Scepticism is healthy and will serve you well!

I also wonder if an ultra high setting for textures is yet to be added into the game? - I've seen this before in some tests where early access only went to high but very high and ultra were added at a later date. 

It's a fair point to be honest. But at the moment we have no reason to suspect that they won't deliver on the features demonstrated. They have stuck to their milestones thus far and pretty much everything that you feel is missing, we know to be in the works such as lighting, death animations, enemy physics, character animations, voice acting etc. But I really do feel you are overselling what I thought was actually some pretty bad looking demo footage with horrible melee animations and a combat pace somewhat similar to watching paint dry :D let's just put that down to personal preferences tho!

Now if, further down the line it's still of this quality. I'll join in with you and send some angry letters and remind them of the features they previously advertised :D but thus over the past two months far we have seen a pretty rapid state of change within the game. I think if you talk to most people who were here since the first week, not many if any of us are currently worried.

Keep up the good work bud!

I got burned in the EC founder's program as well, so I see where you are coming from. However, unlike EC, this game has a solid roadmap(didn't realize its down at the moment) and major content/improvements come with each update. Many buy in here not realizing that this is an Alpha Test, not a near completed game. As Airsick pointed out, you just got here and haven't seen the evolution of the alpha that those of us who started at the beginning have. We are still only testing a fraction of the final release content. Hopefully the new roadmap will be up soon, and then you can have a better idea of where things are now, and where they are going as the alpha progresses.

There are a few death animations and enemy animations that are working in the demo, that are currently bugged/borked in the alpha which makes combat seem a lot more fluid. Re the character animations of that old footage tho "shudders" the way he swings a sword is stomach churning-ugly :D Otherwise texture wise for me at least I can only see differences in terms of shading really and not the textures themselves. It could be that currently we only have "high" textures enabled and there is an ultra setting that isn't currently enabled and I did to go the opticians this morning and am awaiting new glasses :D 

Keep the sceptical mind tho bro, we need people asking questions and worrying tbh. Keeps the devs accountable. Just wanted to give you some reassurance. 

Peace!

oh and a campaign, new enemy types, more skill trees, some voice acting, more music, bosses, champions, possible raid content (possible) vehicle combat, eeeeetc. :) (this is all subject to change tho as clearly the last roadmpa was taken down to make adjustments)

Literally the only differences between that footage is

• lighting effects had been included in the demo (Lighting hasn't been added to the alpha yet) 
• The weapon abilities weren't placeholder in the old video but fuck me they looked bad anyway, as did the UI.

Thus the only thing that needs to be done to reach the first videos standard is "turning the lights off" :D 

As we are about 1/5th of the way through the alpha and the release isn't for months I feel like your paranoia is healthy, but a little unnecessary. If weeks before release it looks like this then fair enough, but take a look through my channels old footage to current, you can clearly see each patch the game makes a marked improvement in both aesthetics and combat :) - FYI that valrak footage was of the first 2 days of the alpha, we have since seen several huge overhauls since that.

finally if you are expecting "a few tweaks" - here is what to expect on final release

10 Map types - + 2+ subtyles for each
50 Mission types
50 Perks

250 Skill points (ish)

Dark Eldar and another two chaos sub factions (not daemonic) alongside imperial rebels
Pvp
Vehicle combat
Fortress building
Finished crafting system
Retinue system
Clan wars
Season system (think perpetual story of sectors)

and a load more shit I can't remember. :)

Just curious but did you see the roadmap before it was taken down? - It kinda emphasises what is to come before release, which imho is really why they need to put it back up asap (updated version) because it shows just how little we are currently playing compared to what is in the actual game. 

Rest assured having spent a lot of time talking with the staff, this won't be an EC / Deathwing scenario. - If they wanted to milk us for money and give a half baked game this would be open access on steam already. The haven't done that for the pure reason that there would be lots more threads like this :D

TLDR - Open your heart to neocore and worship the mighty devs! - Game content is coming out at a steady pace.

Oh boy, another "why isn't your alpha a completed game" and "you better shape it up or I'm gonna demand a refund" thread.

Do us all a favor, just get your refund and wait until release. If you feel the need to complain already, then you are not here for the right reason.

Oh and if you hadn't been made aware the current map generator isn't working as intended thus the lack of tile placement variety :)

I feel you may have overlooked the purpose of a phased release and alpha testing. What we saw in early pre alpha footage was a demo version and not what was currently ready to be tested. Ergo the current alpha is not a reflection of what they have made but what is currently stable. If you think the current alpha is bare consider yourself lucky you didn't join two months ago. Sounds like you were expecting a beta though.

Admittedly I agree with some of what you have put about maps being bland etc and enemies not being varied but I don't think you can complain about placeholder skill trees and poor optimisation within an early alpha, optimisation will be done when the game is finished as is standard practice in alphas and placeholders are also equally commonplace within early builds. The reason the game currently isn't advertised or marketed at all is because we are here to test features, not to be dazzled.

Having seen this comment (comparing to old footage) a couple of times, can I ask what you think is missing? - The only stuff I can see different to the old footage is a lack of lighting effects / shadows (not implemented yet) in addition to the decapitation feature (also not implemented yet) otherwise its got a lot more than what was previously showcased and I can't understand the disappointment.

Welcome to the forums btw :)