The Kestrel Minority

The Beta NDA has been partially lifted so some people, mostly press has started posting videos from it.

Here's a youtube playlist with the (current) character creation for all races. One video per race and gender combo:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... Swuvg7aT2w

EDIT: Here's an article on crafting. http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game ... ience.html

Engineer livestream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMfv_fB0pso

I just love everything about this class. Heavy armoured ranged dps (or tank) with minions (a total of four available and you can have any two active at a time).

Good random interview is good.



http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=33515

I read another article a few days ago (linked it to you on steam). You'll be able to have any two tradeskills active. You can switch them out for a cost and won't lose any progress if you do switch them. There are also hobbies, cooking was mentioned in that article, you can learn all of the hobbies.

Only two of the tradeskills above sound like gathering, mining and relic hunter. Wonder what survivalist is, rather ambiguous name.

Here's another DevSpeak with accompanying blog post. Topic this time? Customization. I.e, character creation, housing, your action set, armour dyes, "costumes" (basically armour piece worn over an armour piece, overriding its look), mounts (yup, you can customize the mounts). Yea, neat stuff.

http://www.wildstar-online.com/uk/news/ ... ldstar.php

If you want to get your hands at the beta the link below contains a list of sites that will be doing beta key giveaways during the rest of this and next week.

http://www.wildstar-online.com/uk/news/ ... eaways.php

We've got a release date! WildStar is set for launch on June 3rd.

Should you pre-order they'll let you in a bit early on May 31st.

EDIT: Apparently the NDA has been lifted as well. If you've got any questions just ask, Keatha and Me has been in the Beta for a while.

For anyone remotely curious about the game, they'll be doing an open beta between May 8th until Sunday, May 18th. During that time you can go to their open beta page (I'll post a link when it's up) and generate an access code that you can apply to your NCSoft account.