Last edited on 25 April 2023 - 08:04 AM by ScrubV2

Hey guys. Badlion Esports is getting extremely close to beta and full release. We are not quite ready to release the beta today, but we are going to within the next three weeks. We are also really close to getting the new Badlion Store out so people can pre-order Badlion Esports and start using their perks on Badlion Open as soon as they order it. We will be giving out extra time to people who pre-order so that they can play during the beta without losing any of their paid time. We will still be doing the 20% launch sale up until February 20th (new full release date), so make sure to get your subscription at a lower rate while you can!

What is left

I want to be open and transparent with the community, as this has always been our way of doing things at Badlion. Below I will give you a list of exactly what needs to be finished for us to be able to go live with beta:

1. Statistics are not 100% tested yet and need a few fixes for the new Premium Stats plugin we have built.
2. Ratings have not been programmed yet, this will not take us long but we still have to do it.
3. You cannot rejoin games at the moment. This is an easy problem for us to fix but it is one we have not yet had the time to do.
4. You can join multiple games at a time. When we fix #3 we will be able to fix this one as well very easily.
5. Our texture pack downloader is not complete yet. We need to clean up the interface and fix a few lingering bugs with this system.
6. The friend/chat system has to be cleaned up and updated to use the newest specifications we have designed.
7. There is no installer. Right now we don’t have a formal installer to install missing dependencies on your system to use the Badlion Client.
8. There is no updater. We have no way of issuing updates right now to our client when we need to push out updates.
9. Misc 128 TPS bugs (small little minor things like animations being a bit buggy).
10. No ladder or match profiles pages have been completed yet. There is no way to see the leaderboards or your recent matches yet.

There are some other small things here and there, but the ten things above hit most of the core points of what we need to get our beta live. Some of these things are preventing us from putting out a beta even if we wanted to, as we would not be able to install or update the client without a lot of difficulty and inconvenience for you guys.

Revised Timeline

This being said we are announcing a revised timeline below for the beta and full release:

Beta Start: Jan 16 -> Feb 6
Full Release: Jan 30 -> Feb 20

These extra 3 weeks will give us an additional 1500 man hours to work on polishing these additional features that are needed for the beta to go live. When the beta goes live we will begin what is called a “code freeze” and halt the creation of any new software/features for the product and focus only on fixing bugs. We expect there to be quite a lot of them still during the beta since we will be working with so many different system configurations (different versions of Windows, software, hardware, etc).

Badlion Esports Gameplay

There was a promise of some Badlion Esports gameplay a few weeks ago but we backed out of this promise since the videos were honestly not good. The alpha was extremely buggy and we wanted to show off something more polished. I am happy to present below the first Badlion Esports video made by our first official Badlion Partner @Mentally, enjoy.





Conclusion

I ask that the community be patient with us while we work to clean up the remaining issues above and give you guys something that is super awesome and worth the wait. We have poured in over man 8000 hours into this project so far, and many more to go still as we go into the future together.

Make sure to keep an eye on @Mentally’s youtube channel later this week for an FAQ session I will be doing with him on the biggest questions that the community has about Badlion Esports. He is accepting questions via his youtube channel and twitter account.

Thanks for your patience and understanding. We know together Badlion Esports will be the best thing to come out of competitive Minecraft.

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:06 PM

Yes

Last edited on 16 January 2017 - 12:07 PM by shrineZ

The Wait Begins

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:06 PM

This is honestly great news, but please don't rush it, you'll do more harm to the product if you rush to release it. The 128 tps thing sounds so awesome!

Last edited on 16 January 2017 - 12:09 PM by PolkacatLP

Hype
And 28 Feb my exams are there
Rip

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:08 PM

HYPE!!

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:08 PM

1.8 animations. Fuck.

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:14 PM

YEEEES!!!!

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:16 PM

This looks awesome, I was just wondering if u guys could add labymod to the modlist, this would make it easier for most of us to adapt to the 1.8 textures because labymod makes 1.8 textures look 1.7, it doesn't have to be labymod in specific just a mod that makes 1.8 look 1.7 if not its fine

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:17 PM

1.8 animations?

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:18 PM

Please revert to 1.7 animations when you hit a player ( the Armour flashes red)

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:19 PM

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Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:22 PM

grab the 1.7 enchantment glint? yay or nay?

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:22 PM

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Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:24 PM

is egg wars detected (Badlion Rush)? lol Good!!

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:24 PM

1.8 Animations, RIP

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:28 PM

if I didn't see wrong, mentally was block hitting and it seems like 1.7, like if you have labymod, does it @Mentally ?

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:29 PM

Hope it doesn't I prefer 1.8

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:30 PM

maybe an option to switch between the 2! yay!

Posted on 16 January 2017 - 12:35 PM

This is definitely worth the wait. The product rn looks amazing and I can only try to imagine how polished it will look in the future