@chosen-predator It sure is :) Hopefully, the servers keep up and everything turns out ship shape...

@musicmee Oh interesting I was just assuming they were going to let people in via waves because the recent tavern talk he mention about making people come in by waves, so it's basically a free for all that day :P lol

@chosen-predator Not at all, all players will be treated equally. You can see what times you will be able to log into the beta using the link below.

https://www.seaofthieves.com/news/closed-beta

I'm assuming the first wave of players to get in will be all the previous alpha players, waves will be let in by increments.

@kitty-terminal You don't anymore. The only way to play the beta if you were never an alpha player is to pre-order the game to get access.

The beta is an update of the technical alpha version

@major-sousa how can i become technical alpha member??

@musicmee Thanks for clarifying. =)

@yubbyub That's why I was asking. Mine also had an update. I figured it was for the beta.

@jcmdeadpool The team are Rare employees Founders are not currently testing any build but Pioneers are.

@musicmee And by the founders, assuming the team are Rare employees. Or am I wrong?

@yubbyub The alpha build is used internally by the team and is always updated weekly even when there is no official play session going on.

The alpha game on my xbox One did a 7gb update the other day, i assumed this was in preparation for the beta but maybe i'm wrong?

@mistah-claun Ahoy there!

They will show up on your console/PC automatically as they should automatically try to start downloading and install and you should receive a prompt telling you this.

Failing that it should be available in the Store/My Games list to install manually.

And where will it be avaible? =)

@lizardwizard121 for Central European Time

I think beta will be available to download at 1pm on 23 January

@thefarsz So it's going to be a separate download. Thanks =]

@major-sousa its a separate download available 24h before.

https://www.seaofthieves.com/news/closed-beta

@major-sousa The Beta will be available to download 24 hours before the beta session starts