Thanksgiving Special
Happy Thanksgiving to our American Legionnaires! Hope everyone's able to spend it with family and loved ones (or at least in IRC with Seymour). Unfortunately Seymour's not able to hand deliver any turkey to the L:O Community, but he is able to provide some information and clarification!
Now some of these next features have already been announced, but we thought it would be a good idea to detail them a bit better and also answer (or at least try to answer) questions related to these topics.
Standalone Legions, The Patcher, and Public Test Events
Legions: Overdrive will be a standalone program, meaning that there is no need for additional software, web browser, etc. The code itself is being cleaned up by our Code Lead, Mabeline, so Legions should run better than you remembered. While it's not quite ready yet for public consumption, we're getting closer and hope to have a release date set for you soon.
There will be a patcher program that opens when you start Legions: Overdrive. This program will be familiar to many of you, as it's fairly commonplace now with modern games. Basically what it does is checks to see if there's any new L:O content (ie: new patches). It's pretty smart, and won't necessarily redownload the L:O client each time a new patch is released, instead it will update only the files that it needs to (so it's fairly quick).
It will also be from the L:O Patcher that you select whether you're playing the standard game (most recent public version) or opting to participate in a Public Test Event (which will be announced beforehand).
In order to further involve the community in the testing process, we will be running weekend public testing events where for 48 hours, you will be able to test new and upcoming content. These events will be available to everyone, no restrictions on geographical location. They will likely begin on a Friday and last until the Sunday of that weekend. After the public test event, we'll be gathering your feedback, correcting any found bugs, and begin work finalizing the patch release.
Early Preview Weekend
Thanks to everyone who applied to be a private tester. While we will be selecting only a small portion of you to be private testers (these selections will happen in several waves), all of you who have signed up for beta up until this point will be given access to the Early Preview Weekend before we release the game to the public. The Early Preview Weekend event will give you exclusive access to Legions: Overdrive before the general public, allowing you to hone your skills and get a head start on your enemies!
Note: While there's no release date yet for Legions: Overdrive, this Early Preview Weekend will happen before the full public launch. So, you early birds will get in first to help us stress test and squash those final bugs. You will also enjoy a headstart reclaiming your unused Legions skills (it's been what, a couple months now, right?) Hohohohoho!
Ah, okay, Seymour will extend the deadline. By an hour. Starting now.
Alright, time's up! Now go enjoy some turkey (or tofurkey).