Medic Live-Stream Today at Noon PST

Carbine has given us the Medic DevSpeak and Reddit AMA, now it's time to see the newly announced class in action, live! The Medic live-stream will happen over at the official WildStar Twitch channel Today (Saturday the 7th) at 12PM PST.

This reminder was Tweeted yesterday by @Team_WildStar and also gives us a behind the scenes look at their studio.

According to the official WildStar website:

We’ll be revealing gameplay footage of the class, as well as answering questions from the community. Given our last few streams have also featured dueling, dungeon bosses and more who knows what else may show up!

Source: Twitter, Official Site

Planet Nexus Cast Ep. 25: Ten-Thousand White Lies

In this episode of the Planet Nexus Cast, Mike, Jay and Anhrez discuss some of the latest WildStar news and information. This was recorded just prior to the recent Medic and Engineer reveals, so we'll be breaking those down in our next podcast. This week we'll also be talking about some nifty housing ideas by a member of the WildStar Reddit Community. Enjoy!

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LINKS
"Pimp my housing plot" Reddit post
Spellslinger Class Page
Spellslinger AMA
Stalker Class Page
Stalker AMA
Imagine Dragons "Radioactive" Video (you'll have to listen to figure out why this got linked :P)

More beta invites have been sent, stress test aims to break all the things

In addition to the first wave of December beta invites we reported on yesterday, there has been a second, much larger, wave according to Carbine's Craig "Cougar" Turner. This time, it's a full on stress test.

Same invite country breakdown as yesterday. Keep in mind that Stress Test invites are not permanent entries into the Closed Beta, but getting a Stress Test invite does not remove your name from the list for permanent invites at a later date. This is one of the biggest waves of invites we've sent out yet. 

Also, this is a real honest to goodness stress test. Seriously. One of the earlier times we did this we actually fried a stick of RAM in our machines. I need your help in breaking the game so that when it matters we are rock solid. 

This will be one of the few times that I actually encourage our testers to break the game. Generally I'm not a fan of that! But for Stress Tests... 

It Burns So Good!

As with any stress test, participants can expect less than optimum game/server performance as Carbine prepares their hardware for Spring launch.

Congratulations to those of you who were lucky enough to make it in this wave. The rest of us will just keep patiently (who am I kidding?) waiting for our turn.

Source: Reddit

WildStar Medic and Engineer Reveal Roundup

Redacted no more! The final two classes have been officially revealed and the interwebz  have been oozing with reveals. This article aims to serve as a summary of some of the great coverage WildStar fans have been enjoying today about the <redacted>, uh, I mean the Medic and the Engineer.

NEW WILDSTAR FLICK
First off, we are introduced to a brand spanking new WildStar Flick featuring Ish'mael the Bloodied who discovers that plundering Nexus isn't as easy as he was lead to believe.

MEDIC DEVSPEAK
Next, Carbine has also released a new DevSpeak revealing the Medic, WildStar's ultra high tech close ranged DPS/Healing class. This likely means that the Engineer DevSpeak is right around the corner. For those of us who aren't super human, the folks over at Mission Nexus has given us an imgur album showing off this video's "disclaimer".

MEDIC GAMEPLAY WITH DEVELOPER COMMENTARY
Our friends over at IGN had a chance to sit down with Design Producer, Stephan Frost, to commentate some live Medic gameplay.

ADDITIONAL COVERAGE
Check out these write-ups that offers some great insights on today's drops.

• MMORPG.com
• ZAM.com
• Massively.com

COMMUNITY DISCUSSION
Finally, if you want to talk with other community members, feel free to chime in below in the comments and check out these community discussions:

• WildStar-Central
• WildStar Core
• WildStar Forums
• Wildstar Reddit

As more great coverage comes out, we'll do our best to add to this article to keep you posted as well as offer our own insights as well.

Time to check our spam folders ... again! First wave of December beta invites have been sent

Check your spam folders ... again! The first wave of December beta invites have been sent out according to Carbine's Craig "Cougar" Turner. The total number of new invites is yet to be determined, but Turner explains that this wave of invites is global with the rough breakdown as follows:

• 25% US
• 25% FR
• 25% DE
• 25% UK

Turner also clarifies that if you don't see your country listed not to worry because the invite list was pulled from "everywhere". 

These new invitees are also being given "buddy" keys to give to friends.

In addition, roughly "half" of the previously invited stress testers have been re-invited.

If you haven't yet signed up for beta, you can do so on the official site right here. 

Source: Reddit

"Tens of Thousands" could be invited to beta this month, "redacted" class reveal this week

Looks like things are about to get <bleeping> real in the WildStar beta according to a recent MMORPG.com interview with Jeremy Gaffney. According to the interview, the Winter beta is poised to invite "tens of thousands" as early as this month. This is certainly refreshing news those who have been patiently (and impatiently) waiting for their chance to finally set their digital feet on Nexus soil.

Gaffney says that the current testing schedule includes 10 to 13 thousand that were previously invited, while seeding in previous stress testers. Sometime this month, the floodgates will open up. In addition, they are expecting to let some Press begin to cover the game through the first fifteen levels and show off housing, etc. Don't expect the NDA to be completely lifted, since there is still plenty of content that's still being tweaked.

Of course, all of this hinges on current beta feedback and is subject to change.

Screen-cap from the Stalker DevSpeak video

This week looks to be the first of the final two "unannounced" class reveals. We can expect a DevSpeak video, a Reddit AMA and a Live-Stream this Saturday, if Carbine follows the same pattern as previous class reveals. While even the Carbine folks admit that they names of these new classes are some of the worst kept secrets in gaming, their actual gameplay and mechanics are still quite mysterious. This should be an eventful week!

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Source: MMORPG.com's Jeremy Gaffney Interview

New Stalker DevSpeak and a "Redacted" Cameo

In case you missed it, this week's Class Drop was a day early. Today was all about the ninja-like slashing Stalker. Carbine dropped a new DevSpeak, a surprise Reddit AMA and new Class Page. There won't be a Live-Stream this week due to the American Thanksgiving Holiday, but we can expect one in the future.

At the conclusion of the Stalker DevSpeak, the popular reoccurring character "Brofessional" was revived from certain Rowsdower doom by a mystery woman. The revived character in the video asks, "What unrevealed class are you?" The woman just runs away without answering. Many speculate that this will be next week's Class Drop. I suppose we'll find out soon enough!