How to get access to playtest it.

[jrswarrior10]

I've Spent some time playing DRG on Xbox, and am asking for it on steam for christamas, I love DRG and would really like to join in any playtest or beta if possible

[Ser Pounce]

No details available on how the playtest will be conducted for now.

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by Zeruca:

They haven't even shown gameplay so all it is now is a vague promise of a game.

Gameplay is being livestreamed in about 10 hours.

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by Zeruca:

Originally posted by Revalopod:

Gameplay is being livestreamed in about 10 hours.

Yeah just watched it aaaaaaaaand it’s just a free update for DRG they are charging full price for…… shocker!

Yeah just looks like a few new mission types, not a whole new game.

[RaNdOmKiLs666]

Yeah seems more like an update then a new game.

[Hikak]

I missed the live stream, ill try to find it.

If its 'just' some mission(s) types as long as its multiple of those it still justifies either a chunky gameplay DLC or a separate game in my opinion. Cosmetic DLC's can only generate so much revenue, at one point adding another season with another cosmetic DLC to finance that mission type will go into the negative for the company.

Again it is just my opinion.

[Ser Pounce]

Originally posted by Hikak:

I missed the live stream, ill try to find it.

https://youtu.be/SZdq9fLe7yM?t=4711

timestamped for the Rogue Core segment too.

[Synka]

As someone who was a closed-beta tester for DRG I'd be very excited to playtest this too, hope we get a fair chance to get in

[Buttfudger 3000]

Originally posted by Zeruca:

Originally posted by Revalopod:

Gameplay is being livestreamed in about 10 hours.

Yeah just watched it aaaaaaaaand it’s just a free update for DRG they are charging full price for…… shocker!

What do you even mean bro.. like they have legit never done that. They have treated their community with so much love, care and respect.

[Hilda]

Originally posted by Revalopod:

Originally posted by Zeruca:

Yeah just watched it aaaaaaaaand it’s just a free update for DRG they are charging full price for…… shocker!

Yeah just looks like a few new mission types, not a whole new game.

There is not just new mission types, there are a whole aray of new enemies, a new upgrade system within the missions and they said that the metta progression is also different, this is like a new game with the same (and new) asets. In my opinion totaly worth it being a new game. Also you act so spoild when you expect to gain this for free when they spent like two years or more on this. I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate how privalaged yall are.

Annyways, sory for my terrible spelling, I am swedish and english is my second language (though I am not much better at spelling in my first tbh)
Also cave monkey :)

[Hilda]

Oh also in responce to the post, I have not heard anything about a beta test but I hope you get chosen :)

[jrswarrior10]

Originally posted by Hilda:

Oh also in responce to the post, I have not heard anything about a beta test but I hope you get chosen :)

Thanks, you too.

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by Hilda:

Originally posted by Revalopod:

Yeah just looks like a few new mission types, not a whole new game.

There is not just new mission types, there are a whole aray of new enemies, a new upgrade system within the missions and they said that the metta progression is also different, this is like a new game with the same (and new) asets. In my opinion totaly worth it being a new game. Also you act so spoild when you expect to gain this for free when they spent like two years or more on this. I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate how privalaged yall are.

Annyways, sory for my terrible spelling, I am swedish and english is my second language (though I am not much better at spelling in my first tbh)
Also cave monkey :)

An upgrade system that looks like the most boring possible system of percentage stat increases that completely misses what makes good roguelites actually good and replayable?
Being in development for 2 years and using all DRG assets as placeholder to expedite development and yet barely anything new to show for it?
DRG in just it's first year of development was immensely more interesting and promising and it had to make everything from scratch; it didn't have the luxury of copy pasting from existing games.
Even if this was a free update, there's still criticisms to be had.

[Hilda]

Originally posted by Revalopod:

An upgrade system that looks like the most boring possible system of percentage stat increases that completely misses what makes good roguelites actually good and replayable?
Being in development for 2 years and using all DRG assets as placeholder to expedite development and yet barely anything new to show for it?
DRG in just it's first year of development was immensely more interesting and promising and it had to make everything from scratch; it didn't have the luxury of copy pasting from existing games.
Even if this was a free update, there's still criticisms to be had.

Well yea I'm also a bit dissapointed in the lack of progress and especialy the lack of info they gave us but I like to think optimisticaly.
Now to your arguments, there is still time to make the uppgrades more interesting and synergetic. What they have now is (I hope) just placeholder upgrades that are easier to impliment for the moment. Another thing is they were moving ofices and doing season 5 in the midle of development wich might have made the progress slower.

I realy hope that they will give more information as they continue development and that they do add better upgrades :)

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by Hilda:

Now to your arguments, there is still time to make the uppgrades more interesting and synergetic. What they have now is (I hope) just placeholder upgrades that are easier to impliment for the moment.

I hope that too, but if that's placeholder too, then what isn't? Just the new enemies I guess.

I want to be more optimistic, but nothing I'm seeing is impressing me as much as the original did from the beginning. GSG made the best co-op shooter ever imo but this new game just looks like they're trying to copy their game and force it into a different genre that they don't have a good grasp of.

A lot of my favourite games are roguelites (Binding of Isaac, Dead Cells, Risk of Rain 2, Enter the Gungeon, Gunfire Reborn, Heroes of Hammerwatch) but I don't think it's a good idea to make roguelite spinoffs of everything. There's no room for mediocre roguelites in my life; they're a genre of game you're meant to you play for hundreds of hours so if it's anything less than amazing, it may as well not exist to me.

I'm sure they'll update it and iterate on it but one of the most important things is the core systems and those rarely change (in fact, that's exactly why this is a new game and not a DLC, because it would be too laborious to fit into the systems of DRG), and that's what I'm most concerned about.

[>:(]

i played the beta for 44 hours. its going to be a disaster. im sorry everyone.