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Playtest group · Taking names
Break it before everyone else does.
Closed builds, short waves, and a direct route from what you noticed to what we fix. If you have ever finished a survival game and immediately started listing what you would change, this is for you.
How it works
Short waves, real builds.
- Tests run in waves, usually a weekend at a time, focused on one area: building, recruitment, combat, traversal, whatever is newest.
- Builds are Windows PC only for now. Console testing comes much later.
- Everything runs through Discord. Build links, instructions, known issues and the bug channel all live in the same place.
- Feedback goes in as you play. A short form at the end, plus whatever you shout about in the channel while it is happening.
- Fixes get posted in the changelog with the report that caused them. You will see your own bugs close.
- Waves are capped. If you do not make the first one you stay on the list for the next.
Before you apply
What we need from you.
- A Windows 10 or 11 PC that can handle a demanding open world. As a rough guide, a six core CPU, 16 GB of RAM and an RTX 2070 or better. These are estimates and they will firm up before the first wave.
- A Discord account. That is where the group lives and there is no way around it.
- Enough patience for rough edges. Placeholder art, missing audio, systems that are half wired up. That is the point.
- Willingness to write things down. What you did, what you expected, what happened instead. Three lines beats a shrug.
- Story content stays in the group. Some of what you will see is spoiler locked and we will ask you to keep it off social until we say otherwise.
- No payment either way. You do not pay us, we do not pay you. You get the build early and your fingerprints on the game.
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Get on the list.
The machine questions are there so we can spread testing across a realistic spread of hardware, not to screen anyone out.