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Game News Wasteland 3 Fig Update #37: Backer Beta Released, Previews and Interviews

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As promised, the Wasteland 3 backer beta went live today. inXile announced the news with a brief Fig update:

The Wasteland Backer Beta is now live on Steam! To those of you who backed the game at the Early Bird ($25) or higher tier, you'll have received an invite to claim your Beta key from CrowdOx (be sure to check your spam!). For more information on the Beta, how to play, and how to give us feedback, we highly recommend checking out our last Backer Beta Fig Update.

The Beta offers a look at the first few hours of the Wasteland 3 experience, from the game's opening cinematic, through creating your characters and establishing a base, to your first steps into the deep and reactive narrative of a post-apocalyptic Colorado.

If you're not in the Beta we highly recommend checking out press coverage from around the web, as well as livestreams on Mixer and Twitch. In fact, we're going to be joining Mixer on the official Xbox channel at 1pm PDT later today, March 17! Join our devs as they join a casual stream and answer your questions.

Thank you to all the backers to which this quite literally would not have been possible. Thank you for your patronage and passion, and we look forward to finishing the game and getting it in your hands.
There is indeed a good amount of press coverage. Journalists seem to be impressed by the game's exceptionally brutal opening sequence, in which the Ranger convoy to Colorado is ambushed by a bloodthirsty cannibal clan. The previews also include details about the skill and perk systems, which weren't available in last year's alpha build. Here's a list of them:

The Wasteland 3 backer beta is available to all backers, so there won't be any shortage of gameplay footage on YouTube. In addition to today's livestream on the Xbox Twitch channel, there will also be a talk about the game tomorrow at Microsoft's Game Stack Live developer conference.
 
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Seems like you need to start with 2 characters. The premade options include a man + woman who seem to be lovers/rivals/adrenaline junkies, two punk rock lovers who escaped a cult to join the Ranger, a father-daughter combo where the father is totally mute since his wife died and is a killing machine and his daughter who is their diplomat.

2 starting characters reminds me of D:OS. I feel like there's going to be a lot of that.
 

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IIRC at one point they were talking about starting you off with just one (and then you'd create more Rangers later on).
 

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Of course there are companion NPCs. They met one of them right at the beginning in the livestream.
 

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Well, doesn't look too bad. I kinda liked the second one, though it's hard to muster enthusiasm for this one for some reason.

Maybe a part of it is getting burned by the last two inXile releases - BT4 and Numenera.
 

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I honestly liked wasteland 2, but then again it came out in a time where new is crpg is very very rare. No aod, no underrail, no expeditions, or even before pillars and divinity.
 

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