Closed Beta

I can already picture your face at the sight of this avatar… Talentyre is not posting today. What you must know is that Talentyre is extremely professional, and for his first DevBlog, he wants it to be perfect from every angle. So, while we wait for him to finish his 293rd check, here is a little surprise for you!On second thought, we must admit that you were right: one hundred beta-testers won’t be enough! So we’ve gone wild and decided to add up two zeros to that number! YES… YOU HAVE A GOOD VISION! We’re inviting 10,000 players to participate in the closed beta. We’ll certainly need all of you to test our brand new Wakfu and its new features.It will also be a good opportunity for us to see the impact of a great number of players on the ecosystem and, incidentally, check that our servers will keep up the charge! So keep an eye on your emails, your invitation could be arriving soon! The great migration to the Amakna archipelago will start on June 11!

The daily 65,000-Kama question is "Are we able to play Wakfu yet?"!Today an answer comes… not the usual "whenever it will be ready" or "some day"… NO! Today I have an answer, a real one! Before you start jumping round driving everyone crazy, as always, we’ve hidden a little BUT in there!We’ve decided to release a closed beta around mid-June, which is about two weeks before Ankama Convention #4. This closed beta will be restricted to about a hundred players. They will have a serious objective: to track bugs and comment all the new features.Why is it going to be a closed Beta? First of all, because we must have quick feedback from players on very precise features, and also because the patch content will not have been completed.How will the chosen players be selected?The players who will play the closed Beta have already been selected. Therefore, it will be useless to harass moderators or flood forums to get into it. The selected players are people who have been highly involved in the Wakfu community.What will they discover?This is a good question… and here is a little summary on how far development has come: 9 of the 12 classeswill be available for sure. Sadidas are still being remade. Enutrofs and Osamosas, they are playing hard-to-get… But you may get a glimpse of their competences before they come out!I’ll try to get Zeorus to come here and talk to you about it… if we find a gap in his schedule!New character sheets, new aptitudes (32 out of 48 are available), new spells, which means lots of tests to check all the different builds offered by the new system.Here are the places they’ll be able to go to 4 islands f the Amakna archipelago: Emelka, Ohm, Sevamor and Mork. On each island, there will be 8 dungeons to visit either with a guild or with friends ! It will be just perfect to test the new fighting system and its variable timeline.Besides that, marketplaces are functional and the loot system and monsters have been revised… well, that should be enough for today, don’t you think?For those of you who are already mouthing the question: "when will the open be ready?" I will just have to tell them to be patient and wait until July (at least after AC#4)!