Closed beta weekend, 21-23 August

WHAT PLAYERS GET WRONG

This page has a short life and we would rather say so: after 23 August 2026, everything on it is history. What it is genuinely useful for is the days before, and the one thing worth understanding is that a free request is a lottery ticket rather than a plan. Our page on the Early Access date covers what happens after the beta ends. Corrected on 3 September 2026, and the correction matters more than the page. Until today this page told you that no official recap of the weekend had been published. That was wrong: BULKHEAD published one on 24 August 2026, in the news feed of its own store page, under the title Beta Recap & Next Steps. We missed it because we were watching the store page itself and not the feed attached to it — the channel where the studio actually announces. It is a declared source of ours from today. What the recap says is short, and it is worth being precise about: the beta is over, the turnout was large, milestones were hit and lessons learned. It gives no player count, no findings and no technical detail, and it uses the space to point at a major announcement scheduled for 3 September at 19:00 BST on a Twitch broadcast. So we still cannot tell you what the weekend established about the game — but a recap exists, we should have read it, and saying it did not exist was our error rather than a gap in the record. What we can say is what came next: BULKHEAD scheduled a second closed beta for 3 to 6 September, and described that one as a scale test rather than a preview.