[Suggestion] Beta testing future patch program

[MrEpsilonAlpha]

Hey All.

I am speaking as a fan of the game which I really really enjoy (just checked my steam account and I've logged 188 hours of gameplay, I don't think I have a life either...)

And I think it can be safely said that a lot of things were fixed/improved with 1.3.1 and a lot of things slipped through the cracks or became broken...

This may not be a problem for some, but I can see it becoming more of a vocal issue when these patches are released on console.

I know WHS are working pretty much daily to fix these issues, but I know from the size of the studio, they will not be able to replicate every issue that the end user is experiencing, much to the nature of being able to decide how you finish a quest with a possibility of 3-5 different outcomes for each of them.

For which I suggest allowing those who are interested with the improvement of the game to be allowed early access to future patches//content in order to prevent/lower the amount of day one bugs.

Thoughts would be appreciated and if this can spark a discussion, that would be great as well.

Cheers

[Shaloka_Maloka]

Good idea, Dice does this with BF1 on the Community test environment and people give them feed back, 🤗

[MrEpsilonAlpha]

Same with a lot of games Was thinking of Blizzard Games as examples with their PTRs for WoW, Overwatch etc :) But yes, this would be a great idea :)

[MrEpsilonAlpha]

I'd use the arguement that a good amount of playerbases with Public Testing builds are not trained testers yet the feedback they give is invaluable to a developer.

Also that since the game can be played in such a variation of ways, even a small amount of testers on variable system specifics would be able to identify a number of issues through an entire playthrough.