Guild Wars 2 players get their first
chance to head into the Heart of Thorns this evening—that is, if they've
already got a key to enter into the jungle expansion's closed beta. The
first test consists of three two-hour sessions staggered throughout the day.
Players who found a rare portal during last month's Dry Top and Silverwastes
events will be able to create a new beta character to test out a small portion
of the new expansion.
"Participants will be able to use a
revenant—or any of the existing eight professions—to play a small amount of
expansion story content, followed by two beta versions of outposts and their
corresponding adventures in part of the Verdant Brink map," explains a
news post on the Guild Wars 2 site. "An early, partially
completed version of the day/night cycle meta-event experience from Verdant
Brink will also be available."
ArenaNet says they'll be adding
additional participants, picked from email addresses subscribed to
the expansion's newsletter.
Here are the times of the closed beta
tests:
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
PDT / 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm CEST / 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm BST
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm PDT / 12:30 am –
2:30 am CEST / 11:30 pm – 1:30 am BST
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm PDT / 4:30 am – 6:30
am CEST / 3:30 am – 5:30 am BST
For those without access, the test isn't
under any NDA restrictions. That means you can expect the beta to be streamed
by players during each test window.
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