December 19th, 2019
Alpha Test Weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wSiuQBeR3I&t=2180
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Snutt
Oh, yeah.
All right.
So we were telling a story about how...
I think you were watching,
Birk
right?
Snutt
Yeah.
So, yeah, we announced our trailers, and then we had an alpha weekend where pretty much every person that applied for a key was able to join, I think.
So...
you guys have any memories around that time
Jace
yeah
Snutt
who started at the uh the alpha weekend people asking about update three we canceled it it's all canceled oh we're going straight for update four yeah no time there's no time there's no time yeah yeah yeah
Jace
we're
Snutt
going for
Jace
four yeah we got uh missing in action was in the uh the weekend
cool
Snutt
The weekend was sick, because people were allowed to stream.
Birk
Yeah, those are the most vivid memories, just spending that weekend
Jace
at home or other
Birk
places, together with friends and devs, just watching people play.
Jace
For me
Birk
specifically, first release and then first time seeing a lot of people play
Jace
the
Birk
game was awesome.
One thing with, if you make a game for a bunch of years, and before you release it, you're not sure anymore.
People are like, you completely stand blind.
It's like, is this good?
Yeah, you have
Jace
no idea.
Birk
I'm convinced, kind of, but am I lying to myself?
And then just seeing everybody having a blast.
How quickly it blew up as well, and
Snutt
then watching them play.
That was magical.
It's kind of weird to look back now, because I'm sure there's a lot of
Jace
people watching right now, and you're like, but Satisfactory is a great game.
I assume.
But yeah, it's like the five minutes before you launch or the reveal trailer played.
It's like,
Snutt
we don't know.
We literally like it.
We literally could be dog shit or really great.
And even then you always have imposter syndrome where you're like, I don't know.
And, but also you play the game like almost every day or like up until that point and you're kind of like tired of it or like you've been tunnel vision kind of.
So when you're actually like seeing other people play it and they're like genuinely like experience it for the first time and there's like joy in their face, I'm like, what the?
yeah this is weird it was good yeah but yeah i remember that we test weekend i did nothing well actually that's not true because there was a bug in in the test weekend that made the game crash that was if you researched the uh hard drives there was like one specific hard drive where i like whoops i left something in there that i shouldn't have and it made it like lock up so people couldn't use the ma'am anymore
Hannah
yeah
Snutt
That was a bad time.
And I spent the first day fixing it, and then I was like, yo, I fixed it, and I made a bill.
Should we push it?
And you and Tim were like, nah, fuck it.
Because the thing is, even if I make a fix, I'm not sure if I'm introducing more bugs.
So we want to spend some time testing it before you do that, which we weren't able to do because we don't work on weekends.
So we were like, ah, let it roll.
If people...
It's not like the biggest bug, you know?
Do you even read this?
Yeah, I do.
I
Jace
am
Snutt
constantly reading it, but I can't answer the questions all the time, right?
So I will try to get to them and try to do some Q&A times as well.
But yeah, sometimes when we're talking about something, I can't.
All right.
So let's move on.
Moving on.