First closed playtest: what we are testing

The first closed playtest puts the Meridian Pact against The Gnash on two maps. The goal is narrow: does the opening five minutes feel right, and does the economy hold at two and three bases.

Expect rough edges. Pathfinding, the skirmish AI and the ladder are all still on the bench.

Four factions, four ways to win

Meridian Pact holds ground and grinds forward. AXIOM turns what you built against you. The Gnash eat the battlefield and grow. The Thessari Concordat fields few units that are each worth an army.

Each one covers every role. None of them covers it the same way.

Drowned Megacity and the Crystal Wastes

The first two map biomes are in the editor: flooded streets under dead billboards, and a glass desert where the crystal grows in spirals out of old wrecks.

Bloom fields regrow. Whoever holds them late holds the game.

How the ladder will work

Ranked is 1v1 at a fixed game speed, rated with Glicko-2. Casual 2v2 follows once the 1v1 ladder is stable.