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pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

early access starts tomorrow and normal closed beta on the 6th!

for those that don't have a beta key: try joining the discord! it's getting close so might not be as many available but people are still trading normal keys

reminder: signing up will save both your username and account ID, these will stay the same between account wipes (there will for sure be a wipe between beta and launch)

registering will also save your progen cat IDs, meaning you can take your time designing them! or come back later if go live is late for you

i am absolutely positively vibrating with excitement i cannot wait for cat neopets (or is it cat dragon neopets?)

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

i might cat it cat rising lmao

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

call it. I got catted

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately, I don't like the art-style - or lack thereof, it looks, idk how to put, not stylized enough? Too "Lion King (2019)" type of soullessness?

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

i definitely get what you're saying for sure, i was pretty hesitant on it myself with the original cat breeds they showed during the KS. have you checked out the more recent familiars or NPC art previews? i think the NPC art in particular shows the style a lot better, they did have a whole style change from the OG art direction

https://www.patreon.com/posts/hello-stranger-115895812 (should be a public post)
https://i.kickstarter.com/assets/046/926/917/5b8f7705db652f3c87ce6d560ca6f517_original.png?fit=scale-down&origin=ugc&q=100&v=1729208688&width=700&sig=3wO6Om%2BjDyvK5alCDSt6wbUiwIxTivPVZNxagno30hA%3D
https://i.kickstarter.com/assets/045/742/463/825bbede9c6957747a3516aee93968f3_original.png?fit=scale-down&origin=ugc&q=100&v=1721107384&width=700&sig=F20tpwBJQDl2JxcScpp2Pea8Ho7lwJH8MDe8uh5iYx8%3D

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

Naryt

I was afraid that they were going to be too stylized (to the point they didn't look like cats but more cat like blobs or cat like noodles), but looking at the options, I sort of like the art now (I think I looked at it before and didn't like it)

Might have to wait until it is out of beta and see what it is like (don't want to play only for any progress to be wiped, plus not joining discord just for an invite)

Will have to see what the actual gameplay is like and what other cat breeds will look like (there are still some that I don't like because).

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I played around with their demo cat creator and unfortunately this is just another site where 98% of the color combinations are awful. You're stuck with natural colors if you want decent pets and the ability to actually make money from their lineage. Otherwise your entire collection is going to be gross looking fodder.

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

of course idk how its gonna play out when the site goes live but based on the discord a lot of people are really into non natural colors when breeding. i myself am gonna probably stick to more natural designs too but if people can put up with lorwolf's abominations they can probably get something out of these.

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

umm no i don't think this is the case at all actually! part of the reason why LW had this problem is because their color wheel was very large and had huge pits of very muddy colors in between color ranges.

unlike fr/lw/etc where the breeding results are colors that are between the two parents, breeding on pb works more like when you mix red and blue to make purple.

https://i.ibb.co/4nx7n48n/Screenshot-2025-02-04-165405.png this is a random pair the demo gave me, and despite being non natural colors do make cute kids

i mean you're always going to have fodder on breeding sites, but idk why you think it'll be so prevalent simply because you choose to breed non natural colors?

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

sa

also as an early access beta tester, i did get some 'ugly' follower cats (you start with three follower cats, you can reroll all three however much you want) and really all it took was putting their colors in the demo and seeing how much nicer they'd look with different genes.

important to keep in mind that the demo has relatively sparse genes compared to what the site will be at full launch

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

SA
I'm not sure whether there's a paid pawborough person or just someone really into it, but ngl, none of their responses are actually making me more interested in that game - sometimes the more someone tries to push me to try it because "it's good and you just don't understand that yet", the less I'm actually interested.

Also: why the fuck we're still discussing some other game in a FR-specific anon com?

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

SA
also lol - while I was writing my comment, someone else wrote a comment that stinks of the exact same "you're just too stupid to understand it" flavor in response to another random person.

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt (i think?)

i first responded with the newer NPC art because i think your criticism of the art is valid because i had similar opinions before the new art direction. literally just trying to provide updated information? don't care if your opinion changes just... hey fyi things might be different than last time you saw this. if you still aren't interested ok cool! i really don't care, but maybe other people reading would be interested :)

idk where you've been but the last few ARR topics have had topics discussing other pet sims? that's why we're in the OT thread.....

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

we're in the off topic thread no?

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

someone very kindly gave me an extra beta key, and I'm soooooooo excited. not sure what borough I'm gonna go with though

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

played around with the cat creator and they are really cute! wish i was around for the kickstarter lol

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

SA

I won a beta key in a giveaway, thank you to the anon who suggested joining the discord. :)
i love my cats

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

My one complaint about pawborough is that they don't have an option for vertical pupils, or at least they didn't last time I looked. I'd be allll over the game if they did.

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

this is def something highly requested so i hope it'll be one of the earliest additions to the eye roster. it's just too good to pass up on!

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

I am not in the beta, but I watched someone's stream on opening day of Early Access and... I am not impressed. The user (Valentine in the game) didn't DO anything, primarily because there wasn't anything to DO. Gathering was busted, guilds are busted, breeding was busted. Gathering and breeding have been fixed (?) since, but they said that it was basically in the same state as alpha. It's still missing a ton of assets and TEXT all over the site. Lorum ipsum dominates. It's frustrating, since the project lead and community manager are both writers, but where is the text?

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

local shocked when a beta test is actually a beta test for once, more at 11

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

+1

the recent release of """betas""" from sites like santae/lorwolf/dappervolk i think have really set people's expectations of beta way too high. as an alpha tester and now EA tester, this is much more close to the beta testing that i did for wolvden. this is... honestly pretty normal for a beta? the people saying there is no difference between alpha and closed beta, really just don't know what they're talking about beyond the very basic visual/gameplay elements. a lot of necessary infrastructure has been fixed between the two

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

lmao, testing what? there's nothing on the site except placeholder images and ugly cats.

Re: pawborough beta

[(Anonymous)]

it was a rough day one but things are steadily improving. just last night some wip art assets were implemented among other things. it is still very rough but i expect things will be significantly more polished over the course of these two weeks where the dev team will be actively working on improvements before having a rest period until March.
(source: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tbpt/paw-borough-the-feline-virtual-browser-rpg/posts/4305837)

in agreement with other anons that recent petsite alphas/betas have raised the bar in what players expect out of "testing" builds in terms of functionality, so im trying to take things in stride. i do wish things were a little better (like we can't even redeem our ks codes... come on man) but if that's honest game development then i'll fucking take it man.

PB Beta Wipe

[(Anonymous)]

First wipe has gone through and we're supposed to be doing more economic testing now. What's everyone think so far? I definitely like having actual gameplay possible from the start now that's for sure.