Carbine has announced the dates for Open Beta… May 8th to May 18th!

You’ll be able to level to 30 for OB…  Here’s a list from the Carbine announcement of some things to do on your way to 30:

• Farside – You ever want to go to the moon and float around while swinging a massive sword into badass, vicious, people eating extra-terrestrials? Me too. Now you that you’ve hit level 30, travel to Farside and get some space between you and the planet Nexus.
• Galeras Adventure – Tower defense just became a whole lot more epic. You and four friends are all that stands between an invading force and holding the fort before reinforcements can arrive. The opposing faction is going to throw everything they’ve got against you: Tanks, missile strikes, snipers, stealth assassins, and some hulking military commandos are trying to make your life hell while you are holding for reinforcements… maybe you should return the favor and kick some ass, cupcake!
• Two New Abilities – Kicking ass is pretty awesome. Now you can kick MORE ass with two new abilities that are unlocked for your class at level 30.
• New Ability Slot – Hot damn, at level 30 you can unlock the final ability slot! Why don’t you buy a new ability and throw that into your brutality rotation!
• Tier Points – Power up your abilities to continue to become an even bigger ass kicker. Or don’t. Whatever, that’s cool too.

We get a shiny new trailer for OB too!

Patch up that client…and I’ll see you on Nexus!

Arenas and BattleGrounds not HardCore enough for you?  Can’t find enough people to challenge in Open World PvP?  Well… How’d you like to take 39 of your closest friends into an Epic PvP match???  That’s a WarPlot… and today’s DevSpeak gives us the low down on how to deliver the beat down!

Also.. the disclaimer about Ganking Pappy is not funny, Frost… not Funny at all!  #TeamPappy!

• Battle over resource nodes, which power various defenses on your WarPlot
• Disable your opponents defenses
• Lay traps to catch the attacking forces in (Furnaces! Land Mines!)

Warplots look intense… I can see them being great  for those guild vs guild grudge matches!

Another awesome Flick from the Carbine Cinematics peeps today!  This one is our first look at WarPlots!

 

These speak for themselves…nothing further needs to be said by me!  😛

Carbine has teamed with the folks over at PCGamer, and given us the opportunity to help design a weapon, and get some free goodies at the same time.

Head on over to the voting site here.  Initial voting is which classes’ weapon it will be:

Esper Multitool:

Medic Toaster:

Engineer Beer Cannon:

Warrior Tombstone Sword:

There’s no pistols for SpellSlingers (Because, obviously, SpellSlingers are awesome enough they don’t need a gimmick weapon!)…so, vote for the Engineer Beer Cannon… K?

Voting will not only get you the winning weapon… it’ll get you a Monkey for your house.. a WildStar version of the PCGamer Coconut Monkey:

So…go vote!

Boom Boxes that is!

As a reward/incentive for hopping into beta (pre-order beta, and open beta) Carbine is offering us Boom Boxes!

Boom Boxes are the WildStar version of the various ‘lottery boxes’ that are present in other games.. the main difference being.. we don’t have to pay to unlock/open them!

The WildStar team has put up an overview of Boom Boxes here.

You can even get a boom box in your boom box!

It comes with it’s own DISCO BALL!

The WildStar article says no limit… so make sure you’re logging in daily to get your BoomBoxes… you could end up with all kinds of ‘free’ goodies come launch!

The Carbine crew is treating us to an extra weekend of beta-y goodness!

Do you think waiting until next weekend to play WildStar sucks? Do you feel like being capped at level 17 is like wearing a soggy turtleneck? SO DO WE!

Starting tomorrow, Friday 3/28 at 7:00am PDT, the servers will be live and the party ain’t stopping until Sunday night! Also, the level 17 cap is gone and is now being replaced with a level 20 cap. My quick math skills tell me that’s an extra 3 levels! This bonus weekend is a way to get more testing time for us, awesome, as well as more game time for all of you who have Pre-ordered, double awesome!

This is our way of gathering the feedback we cherish and saying thank you to all of our loyal testers. Which is why we would love it if you logged in this weekend, enjoyed the extra 3 levels and the bonus game time because it will greatly help us be that much more prepared come launch day June 3rd.

Stay Frosty!

 

Patch up that client, and get yourself to Nexus!