Hello β Beta Testers! It’s Tuesday–not our usual beta day–but this is not our usual beta release. 💺Buckle up.
Most of our team is going to be out for a ☀️summer break🕶️ for the next few weeks. While we’re out, development is going to be quiet. Beyond Episode 25 will go out with our next production release in about 3 weeks; and since 🐈 Explore: Cats came out, it will be a while before we have a new Event to test. But we want to go Beyond what we usually do for beta to make sure that you’ve got plenty to play while we’re out.
This beta release (v 26.87) has an early beta of the rest of the Beyond through Episode 30. The Episodes are there. The generators and trait cards are there. Achievements are in. The missions are there. There are placeholder visuals in the Garden, along with a few surprises - our universe is vast and amazing!
It is an early beta, so many, many visual assets are placeholder, and many others that are in are going to get some beautiful ✨polish when we get back. We don’t need bug reports on Garden objects or icons that aren’t complete. We haven’t translated past Episode 25, so we don’t need translation issues reported. But we definitely want your 🖋️ feedback on tuning, on English text, on the story, and what ‘made it’ into the game. We can use bug reports on how things work, like the cool bugs recently with zooming out on the Tree or losing the UI during rank up. We’ve really appreciated the feedback you’ve given us so far in the Beyond (and on Events).
The ➿ Beyond Jump is also working overtime in this release. The Beyond Jump is turned back on, so as you finish each episode, the game will save a Beyond Jump for you. You can use the pink Jump Button in the tree near Alpha Centauri to jump back to the end of any episode you’ve completed. But this is your choice! We will not force a reset until we get back and have released Episode 25.