Alpha Launch Day - PLAY BY PLAY

PLAY BY PLAY

Greetings friends! Today, we will be launching Alpha and emailing unique rewards to the 1st batch of AQWorlds: Infinity Kickstarter backers. 

• 1:30 pm - SENDING EMAILS NOW! (Wave One! Be sure to check your Spam mail folder.) 
  • Mysterious Stranger Backers (SENT)
  • Custom Weapon & Armor Set Backers (SENT)
  • Benevolent Backers (SENT)
  • Immortal Backers (SENT)
  • Fixing 1st round of found issues before continuing to send codes.... 
  • Legendary Founders (Not sent yet. Soon!)
  • Underworld Founders (Not sent yet. Soon!)
  • Founders  (Not sent yet Soon!.)
  • Funded it myself backers (Not sent yet Soon!.)
  • Wave 2 is coming within the next week (This will include backers who completed their pledge manager / survey last Thursday until now.)
• 1:31 pm - ALL CLEAR!
  • Restarting all servers...
  • Alpha is now LIVE
• 1:16 pm - Doing a final Cloud Build of streaming game content.... deploying to the content delivery network (CDN). 
• 1:11 pm - Waiting for the all-clear (We have not emailed any codes yet)
• 1:08 pm - Should I be concerned that we have not had any catastrophic issues yet? This eerie quiet forebodes doom...
• 1:04 pm - Final review of the Backer Emails (Making sure the links work.) Remember... keep your secret link... SECRET!
• 1:03 pm - I pulled in a few players as emergency "smoke test" testers to make sure the codes are working as intended before we start sending the mail. Good news! The codes seem to be working fine. 
• 1:00 pm - Spider pushed a GFX fix. PixelPete is nearly done fixing the rewards button on the login screen. 
• 12:41 pm - We are still testing and have not emailed any reward codes yet. I will announce here first when we start sending codes. 
• 12:41 pm - Diagnosing a 501/Error that we are experiencing when switch being back and forth between Worlds & Infinity
• 12:30 pm - PRO TIP! When Alpha starts, you can solve most content issues with the game, completely restart the game and clear cache from the login screen..
• 12:15 pm - Fixed map player limits.
• 12:15 pm - Fixing a game server login permission issue. 
• 12:10 pm - Here is what this looks like on our end. Everyone joins voice chat together. We share our screens to work on problems and fix things. 

• 11:55 am - Please know we have not emailed codes yet. We are waiting for the "all clear". A few minor issues remaining. I will let you know when we start emailing codes. 
• 11:45 am - Alpha Servers online! (Permissions set to Kickstarter backers only for this first week as we stabilize the servers. We will uphold our promises to the Upholders of the Tech Demos.)

• 11:40 am - Attempting to... activate all 3 Alpha servers. O_O
• 11:12 am - Zhoom published a fix for the Class purchasing issue. 
• 11:15 am - Zhoom is configuring the 3 Alpha servers. 
• 11:00 am - Warlic & Ghost are fixing some asset bundles that did not cloud convert to the live servers correctly
• 10:45 am - ...
• 10:34 am - Fixing a issue where players cannot buy Classes from the class shop
• 10:13 am - Ghost & Despair online. Dev team is testing. 
• 10:10 am - Despair modeled some HeroMart gear a while back. Stryche sent a secret promo image to go on the Backer Reward Page. 
• 10:07 am - Discovered Warlic already woke up early and did a game client and cloud build (Nice!)
• 10:00 am - Building latest game client & starting final map review
• 9:45 am - Artix & Zhoom, J# start the Dev Discord Call
• 9:30 am - Coffee maker.... online.

ALPHA NOTES

In the great words of Cysero, "We will be releasing at exactly Ready-O-Clock"

• Please do not message the Kickstarter today.
• Read the last Kickstarter Backer Update for what to expect
• Today will be a wild ride. Expect things to crash & break catastrophically. 
• We will be fixing the client, server, and files as things are discovered. 
• If you already played the Tech Demo, you will not need to use a Steam Key. But you will need a Reward Code that we are emailing you to unlock access to log into a server. 
• The 1st Wave of Backers is everyone who completed their pledge manager / surveys by the end of last Wednesday. We will do a second batch within a week. 
• We added two buttons at the top right of your screen.
  • Gravelyn - Click this button and Gravelyn will help you navigate the game
  • KS Chest - Click this to access your Kickstarter rewards from anywhere.