For those who were sent the password to the dedicated server beta, it is now up. It requires there be 6 players to a server, so if there aren't enough people on at a time, uhhh, I won't snitch if you share the password lol.
As of now, there are only 10 servers available (all of which on the World Play, private matches aren't on the dedicated servers yet), but 10 * 6 = 60 so that shouldn't be a problem I'd imagine. However, whenever you first start matchmaking, you may get an error that says something like "FleetExceededCapacity in CreateGameSession," if you get that error message, feel free to ignore it. If you get some other kind of error message, lmk on https://twitter.com/cromwellslimon, but that should be the only error message. The reason why that pops up is just because it's trying to start up a new instance of the dedicated server but it can take like 20 seconds, I have the matchmaking button set to retry on a loop every 10 seconds so if you click "World Play" and then just wait a bit, you'll join a match eventually, if not basically immediately.
Also, we haven't sorted out balancing yet so feel free to leave feedback to me and I'll relay that to Vince or something, I don't mess with balancing, I'm just the software engineer (ooo, fancy title)
Have fun gaming, gamers
- Simon Cromwell