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Posted on 12 October 2015 - 02:21 PM

Hey everyone.

The development has been very hard at work on the new SkyWars game mode. I would like to say that we are going to end up releasing it on the 15th still, but I still don't feel really 100% comfortable saying that yet. We will have to see how our initial beta testing goes. If anything we might make an open beta available on the 15th and a full final release when we feel the game mode is ready to be released.

The Closed Beta

So the closed beta will be Donators Only when we start it off. After a few days we will open the beta to all players to help find bugs and make sure the game is super polished. The closed Beta on the initial release date (tomorrow) will have the following features built in:

- FFA Game Mode (No Teams yet)
- Classic SkyWars (No OP mode yet)
- Map Ratings (Vote for whether you liked a map after or not)
- No Badlion Coins (We haven't decided on a final name yet)
- Basic SkyWars Game Lobby
- No Cases yet
- No kits besides default kit
- No Leaderboards yet

Please Note. This is only going to be for the first few hours while we clean up bugs

Once we have the initial bugs fixed and the actual game mode is working we will slowly activate the following features:

- Leaderboards
- Badlion Coins (You can get a head start collecting the new network currency)
- Kits
- Cases for unlocking kit items

We will not wipe coins/items after the beta. We will wipe leaderboards though

You will be able to join the new SkyWars Lobby Servers through the lobby Clock item like any other servers. From inside of there you will be able to queue up for the actual SkyWars games. We will be working on polishing everything up as quickly as we can. This project is a huge overhaul to the network since we are adding so many things like coins, cases, a new matchmaking system, a network wide party system (will be integrated into other plugins later), and more.

Please be patient with us and give us lots of feedback and bug reports! Thanks!

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