Dayz SA only 150 People allowed in Open alpha? is it true?

[NozRee 4]

i heard a few people saying only 100- 150 people will be selected. in the coming 3 - 4 weeks ( before june i suppose or after , idk )

is this true?

Heard this from frankie and few other people.

[mzltv 2281]

I'm not entirely sure how many people were nominated. Specific infomation about the coming external closed testing may be discussed at E3.

I keep thinking I've missed the boat on this topic, though.

[JSparks (DayZ) 109]

I don't like how as soon as Frankie says something it becomes automatic common knowledge among the DayZ community. It's obnoxious.

The "public" alpha will of course be public, however there will be a release for YouTubers and streamers etc. before the public build is available.

Edited June 10, 2013 by JSparks

[mzltv 2281]

The "public" alpha will of course be public, however there will be a release for YouTubers and streamers etc. before the public build is available.

The current planning for release (as far as I am aware) is:-

- External Closed Testing (comprising of streamers and various other members of the community)

- Public Alpha Release (which will have limited keys released in batches upon the bug-fixing/satisfaction of the external closed testing builds)

[NozRee 4]

I don't like how as soon as Frankie says something it becomes automatic common knowledge among the DayZ community. It's obnoxious.

The "public" alpha will of course be public, however there will be a release for YouTubers and streamers etc. before the public build is available.

so the public alpha will have limited acces?

Edited June 10, 2013 by NozRee

[Nhz (DayZ) 5]

Hopefully it will be more since then there is a bigger chance i get a key. I'd give my left arm for a key

[NozRee 4]

The current planning for release (as far as I am aware) is:-

- External Closed Testing (comprising of streamers and various other members of the community)

- Public Alpha Release (which will have limited keys released in batches upon the bug-fixing/satisfaction of the external closed testing builds)

so the public alpha will have limited acces?

edit : sorry for double post >.>

Edited June 10, 2013 by NozRee

[NightmareGER 21]

The 100 to 150 people is also the number the dev team is looking for as how big the servers will be.

Maybe someone mixed some facts up about those numbers

Edited June 10, 2013 by NightmareGER

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

Did "Frankie" cite a source for this info? It's just we've become used to speculation, sadly many people read speculation as facts now days.

[RJTurneR 112]

Not limited access, just Streamers/YouTube'ers will begin playing shortly before us, not sure if thats some sort of reward for helping the mod become popular though..?

Everyone should have the same amount of access though. To be honest, It would be best to wait and see what Rocket says at E3. Some of the guys on YouTube have spread false hope or worried people on more than one occassion..

[mzltv 2281]

so the public alpha will have limited acces?

I remember reading that they wanted to release keys for the game in batches at a time, just to ensure that they don't release 2,000,000 game keys to have the servers/hive completely melt down and destroy the rep from the game on release day. Kind of like a deterrent to ensure what happened to Sim City doesn't happen to DayZ..

[NozRee 4]

Did "Frankie" cite a source for this info? It's just we've become used to speculation, sadly many people read speculation as facts now days.

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no source was given.

Edited June 10, 2013 by NozRee

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

Cheers. Well, TBH you don't have anymore info than I do. Obviously before the public alpha release the servers will have to be stress tested as will the engine/game so maybe streamers/YT'ers will be a part of the larger tests whilst also allowing them to make the gameplay public as they do so.

So far our testing has all taken place using relatively small amounts of people so it would make sense.

Who knows? Not me.

[Inception. 9443]

Who knows? Not me.

Lies, Fraggle knows everything.

[Blondedash 403]

Who knows? Not me.

cough, cough

[Aimstrong 50]

Rocket said, they are already 30-100, so I don't think so and he said he reads the forum a lot and this is the time you can answer rocket!

[burritoman259 593]

Okay people can we Google this type of thing before starting another topic which has been common knowledge for the last couple of months and stop believing everything Frankie doesn't source?

Thank you.

[TheDesigner 1197]

Rocket said, they are already 30-100, so I don't think so and he said he reads the forum a lot and this is the time you can answer rocket!

He's probably hibernating from the RC incident.

Edited June 10, 2013 by TheDesigner

[Derpy_Hooves (DayZ) 4521]

Hmmm i might actually clear some space to get some footage then for when we are allowed to publicly show it....

[Rutch 4]

In my opinion it'd be rather wise(at least, far from stupid) to grant youtubers/streamers early access.

Considering they will be the ones posting videos, which a lot of people will see. While the average 'I want to play Dayz NOW!' player will just keep it to himself mostly (And even if they'd want to share it, they don't have thousands of subscribers).

[Nhz (DayZ) 5]

I have 400GB of space for DayZ standalone footage :P

[jackadam01 0]

I think they should send it to the people with high end computers for they will be more dedicated to test the game in most cases.

[RJTurneR 112]

I think they should send it to the people with high end computers for they will be more dedicated to test the game in most cases.

Then half the people will start replying saying they run an i7 @ 5.0Ghz and Titan SLI, although the Loadout beta had something where it detects your hardware to see what kind of setups get what results to better optimise the game. Generally speaking most Streamers and YT'ers run high end hardware for obvious reasons, and those who struggle will be able to give feedback to improve optimisation for low/mid-end setups.

[burritoman259 593]

I think they should send it to the people with high end computers for they will be more dedicated to test the game in most cases.

I'm going to take a guess and say this represents yourself accurately?

[TheDesigner 1197]

I'm going to take a guess and say this represents yourself accurately?

They should send it to people who have both "The" and "Designer".