DeFi: KindomsCombat Testing Grounds (Pre-Alpha)

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Grab your weapon and smack some blubs!

Today, we’re excited to announce the official soft launch of our Pre-alpha Combat Testing Grounds (in conjunction with Wisdom Gaming), where you can get a backstage look at our in-progress combat feature, provide valuable testing and feedback, all while battling a pack of ravenous blubs! Check out additional details below.

The Combat Testing Grounds are open!

The Combat Testing Grounds are DeFi Kingdoms’ first foray into sharing Pre-Alpha with the community. What does that mean? Alpha testing is considered the first phase of formal testing. Pre-Alpha comes before the normal testing cycle, which means that the features are not yet complete and often not even fully decided on yet. We are excited to show you what we have been working on, but please read the remainder of this article to make sure that your expectations are properly set to give you the most positive experience possible.

What Pre-Alpha IS

Releasing Pre-Alpha provides you, our players, with the opportunity to contribute to testing on upcoming features but also to give us your feedback and guidance on what those final features could be.

Players who engage with Pre-Alpha are acting as test users for various aspects of the game to help our devs make sure that the final product is as strong as it can be.

Because this is Pre-Alpha, we expect that you will run into various bugs and issues that mean gameplay isn’t as smooth as it should be. This is good! We’re counting on you to give feedback and help make DeFi Kingdoms the amazing game we all know it can be.

Everything in Pre-Alpha is subject to change at any time, and if / when notice is provided, it may come after the fact. We will be working to keep you updated regularly as we continue development, but tweaks will be made along the way, as feedback and data is gathered.

Nothing in Pre-Alpha should be used to make financial decisions.

What Pre-Alpha is NOT

If you’ve been reading the above, you know that Pre-Alpha is not inclusive of all the in-game features. Pre-Alpha can and will change depending on what needs to be tested at the time or the test results collected from previous features.

In addition to gameplay functionality, design features and artwork may not be up to the DeFi Kingdoms standards that you have come to expect.

Combat Testing Grounds

Deep breaths. With all that said, just what are we getting in to?

The Combat Testing Grounds serve as Pre-Alpha Combat testing for DeFi Kingdoms. We hope this will be a fun experience for those who choose to participate but ask that you keep in mind that this is primarily a space for testing. Not all features will be available all at once and features will change often with regular updates. Everything in Pre-Alpha is subject to change at any time. Notification about changes may occur after the fact, and sometimes not at all. You should not expect every adjustment to be reported directly. Many things will be iterated on and updated repeatedly, so we will focus on communicating major updates. Some minor updates will be left intentionally unannounced to solicit better feedback on how they impact the feel of the game without bias.

This does not reflect our intentions for communication and patch notes going forward but primarily during the Pre-Alpha phase. We are excited to have you join us on this journey! Those who participate will be an invaluable resource in the development of the Combat experience. We cannot stress enough that the Combat Testing Grounds is a testing area and anything and everything is subject to change.

What to expect from the Pre-Alpha combat experience:

• Implementation of the first three combat classes: Archer, Knight, and Priest
• Placeholder Hero and ability animations
• Desktop-only experience
• Cutting edge Blub AI

What not to expect yet:

• Finalized animations, icons, UI, and/or overall user experience
• Status effects working as expected (stun, daze, silence, etc.)
• Sound FX
• Mobile support

How to Access the Combat Testing Grounds

We will be launching the Combat Testing Grounds in both Crystalvale and in Serendale, accessible through both our beta and production websites.

• Access requires the new “Backstage Pass” Power-Up, which can be obtained through the Power-Up Manger in the Jeweler for 50 c/sJEWEL.

• Open the new Account Management tab in the top right of the screen (the icon of a person) and sign in. This is a two-step signing process that will be used for more features in the future!
• Visit the Combat Testing zone by accessing it on the World Map or through the quick launch menu.
• Speak to Hatcher Cliff or Blub Trainer Gilford and head on in!
• You’ll be presented with a loadout screen where you can choose your three Heroes. In this initial release, only Knight, Archer, and Priest are available for testing.
• Select abilities for all of your Heroes. Only the first five tiers are currently available, and as noted above, many status effects from those abilities are not yet implemented.
• Smack some blubs!

Combat Testing Grounds: Known Bugs

There are already a few items that we know need love and attention but want to keep you aware of, as well. Here they are:

• When attacks Miss, there is currently no text pop-up. The information is included in the Battle Log, however.
• For users with a CV or SD 2.0 Hero portrait as their profile, the Combat Testing Grounds will error out. Changing to a different profile picture temporarily should allow passage until we resolve the issue.

How to Submit Feedback

Your feedback is critical to this process, as it’s the whole purpose of opening a Pre-Alpha testing phase. To that end, organization is key in order to make sure feedback is seen. While we wish we could see every tweet, and we will be obsessively watching, we are going to utilize both our Discord server and our Talk site for receiving input.

We have opened a Combat Testing Board at https://talk.defikingdoms.com/contribute/combat-testing and in Discord, you can access the #combat-testing channel.

The Discord channel will have a very high slow mode setting, as it is not meant for conversation, but only reporting on testing. Please use the #pvp-discussion channel for conversation and if additional information is needed on your feedback, we will contact you. Please do not expect a response to every post in Discord or the talk site, they will all be read, but only responded to as needed.

Now get out there and smack some blubs!

Connect with DeFi Kingdoms

• DeFi Kingdoms Website
• Whitepaper / Official Docs | Charts (DFK Chain | Klaytn)
• Discord Community
• Twitter | Telegram | Reddit | Instagram | YouTube

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