Just some questions
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Join Date: 2011-10-13 Member: 127076Members
<div class="IPBDescription">:)?</div>so i use to play NS1 ALOT and i found it extremely fun and played it very often, and a couple years ago i heard about NS2 and was very excited, then last year i went to check out progress in NS2 and i saw a bunch of awesome hat videos and i really wanted to play but it was in CBT. Now today i check back and still see its in CBT so i have some questions~
1. Is the CBT currently open and available to pre-orderers and is it going to end anytime soon.
2. In the official NS2 website, for pre-order it says there is only 10,000 keys left, do i need to worry about this if i wish to pre-order it for playing beta?
3. ----------^------------------ There were holiday deals last year for buy 1 get 1 free, would this be available again sometime this year maybe?
4. ^ same thing but the special edition (i like special stuff)
5. Is there an aprox on when this game is going out of CBT? or is this still no where near done, but playable.
6. Average amount of people online @.@? (Would i beable to find a decent amount of people to play with?)
So excited for this game @.@~!
Thanksss~
1. Is the CBT currently open and available to pre-orderers and is it going to end anytime soon.
2. In the official NS2 website, for pre-order it says there is only 10,000 keys left, do i need to worry about this if i wish to pre-order it for playing beta?
3. ----------^------------------ There were holiday deals last year for buy 1 get 1 free, would this be available again sometime this year maybe?
4. ^ same thing but the special edition (i like special stuff)
5. Is there an aprox on when this game is going out of CBT? or is this still no where near done, but playable.
6. Average amount of people online @.@? (Would i beable to find a decent amount of people to play with?)
So excited for this game @.@~!
Thanksss~
Comments
2. No idea, only UWE knows the numbers. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
3. Nobody knows, but seems possibly.
4. Probably not.
5. There is no official release date. My personal guess is late 2012. The game is not yet complete content-wise.
6. I'd say about 20. More after patch releases.
You can pre-order the beta at any time and join the fun, just know there will be a significant number of bugs, visuals aren't 100% done (infestation), and the game isn't feature complete (no tier 3). There is a problem with stalemates, but otherwise, i still personally find the game very fun.
The number of people playing at any given moment fluctuates rapidly, immediately after a patch, i remember even back in the days of build 156 right after a patch came out, there were so many people trying to play at once all the servers were completely full. While recently with build 185 lasting around 4 weeks, the number of people playing before build 186 at any given moment was significantly smaller, with really only 1 server with several people at any given moment.
Depending on your area, and especially with the NS2HD tournament coming up, i don't think you'll have any real problem finding a server with people to play with at any given moment. In my timezone, PST, i can consistently find people playing in the afternoon or evening, which might not be so for everyone, but there are plenty of good European servers and clans. This might change as build 187 pasts it's prime, but with build 188 possibly coming out in the not so distant future, right now the number of players shouldn't really be a problem.
Honestly, if I had payed 35$, I'd be kinda angry, but @ 17.50$, it feels like a pretty worthy buy.
Based on what the devs say, maybe by Q3 2012. That's my guess. This is a long Alp-Beta.
I don't think its really much longer than a lot of other alpha/betas. The difference is that most studies give public access to their games much, much later in the development process.