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| Start of the Beta-Test of V0.900 from Jim_Raynor |
25.06.2005, 19:33 |
Long time ago, but today is the day which many ones of you waited. The public Beta-Test for version 0.900 is now opened. My recommendation is: all people, those have already played version 0.845, should download the new version and test it in an extensive way.
Those of you, who hear the first time of X-Force or do not play it for a long time, I recommend to stick at the V0.845 until the final release; because still some mistakes will be found (especially in the initial phase of the public test). The new version also means a new start, because old game sets are no more compatible with the V0.900. The changes in the base building were too extensive, as a conversion would be possible.
During the beta stage, I will try to publish an update once weekly, with which the found mistakes will be patched. New features may be built-in during the beta stage only, if it is a small change those no extensive changes involve. Therefore, you can go out from that that the first beta version will have the function scope of the final V0.900.
I can not say at the moment how long the test will run. It depends on the number of the found mistakes. I go out at the moment from a month, because the number of changes is very considerable and many extensive adaptations were carried out.
Also in the beta stage, it's the rule that all found mistakes are entered in the Bugtracker. Only in this wa it's guaranteed that no mistakes will be forgotten and the administrative overhead is minimized for us. Therefore please, use the Bugtracker instead of to "swamp" the forum or my mailbox with error reports. And a personal request: for every entry in the Bugtracker there's a version field in which you fill in the version where the mistake occurs. Please fill this field with the corresponding version (V0.845 or V0.900 - beta) so that the analysis will be much easier. Nothing is worse than after hours of look-up to get to know that the mistake occurs in an old version and is repaired a long time ago.
I would like to still mention a special feature. We have removed the editors (game set and script editor) from the installation. As a substitute, it will give an "editor pack" via online update, in which to the known editors, the card editor and the tile editor were added. In this way, you can create cards for X-Force for the first time.
Kindly, Natter has developed a tutorial in form of a game set which explains directly the basic functions of X-Force in the game. To that, it demonstrates the new possibilities with X-Script.
To take part at the test, just download the current Beta-Version. After the first installation of the beta, you can fit newer versions via online update. Enter yourself in the Test-Mailinglist in order to receive a message in case of a new beta version.
In such a way and now, enough of the words. The test might begin and might be successful.
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