Dark Heart PTR Development Notes
Dark Heart PTR Development Notes
The War Within Alpha - Flight Switching, Portals, Warbands, UI Changes
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I don't care about the alpha/beta bullcrap. Let's just be happy that they're advancing.
Anyways: Will there be a new build on Thursday to go along with the beta testing?
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2016-05-10, 04:54 PM #74541Bloodsail Admiral
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2016-05-10, 04:54 PM #74542The One Sane Man
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Since when is stating facts 'bait' ?
Originally Posted by emilylorange
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
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2016-05-10, 04:54 PM #74543The Lightbringer
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Well, no it wasn't really. As in the description, that you removed again, beta's are more "polished" demos (i.e feature complete) and it wasn't at that time. And do you know what they call a game in that state? Alpha. It's only names for different stages of development. The fact it's now officially beta from Thursday is a step forwad. Stages, y'know - they're good measurements. Originally Posted by schwarzkopf
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2016-05-10, 04:54 PM #74544The One Sane Man
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Apparently the current alpha build was selected for the mass influx on Thursday. Originally Posted by Feyinh
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
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2016-05-10, 04:54 PM #74545Titan
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Alpha was incomplete which is why they called it alpha for months.
Now that it is complete it will be a true beta.
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2016-05-10, 04:55 PM #74546Scarab Lord
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Well that was pretty lame. They spent half the time talking about legacy stuff and the other half going over things we've heard millions of times by now.
Would have liked to hear more info about upcoming patch content, suramar rewards/structure, mythic dungeon rewards (not just higher ilvl gear), etc.
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2016-05-10, 04:55 PM #74547Pit Lord
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Thank you, knew I wasn't that brain dead Originally Posted by Dakushisai
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2016-05-10, 04:55 PM #74548The One Sane Man
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Yes it was, can you stop with the misinformation that just extends the meaningless debate further. Originally Posted by Owenm
There is no debate - it was beta and called alpha... now we can just move on please.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
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2016-05-10, 04:55 PM #74549Warchief
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Originally Posted by schwarzkopf
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2016-05-10, 04:56 PM #74550The Lightbringer
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Ignoring facts and making up your own is baiting. Originally Posted by schwarzkopf
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2016-05-10, 04:56 PM #74551Dreadlord
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Weird comment being the game says (beta x64) on the loading screen and previously said (alpha x64). It seems like a marketing decision to continue calling it alpha, possibly to avoid confusion between beta and open beta.
Just my 2c as a senior software engineer.
I assume all alpha testers are getting beta invites or do I need to ask my buddy again?
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2016-05-10, 04:56 PM #74552The Patient
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"Beta invites will be going out today and tomorrow."
I haven't received one yet. Has anyone else today? Perhaps they will begin the invites later today instead.
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2016-05-10, 04:56 PM #74553Pandaren Monk
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The random scaling gear rewards should somewhat combat this. I've seen people running around with a fair few 880+ items (I have 882 boots on my DH) that they received from 800+ reward world quests. To put in context, LFR is 835+ and PvP appears to be 870. Originally Posted by Daffan
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2016-05-10, 04:56 PM #74554Void Lord
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Emily is on Fire. FIRE! Originally Posted by emilylorange
#TeamLegion #UnderEarthofAzerothexpansion plz #Arathor4Alliance #TeamNoBlueHorde
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2016-05-10, 04:56 PM #74555Stood in the Fire
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Oh for the love of god. It was named alpha and will be named beta starting Thursday. Can we just leave it that.
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2016-05-10, 04:57 PM #74556The One Sane Man
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WHat I find amazing is that apart from all the other facts about it being beta (external testing, programming feature complete) - the fact that the EXE was called beta, and the start up screen had beta ... all of these facts were still not enough. Originally Posted by Mafic
The great renaming comes Thursday, they are finally calling the beta 'beta' and no longer have to concern themselves with non-technical reasons for calling it alpha.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
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2016-05-10, 04:57 PM #74557Herald of the Titans
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FFS, this is what a lot of posts are going to be in this thread from now on, isn't it? Originally Posted by Mystiik
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2016-05-10, 04:58 PM #74558The Lightbringer
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It's not misinformation though. For example, it's like mitosis right? You have your 4 main stages of development. Game development, lets say, has 3 main stages - Alpha, Beta and Release. You could call the game being in development, of course, but to call a stage of that development something it hasn't reached yet is misinformation. The game overall is still being developed - it's just reached a main goal towards the game being released i.e. now going from Alpha to Beta. All naming does is represent different stages of development, and represent the content is which the game has. So saying the game was in "beta" when it actually had features missing/incomplete is incorrect, as it represents Alpha. Originally Posted by schwarzkopf
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2016-05-10, 04:58 PM #74559Warchief
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Originally Posted by sykke
You all suck at not taking bait -_-
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2016-05-10, 04:58 PM #74560Bloodsail Admiral
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Ah, alright. Thanks! Originally Posted by schwarzkopf
