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CrunchyMcOats t1_je8peos wrote

ergo mouse and keyboard, and spend some serious time thinking about posture. Stretch your hands and fingers, lots of good short exercises you can do that you can do once-twice per session in between loading or cutscenes. Once you make a habit of it it can help. On start and end of a session you can stretch.

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CawCawDumDum t1_je8o2vg wrote

Macros and grip training.

Start with an adjustable grip trainer you can buy for like $10 on amazon.

Buy like a $3 pack of hair ties with it to use for extensor exercises.

Keep it simple at 3x20 reps, once a week. Keep the reps really slow and controlled.

Go up when it becomes too easy.

Use macros for any game where you have to left click excessively.

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Damaged_Eidolon t1_je8n5oz wrote

In Alphas, the game is still being developed: the models, the math, cinematics. Those usually start with a version number of "zero point (0.xx)" and this continues (0.1, 0.15, 0.3, etc) until the game is pretty much done, when it becomes version 1.xx. Some Betas may open before that, but that is where some developers have the near-finished game tested for bugs.

Closed Betas require you to be part of that company or a firm or invited to test the game and likely an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement- ya can't talk about the game to others). An Open Beta isn't so restrictive. Anyone with (whatever requirement, in my case I guess it was having an xbox) can join the testing. I logged a number of bugs for them to fix. Game review isn't part of it. Stress test having a bunch of people on the servers, cross platform interaction, find things the closed beta might not have found because there's just so many of us and everybody plays a little different.

The goal of the Open Beta is to fix all the stuff prior to the release date. Lately, that doesn't happen so much- examples being players clipping through the ground on Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, or servers crashing with... dang what was it, Overwatch 2?

Anyway, I'm sure I'm wrong on some of the nitty gritty, but that's basically what an Open Beta is and what was going on with D4.

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