Pax Dei First Public Test Later This Year

Pax Dei has kicked off its small closed alpha testing, and the team at Mainframe Industries is planning the game’s first public test sometime later this year.

The team released its first official newsletter, recapping the past three months since the game was officially revealed. One of the things that they’ve done is to open a friends and family close alpha, slightly expanding their play test group in order to get more feedback and data on service stability, loading time, overall performance, and a whole lot of bug fixing. This expanded test has “been key for us to make a lot of balancing decisions ( resources, crafting, combat) and to review our priorities for the coming quarters”.

Speaking of the possibility of an expanded test, this newsletter also contained the announcement that their first public test is planned for sometime later this year. There is no further information about this yet, but at least we know that things are moving along.

Some of the other stuff they’ve done in the past couple of months since the big reveal is to continue to work on the main build. Including Unreal Engine 5 updates, new content, resources, enemies, biomes, and more. The team offered that they added a brand new province to the game called Merrie, which joins the existing province of Ancien. This means there is now about 130-150 km² of terrain right now in their main build.

Mainframe revamped some of the resources, and systems like tree chopping and mining.

They’ve also continued making changes and overhauls to the building system in order to improve it. Considering the building system is vital to this player-created world, they’re still refining And adding things before they can consider lifting the NDA on the alpha and potentially opening up the alpha test even more.

Before that first public test arrives sometime later this year, the team plans more updates on development as well as unveiling new parts of the game and the world. The next one of these reveals and development updates will come after the summer.