Mass Beta Testing Starting THIS WEEKEND

[Saint]

Im playing Mass effect 2 again... great game. getting my bioware fix!

[Fuse]

I got back into Starcraft 2...

[calmbomb]

yeap nothing here

[CopperSol]

So I didnt get in this weekend

[ZephixLeer (Zephic)]

Was fun, but sadly i didnt get my invite until 2am on the 5th... so yeah. I was able to get all of 40 minutes in after work. What I saw, I loved.

[Tbone]

Zephic, were you gone all weekend? That sounds horrible. Also, does that mean the test lasted until Monday evening??

[ZephixLeer (Zephic)]

it lasted until Tuesday at 12:30am CST actually. They evidentally felt bad for all the lag and gave the community 30 extra minutes. (Or the guy operating the server fell asleep and woke up 30 minutes late... maybe.)

And yeah, I was moving to a new apartment most of the weekend and hadn't checked my mail until 2am monday morning. Plus, it hit my SPAM box...

So anyway, after a rather large download (like 20+ gigs large) i was in for about 20 minutes before work and 40 minutes after.

Was a real bummer for me. I essentially got a real nice teaser, but not enough time to really figure much out. Just killed a bunch of stuff as a trooper.

Edit:

Guess I should clear up what I'm talking about with the lag I mentioned above. I'm not sure how long it went on, but when I arrived after work it was so severe that I would almost completely time out and then have momentary minutes of clean gaming. The network monitor would go red with an X as if I had disconnected completely, then go completely green and have no lag at all. It was really bad there for a while. Probably 20 of the total 40 minutes I played after work were lagged out. I think this was a temporary issue though, as when I played for about 20 minutes before work, everything was completely fine.

[JazzyC]

For all those Euro people (like me) waiting for that invite to not appear in their inbox.

BioWare has postponed sending Star Wars: The Old Republic beta invites to European gamers.

The developer will now wait for a "major" new build of the game to arrive "later this week" before bringing a batch of European testers in, revealed European community manager Chris Collins. (The "later this week" date is not set in stone, but there's "every chance" it will happen.)

The arrival of the new Star Wars: The Old Republic client will take SWTOR offline, wipe all characters and require everyone to download the 27GB SWTOR client again.

BioWare didn't want to invite European testers this week, ask them to download a 27GB game and, then, days later, wipe their characters, turn the service off and ask them to download the client again. It's "not an experience we want new testers to be exposed to", Collins wrote.

This new build also brings first localised French and German versions of Star Wars: The Old Republic. And BioWare is "keen" to get "a lot" of feedback from these territories.

"Given the news of this new build, it's now more important than ever that we invite European players into the game testing environments," Collins shared. "You have my word that this batch of invites will happen, it may just mean you just have to wait a little longer."

"It's also important to remember this is just the beginning. In the future, we'll be inviting more and more testers to the EU game testing environments as well as future game testing weekends. So even if you're not invited to this next round of testing, there will still be plenty of chances to get involved."

[NoCry]

Crikey I had better not end up with a frigging French one!

[Subb]

27GB... FML. I'm in the country at the moment and my highest D/L speed at the moment is roughly 300kbs. I want to get back to my 1.4mbs

[Amarantus]

Have we had anyone get an email for this upcoming weekend yet?

[Tbone]

They haven't sent out emails yet. It's possible they are deciding whether or not to roll out a new build. I know that currently one of the testing servers is down unexpectedly. I imagine they will want to stabilize things before sending out another batch.

[Ash]

On a somewhat related question, does anyone know where I can re-send or update the dxdiag file I sent TOR when originally applying for the beta?  I'd like to send them the spec's for my laptop which has better hardware and can actually play the game.

[Tbone]

I read somewhere that they did away with the system check since they are no longer inviting based on system specs.

[Ash]

sweet, might actually have a 1% chance of getting into beta now!