It's live
Space Station 14 is now open for playtesting!
You can help us playtest the game by using the button on the Steam store page. We'll randomly pick a number of people from the pool to let in when we feel like it need more players. You'll get an email when we invite you, so there's no need to spam F5 on your steam library to see if it shows up.
What you can expect
We're still a long way off from having full rounds with proper antagonists, deep mechanics, and all that jazz. Which is why this is a playtest and not a normal release. But we still have something to show for ourselves!
The two gamemodes we have at the moment are Traitor deathmatch, where everyone is a traitor with an uplink, and Suspicion on the Space Station, a social deception gamemode inspired by Trouble in Terrorist Town. They won't be the main gamemodes you'll play in a year or two, but they're good enough for now.
We also can't guarantee that the game will be particularly stable just yet. You might run into the occasional frame drop, networking jank, or worse. We'll iron these out over time.
Plans for the playtest (read this)
We do not have the content to keep people amused 24/7 on our servers just yet (see above). So instead we are organizing proper playtesting events each weekend. Getting everybody together at set times makes sure we can fill the servers to have a good few rounds, and being every weekend means there will be a good week of extra content and fixes every time to keep stuff somewhat fresh. And also admins monitoring the servers. That too. Servers will remain up outside these sessions but will probably be a ghost town.
The current schedule is as follows:
Saturdays and Sundays every weekend, at 3 PM EST both days (12 PM PST, 9 PM CET, For other time zones you can check here). The sessions will last for as long as people keep playing.
We are planning to incorporate a screen for this into the launcher, so that you can more easily keep track of this (and also so people who aren't reading this announcement get the message...)