This is a beta?

[USMCdecoy]

honestly they building is the worst part of the game at the moment cause it needs a little help with the placing of objects, often thinks there is an issue with stairs specifically when there is not. Capture rates are very off from what it shows but i bet that makes people happier over all. I do understand statistics and just cause it says 3% does not mean throw 100 balls and you catch it with 3 of them. just means it will average out to that over a long set of entries. then other than that I guess hit boxes just cause they are a little off, not very much.
I can not wait to see where the game goes from here. lots of up and down from where the game is and could easily suck as much as most AAA titles, yet is somehow better.

Maybe I am wrong?

[Lapom]

Meow Clawmore님이 먼저 게시:

Vivian, Mana & Kendall님이 먼저 게시:

You clearly don't know what an alpha is then. An alpha is a rough prototype that can barely be called a game. This is clearly int he realm of beta.

This game is not alpha or beta, but OMEGA

Nah, it's alpha and omega, the beginning and the end.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

USMCdecoy님이 먼저 게시:

honestly they building is the worst part of the game at the moment cause it needs a little help with the placing of objects, often thinks there is an issue with stairs specifically when there is not. Capture rates are very off from what it shows but i bet that makes people happier over all. I do understand statistics and just cause it says 3% does not mean throw 100 balls and you catch it with 3 of them. just means it will average out to that over a long set of entries. then other than that I guess hit boxes just cause they are a little off, not very much.
I can not wait to see where the game goes from here. lots of up and down from where the game is and could easily suck as much as most AAA titles, yet is somehow better.

Maybe I am wrong?

I assume your new to steam's early access on steam usually measns games are unfinnished and based on feedback they'r completed.

It not early access as in play the game early.

[IvoryTemplar]

USMCdecoy님이 먼저 게시:

I have the reading comprehension of a first grader, and I'm angy the game isn't more polished.

Translated.

[The Rizzler]

Vivian, Mana & Kendall님이 먼저 게시:

0wnz0r님이 먼저 게시:

no it aint a beta.


more like alpha.

You clearly don't know what an alpha is then. An alpha is a rough prototype that can barely be called a game. This is clearly int he realm of beta.

No I would barely call this a beta

[GamingWithSilvertail]

A beta isnt lacking features and depending on what type of beta and purpose of beta it can be as big or as small, but these happen when the game is actually complete. Theres multilpayer beta's to stress the servers for instance. That mean you dont access a big part of the game, even thou its most likely complete.

Alpha lacks features. This game does lack features. Its lacking 40%(?) of the game. So by standards, thats not a beta, thats an alpha.

This is a prototype and prototypes can be as playable as they can be or as rubbish as they can be.

[Toastie Buns]

Tell that to Warframe that's in perpetual beta lmao

[Miro Fox]

Early access doesn't mean "Beta"

We might be looking at an earlier build than that, Maybe even Alpha.

Early access just means While they work on it, you get to play their super early builds.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Toastie Buns님이 먼저 게시:

Tell that to Warframe that's in perpetual beta lmao

Live service always online game, not that I support it, but yeah. Not really comparible with PW

[Reaper]

As far I'm concern it's Final.Beta.Alpha
Palworld version update v0.1.3.0. I just go by the project/program/software version update like this. So I say this game is in beta. A beta can also lack features as well, even 40%.

Beta:
It is considered a form of external User Acceptance Testing and is the final test before shipping a product to the customers. Direct feedback from customers is a major advantage of beta testing.

[Toastie Buns]

GamingWithSilvertail님이 먼저 게시:

Toastie Buns님이 먼저 게시:

Tell that to Warframe that's in perpetual beta lmao

Live service always online game, not that I support it, but yeah. Not really comparible with PW

There's plenty of other examples. DayZ for example, hit 1.0 release and then started adding new features. They recently added crossbows. The whole idea that alpha = features, beta = fixing is an archaic terminology that doesn't apply to modern games anymore. We expect new mechanics, new ideas, innovation, otherwise the crow calls of "Game dead" arise from the fanbase.
Or take another game which I personally love, Deep Rock. It left beta and then began to create seasonal content that introduced new mechanics, new mobs etc.

[Kriya Takagi]

The term early access and beta somehow ended up merging which can lead to confusion because both were originally their own separate categories. Originally it was alpha test -> closed beta -> open beta -> early access -> offical release.
Early Access was more so a promotion piece to let those who preordered, bought a game between a promotional period, or took part in the test phases get to play the game early before the official release.
In most cases the game itself is in a completed/ship able state.

Today tho Early Access and open beta/beta have become one in the same now. As the phase of a game still in development not complete but playble.

Essentially Early Access is now the Open beta testing phase of the game's development cycle.
However there are games that still use the original cycle format so I can see why people can get confused.

[G-Yuki]

If this was beta all the intended features would be fully implemented and all that's left is for polish and bug fixes. As of right now admitted by the studio. This game is still in an incomplete state with half of the features they wanted to be put in still in development. Calling it an Alpha is more appropriate.

[Kriya Takagi]

G-Yuki님이 먼저 게시:

If this was beta all the intended features would be fully implemented and all that's left is for polish and bug fixes. As of right now admitted by the studio. This game is still in an incomplete state with half of the features they wanted to be put in still in development. Calling it an Alpha is more appropriate.

Not exactly beta is just the phase where the game mechanics available are in a playable state and testing to make sure things are working as they should with mechanics working properly together to where they can start working on and implementing the final features of the game.
What you are referencing is the early access phase that's where the game is essentially complete and is a way to gather any bugs or issues that might have been overlooked

[MrSoul]

Eat some crayons, you’ll feel better.

[Miro Fox]

Mr.Soul님이 먼저 게시:

Eat some crayons, you’ll feel better.

Red ones are my favorite. Cherry~