Beta Testing

Depends on what the minimum system requirements are... From the sound of the Gamescom bit, it'll be Windows 10 minimum, unless that's just for the cross-play functionality.

I'm likely upping my donation so that I will get a second digital copy. Therefore I can beta test the game and still have my console copy intact. >.>

It´s a nice chance to do beta gameplay but i don´t want to see myself to much spoilers even if backed for PC copy...

I find it very unlikely that they are going to develop an indie game with system requirements so steep that it requires a system that isn't even considered released yet.

FUDGE YES!

It's the only way to hold me over until the real thing!

Super pumped for this game. I'm gonna do my best as a BETA tester to report bugs, too!

You mean like 'Back-Dash Cancelling'? Or like Harmony of Despair, 'edge boosting'? If so, I hope! That stuff was fun to do once you learned it! Not to say they were bugs prior, but anything like that is cool in my book

Having beta-tested Shadowgate(I'm in the tier testers in the creds =P) I'm stoked for the chance to beta this, as well. Could be fun, trying to find all the gamebreakers and what needs refining

I hope they do keep some. That is one of the many points that made SotN unique.

Input

Been E3 beta 2016 testing on and off, and here is some of my thoughts. Better late than never.

Shard animations can be disrupted if you haste to another room while the shard aims for you. You do get the skill.
How to fix: Let us know we got it with a sound and a minor effect (like those shards we already have).

Map went bonkers when I toggled out from the game and back in. The highlight of the area I was in was below and far to the right of the map, in empty space. I feelt I gained 105% almost out of that map. How to fix: After toggled in and out a few times, it went back to normal. Took a while however and around 10 toggles.

Amy Trigger Shard is purple. The enemies are blue. I like the different colors on these things, but an aura or light around them would be nice application. How to fix: Render them in different color, and add an effect to tell the enemy from "your attack" apart.

Other things

Other shards than fire can ignite the cannons. I did so with an Amy. Worked just fine.

Galleon Minerva had a few areas you could not reach. In the beginning there is a room above the one you run through. The odd thing here is that the map doesn't show it, but the enviroment show there is a platform, and a way up. I wonder if this actually is suppose to be a secret area, but then again, why have a platform? Double Jump or another similar skill is needed to go up there. This makes me think that we might come back to the Galleon Minerva, or, the Galleon is part of the Castle somehow. If the Village is first, then Galleon, after that Castle, we could go back easier.. Or not.. Or it might have an teleport-room somewhere. The TP room might as well be that secret room. There is also more space unexplored above the Galleon, but I guess its more of an mysterius thing.

Killing a few enemies and open chests I saw many bags. They all had ethers from enemies and potions / ethers from chests, nothing else. I found around 15 of them.

The "float thingy" people are talking about are "best seen" when you use your triggers to aim with your hand, and jumping. The animation of Miriam jumping normal is cancelled and you see where and how she "floats". There is a slow-motion effect" towards the top of her jump.

I notice the Scarf item really shows the pattern in the menu, can't wait to see other exotic and cool scarfs.

Thanks.



Yes, these kind of "exploits" are in the game.