Beta test... will be saved on your character progress?

[Radacci]

Don't blame SE if it the other wise. =.=

well i certainly won't rush content in ph4 anyways
if they dont save progress; i'll just roll my eyes and whine a bit, then carry on
but i'm 99% sure progress and all that will carry over. I think at most there might be a day maintenance after ph4, then game launch.

Call me pessimistic, but I seriously doubt they meant more than that the characters people spent 10+ minutes creating, would reappear at level 1 before the first moments of their character growth, on launch day.

That would basically mean wipe, which in normal case wont happen