he's just pulling our legs.

GV


 

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No it was up but appears to be down now.


 

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The rest of us would at least be able to log in. I think he's just pulling our legs.

GV
They might have changed it entirely for this beta though, who knows?


 

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yeah I can't login either.....
What gives man!!?!!
No I'm in just fine... Maybe they brought the login server back down, but I'm still in and messing around

Oh wait.. Pics or it didn't happen, I know:


 

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I know that, but I've been expecting them to work out a way to lock out the log-in so that only those accounts with beta access can even get that far. I wouldn't be surprised if they finally made real effort to do so with this particular Issue.
Like macskull I'd ask why they would do that for this?

The only real reason games like this even impose NDAs on closed betas is so that they can limit the amount of rumor-mill chaos that usually surrounds the constant patches involved. They don't want people to get confused reporting that "new feature X will be like this" then have it be 180° different tomorrow in another patch.

Power customization itself doesn't need to be under an NDA because we already publicly know which powers are involved and what the feature will provide. They aren't -not- going to give it to us once I16 goes live so there's no point in it being a "secret" to anyone.


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I'm most interested to see what they did with Tankers (and others) Electric Armor. Is CP still in the list? Can't wait to see.


 

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And a hearty LOL at whoever gave me negative board reputation and called me a liar... I guess direct quotes from Posi and BAB aren't good enough.


 

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And a hearty LOL at whoever gave me negative board reputation and called me a liar... I guess direct quotes from Posi and BAB aren't good enough.
well i just added to your rep to offset the moron.... lol


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Why do that? Every other closed beta has allowed access to the character creator, it at least gives the people who aren't in beta a chance to look at some of the costume-related features.
Most other issues weren't as focused on the character creator and the costume related features as this one is. Them not blocking it before was less 'lets see what the whole player base thinks of the new costumes' and more that they didn't want to waste the time to block some people from possibly seeing the costumes early when it wasn't really the focus of the issue. Now it is, so they may want to change their process.

However, I hope they do leave it open because I do want to play with it.