Bethesda announced at PAX Australia that beta testing of Battlecry will begin as an exclusive to gamers in Australia and New Zealand before expanding to other territories, which Bethesda specifies will happen "later." There an interview on AusGamers.com getting further thoughts from Battlecry Studios' Rich Vogel and Bethesda's Pete Hines on the subject. "I feel very confident we’ll be able to hit [any] balance issues and that’s one of the reasons why we picked Australia and New Zealand," Vogel explained. "To work with a small, close and tight community to get [the game] tuned before we go large scale." Those from the area interested in participating can sign up through the game's website, where they also offer a video showing off some gameplay from a "pre-alpha" version of the free-to-play multiplayer action game. Along the way Pete Hines describes the new gameplay mode they are now showing:

"So the mode we have here [at PAX] is sort of like Domination," Pete explains. "It’s three points at a time and once you control them there’s a countdown timer and once it counts down [the point] vanishes and a new one pops up somewhere else. So it’s structured, but then it’s not just the same three points all the time."

"It’s not your basic kill everyone TDM, it’s actually objective-based which really shows off the classes well and their depth in the game really well," Rich enthuses. "That’s really the big difference, as well as more abilities; more capabilities [for each] character in the game versus what was at E3 so it’s a completely different experience to what [people] had at E3.”