January 9th, 2020 - Development Update

[hatchna 136]

31 minutes ago, Bear242 said:

This sentence "If you’ve registered for Tech Alpha 1 but have not been selected, make sure to keep an eye on your inbox starting next Monday!"

Goosebumps, as I understand it all tech alpha 1 signups who have not got in yet will get access

I hope that is how it is to be interpreted. We shall see.

[meuhey 4]

I registered way back but had windows 7, I updated to windows 10 and dxdiag file on December 20th,  do you guys think I have chance to be recruited for tech alpha 2??? 

[in2tech 588]

49 minutes ago, Bear242 said:

This sentence "If you’ve registered for Tech Alpha 1 but have not been selected, make sure to keep an eye on your inbox starting next Monday!"

Goosebumps, as I understand it all tech alpha 1 signups who have not got in yet will get access

That's the way I read it too 🙂 Here's hoping the remaining people that signed up for Tech Alpha 1, will now get in! And access to their forums to discuss it and help with finding thing's that need to be fixed.

[Quasimodo 505]

Well I cant believe that nobody has commented that Tech Alpha 2 is apparently a "Release Candidate".

What the?  In my world Release Candidate comes after Beta. Could it be that we are seeing release

much sooner than anticipated?

EDIT: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEhh. My bad I see what they mean now! 🤣

Edited January 10, 2020 by Avidean

[Bear242 68]

Just now, Avidean said:

Well I cant believe that nobody has commented that Tech Alpha 2 is apparently a "Release Candidate".

What the?  In my world Release Candidate comes after Beta. Could it be that we are seeing release

much sooner than anticipated?

Can't say for sure, but I have a hunch release will be around middle of the year August maybe September

[aleex 551]

3 minutes ago, Avidean said:

Well I cant believe that nobody has commented that Tech Alpha 2 is apparently a "Release Candidate".

What the?  In my world Release Candidate comes after Beta. Could it be that we are seeing release

much sooner than anticipated?

With RC they mean that the alpha is ready to be tested. But they are not talking about the game being completed. So:

Alpha 2 -> RC

Game stage -> Alpha 2 

Edited January 10, 2020 by aleex

[Krakin 5,775]

Just now, aleex said:

With RC they mean that the alpha is ready to be tested. But they are not talking about the game being completed. 

Correct. I suspect Alpha 2 will have some extra features not available in Alpha 1. Most likely more planes, less likely snow on the ground as well.

[cmpbellsjc 2,963]

@ChaoticBeauty Thanks for posting the latest updates. Your racking up the pines 🌲🌲🌲😂

[Baber20 1,438]

I am genuinely surprised that Alpha 2 will be releasing soon. I was expecting a March release. Looks like we will be hearing about Beta soon.

[G-RFRY 1,712]

Well if I don't get in to Tech Alpha 1 hopefully will by Tech Alpha 5 around July😁.

[jlund 380]

I don't have my hopes up for getting into any of the Alphas, but I was quite disappointed with this update.No mention of anything with the winter video, no new screenshots, and it looks like there's nothing changed in the Feedback Snapshots, so not much new this time.

[ChaoticBeauty 6,692]

7 hours ago, Krakin said:

Correct. I suspect Alpha 2 will have some extra features not available in Alpha 1. Most likely more planes, less likely snow on the ground as well.

Hopefully a good deal of optimisation too, which means they can open up testing to a wider range of systems.

1 hour ago, Baber20 said:

I am genuinely surprised that Alpha 2 will be releasing soon. I was expecting a March release. Looks like we will be hearing about Beta soon.

Tech Alpha 1 took so long because it was delayed multiple times (I believe it was a build compilation issue), so future builds should be coming out quicker.

30 minutes ago, rjfry said:

Well if I don't get in to Tech Alpha 1 hopefully will by Tech Alpha 5 around July😁.

Probably earlier than that, they said they'll be opening a new recruitment round in mid-January, for what I assume is Tech Alpha 3.

5 minutes ago, jlund said:

I don't have my hopes up for getting into any of the Alphas, but I was quite disappointed with this update.No mention of anything with the winter video, no new screenshots, and it looks like there's nothing changed in the Feedback Snapshots, so not much new this time.

There was supposed to be a general Development Roadmap update yesterday, but other than that the update was in line with what they said it would be. Sadly we don't have a concrete date yet, but there's a chance we will get Episode 5 (Sound Scape) next week, along with some new partner announcements.

[Dominique_K 10,150]

1 hour ago, Baber20 said:

I am genuinely surprised that Alpha 2 will be releasing soon. I was expecting a March release. Looks like we will be hearing about Beta soon.

Surprised too. It was quite of short time to implement corrections on what alpha1 testers listed as deficiencies. 

[Noooch 1,084]

Actually, even this was a short update, it could be one of the best so far.

We just found out there is a pretty good chance for us mortals to be involved in the tech alpha anytime this month. Until the end of january, 2 waves of e-mails will be sent !

Edited January 10, 2020 by Noooch

[aleex 551]

1 hour ago, jlund said:

I don't have my hopes up for getting into any of the Alphas, but I was quite disappointed with this update.No mention of anything with the winter video, no new screenshots, and it looks like there's nothing changed in the Feedback Snapshots, so not much new this time.

It is what was expected according to DR. The only thing missing is the new DR for this month.