The news just keeps on coming for Injustice 2 fans. Following the announcement of the game’s release date, a new cinematic trailer revealing several new characters, and the arrival of Darkseid as a pre-order bonus, Ed Boon’s latest Twitter hint–which is decidedly less cryptic than his usual teasers–implied earlier today that we’d be seeing a Beta test for Injustice 2 sometime in the near future.
You can view the tweet below, where Boon displays a picture of characters in the Greek alphabet, noting, “Don’t know why, but I can’t help feeling like something’s missing today….” Upon examination, the character absent from the photo is, of course, “beta.”
Don't know why, but I can't help feeling like there is something missing today…. pic.twitter.com/J25PE23lhj
— Ed Boon (@noobde) January 19, 2017
The mystery didn’t last long, as an Injustice 2 beta has now been officially announced:
Register now for the upcoming Injustice 2 Online Beta for North America!
More details coming soon.https://t.co/VDi6nRlt39 pic.twitter.com/jpT5OEUD9b
— Injustice2 (@InjusticeGame) January 19, 2017
If you want in on the test, head over the the beta site and register!
Back before the launch of the Mortal Kombat XL update, along with NRS’s new rollback-based netcode (which this title will be sporting from day 1), they held an “Enhanced Online Beta,” allowing players to try out the new netcode for themselves–as well as some of the character balance changes–before it was all released to the public. Injustice: Gods Among Us also received a demo version back in 2013, but its features were strictly offline.
What are your thoughts on this? Are you excited for the Injustice 2 beta? Do you hope they’ll take feedback on the netcode, and perhaps even character balance? Let us know in the Comments! Injustice 2 is set to be released on May 16th.
Source: noobde (Twitter)