Devs Put Out World War 3 Open Beta Fire; Reception Improves

Recent patches have eliminated many of the pains plaguing the open beta of Polish free-to-play shooter World War 3. They have also improved the reception of the game, as seen in recent Steam reviews.

A week ago we wrote about the disastrous launch of the open beta of the Polish online shooter World War 3 (available in free-to-play model). However, the developers of the game did not give up and over the past few days they have been working up a sweat trying to patch up problems related to the game's network infrastructure. The fixes introduced during technical breaks on last Friday and Thursday eliminated most of the pains related to queues and matchmaking.

At last, it's playable!

"Error 151" and the one preventing access to the main menu are almost a thing of the past. Queues, in a sense, too - from now on after starting the game, if the server is overcrowded, the game will shut down and ask you to try later.

At the beginning of the open beta, getting to the main menu was an hours-long challenge. After the improvements, it requires only a few restarts of WW3, rather than dozens, which currently takes between 2 and 10 minutes on average (yesterday and today I was able to get into the game on the first try)..

Matchmaking has also sped up significantly and finding the lobby now takes only a few seconds. According to SteamDB at the time of writing, 7450 people are playing the game on Steam.

Warmer and warmer reception

A week ago, only 18% of the 7182 Steam reviews from the last 30 days were positive. Now this stat has risen to 24% (11760 reviews).

Published after October 6, the positive reviews are almost equal in number to the negative ones posted during the same period - around the start of the open beta, the scales tipped significantly towards the latter (players usually pointed out problems with servers, but praised the gameplay itself).

The website now categorizes the game's reception over the past 30 days as "mostly negative" (a week ago it was "overwhelmingly negative"). Thus, all indications are that WW3 is finally gaining a foothold and that positive reviews will begin to dominate in the near future.