Beta!!!!!! (Patreon)

BETA IS OPEN, LETS GO!!!!!!!!!

okay, so we're doing two waves of beta.
about 1/3 of you lovely patrons who are eligible are in the first wave.
you know you're in the first wave if:

• you have been given the 'beta' role on the patreon server already
• OR you received a message from me saying that you're in and we couldn't get your discord 

if neither of those things are true, you are in the second wave, and i love you no less

the first wave was decided based on any of a few things:

• people in the pre-beta tier
• people who've been around this whole-ass patreon since the beginning in 2016, wow, hi guys!!!
• the top ~50 or so totals of lifetime support plus some change

some of the cut-offs are arbitrary because it's not really going to be super helpful to have all ~175 elligible people (holy heck hi guys?!!?!?!?!?!?) test at once. to everyone else, thank you for being patient!!

no, scratch that, actually, to everyone, thank you for being patient!!!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

it has been a LONG fucking road, and while we're not quite at the end of it, holy shit we are here????? wild

for now, i hope everyone can either enjoy the beta or the simmering hype before the second wave and subsequent community release

let's talk about the beta! here's the latest patch notes since the updates i posted yesterday:

that last thing????

that last thing is so huge. like don't get me wrong, this is still very experimental, and we've gotta get it going for linux and mac still, but once we do ??? i mean, testing may as well be over-- it won't be, because i want to make sure you all have a good chance to play the game early before community, but i mean

like i told the rest of the team

if we have a patcher i dont even care about testing cats anymore
who cares if there are cats
we'll just patch them.

a lot of my drawn out testing process is very defensive around the idea that, while you all are here sitting in my immediate vicinity listening to me shout about the war crimes spinda has committed this time, the average lay person ™ is not going to bother checking back for updates. probably if they get some kind of bug that stops them from preventing, they're going to be like well i guess this game is shit and never look back.
but now??

now i can just slap them across the face when they start up and say ayo bitch, update yo damn game we fixed that shit months ago 

it's beautiful, huge huge shout to aie for getting this even remotely working, we should've had something like this years ago <333

this is so much of a game changer, i haven't even fully processed it yet. so who cares anymore, caution to the wind, cats to the field, let's just go play some beta video game and break some shit.

beta testers: report it on the forum please! if it ain't on the forum i ain't fixing it!

patrons: holy fuck we're at this point ty all for being with me through it all

dev and support squads: ^ that, but like, louder

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

i feel like there was probably something important i was supposed to say in this post but fuck it, who cares anymore, no thoughts only hype, bye