This is straight Yoshiro himself!
TW]Yoshiro: I will give a run down
[TW]Yoshiro: 1) You can host your own server
[TW]Yoshiro: you can do it right NOW
[TW]Yoshiro: just grab the HLDS update tool and start downloading
[TW]Yoshiro: Howerver you will need to update to the final build when the beta goes live
[TW]Yoshiro: the beta will feature 3 maps
[TW]Yoshiro: in all of their game modes
[TW]Yoshiro: Apartments in TE/CD/FF
[TW]Yoshiro: Fallen Fighters in TE/CD
[TW]Yoshiro: and GUmrak in TE/CD
[TW]Yoshiro: Apartments is infantry only (and the remake of the original Danzig)
[TW]Yoshiro: FallenFighters is a combined arms map in the famed Red Square
[TW]Yoshiro: and Gumrak is a tank only battle in the fields outside the city centered around an airstrip
[TW]Yoshiro: All the base weapons will be in game
[TW]Yoshiro: and all classes
[TW]Yoshiro: as the beta goes on we might switch out maps and turn on other functionality to test it
[TW]Yoshiro: not every bit of gameplay will be final
[TW]Yoshiro: we are still tweaking some things
[TW]Yoshiro: And the best thing you can do in the beta is report bugs and reproductions of them that a sleep deprived coder can understand. They have to be very basic steps that anybody could follow to reproduce the issue
TW]Yoshiro: I will give a run down
[TW]Yoshiro: 1) You can host your own server
[TW]Yoshiro: you can do it right NOW
[TW]Yoshiro: just grab the HLDS update tool and start downloading
[TW]Yoshiro: Howerver you will need to update to the final build when the beta goes live
[TW]Yoshiro: the beta will feature 3 maps
[TW]Yoshiro: in all of their game modes
[TW]Yoshiro: Apartments in TE/CD/FF
[TW]Yoshiro: Fallen Fighters in TE/CD
[TW]Yoshiro: and GUmrak in TE/CD
[TW]Yoshiro: Apartments is infantry only (and the remake of the original Danzig)
[TW]Yoshiro: FallenFighters is a combined arms map in the famed Red Square
[TW]Yoshiro: and Gumrak is a tank only battle in the fields outside the city centered around an airstrip
[TW]Yoshiro: All the base weapons will be in game
[TW]Yoshiro: and all classes
[TW]Yoshiro: as the beta goes on we might switch out maps and turn on other functionality to test it
[TW]Yoshiro: not every bit of gameplay will be final
[TW]Yoshiro: we are still tweaking some things
[TW]Yoshiro: And the best thing you can do in the beta is report bugs and reproductions of them that a sleep deprived coder can understand. They have to be very basic steps that anybody could follow to reproduce the issue