Alright, people. I did somewhat of the work left in the last few days. But it was none of the developing work, it was everything else which is still good. True, it's still 85%, but just the ~50 maps of Hyperion will be 3%. I already started with the alpha testing and I killed several bugs in eventing. Those were mainly small glitches and not really working parts of the message-system-faceset-arbiter-animation... thing. Yeah. Anyway, I will probably pause the alpha test for now and finish the mapping, eventing of the cutscenes and the game play testing of chapter 9 and 10. You will encounter a small unorthodox solution for a miniquest where you need to find somebody for now. Since I will not add NPCs on Kadro yet, that quest will be skipped in Beta 1 and you will instantly get that item, because it's critical for the main quest. In any case, don't worry, everything will be fine. You will be briefed accordingly and you will get all the information you need to beta test the game. Expect Beta 1 in around 2 weeks.
Beta 2 will be out around one month later. It should feature the missing parts of the game which includes the secret dungeon with 4 puzzles and 4 special bosses with 4 special rewards and Hellvoid, a Guardian of Chaos and the hardest boss in the game and the conclusion of the quest to get to him. It should also feature all NPCs in the cities of Kadro as well as all minigames there. In other words, the only difference between Beta 2 and the full game is that the full game will have the small bugs fixed that might appear in Beta 2 and that the full game will be available in English and German. Remember, you don't have to test the game as Beta 1 and Beta 2. You can test either one of them or both or any combination with multiple testing. It's up to you. And the best part is that as normal beta tester you just have to play the game and send me your beta statistics file when you are finished. As I said, there will be extra jobs like thorough map testing which will basically be either playing through the game with the passability test active or walking through every possible map with the passability test active.
I'm still thinking of an English-only version before the full game since translation takes time and that would allow the english RM community to play my game before the German community. xD I'm probably going to release the English-only version after all.
In any case stay tuned. CP Beta 1 should be out in 2-3 weeks if everything goes as planned. And it should if there are not some major complications which shouldn't be. Just be a little bit more patient.
