Heya, it’s been a while since I’ve been seen around these parts as James Stevenson, Bryan Intihar and the others at Insomniac have been doing most of the Resistance 2 posting as of late. Along with my return to the blog, I bring a few announcements with regards to R2:
- Today, October 16th, the public beta for Resistance 2 will begin in North America. The beta will offer gamers a glimpse at Resistance 2’s online competitive and co-op modes ahead of the game’s launch on November 4th. We will be admitting players in two waves: a Premiere wave which includes those that pre-ordered at GameStop, individuals who subscribed to QORE for one year and/or bought the episode featuring Resistance 2 and a recent contest from GamePro.com. Those of you in the Premiere wave should be receiving an email with a registration code between now and tomorrow afternoon. A second wave is starting in the middle of next week, and you apply to be a part of it by going to beta.myresistance.net once the site goes live (later tonight). For those of you across the pond in Europe, the public beta will also begin next week.
- The Beta will include competitive maps from three locations in the game. These maps include 60-, 40-, and 20-player maps from Orick, 40- and 20-player maps from Chicago, and the 10-Player map Sub Docks (Bay Area). New modes Skirmish and Core control will be supported, along with Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch. The co-op portion of the beta will focused on Orick, and will support randomization of your play-path. Both co-op and competitive will support matchmaking and class/character progression up to level 10. This will allow unlocking of new equipment, upgrades and berserks for character customization.
- Speaking of beta.myresistance.net, the beta version of our new community site goes live tonight as well. Customizable leader boards/user profiles, individual blogs and ‘ticker’ that provides players with up to minute information of happenings on the site are just some of the features the beta site has to offer. Leading into the November 4th North American launch of the game (and the months to follow), we’ll be adding several more features that will make MyResistance.net the destination for all Resistance fans.
- And, finally, Resistance 2 has gone gold. As a special treat, the below image gives all of you PlayStation Blog readers an idea on just how big just the online coop campaign mode is :)
That’s all for now. Keep your eyes open for more R2 announcements as we lead into launch. If you have any questions, write them in the comments sections and I’ll do my best to answer them.
I pre-ordered the first day I could for the collector’s edition for R2 at best buy. When will I be able to apply for the beta code.
how many players can play R2 offline.
Sweet!!! I bought Qore Episode 3, I guess I’ll receive my code by tomorrow.
kuuul….now ill wait
The 8 player co-op is badass. Regular competitive is just ok, although I haven’t played anything objective based yet.
hmmm, is it really the sending of the emails orrrr do you want to limit how many ppl are dl’ing the beta simultaneously so as not to stress the servers?
I am curious as to how you guys determine who to send the codes to first in the premiere wave. Do you guys just go down the list in alphabetical order of PSN ID? email name? or by state or something?
R2 IS THE BEST GAME EVER I REALLY WANT AND NEED THAT BETA PLEASE!!!!!
how do i get in to the public beta if i didnt pre order the game?
are the emails being sent to our psn email, or our PlayStation underground email?…cuz i no longer have that psn email :/
got the beta key and have been playing non-stop. this beta is simply amazing. so excited for the final retail product :D.
go my beta code!! woot!! i am dling the 2.5 update then the beta hope to see you all soon!!
Still nothing. Oh well hopefully tommorrow i get in the email. ugh…
we need to preorder the game or have qore? well thats just a kick to my sack :/
Good R2 is my favorite game of 2008.
Why is there nobody online playing this? Been playing with it for awhile and I can’t get into a match with anybody, it always makes me the host of a room when I search for one. Does nobody have this yet? :-s
I’m playing the co-op right now and loving it. It’s so much fun as long as your with people who know what they are doing.
Some of you guys need to chill! :D
I was wondering about people who signed up for the beta via MyResistance.net. Are they still being randomly selected for access to the beta?
sweeeet i got my code and its downloading! well hopefully its done by now.
can’t wait to try it out!
dam…i purchases the CE of R2 and they ran out of beta vouchers. Signed up for the beta and still no luck :( ughh Nov can’t come soon enough
Hi, i reserved this game awhile back at gamestop, before a beta was announced for it. I went back to give them my email address but it never got to me, am i SOL? or is there still a chance thru Qore?
Just HOW is it a “beta” when to quote this post here “And, finally, Resistance 2 has gone gold.”
um, isn’t a beta test there to help work out the bugs BEFORE it goes gold? *sigh* I love how the word beta has become synonymous with the word DEMO now. Betas aren’t even betas now, they’re demos to make you buy it, not betas to help you fix it.
While the game is final, we will be watching what happens in the beta and creating a patch to fix any serious issues prior to launch.