The technical beta is kicking off and we"ve already started inviting several hundred players to join us. This week take a look at what they can expect to see!
Now is an incredibly exciting time for everyone working at Funcom. The technical beta is kicking off and we"ve already started inviting several hundred players to join us and become some of the first people to tread the blood-soaked earth of Hyboria under their sandaled (or chain mailed, for that matter) feet. After years of working on the game behind closed doors it is finally ready for the world. Bringing more external testers into the game is a very interesting experience for us, especially with so many people participating. We"re just as excited as you are, if not even more!
We know most of you won"t have the opportunity to join us this time around (though your chance may come soon!
This first time around we"re focusing on testing how well the server works under heavy load, particularly how the different areas of the gameworld holds up when many people try to get into one specific place. In the days following the test, developers will be going through the data collected and probably utter quite a few "oohs" and "aahs".
"We"ll start by testing several different high-load scenarios on our servers by pushing the technology, like seeing how the server reacts to so many people going from one area to another at the same time," says Quality Assurance Manager Ørjan Mathis Tvedt. "This is to further optimize our servers for the future tests which will be even bigger in scale."