As promised in our PAX wrap up post, I bring news of our up coming BETA release! Two weeks from today, April 10th, we will be pushing up PC/Mac/Linux builds to the Steam beta channel making it available through the BETAS opt in screen. We will provide more instructions the day of release.
Please understand in our efforts to manage the BETA process and make sure we can resolve issues across the three platforms in as efficient manner as possible, this first BETA will have some limited functionality compared to the live Early Access version. So what can you expect from BETA 1? We are focusing on ensuring that the new tech works properly across the three platforms. We want to ensure that the game downloads and installs correctly and that the game launches and plays without crashes.
Since this build is a developmental build, it does include some additional debugging, so we expect the frame rate to be a bit slower than it would be otherwise, but we do recognize that we will still need to do some additional optimizations based on the data we collect. From a gameplay perspective, we are limiting functionality to only a few single player missions. We will not be enabling multi-player for this pass. We also have the first batch of Pilot Training missions to help new players learn about the game and how to control their Mech.
We will also have a new hangar and mech build process for you to play with. Our hope is that the process of building and customizing mechs will be more intuitive and allow us to expand it as we go a long. When the beta is released we hope to have some tutorial videos in place to help understand the new process until we can add ingame help and tutorials.
Again, the primary goal for this BETA is to resolve any platform issues that we run into. Once we get passed any major hurdles, we will roll out additional functionality, such as multi-player. Stay tuned for more information as we get closer to April 10th! For more news follow us on twitter @mgtgames (twitter.com/mgtgames) To join the conversation hit the forums: http://steamcommunity.com/app/266470/discussions To keep up to date join the official game group: http://steamcommunity.com/games/dhmc

As promised in our PAX wrap up post, I bring news of our up coming BETA release! Two weeks from today, April 10th, we will be pushing up PC/Mac/Linux builds to the Steam beta channel making it available through the BETAS opt in screen. We will provide more instructions the day of release.
Please understand in our efforts to manage the BETA process and make sure we can resolve issues across the three platforms in as efficient manner as possible, this first BETA will have some limited functionality compared to the live Early Access version. So what can you expect from BETA 1? We are focusing on ensuring that the new tech works properly across the three platforms. We want to ensure that the game downloads and installs correctly and that the game launches and plays without crashes.
Since this build is a developmental build, it does include some additional debugging, so we expect the frame rate to be a bit slower than it would be otherwise, but we do recognize that we will still need to do some additional optimizations based on the data we collect. From a gameplay perspective, we are limiting functionality to only a few single player missions. We will not be enabling multi-player for this pass. We also have the first batch of Pilot Training missions to help new players learn about the game and how to control their Mech.
We will also have a new hangar and mech build process for you to play with. Our hope is that the process of building and customizing mechs will be more intuitive and allow us to expand it as we go a long. When the beta is released we hope to have some tutorial videos in place to help understand the new process until we can add ingame help and tutorials.
Again, the primary goal for this BETA is to resolve any platform issues that we run into. Once we get passed any major hurdles, we will roll out additional functionality, such as multi-player. Stay tuned for more information as we get closer to April 10th! For more news follow us on twitter @mgtgames (twitter.com/mgtgames) To join the conversation hit the forums: http://steamcommunity.com/app/266470/discussions To keep up to date join the official game group: http://steamcommunity.com/games/dhmc