Join us WEDNESDAY 21 July 2010 to test the R6 client!

It’s that time again! On Wednesday, July 21st 2010 we will be holding another regularly scheduled R6 test.

We need people to sign into the beta server and make sure that they can play.

For those of you that weren’t able to sign in last week, the Development team have been EXTREMELY busy cranking out bugfixes over the last few months and in order to have R6 ready for release, it would really be helpful to have you all test out make sure that everything is at or better than normal and the bugfixes are working as expected.Please read this post and so you know what to test and report all bugs on the Trac server.

NEW FEATURES STILL NEED TESTING
(These will need approval before they can go into R6 as they are gamplay changes)

1. Enhance the load out screen by caching your load outs to disk – use number keys and CTRL + number (0-9) _{(Default Loadouts)}
2. The #bootiny _{(Thread here)}
3. A miner capacity indicator.
4. The inability to see currently mined rocks on the minimap or sector status levels unless you have eye on the rocks being mined

INSTRUCTIONS FOR BETA WEDNESDAY!

1. If you do not already have it installed, you will need to install the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable.
2. Start with an up to date Allegiance install (make sure you can play on the regular servers).
3. In ASGS select “Allegiance -> Beta Mode”.
4. Still in ASGS, select “Help -> Update / Repair Critical Files”.
5. Click “Login”. The updater will run again, downloading the beta client.
6. After the updater has finished, click “Login” again.
7. Enjoy the beta! Find or create a new game and test away!

When you are done, there are a couple steps to get back on the regular servers.

1. Turn off beta mode “Allegiance -> Beta Mode”.
2. Revert to the regular client “Help -> Update / Repair Critical Files”
3. Play as normal!

Check your Allegiance directory for .dmp, .7z, or .zip files and UPLOAD THEM IF YOU CRASH!

Don’t forget to submit your bugs!

–Bard

The forums will be going down on the afternoon/evening of Friday July 16th, 2010 for some scheduled maintenance sometime between 4:00pm-6:00pm Eastern Time.

The lobby, ASGS and gameservers will be unaffected.

Sorry this has to be during the day, but it’s the best that could be done.

The outage should last only between 20-40mins. Following the outage, the forums will once again be operational however they will be operating at reduced performance for a few hours. After this period of reduced performance, the forums are expected to return to the level of performance we have enjoyed for the past year.

In short: the “forum slowness” problem will be fixed by nightfall this Friday.

–TE