A lot of the games that I am following now has beta/early tester even for early access so I was wondering if it can be applied to this game as well, since the studio is now independent. I am not here asking it for the breach update, but for future updates, especially the multiplayer update. Games like windblown, the spell brigade, for the king2 etc, they all had testing branch for chosen players to test out and I think it would be useful for the development of nrftw. Especially when a few of the games I followed fumbled hard on first release due to server overload as the small scale testing they did resulted in lack of foresight that servers can be less responsive when huge amount of people try to access the servers. Of course I don’t really know whether this can be a possible case since I have no idea how multiplayer connection will work for nrftw but I think a lot of us in discord are really willing to give our feedbacks to any update. These early testing can allow devs to do some theory testing to see if players like the idea before going full out on the idea and usually have no influence on the current saved data. But I am perfectly fine if the player feedback and testing waits until the early access update is released.
Especially when a few of the games I followed fumbled hard on first release due to server overload
rest assured that this probably wont be a problem for wicked. we already know the servers are super lightweight and are practically just input relays to other clients.
though, a mass stress test could absolutely prove useful depending on what’s being tested.
this game is already super chaotic and wide in terms of features, so letting thousands of players try a new system before officially adding it might be a good idea.