On June 27th, sara received an email from Riot Games on her QQ mailbox, inviting some Riot accounts to participate in the 2XKO test of the new game in August. This is the first external test of 2XKO, a League of Legends fighting game that has been tested offline several times in the past two years since its inception in 2016, but only a small number of players have been able to participate. This is an online public beta, and players who receive the email will also be able to apply on the event page, and players will be able to get early access to the game as soon as this summer.
To promote the beta event, Riot Games released a 14-minute video in which the game producer and game director explained what 2XKO Alpha Lab was and the QA Q&A for the first beta event. The highly anticipated League of Legends fighting game is about to kick off its first round of Alpha Lab testing from August 9 to 20. The beta will be open to players in the US, Canada, UK, France, Brazil, Japan, and Mexico for Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Windows PC.
The goal of Alpha Lab is to gather early feedback from players so that necessary tweaks and optimizations can be made before the game's official release in 2025. Although the game is still in an unpolished state, the development team hopes that through this test, we will gather valuable feedback from players so that there will be enough time to make improvements. Players can sign up for Alpha Lab right now on 2XKO's official website. Registration will open on June 27 and requires a Riot account. Between registration and the start of the beta, players will receive an email questionnaire that is required to gain access to the trial.
Selected players will receive an invitation via email with information on how to download the game, and if you don't receive an email, your application will not be approved, and it will be reviewed within 1 hour for the old account and 24 hours for the new account. In addition, players can invite a friend to participate in the test through the Friend Referral link, but each player can only have one referral attempt. Alpha Lab supports playing on PC and up to one additional console, but once a player redeems a code on one console, they can't switch to another, which is a common hardware lock ID method during Riot's closed beta.
2XKO, as a traditional fighting game, will support a wide range of officially licensed peripherals, as well as keyboard/mouse, most controllers, and basic fighting sticks on PC. The minimum system requirements are an Intel i7-4790, an Nvidia GTX 960, 8GB of RAM, and a Windows 10 operating system, which was built nine years ago. The game will be available in English, Japanese, French (France), Spanish (Latin America), and Portuguese (Brazil), with the caveat that while the menu will be translated, the in-game audio and HUD will not be translated during Alpha Lab.
As this is the game's first online test, 2XKO encourages players to stream the game or share it on social media to provide feedback and show how fun the game is. In addition, although Alpha Lab is not set to support TOs, players can host 2XKO-related events online, and there may be some third-party mini-events. All Alpha Lab participants will receive a feedback survey at the end of the demo, and the development team will listen to each piece of feedback and make adjustments before the official release. For any serious or destructive behavior, players can contact customer personnel and they will punish malicious gamers.
It is important to note that after the end of Alpha Lab, all player data will not be retained in the full game or future demos. While there is no specific date yet, the 2XKO team promises to hold more demos in the future and will keep players informed via social channels. The version of the game during Alpha Lab is a work in progress, and there may be unfinished parts compared to the final product. But by gathering player feedback early on, the 2XKO team will have more time to improve the game before its release in 2025 and bring players a better gaming experience.
The launch of 2XKO Alpha Lab, Riot Games' upcoming blockbuster, marks the opening of the doors of the League of Legends fighting game to players around the world. The developers are looking forward to the active participation and valuable feedback from players to shape this exciting new game, after all, the fighting games genre is more hardcore, but Riot Games doesn't just want to attract fighting fans, they also want more League of Legends fans to get interested in 2XKO, a 2v2 game. There are more places distributed in this test event, and there is a friend invitation mechanism, maybe domestic players can also try it in advance.