IMPORTANT: Info about the Public Beta Launch today!

[Markus Heinsohn]

OK guys, later today (probably early afternoon ET) we will release the Public Beta of OOTP 23 to the friendly folks who have pre-ordered. In order for things to go smoothly, please read on.

The Perfect Team launch plan & info can be found here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=335991

1) Locate your serial number, you will need it today. You can find it in the confirmation email of your purchase in the Fastspring webstore. The serial number looks like this: XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX.

If you cannot find the confirmation email, no problem. Fastspring/QLM has an after-purchase-support page, where you can find all your orders and receipts online. Please open the after-sales-support page here. There is a button that emails you your serial number.

2) We will send you an email to the email account you used for ordering once the game is ready to go (probably in the afternoon ET). The email will include the link to the setup files (one each for PC & Mac). You should, to be sure, check your spam folders too when looking for the email. Also, if you unsubscribed our newsletter in the past couple of years, you will not receive an email because you are blocked from our list. If that is the case, please check this forum, we will have a sticky post containing the links.

3) After you have downloaded and installed the game (if you may get a Windows Defender warning when running the installer, click the "More Info" link and then the button to run the app anyway), the main screen will have the buttons "Purchase" and "Enter License Key" enabled. Click on the latter button, and then enter your license key into the box which comes up. You can use copy & paste, pasting on the PC works by hitting CTRL + V, on the Mac it's Cmd(Apple) + V. Again, the serial looks like this: XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX ... the complete string is needed! Make sure you have no white spaces at the beginning or end.

4) It may take a few tries to activate the game, the servers will probably be rather busy. Unfortunately, this is out of our control, so you may have to be a bit patient. If you are having consistent trouble, please try disabling your firewall / virus scanner for the activation process.

5) If you still have problems activating the game, please read the following article in our knowledge base: Activation Problems - Help Desk

6) Please do not post bugs on this general forum! Post bug reports here: OOTP 23 Bug Reports and follow the bug reporting guidelines! Bugs related to Perfect Team go to the PT 23 bug report forum.

Alright, that's it I guess. We will monitor the forums over the week and fix all bugs that get properly reported to our support team. On Wednesday & possibly Thursday we'll release a beta patch. Then on Friday we will release the final game (including bug fixes) to the masses.

Be safe and have fun with OOTP 23! We hope you enjoy it as much as we do

Cheers!
Markus

[thejojo]

Thanks Markus!!! We're all really excited!!!

[Simmo13]

Markus, thanks as always for this great game.

[boscoJJ]

Thanks

[Cloonix]

I hate those words: "early afternoon ET".

Make it CET! ;-)

[BusterKing]

It's Christmas day folks!

Thank you Markus and team.

[Anteater]

Thanks for your hard work on the game every year!

[graniteknighte]

Morning Markus!

Is it safe to potentially load up our OOTP 22 saves into OOTP23 (the Beta)?
Will that Beta save version be compatible with the final version of OOTP, or should I hold off until release day?

[Ormondbeachdan]

Ready to go.. Clear schedule rest of week for the most part.. 73 years old and feeling like a kid.. Thanks Markus!

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by graniteknighte

Morning Markus!

Is it safe to potentially load up our OOTP 22 saves into OOTP23 (the Beta)?
Will that Beta save version be compatible with the final version of OOTP, or should I hold off until release day?

They will be compatible. However, there is always certainly a chance that we will discover some issues on upgrade that are best handled by adjusting things on import. In those cases, if you have already imported in, you won't get the updates to your game. Maybe you will be able to correct manually, or maybe there won't be any issues, but we cannot know.

[GoBucsGo]

I preordered this morning, will I still receive the beta download links?

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by GoBucsGo

I preordered this morning, will I still receive the beta download links?

You may not get the email, depending on exactly how that gets pulled. But as long as you have your order you can use the links directly from the boards when they get posted to download the game.

[GoBucsGo]

Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

You may not get the email, depending on exactly how that gets pulled. But as long as you have your order you can use the links directly from the boards when they get posted to download the game.

Awesome! Thank you!

[graniteknighte]

Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

They will be compatible. However, there is always certainly a chance that we will discover some issues on upgrade that are best handled by adjusting things on import. In those cases, if you have already imported in, you won't get the updates to your game. Maybe you will be able to correct manually, or maybe there won't be any issues, but we cannot know.

Reading between the lines here, seems to tell me to wait.

[joejccva71]

Thank you sir. Looking forward to playing today!

[Miamikb2001]

Thanks Markus can not wait!!!best day of the year sir


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[JWay]

Can't wait!!

[sentry85]

well that means, due to work, i won't get it until late tonight. i hope i manage to get a little sleep before tomorrow.

[Folderol]

Can. Not. Wait.

[Keeks137]

Thank you to all of the developers! The franchise is fantastic and you all should be extremely proud. Look at how many people you're making happy. I hope that feels great.