Did the PTS break?

coop500 · April 20

It's getting pretty late, no update or anything... did it die?

IviRo · April 20

I'm also waiting for at least some updates on this. Even though I tagged it

@ZOS_GinaBruno
@ZOS_Kevin
@ZOS_JessicaFolsom

WuffyCerulei · April 20

Wondering that too. I wanna test stuff T-T

KingArthasMenethil · April 20

arctangent · April 20

Have the PTS staff been at the somnal powder?!?

It's been too long without at least a post from a dev informing us about a new target time for maintenance completion.

Aliyavana · April 20

is it delayed?

coop500 · April 20

Surprise! Werewolf refresh is now on Live lol.

JimT722 · April 20

coop500 wrote: »

Surprise! Werewolf refresh is now on Live lol.

I wish that were true. and challenge mode. i'm finding live so boring.

coop500 · April 20

JimT722 wrote: »

coop500 wrote: »

Surprise! Werewolf refresh is now on Live lol.

I wish that were true. and challenge mode. i'm finding live so boring.

Honestly same, and having to wait until June legit makes me wanna take a break from the game until then.

IviRo · April 21

@ZOS_Amy help

coop500 · April 21

The silence is actually kinda funny now.

MoonPile · April 21

lmao it's evening in EST; they packed up and went home for the day and forgot us 🥲

coop500 · April 21

And people wonder why I keep saying that the devs don't have the manpower and willingness for XYZ suggestion haha.

tomofhyrule · April 21

Weird that we didn't get a message before they went home for the day.

It's not the first time that PTS didn't open on the Monday patch, but we usually at least get a "hey, we ran into an issue" announcement.

It does go back to some of the region balance issues we've been mentioning though - NA's losing a day of our limited two-week engagement, and the PTS2 patch really didn't change all that much in terms of combat anyway.

coop500 · April 21

tomofhyrule wrote: »

Weird that we didn't get a message before they went home for the day.

It's not the first time that PTS didn't open on the Monday patch, but we usually at least get a "hey, we ran into an issue" announcement.

It does go back to some of the region balance issues we've been mentioning though - NA's losing a day of our limited two-week engagement, and the PTS2 patch really didn't change all that much in terms of combat anyway.

Yeah that kinda really sucks, I wouldn't have minded just a simple heads up, been waiting all day to get on but I would have just left it be if I knew.
And yeah NA gets a bit of the short stick for PTS runs sadly.

Colindestiny2 · April 21

Think this is the first that they have forgetten to turn on the servers!

DoofusMax · April 21

Perhaps this one did not miss a memo after all... "Tuesday" rattles around in the head and it's almost Tuesday on the east coast.

Maitsukas · April 21

It's a new morning here and there's still no patch available for download.

Hovering over "Version" in the login screen shows 12.0.0 still:

JimT722 · April 21

it's still down. it's not morning for them. I'm thinking it won't be anytime soon.

MaverickTheYeen · April 21

JimT722 wrote: »

it's still down. it's not morning for them. I'm thinking it won't be anytime soon.

Correct. Currently, it is 1:33am Eastern.

KingArthasMenethil · April 21

IviRo · April 21

Maitsukas · April 21

Patch is now available:

ZOS_GinaBruno · April 21

Hey everyone, apologies for not messaging out the status of PTS yesterday. We were doing some additional testing for things outside of the Update 50 patch and ran into a few issues. We ended up needing to revert something in order to retain the characters copied from week 1 (or any templated characters that were created), but that reversion took several hours and put us into evening hours. The faster alternative would've been to do another character copy from Saturday, which we didn't feel like would be preferred by anyone.

All that to say, the team is back online after getting some rest and we are planning for PTS to be open by noon EDT, barring any additional major issues.

MaverickTheYeen · April 21

TYSM for the update, @ZOS_GinaBruno! The silence was deafening and you broke the silence!

I look forward to being able to jump back in around noon-ish!

arctangent · April 21

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

The faster alternative would've been to do another character copy from Saturday, which we didn't feel like would be preferred by anyone.

Absolutely, and thank you!

tomofhyrule · April 21

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Hey everyone, apologies for not messaging out the status of PTS yesterday. We were doing some additional testing for things outside of the Update 50 patch and ran into a few issues. We ended up needing to revert something in order to retain the characters copied from week 1 (or any templated characters that were created), but that reversion took several hours and put us into evening hours. The faster alternative would've been to do another character copy from Saturday, which we didn't feel like would be preferred by anyone.

All that to say, the team is back online after getting some rest and we are planning for PTS to be open by noon EDT, barring any additional major issues.

Thank you for the update.

I’ll say I wouldn’t have minded if the team had had to do a brand new set of copies, but I understand that for players who had set up templates, that would be irritating to have to set them back up again.

I’ll again say that it would be nice if the process of setting up a template were streamlined. If a template could be set up in minutes (with full collections and full stickers unlocked, and only needing to reconstruct the gear to go), that might not be as big of an issue. Currently, setting up new templates takes ages to finish.

coop500 · April 21

I find it weird what they could be testing, that's not even related to Update 50, that broke this in the first place, but oh well...

This is however what I mean when I say the devs have already moved on. It's not unusual, but I wish people would temper their expectations for what they'll change this patch. No, werewolf isn't getting a whole new bar, or a whole new string of class passives. We remove those? It's gone, nothing is replacing them, just poof.

DoofusMax · April 21

The one character who is stuck in the Vault and waiting on the fix to that puzzle so they can progress (without having to repeat the entire Thieves Guild quest line to get back to that point) would have minded greatly had they just copied over Saturday copies of NA characters. The rest, not so much.

KingArthasMenethil · April 21

DoofusMax wrote: »

The one character who is stuck in the Vault and waiting on the fix to that puzzle so they can progress (without having to repeat the entire Thieves Guild quest line to get back to that point) would have minded greatly had they just copied over Saturday copies of NA characters. The rest, not so much.

Pretty sure it should just kick you out of the vault. I've had that with my template character when I went back to check other things like other Lion Guard characters or Breton buildings.

xencthlu · April 21

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Hey everyone, apologies for not messaging out the status of PTS yesterday. We were doing some additional testing for things outside of the Update 50 patch and ran into a few issues. We ended up needing to revert something in order to retain the characters copied from week 1 (or any templated characters that were created), but that reversion took several hours and put us into evening hours. The faster alternative would've been to do another character copy from Saturday, which we didn't feel like would be preferred by anyone.

All that to say, the team is back online after getting some rest and we are planning for PTS to be open by noon EDT, barring any additional major issues.

Don't suppose the NA mirror could last longer since we lost an entire day of testing?