Test Challenge on PTE 1 (not on 2)
October 17, 2019 2:40PM
edited October 2019
Hello Testers!
As mentioned before, we are looking into the recent problems with the Challenge. To this purpose we are putting both PTE worlds into Challange mode on Friday, 18th October until Monday, 21st October 2019. starting 10:00 UTC.
This Challenges won't award Veteran Points, it is purely for testing purposes to generate data to analize. To that end it will also be significantly easier to reach the rewards phase, the phase that was cut short last time.
We still hope for you to participate and shoot many infected, especially since on PTE the CP/RT costs are made redundant.
See you on the battlefield, Commander.
As mentioned before, we are looking into the recent problems with the Challenge. To this purpose we are putting both PTE worlds into Challange mode on Friday, 18th October until Monday, 21st October 2019. starting 10:00 UTC.
This Challenges won't award Veteran Points, it is purely for testing purposes to generate data to analize. To that end it will also be significantly easier to reach the rewards phase, the phase that was cut short last time.
We still hope for you to participate and shoot many infected, especially since on PTE the CP/RT costs are made redundant.
See you on the battlefield, Commander.
Envision Entertainment Community Liaison
Post edited by gamerdruid on
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It seems PTE2 means Private Test Environment 2, it doesn't seem as if it's going to be launched for public use.
then why announce it publicly?
Good question. Probably plans changed from the initial posting to the actual running of the challenge. It may have had something to do with the problems they had starting the challenge on time.
If you destroy infected camps after the end of the event, do not assign them to yourself.
If you destroyed them during the event it is good that the development team knows.
In one sense the test was a success as it means the developers have more accurate data about where the failure occurred.
As it was on the PTE, the only 'loss' to the players was the fact that the bonus Research Points gained won't happen for longer. The other normal gains in a Challenge don't affect the PTE.
We think we narrowed down the origin of the bug and are addressing that already. We will inform everyone once we are ready to start another test.
We just implemented a fix for the challenge bug. We will start another quick test challenge today, at 10:00 UTC, until tomorrow 10 UTC.
If all goes according to plan we can include this fix in the next Patch still.
See you on the battlefield commanders!
That also means we can set the end point of the challenge to 14:00 UTC today. No need to wait for tomorrow to find out if the challenge is still broken in the final phase or not.