I didn’t register my interest because I want to go into this game mode blind for the first time. And to avoid spoilers. Congrats to those who got picked though, that’s awesome!!
Though, I am confused about those who are live-streaming this. Isn’t Freelancer stuff meant to be a secret still? Since this is not its official release…?
I am.
For anyone who is interested 
No, they said we’re allowed to share everything, no NDA and all. It’s definitely an interesting decision, so many months before launch. The games I’ve beta tested before only lifted the DNA edit: NDA lmao shortly before everyone could play them, to generate hype close to release.
I hope I’ll always remember to apply the mutable tag to Tumblr, I wouldn’t want to spoil anything for people who want to wait… 
No joke but I shaved my head and put on my hitman gear for this occasion.
I have Cola zero inside that.
That’s awesome, hope you get online soon 
I am hitting that retry button constantly till it doesn’t connect
I wouldn’t bother tbh. There’s still 55 minutes to go…
The same ridiculousness to me, four days will be its duration beta testing
I only really have time to play it this evening.
I have tomorrow off. Not because of this, it just happens to be one of the days my company has off.
Works out perfectly.
The poor Arcade batch that is getting added to the game today as well, this is completely overshadowing it. 
Same here lol, the rest of the freelancer days are pretty packed for me, but ill try to squeeze out as much as i can play
Well that’s what it essentially is. It’s contracts mode but to be played more role playing like.
I wonder how restarts will affect our playthrough or if it will have any effect at all. Like are we allowed to go back to the safe house to change our gear if we want to change some gear. Wondering if we’re able to do that and if so will it affect our gameplay and our score and our payout. Etc etc.
I hope everyone has fun with the beta and that IO gets some valuable information out of it for bug fixing and balancing.
it does seem genuinely very detailed (at least the safehouse is from what I’ve seen) and like I’ll have a lot of fun with it when it eventually comes out.
From what we’ve heard+seen, I’m expecting it to be like a Random, infinite Contracts mode, broken up by a few “spot the difference” missions with the leaders.
I hope this doesn’t feel too shallow or get old quick, though it’s best to keep in mind the smaller scope of this tech test. We’re only getting about a third of the locations and a quarter of the rewards to check out.
I’ve got faith that it should be enjoyable, especially if each mission just has optional objectives that I can follow or deviate from with no guilt if need be.
(Got about 2 hours till i’m done work, then I’ll have a nap for ~1 hour. Don’t find all the secrets while I’m gone!)
It is 1400 CET, the Closed Technical Test should be open.
Have fun everyone !
That, and with a looser ratings system we can really go wild with some of the mechanics in ways that we previously weren’t able to.
I’m overall looking forward to it, although the missions/maps themselves are the primary point of concern for me, just like you said.
@badeaguard dont be creeped out but I’m watching you.
I entered the product code, but there still isn’t an executable to run yet for me…
