Rare er i denne weekend klar en tredje beta / “scale” test af Sea of Thieves. Der bliver testet i stor stil alt imens Twitch-streams får folk til at forudbestille spillet.

Har du en Xbox One, og har du haft den første beta af Sea of Thieves installeret, kan du næsten tage de efterhånden fire store (+8 GB) patches som et forvarsel for en kommende beta eller stress-test. Ganske passende har Rare netop meddelt, at denne weekend byder på endnu en “scale test” (betatest), hvor de igen vil sikre sig at alt spiller så godt som muligt, når Sea of Thieves lanceres de 22. marts. Det er ikke mere end en uge siden vi så den anden “scale test”.

Third Scale Test 

After last week’s Scale Test, our Services Team have done even more work to help manage the traffic of player counts when playing the game.

We are now running a third Scale Test, beginning on Friday March 2nd at 10am GMT (2am PST) and ending on Sunday March 4th at 10am GMT (2am PST).

The goal of this is to test the latest services work we have done, and try and hit the highest number of concurrent players yet!

What to expect

With this added scale we expect – and plan – to see issues, that we can learn from and address. Not only are we looking to hit scale, we will also purposefully be stressing our services by throttling performance at certain times, testing the game in different data centres around the world, and simulating deliberate outages.

Some examples of the issues we expect to see are:

· Sessions being interrupted

· An inability to join the game at certain times during the weekend

· Issues when using shops in-game