Star Control Origins - Exploration BETA?

It'd be nice, but...my guess is "never".

Have to admit, Fleet Battles has gotten old for me, too, and I'm dying to play the full game, but I can't really see much of a difference between the full game and an exploration Beta. I mean, unless they took out all of the story and just let us go from system to system.

Yeah i was hoping for a full game for a long time and i downgraded my hopes to hopes for a exploration beta. The announced release date is around 40 ish day and i am really afraid of a game without going over a long full game beta.

Space combat is an important part of the game but it is far from what makes the whole game a star control game.

If you purchased the game you can post over on the Steam forums for an invite to the first chapter.   They have basically been letting anyone who wants to play it play it.   it is only about 30 min of game play and only in the Sol System... but it gives one a good feel of the game.

Although I am a big fan of nearly all stardock games and star control, I am really troubled by games that are not undergone a full crowded open beta that covers the whole game. I am also a big fan of mass effect franchise and look what being rushed by EA and going to release without a good beta test did to Mass Effect Andromeda and killed the franchise.

I really dont want this game to be a bust not because I bought it already and because I love stardock and star control series. And the fact that I  dont see an open beta of the whole game with 6 weeks remaining to launch is worrying me. Do consider delaying the game if it is going to be unfinished.

Ehh...I'm not sure I agree on that point.

Before the internet was A Thing™ (and even for quite some time after), there were a lot of video games--one might even say the vast majority of video games up to this point in gaming history--that never had open betas, and I think it wouldn't be exaggerating to say that there were at least a few successful titles.

Just sayin'.

Pretty sure the Founders have had the full game for a while now.  That was one of the perks of being a founder.

Missed my chance on that one; only even found out about this game a month or three ago...

Me too. I was tight on funds when it came.

See, I wasn't; I was just not in the loop, alas.

Not all founders have the full beta. Only a select few. We all got the Sol system preview though.

I am still concerned about not having a crowded open beta.  There should be one if the people report bugs the game should be delayed.

Oh, I'm sure the game has bugs.

...seems like almost every sci-fi franchise has insectoid aliens eventually.   

just keep in mind that they were simpler times as well Back in those days what you've written was basically what you've got. It was much easier to test. Less people involved and less things were going on the background at the same time. Another good thing: HW was more unified.

Today you build your house on three more layers you cannot affect (or to limited degree) - OS with all the multithreaded things interacting with each other, video drivers + graphic library used, engine/framework. And all these things are pretty complex, communicate just through interfaces, and pretty great deal of unpredictable things emerge only during certain combinations.

As developing tools improve, making the job easier and more convenient the complexity of solutions grows the same speed. And today, when everything is asynchronous the bugs are more and more "magical" then what they were on single core single process code written with single predictable main loop.

And the worst thing.. people (surprise ). Before internet you had smaller audience capable of solving problems on their own. There was no big button "play". You could get refund for not working game but you needed to go to store again so you've rather spent a weekend trying to run the damn thing Now when people refund the game after 5minutes AND write bad review like "game's trash, won't run, 'not enough disk space' then nothing, uninstalled" you rather be slightly more careful

Hey guys,

Can't promise a big beta for all of the pre-orders before launch but we do have a limited chapter 1 beta that's invite only. If  you are interested drop me a private message.

Aww, I've already got that beta.

I wanna go hyperspace!   

Pwetty pwease?