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    DeMizeFPS's Avatar Senior Member
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    Communication regarding the pts on console could have been better

    For the past weeks, the community team has been hyping up the fact that the pts will be coming to the consoles. They were making it seems that all console players would have access. to it. Now that is not the case. The pts on consoles is invite only. Console players who were active within the last 30 days will be selected based off of play time to fill the 10,000 spots on the Xbox One PTS and 10,000 slots on the PS4 PTS. The playtime requirement is still vague. Is this playtime of the dz or pve? Or both? You should have announce this information back when you confirmed that the pts was coming to the consoles. It would give players a chance to partake in this pts by becoming more active.

    I'm not sure if I will get an invitation because I haven't been active due to the fact of the state of the servers and this recent update introduced a lot of issues. Can you blame me for not being active? I'm not active in the dark zone because the poor performance of the servers and most players are using cronusmax to rapid fire their sasg on the ps4.. I mostly play the pve content. I do the weeklies. I have over 2500 hours into this game with 4 max characters. I do want to partake in the pts. I want to break the game and give my feedback to the devs. Will I get acess? I dont know.

    I don't think its fair for players that were actively exploiting the game in the last 30 days to PVP to have access to the pts. These same players will just use broken mechanics to just PVP or grief others. It's counterproductive. That is my opinion.

    The communicaton could have been handle better.
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    I'm on PC.
    I assumed that console and PC will be at the same time.
    I guess that's my fault for assuming :\
    I thought they had the technical aspects sorted to do that.

    But I can tell you that playing the PTS is like a job for bug hunting.
    And the first week is commendations, so you don't missing anything.

    But I understand the annoyance.
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    I agree with the OP. It is my personal opinion to do so. I do not represent anyone other than myself with this post. I too feel it should have been clearer about the ins and outs of the console side of the PTS.
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    Originally Posted by Demiz3r Go to original post
    I don't think its fair for players that were actively exploiting the game in the last 30 days to PVP to have access to the pts. These same players will just use broken mechanics to just PVP or grief others. It's counterproductive. That is my opinion.

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    I've been active on console but I didn't know it's invite only.
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    I've been less active recently however I have 1.6.1 installed and while watching SotG I attempted to check if 1.6.2 was installed, however there is no patch note within that section of the game... If the patch (of notable size of 2.something Gb from what was said in SotG), certainly did receive an official patch title number 1.6.2 it should be visible in game.

    Hearing this news of the PTS in the SotG today it has prompted a bunch of us to play this weekend. Now with well over 2800hrs of play, maxed achievement score (Xbox), and was here from the very beginning (Alpha ... ), I surely hope that an invite finds its way to my inbox for the console PTS.

    The delay in running the PTS for console I feel is a wise move, as they cited it is harder to push updates to consoles and a number of bugs normally get picked up in PTS #1. So having consoles starting at PTS#2 is good choice IMO.

    Fingers crossed those that were having a breather shortly after 1.6, like myself, until 1.7 and PTS news reveal before jumping back on TD does not discount us from being a part of the PTS for console. That would be extremely disappointing to say the least.
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    Originally Posted by FlipperKoala101 Go to original post
    I've been active on console but I didn't know it's invite only.
    Yea, It's invite only. They were quite vague on the active requirement. Not sure if you have to spend a certain amount of hours in the last 30 days or hours spent on certain activities.

    I was under the impression everyone could have access to the pts on consoles because the way the community team promoted it. That's not the case.

    Can a CM elaborate on the requirement for the invitation for the pts.?
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    Originally Posted by tropolite Go to original post
    I've been less active recently however I have 1.6.1 installed and while watching SotG I attempted to check if 1.6.2 was installed, however there is no patch note within that section of the game... If the patch (of notable size of 2.something Gb from what was said in SotG), certainly did receive an official patch title number 1.6.2 it should be visible in game.

    Hearing this news of the PTS in the SotG today it has prompted a bunch of us to play this weekend. Now with well over 2800hrs of play, maxed achievement score (Xbox), and was here from the very beginning (Alpha ... ), I surely hope that an invite finds its way to my inbox for the console PTS.

    The delay in running the PTS for console I feel is a wise move, as they cited it is harder to push updates to consoles and a number of bugs normally get picked up in PTS #1. So having consoles starting at PTS#2 is good choice IMO.

    Fingers crossed those that were having a breather shortly after 1.6, like myself, until 1.7 and PTS news reveal before jumping back on TD does not discount us from being a part of the PTS for console. That would be extremely disappointing to say the least.
    Hopefully, both of us get an invitation.
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    Hi there,

    To be clear regarding the selection process, here's how it goes:
    For each platform, we take the list of all players that played the game at least once in the last 30 days, have a character level 30 and a valid email address. Then, we rank them per playtime since launch, and invite the top 10k. You don't need to have been active much in the last 30 days, only to have logged in at least once.

    The reason why we haven't explained these details earlier is that the access process has only been decided recently, we didn't know before if everyone would get access or not. This restriction is due to the very format we have to adopt to allow a PTS to happen on console at all, following the discussions we had with Sony and Microsoft.

    Yannick
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    Hi there,

    To be clear regarding the selection process, here's how it goes:
    For each platform, we take the list of all players that played the game at least once in the last 30 days, have a character level 30 and a valid email address. Then, we rank them per playtime since launch, and invite the top 10k. You don't need to have been active much in the last 30 days, only to have logged in at least once.

    The reason why we haven't explained these details earlier is that the access process has only been decided recently, we didn't know before if everyone would get access or not. This restriction is due to the very format we have to adopt to allow a PTS to happen on console at all, following the discussions we had with Sony and Microsoft.

    Yannick
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    Originally Posted by Ubi_Yannick Go to original post
    Hi there,

    To be clear regarding the selection process, here's how it goes:
    For each platform, we take the list of all players that played the game at least once in the last 30 days, have a character level 30 and a valid email address. Then, we rank them per playtime since launch, and invite the top 10k. You don't need to have been active much in the last 30 days, only to have logged in at least once.

    The reason why we haven't explained these details earlier is that the access process has only been decided recently, we didn't know before if everyone would get access or not. This restriction is due to the very format we have to adopt to allow a PTS to happen on console at all, following the discussions we had with Sony and Microsoft.

    Yannick
    Thanks for clarifying the selection process. You should make a thread about it, so console players can know the details about it and link their accounts to uplay. It seems you knew about the limitations on consoles. Yet it was promoted in a way that everyone had the impression that they will gain access to it. That's the issue here. The misinterpretation of the details. You need be more forthcoming with these details. The communication has to be better. You did same thing with survival. It seems that communication is always an issue here. It would have been nice if one of your team members update the known issue list. Welcome back! You should be more active here. The presence on this forum could be stronger.
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