Next friday's update

Tha · February 2010

<div class="IPBDescription">Already got my hopes up</div>I have a feeling that next fridays update will be alpha game release.. i just know it, look at the gameplay video sure some things are wrong like wonky animations and retarded looking sprints. Anyone else getting this feeling?

Biglines · February 2010

I think next friday will see another editor update, and the alpha will be release during the week some time, not on friday (but that's just my feeling :P)

Pipi · February 2010

I think next Friday ima jerk off in the corner of my room !

0_o

Atone · February 2010

I get that feeling that we won't have an alpha release until we have a fade and lerk reveal.

dandi8 · February 2010

I have a feeling we're not gonna get an alpha that soon.

WatchMaker · February 2010

Protip: "Hope for the best, expect the worst."

Translation: "I'd like to see an alpha with the next friday update, but I highly doubt it."

zex · February 2010

last week one of the devs said they have no idea what is even going to be included in the Alpha, which seems to strongly imply that it isn't going to happen any time soon.

dandi8 · February 2010

Not even talking about the fact that you don't tease something that would be so close to release (see: the ModDb vid).

The vid might mean that the alpha is close by but knowing a developer's mind, it really doesn't mean anything.

Renegade. · February 2010

Someone should do a contest where the first person to correctly guess alpha release gets a free copy :)

whoppaXXL · February 2010

I got a feeling, that Friday's night gonna be a good night. mmh mhm mh mh mh mh mmh.

Wait? Who said alpha?

<span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:100%">I'm sorry that problably many of you now got a earworm.</span>

Supernorn · February 2010

I think next friday's update will only lead to your disappointment. Perhaps followed by another unnecessary thread stating said disappointment.

glimmerman · February 2010

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Supernorn @ Feb 7 2010, 05:14 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1751587"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'>I think next friday's update will only lead to your disappointment. Perhaps followed by another unnecessary thread stating said disappointment.</div>

indeed

Onozki · February 2010

I think alpha will come out at summer 2011, i cant wait! :)

TrC · February 2010

Owned I think they said alpha "soon" 31 days ago so we should expect something. Next week? I have been thinking that every week since first screenshots refreshing this site like raged ape. I doubt that but who knows.

ctd · February 2010

They said 'soon' intentionally because 'soon' can mean anything from seconds to months :P

RisingSun · February 2010

My guess:

Alpha - April 16th 2010

Beta - July 9th 2010

Game release - October 31th 2010

Eddie · February 2010

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (RisingSun @ Feb 7 2010, 08:57 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1751628"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'>My guess:

Alpha - April 16th 2010

Beta - July 9th 2010

Game release - October 31th 2010</div>
April 16th sounds like a reasonable date for the alpha release, but I don't think we're going to be in alpha state for 3 months considering the recent in-game video (much worse could be passed as alpha).

edit: Now that I think about it, if they keep focusing on the alpha and dedicate less time on the editor bugs/fixes (which is inevitable), late March would be a fairly conservative guess for alpha release.

Farren · February 2010

I wouldn't be surprised if alpha comes out relatively soon, if only to give community developers a chance to stand in and get a physical feel for what they've created. I for one would love to know how long it takes for the marine and skulk to run across a map room. That said, I still think we are at least a month off because the alpha must at least have an alpha version of all player types and structures. If the editor gives any indication, it shows that we still do not even have a model for the command chair or hive. That is a pretty clear indicator that the alpha is NOT on the verge of release.

Then again, it has been mentioned alot on recent Twitters... oh why do you play with my emotions so? :D

Atone · February 2010

I think it's safe to say that we have a model for the command station. We kind of saw it last friday. :P

echs · February 2010

Access to Alpha would be a dream come true to those of us who have 'completed' Spark Editor. :P

Quovatis · February 2010

If you've been in other dev communities, you will know that "soon" doesn't mean a damn thing.

monopolowa · February 2010

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (RisingSun @ Feb 7 2010, 10:57 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1751628"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'>My guess:

Alpha - April 16th 2010

Beta - July 9th 2010

Game release - October 31th 2010</div>
I think 2 1/2 months is a pretty short time to do all the balance work for the game, and I also think we're pretty close to seeing an alpha, even if it doesn't include all the alien or marine classes right away (still haven't seen lerk/fade reveals or the exo/jp-marine)

My guess would be March 1 for the alpha release (if not sooner), and maybe June 1 for beta. That's 3 months + 5 months before full release on the 31st. (yes, I agree that they would shoot for that date as things stand now)

of course these are just guesses and don't mean a thing

celewign · February 2010

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (monopolowa @ Feb 8 2010, 07:33 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1751949"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'>I think 2 1/2 months is a pretty short time to do all the balance work for the game, and I also think we're pretty close to seeing an alpha, even if it doesn't include all the alien or marine classes right away (still haven't seen lerk/fade reveals or the exo/jp-marine)

My guess would be March 1 for the alpha release (if not sooner), and maybe June 1 for beta. That's 3 months + 5 months before full release on the 31st. (yes, I agree that they would shoot for that date as things stand now)

of course these are just guesses and don't mean a thing</div>

god will it be that long?

Dadaya · February 2010

Well, if the Saints can win the super bowl, maybe we can get an alpha!

Before I incite a football riot, what I mean is a lot of people were rooting for the Saints for various reasons, but the general consensus was that the Colts would win, so maybe if enough of us pray REAAAAAL hard, then papa Flayra will entertain us with an alpha....or maybe a skulk racing map...

douchebagatron · February 2010

it'll be september 23rd 2003.

<span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:100%">...i really hope someone gets that reference</span>

BadMouth · February 2010

I'm guessing the alpha won't be out till its polished, since lots of us got alpha excess and most of us are whiners that don't know the meaning of alpha. So UWE has no choice but to polish it and polish it until its at a "beta" stage and release it as an alpha.

As for time frame, I think after the lerk and fade reveal, + one more marine structure/weapon reveal, then add a few weeks. Which should amount to 2 or 3 months.

bhaz · February 2010

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (6john @ Feb 10 2010, 11:15 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1752184"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'>it'll be september 23rd 2003.</div>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Selection_%28album%29" target="_blank">This</a>?

And according to the the box at the bottom, it's Flayra's birthday, maybe one of them will log on drunk and leak an alpha for us. xD

steppin'razor · February 2010

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BadMouth @ Feb 12 2010, 03:41 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1752574"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'>I'm guessing the alpha won't be out till its polished, since lots of us got alpha excess and most of us are whiners that don't know the meaning of alpha. So UWE has no choice but to polish it and polish it until its at a "beta" stage and release it as an alpha.</div>
Haha the sad truth

TrC · February 2010

The calm before the storm no twitter updates in 6 days! Or maybe they are on holiday at the hawaii whichever I'm ready to get dissappointed this week aswell.

I have to comment about the Fade and lerk though there has been no reveal so I find it hard to believe they have been implimented and adding them will delay this thing by months. Yet they were basing "soon" on something unless of course that was an additional "way" of getting pre-order money besides the pack promo.

In short, we will be seeing alpha when god buddha or zeus decides to throw some lightnings into the developers.

Supernorn · February 2010

Just because they aren't revealed it doesn't mean they aren't implemented. "I can't see it, so it isn't there" is a really dumb way of looking at things.

monopolowa · February 2010

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Supernorn @ Feb 12 2010, 05:34 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1752597"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'>Just because they aren't revealed it doesn't mean they aren't implemented. "I can't see it, so it isn't there" is a really dumb way of looking at things.</div>
sure, but it would be silly to have the reveals AFTER we already get to play with them firsthand. Unless they don't plan on continuing the video series on alien classes, we will see them there before we see them in the alpha

edit: just realized you weren't responding to my post.

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