Hellgate London

[Thief Silver]

Howdy folks. Just want to give you all a heads-up with a few Beta updates. First, the US Beta will be ending this Friday at 10:00AM PST. This will include a full character wipe. Yeah, I know some of you didn't get to play as long as others, but the final game will be out in the US just a few days later.


That said, some time just before launch (don't have a specific time/date yet), we'll actually be opening the Beta server back up for about a week. "This makes no sense, Kaiser!" Well, maybe not at first, but not everyone will be able to get the game on launch day for various reasons. This way, if you're in the Beta and are still waiting for your game to arrive, you'll still be able to play Hellgate. Also, the characters you create during this time will transfer over into your retail account. Once this happens, any caps/restrictions will be lifted. Yay! The characters will still have the Beta caps on them (such as level caps and such), but you can at least get started with your characters.


Hmm, what else. Oh yeah. You might see a new server environment pop up. This is mostly for testing the Patch 0 features internally, though some of you might be able to see it. There's no guarantee you'll see it, but if you do, at least you'll know what's going on. Also, this is important: if you do see it and get access to it, any characters used on this server will be duplicates, so any changes that occur to your character will not be reflected on the "normal" servers, and vice versa.


Lastly, we'll be starting a European Beta sometime soon. This will be short and to the point, mainly as a last check on our servers. We'll be sending out invites to a select group of Europeans. If this includes you, please, try it out. Though the game will be the same as the current US Beta, one, we need you all to help us ensure the Euro servers are perfect, and two, you can get your European account name before everyone else. Worth it, right? ^_^


Thanks everyone!

That's odd, so basically, after they do the character wipe, we'll be able to remake our characters under the assumption of Beta and play the game as though it were still the BETA until you install the retail version.

[Rtificial]

Well if for some reason you don't get your copy of the game on launch, least you're not sitting there stewing while others get to play. Beta cap is like lvl 21 I believe and I don't think you'll be able to get that high by the time you get your copy and release the beta cap.

I'm about to hit lvl 10 and look like wolverine got possesed by soul calibur. Least now I know what skills I wanna lvl up when I get reset.

p.s, that one side mission where you have to use a tranquilzer gun on this one enemy is giving me shit fits. I'm gonna have to try another strategy for this one.

[Yoshi]

That's awesome. As soon as someone realizes the servers have come back up after Friday, we need to get the word out here.

[Thief Silver]

Agreed, I'm probably going to go ahead and refrain from playing this anymore until the server's come back up. Also I've only grouped with Chux so I haven't been able to notice if it goes Diablo II style and every player in the party makes the zone harder/gives more XP. What is fucking awesome though is you're the only one who sees your loot. So Chux sees different loot than I see, so we don't have to fight over loot.

So I'd be curious if we all grouped up like from level 1 if the enemies would be tough as balls and if we'd be getting a shitton of Xp from every enemy.

[Rtificial]

Thats pretty neat about loot, I was wondering about that myself. Yea I was debating on quitting playing. I wanna hit lvl 10 and finish up this last side mission on the second station. After that I'll probably quit and see if I can find Zack and Wiki and play that till release. I had some decent weapons to give away in my locker too.

[Nick]

Make sure to post here (and send me a PM if you'd be so kind) when the beta servers go back up, 'cause I want to start some permanent characters as soon as possible.

[Thief Silver]

Agreed I'll check as much as I can.

Also, I got my European beta invite.

[Rtificial]

When do you get they dye kit?

[Yoshi]

At launch. They weren't enabled in the beta.

[Thief Silver]

Hey everyone. Sorry for the short notice, but in the next 15 minutes or so at 1:30PM PDT, you'll be able to hop into the game and start creating characters. At 5:00PM PDT, the game will open up to everyone else. This goes for both the US and EU servers. Get to it!

I think, I'm not seeing the server though.