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Well I have good news and I have bad news.
The good news is that it looks like we're going to be at E3 this year (I can't say more than that right now). E3 is a big video game trade show where all the hottest new games will be shown.
The bad news is that since we are going to be there, more effort is going to have to be put in early to make the game more visually impressive at the expense of features. The result is that we're going to have to move the beta back until AFTER E3.
However, we're going to releaswe an alpha 5 in the first week of May with an expanded list of people playing it so that we can keep getting fresh viewpoints on the game. Even the current build is quite a bit nicer than the existing ones.
The multithreaded AI should be in alpha 5 btw (it won't be very powerful but it lays the ground work for being able to do all sorts of advanced AI techniques). The current build's AI is very challenging when played at higher levels.
The good news is that it looks like we're going to be at E3 this year (I can't say more than that right now). E3 is a big video game trade show where all the hottest new games will be shown.
The bad news is that since we are going to be there, more effort is going to have to be put in early to make the game more visually impressive at the expense of features. The result is that we're going to have to move the beta back until AFTER E3.
However, we're going to releaswe an alpha 5 in the first week of May with an expanded list of people playing it so that we can keep getting fresh viewpoints on the game. Even the current build is quite a bit nicer than the existing ones.
The multithreaded AI should be in alpha 5 btw (it won't be very powerful but it lays the ground work for being able to do all sorts of advanced AI techniques). The current build's AI is very challenging when played at higher levels.
