Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin's open beta is live now. You've got until July 10th if you want to give the Stormcast Eternals or the Orruk Kruleboyz a spin in Frontier's real-time strategy game.
The beta includes 1v1 multiplayer matches or fights against the AI and is designed to test both network stability and overall game balance.
Frontier warn of a few expected issues in the beta, including errors when matchmaking during peak times, time-outs while queuing, crashes, and UI inconsistencies. They also say that easy difficulty may not be that easy while they continue to work on AI, and suggest experimenting with other difficulties or "against human opponents who may have a concept of mercy".
Although there seem to be umpteen Warhammer games released every year, Realms Of Ruin is the first set in Age Of Sigmar, the modern reboot of Warhammer Fantasy. Katharine's played it and had a grand time with its nippy multiplayer battles, which are about capturing victory points and feature no base-building, and which can finished in 30 minutes or less.
The beta will come to a close on July 10th at midnight BST (4pm PT/7pm ET/1am July 11th CET). Until then, you can request access via Steam.
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