Join us for our live-stream Steam Q+A and playtest!

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We are doing a live-stream Q+A and playtest as part of the Steam Autumn Festival. It is happening Sat 10th of October at UTC 7PM (US Central 2PM, UK 8PM).

Live stream and chat can be accessed at the Steam event below:

GM’s @GM_stormcrow and @GM_Cerberus will be on the stream and chat answering any questions you might have.

However, please do participate in the playtest as a player! To reserve your place for our playtest, sign your pilot up at portal.ageofascent.com , if you have participated before and want to use an existing account and pilot name, or if you go through the Steam demo app that is part of the festival, you can sign up with a new pilot (currently if you have used a different authentication method than Steam going via the demo app won’t link your account so you will not be able to use your current pilot name).

Please return to portal.ageofascent.com when the next playtest is due to start, and you will be automatically admitted. After the playtest has finished, please come back to this thread to give us your feedback and comments!

We are only running the PvP experience in this live-stream playtest, not the full game. You’ll get the best experience if you have equipment suitable for piloting (eg mouse and keyboard, or a gamepad controller - we do not currently support joysticks, but will in the future)

You’ll need to be in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge web browsers on any OS of your choice.

Next scheduled playtests for the festival:

  • Saturday 10 Oct 2020, UTC 7PM (US Central 2PM, UK 8PM)
  • Monday 12 Oct 2020, UTC 7PM (US Central 2PM, UK 8PM)
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Join us for our live-stream Steam playtests!
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Pos Player Name Shots Fired Shots Hit Accuracy Kills
1 Psycho Romeo 76,896 74,472 97% 122
2 ubluntu 84,912 35,813 42% 25
3 SzaryWilk 21,640 11,491 53% 14
4 GM Cerberus 53,368 10,593 20% 13
5 Wartow 102,552 8,667 8% 10
6 GM Thundercat 15,552 7,060 45% 7
7 Ewarwoowoo 36,864 499 1% 2
8 Belladonna 3,536 737 21% 1
9 GM Stormcrow 2,024 669 33% 1
10 SHU 3,048 427 14% 1
11 John 1,360 358 26% 1
12 ahmet 640 337 53% 1
13 Kraken 1,576 142 9% 1
14 Avenger 640 128 20% 1
15 Hypernova 152 99 65% 1
16 Ivan 3,840 373 10% 0
17 Upsurge 2,368 352 15% 0
18 HalfTraveller 2,240 336 15% 0
19 Gladius 424 58 14% 0
20 Reaper 288 41 14% 0
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That was a blast!

Definitely enjoyed being able to interact with the developers in a way that didn’t involve just outright shooting them.

I also liked the freighters - having such a drastically different geometric profile will call for very different tactics when flying them.

#5

Ships and stations are looking great.

It appeared there was some sort pilot name bug that made multiple ships sometimes appear with the same name. Like in this screenshot where we have 2 PsycoRomeos.

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Thanks for another great playtest.

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Maybe that’s how PR gets such high kill rates!!

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#7

lol; it looks a bit like what was reported with Cardenia Wu’s doppelganger on the playtest prior.

Def worth looking into at our end, though.

Thanks to everyone for participating and for asking such good questions. This’ll be the first of many livestreams coming up, as we have more areas of the full game to demonstrate.

Hope to see you then,

SC

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I saw two GM Thundercats this session too!

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Pos Player Name Shots Fired Shots Hit Accuracy Kills
1 Psycho Romeo 76,896 74,472 97% 122
2 ubluntu 84,912 35,813 42% 25
3 SzaryWilk 21,640 11,491 53% 14
4 GM Cerberus 53,368 10,593 20% 13
5 Wartow 102,552 8,667 8% 10
6 GM Thundercat 15,552 7,060 45% 7
7 Ewarwoowoo 36,864 499 1% 2
8 Belladonna 3,536 737 21% 1
9 GM Stormcrow 2,024 669 33% 1
10 SHU 3,048 427 14% 1
11 John 1,360 358 26% 1
12 ahmet 640 337 53% 1
13 Kraken 1,576 142 9% 1
14 Avenger 640 128 20% 1
15 Hypernova 152 99 65% 1
16 Ivan 3,840 373 10% 0
17 Upsurge 2,368 352 15% 0
18 HalfTraveller 2,240 336 15% 0
19 Gladius 424 58 14% 0
20 Reaper 288 41 14% 0
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…I think my accuracy score got inflated somehow. That’s also a lot (a lot) of kills - did the freighters count as more than one?

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Turns out have been under counting shots fired; didn’t adjust it for the faster weapon. All hits were counted, but shots were undercounted. Should be corrected for today’s playtest.

Playtest was 60 mins vs 30 mins normally and the bots were in for most of the playtest rather than only 5 mins; so since you got 69 kills in the last 30 min playtest 129 kills is not unexpected?

Will have the shot counting fixed for today’s playtest so the accuracy numbers should be correct today.

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Were 3 ship types for this (Monday) playtest; Freighter and Fighter for NPCs and Frigate for players; next playtest will be Sat 14 November.

See you then, thank you all!

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#13

Those fighters are really, really, really tiny. Very hard to hit for how healthy they were.