[2019] Been gone for awhile

Welcome back, Revy. It’s been a while. I hope you’re well.

I just want to chip in a little, but I won’t go in to it too much.

I don’t know of any developer who doesn’t have a crew of players they work with at a closer level than the wider community. It’s pretty normal to have focus groups during the production of any product - be it a game or a new flavour of soup (or anything in between).

I’m not saying we got the comms balance during the WoM Beta right, far form it, but as many noted, it was the most communicative beta we have had to date, and we will continue to work to improve further on the communication pathways in future tests.

I wouldn’t call that an article, more of a blog post that reeks of self advertising. You can taste the salt through the screen, even though he tries his hardest to appear neutral while taking things out of context. Notice how he constantly has to say that there’s technically nothing wrong with “insert thing he’s complaining about”. Or point out that he doesn’t have any issues with X, while still trying to highlight it as an issue? I love how he goes on to argue with SneakyPanda in the comments.

huh? I call out fatshark just as much as anyone else. I spent the first week of beta complaining about the stagger and dodge changes, even going so far as saying I will not be playing if it goes live as it was. I’ve openly stated multiple times that the weaves do not interest me and I’m not excited for them.

I’ve spent the last 9 months trying to get the night maps added. As well as the games optimization fixed, to which many other people were/are having issues. Dropping to 20 FPS on hordes and so on. I definitely wasn’t sucking up or giving them an easy time, lol. Not to mention the Hero badge has been in use since March 2018 on different users. But it’s a problem now?

Yea, let’s not do that please.

If I’m not mistaken, the original 2 heros were from Vermintide 1 that got carried over.

Hi, I can shed some light on this.

The channels for beta communication were as follows, as far as I know:

OFFICIAL:

1. Fatshark forum
2. Fatshark public discord
3. Fatshark focus group discord
4. In-game survey

UNOFFICIAL:*

1. Squirrel Squad (open beta discussion only)
2. Blood Moon Inn (open and closed beta discussion, where proof of beta invite/Steam had to be shown to Discord moderation team—this was proposed by the BMI staff)
3. Reddit (open beta discussion only)

*I think there was also something in Red Moon Inn that had dev blessings as well, but am not sure since I’m not in that one. I’m not sure about other Verm servers.

The devs hang out in these third party servers, but are usually pretty quiet overall and seem to prefer to sit and absorb feedback (sans reddit, where they pop in from time to time)

I’ve moved it to an open board

Check your email. Might be under promotions or another tab. If you played in the beta, you should get a portrait for helping test.