FOCUS TEST - Thursday 12pm and Friday 5pm

[GOPHUR]

Please use this thread for general feedback on the Focus Tests.

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Thursday, September 30th: 12 - 2pmCDT (17:00GMT/UTC)

Friday, October 1st: 5 - 7pmCDT (22:00GMT/UTC)

The location where the testing will be set up is planned for the towns of Haybes and Gedinne.

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PLAYER PPO'S

Infantry Fighting Position (IFP) - A small bermed enclosure representing a position an infantryman might "dig out" around himself. A player can place these according to their "placement color" state: green = good, can place here and red = no good, can't place here.

Dynamic Gun Emplacement (DGE) - A copy of the defensive AT gun revetment that the Sapper class infantry can place. A sappe can place these according to their "placement color" state, green = good, can place here and red = no good, can't place here.

Forward Resupply Unit (FRU) - A mobile spawn and player RTB point that also provides ammunition resupply in the field. Only a Mission Leader can place this. It can also be dropped by a resupply truck. There is a limit of 1 per mission, and a Mission Leader can delete an existing one if he seeks to place a new one in a different and better location for that mission. The same green/red placement status is used as with the other PPO's.

To limit "spamming" of PPO's in one place there is also a "cool down" timer that restricts how quickly you can place another PPO. This doesn't affect FRU's which have a limit of 1 per mission.

BAILING OUT OF AIRCRAFT REPLACING MID-AIR DESPAWN

New for aircraft is the bailout despawn function. If you are in an aircraft flying above 180m AGL (above the ground) altitude, instead of despawning when you exit the aircraft, it will ask you if you wish to bailout. Clicking "Yes" will throw off your aircraft's canopy and then bail you out and leave you hanging from a parachute as your plane plummets off into the distance. Your plane can still be shot at and damaged until it hits the ground and explodes. The pilot cannot be shot while hanging from his parachute.

Your sortie will end after bailing when:

Your plane blows up (hulks)

Your plane crashes into the ground

You land on the ground

30 seconds has elapsed since bailing out and none of the above has occurred yet

You will then be returned to your sortie AAR screen in the UI. Bailing always = MIA or Rescued but never an RTB, and always awards a kill to the person who shot you down. If you are killed in the cockpit before you bail out you cannot bail out.

Pilots can only get an RTB by landing at their airfield. Regular despawn (not bailing out) is now restricted to landing the aircraft as mid air despawn is no longer possible.

Edited September 30, 2010 by GOPHUR

[lure]

Maybe I get the TZs wrong but the Beta server is open and I can choose it but when I get to persona selection it says "Subscription Locked"?

Have online beta not started yet?

[DOC]

we're working on the host

if there are problems logging into it then we're still working on it

it's kind of unpredictable, but the plan is to have it ready at the appointed time

PS: it won't be open outside of appointed test sessions, not yet anyway

PPS: if there are further problems then we probably know about it and are working on it

GO HERE FOR DETAILS REGARDING THE FOCUS TESTS

If you try to achieve what the competition sets out to achieve ... all our objectives for the test will be met.

They are:

1. Functionality in the client (operating the means to place PPO's and bailing from aircraft)

2. Host controls (since they are STO's there is host complicity in this feature)

3. Limits and restrictions related to their use and functionality

GO HERE FOR SOME FACTS ABOUT PPO's

PPS: if you still have problems logging into the server then we are still working on it

[GOPHUR]

Awesome feedback!!!

Everything must be perfect. Let's ship!

/snark

[DOC]

Don't forget that there is a FEEDBACK THREAD FOR SOUND FIXES for reporting and we'd like focus test players to try and provide what they can, as it helps us to move development of this along better and faster.

To make things a little easier for you and us there is also a TEST THREAD DIRECTORY HERE that assists in sorting reports on the major issues into the right places without a lot of searching.