Beta Center

Welcome to the Dawntide Beta Center. If you're an existing beta tester, you're probably looking for Account Management. If you're not, feel free to sign up for the Beta below!

Beta Development

Throughout Beta 1, which launched on August 1st and ended with the launch of Beta 2, we received a lot of feedback on just about everything in the game (as well as half a thousand bug reports). Overall, people were happy about our graphical style and seemed to love our crafting system. The combat system was considered slow and unwieldy, however, and most people found the game very inaccessible and difficult to get started on. There were also a number of crippling crashes and performance issues.

Based on this, we overhauled the interface and increased our emphasis on performance improvements, which massively improved the smoothness of the game. We also rolled out revised combat mechanics and updates to our crafting system based on tester input, which especially helped the opinion of combat a lot – we hope to see much further testing of this in Beta 2. The crashes and crippling performance were fixed, and we adopted the idea of World Bosses to the design plan.

We hope to see you in the Beta!