Dirty Bomb enters closed alpha, shows off analytics
Splash Damage's self-funded PC shooter Dirty Bomb has entered closed alpha today, and the studio has released a trailer showing off its analytics system and how it has already impacted the game in pre-alpha testing.
Splash Damage's self-funded PC shooter Dirty Bomb is entering closed alpha today so those of you in the Founder's Club can check your e-mail shortly to see if your key has come yet. Meanwhile, the developer has released new footage to show off Echo, its analytics system.
You can sign up at the official site. You could also purchase your way into immediate access for a cool $120, which grants you some bonuses like a founder's tag, art book, and soundtrack.
The trailer shows how the developer has already used Echo to alter some maps in its pre-alpha testing, in response to factors like disproportionate deaths in certain parts of the map.
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Splash Damage's self-funded PC shooter Dirty Bomb has entered closed alpha today, and the studio has released a trailer showing off its analytics system and how it has already impacted the game in pre-alpha testing.-
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Have we really reached a point where studios are announcing "closed alpha" testing?
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For this case, I like the idea, because Brink could've used far more public feedback to balance it and streamline or eliminate elements that didn't work well. Brink being a console game also hurt it, in terms of the low multiplayer count and being stuck with the bots most of the time, which made the gameplay worse because their AI didn't handle objective-based gameplay well.
Dirty Bomb sounds like Brink's core mechanics, on PC only, without the derisive fiction, or being stuck with console platform development and testing. It also is self-published, and the pre-orders to enter closed alpha are funding the game's production. In a currently barren PC FPS ecosystem riddled with stupid DRM here and console cross-dev concessions there, Dirty Bomb sounds promising. -
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Word on the street is that this alpha is a real, working alpha and not a "demo" like many betas.
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and costs $120, unlike many betas.
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Not seeing the problem here. It's a pretty effective gate to only let seriously interested folks to see an unfinished WIP. It's not the only way to play early, just for those not involved in the community. I'd be really surprised if it's not free by the time they get to serious stress testing at the end of beta.
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I really like Splash Damage as a company and want them to succeed. They've got some wonderful ideas and are super innovative when it comes to the multiplayer FPS.
I was really sad that people didn't like Brink. It had its flaws, but it does not deserve the hate it gets around here.-
Brink seems like the kind of game I'd drop into if it were F2P and I could spend 10$ for some fun.
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The more footage I see, the more this looks like ETQW/ET movement and that is definitely the direction I want to see. I don't know if the market would ever support another game with circle strafe jumping again, but I wish it would.
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