Your obedient servant finally gathered his strength and installed the World of Warcraft PTR client. You can find instructions for installing and gaining access to test servers. I had to sweat a lot: some obscure patches were downloading all night, which in total amounted to 3GB. At the same time, the client began to weigh 17GB, while a normal WoW client weighs 13GB. Mysteries in the dark...

Considering that the druid is the most mysterious and unknown class for me, I created a druid for myself. When else will there be such an opportunity? =) It turned out quite a pretty elf with the nickname Lissandre. When you copy a character on the PTR, they give you a bunch of goodies. As a druid, I've been given PvE and PvP clothing for three specs, including the legendary "never-fall-and-forever-go-without-roll" trinka Choice of death from IC. As well as a sea of ​​chemistry, blanks for stones and enchants. And even two pumped professions: jewelry and enchanting. I was ready for work and defense.

Actually, I thought I was creating a character on a European server, but it turned out that the server is American: Broxigar. It didn't upset me. Something else upset me - it immediately turned out that I didn’t get into either the events of Gnomeregan and the Echo Island, they were not tested. However, despite all this, the population test servers more than enough. Quite live servers, there is less flooding than on ours, but I can easily explain this by the time difference. While we have a day, in America it is deep night or early morning.

I chose 2 specializations from the druid: the power of the beast and balance. By the power of the beast, he left the glasses anyhow, and therefore ended up in a hybrid PvP-PvE bear-cat spec. In order not to embarrass myself, and also out of pure curiosity, I decided to run in balance. I was very pleased with the shape of the moonkin. It's funny to run with such a miracle with a wildly open mouth =).

Since getting into new content I was not threatened yet, I decided to do a couple of races on the BG. Surprisingly, the average waiting time in line for the BG on the PTR is 1 minute! The queue in the dungeon, however, is not much different from our servers - the damage dealer waits an average of 10 minutes. On BG, I acted as a demoralizer, bursting into a crowd of enemies with a furious hoot and scattering it like a typhoon. For some reason, it was me who was the first to focus =) Probably, this is the form of the owl that works like that! Soon BG got tired, not for that I came to the PTR ...

“By the way, why do people come there at all?” I thought, “since content testing is not available, why are so many people sitting on the test servers?” And here are the conclusions I came to. You should play PTR if:

• You don't want to spend time pumping, but you want to enjoy the gameplay. For beginners who are just mastering the wonders of Azeroth, PTR did not give up at all. But for those who have already upgraded more than one character and want to try something new, PTR will help. If you want to play for a new class in good equipment - you are welcome!

• Are you a pvp fan? The minimum waiting time in queues and the availability of almost top-end equipment. Another huge plus is that almost all players are on an equal footing. You can rarely meet things better than starting ones, so hands and the ability to play in a team come to the fore. The behavior of the players in the BG is impressive for its adequacy. They listen to advice! There's almost no! They are being treated!

• You want to try top PvE content. A lot of raids even at night. I'm afraid to imagine what happens in prime time. Fortunately, the presence of things / enchants / stones creates a normal base for raiding.

• You don't hold on to game values. Yes, yes, this is very important, because everything that you earn on PTR will be lost. Testing will end - and all your honor, all your epics will disappear, like the character himself.

Impressions from PTR are only positive. I really liked the new chat, although it will not replace addons, but it will make the game more comfortable - that's for sure. Looks like my PTR adventures will continue! After all, I haven't played with wood yet, have I?

A new Overwatch patch is currently in development and now available for testing on the Public Test Region. For information on how to participate and what changes are included in the upcoming patch, read on below.

mission details:

If you encounter any game-related bugs while playing the PTR, please post in the PTR Bug Report forum.

To participate in the public test, you must have an Overwatch game license for Windows PC attached your Battle.net account in good standing (i.e. it hasn"t been suspended or banned).

Q. On which platforms is the PTR available?
A. The PTR is available on Windows PC only.

Q. What regions are eligible to participate in the PTR?
A. Accounts from all regions (excluding China) are eligible to participate; however, the PTR will be hosted on our Americas region. As a result, if you plan to play the PTR from a region outside the US, please anticipate lowered performance and increased latency.

Q. Is there a cap to how many players can participate on the PTR?
A. The PTR can currently support 10k concurrent players (or players logged into the PTR at the same time). If we happen to reach this cap, any new players attempting to log in to the PTR will be placed into a queue.

Q. What languages ​​will be supported on the PTR?
A. The PTR is available in all supported languages, though some content may not be fully localized yet.

Q. Will any account progress from the live game transfer over to the PTR with me, or do I need to start from scratch?
A. A copy of your account from the live game will be transferred over to the PTR automatically, and all progress will transfer over with it (levels, unlocks, stats, etc). Please note that this copy is pre-made, though, and based on an earlier snapshot of your account. As a result, depending on when you last played, your PTR account may not be as up-to-date as your live game account.

Q. Will any progress I make on the PTR transfer over to the live game?
A. No. Any progression earned during the PTR-including levels, achievements, stats, skill ratings, loot boxes (including rewards from loot boxes), currency (including Competive Points), and cosmetic items unlocked with currency-will not transfer over to the live game.

Q. Will I be able to purchase Loot Boxes on the PTR?
A. No. All real-money purchases are disabled on the PTR.

Q. Where can I share feedback about the upcoming patch content?
A. This iteration of the PTR is intended to make sure the upcoming patch is working correctly before it's released, so we'll be primarily focused on uncovering major bugs and technical issues. Though you are still welcome to share your feedback through our normal channels, it's unlikely that we'll be able to incorporate changes based on PTR feedback in this patch cycle.

Please note that the below patch notes only include changes available for testing on the PTR. While the PTR is PC-only, many of these changes will also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the forthcoming retail patch.

PATCH FEATURES

New Feature: Competitive Play
Once you hit level 25, you'll have access to our newest feature: Competitive Play. This mode was designed to be a more serious experience, allowing players to hone their skills and perfect their strategies. But before diving into the fray, you'll need to play 10 placement matches. These will allow our matchmaking system to gather enough information about your abilities to assign a skill rating.

With your newly acquired skill rating, you'll be matched against players of a similar ability level. And if you play well and win games, the competition will become increasingly fierce throughout the two-and-a-half-month season. Plus, your performance will be rewarded with unique in-game items like sprays, player icons, and Competitive Points (which can be traded in for cosmetic Golden Weapons).

We've also made a number of changes to Overwatch's match format for Competitive Play. Some of these changes are simple interface changes, while others ensure that maps and modes don't favor one side or another-plus we've added a sudden death mechanic that ensures tied games are broken as fairly as possible.

Because Competitive Play is more serious in nature, we want to make sure that player behavior is acceptable. This means that the penalties are more severe than in the Quick Play or Weekly Brawl! modes. Leaving a game early or stepping away from your computer will make you ineligible to join a game until the previous game has ended, and continued infractions could result in restrictions or removal from Competitive Play.

GENERAL UPDATES

Gamepad Controls

• Players can now swap the left and right sticks on a control pad
• "Legacy" controls option has been added:
  • Left stick up/down moves forward/backward
  • Left stick left/right turns left/right
  • Right stick up/down aims up/down (these can be inverted)
  • Right stick left/right strafes left/right
  • Sticks can also be switched
• Improved dead-zone controls, giving players increased accuracy during off-center and diagonal stick movement

Miscellaneous

• When activating Widowmaker's Ultimate ability, Infra-Sight, her voice line will now be audible map-wide
• "Weapons" section added to the Hero Gallery
• Added McCree as an AI hero in Practice vs. AI, Play vs. AI, and Custom Game modes
• Added a variety of a social options to the hero selection and end of match screens
• Removed the "Avoid This Player" option from the in-game UI

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed a bug that would cause players’ weapons to auto-snap straight up or down when the crosshair was aimed between 85 and 90 degrees
• Fixed a bug that caused players who backfilled and then completed a game to sometimes receive a loss on their Career Profile and not receive their XP bonus for backfilling
• Fixed a bug that would move players towards the source of a knockback rather than away from it
• Fixed a bug that caused Hearthstone-themed sprays to ignore localization
• Fixed several framerate issues that could occur when cycling through the hero selection menu
• Fixed a variety of issues with and made several improvements to ambient lighting
• Made some improvements to how AI heroes respond to one another
• Made a variety of performance and optimization improvements across the game
• Unicode keys for non-English keyboards are now displayed properly in the keybinding interface

Maps

• Players can no longer be resurrected in out-of-play areas on Ilios

Heroes

• Fixed a bug with the "Junkrat RIP-Tire Kills-Average" lifetime statistic
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause projectiles to hit Reinhardt instead of his Barrier Field in non-High Bandwidth games
• Fixed a bug that allowed Torbjörn to pick up Scrap while dead

PTR - test worlds of developers, which sometimes become available for open testing players. What is being tested there? The answer is simple - a future update. If you have a Russian speaking account and want to get on PTR, follow the next steps.

Step 1: change the country
Change the country specified during registration to the UK. Do it .

2. Create a trial account
When you exit the account control panel, you need to create a new European trial account.

3. Client download and transfer
go here and log in with the newly created account to download a special client (it does not depend on your existing one) and transfer the character to the test worlds. This page looks like this:

Further actions are simple and obvious: by clicking on the appropriate links, you can download the client and copy the character to the test worlds.

Frequently asked Questions
V: Can I play test worlds without a paid account?
O: No.

V: What to press after hitting the character copy page?
O: Select Copy a Premade Character. Further - it will be clear.

V: Can I then change the country back?
O: You have changed an existing country to another. Of course, you can change back and then play calmly on live servers.

V: Why doesn't it work?
O: Read this material carefully and make sure that you were active a few weeks before the start of testing.

After long and tedious travels through the forums, I decided to just call those support and they explained to me in detail how to do it.

Since copying from a Russian character account is impossible, you need to create a premade character (a character of the maximum level that is equipped for raids).
First of all, go to account management and in the "Account Information" section, in the address section, click "Edit".

We return to Account Management and create a trial World of Warcraft account. Please note that now when you create your region, it will not be "Russia and the CIS, but" Europe (EU) or "North and South America and Oceania (US)"

Next, follow the link http://www.wow-europe.com/ptr/ (if you chose Europe) or http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/ptr/ (if you chose us), log in and select the newly created trial WoW account. Next you will have a trace. page:

Download client is to download the PTR client (It is independent of your current WoW client)
Copy a Character- copying the character, in fact, what we need.

P.S. At the time of writing, PTR is closed and character creation is not available, but the patch is already being tested on the American PTR, so it will reach us soon.
P.P.S. After all that has been done, you can safely change the country back to the Russian Federation.
P.P.P.S. If in Europe there is too long a wait to create a character, or you simply cannot create it, then try creating it through the American trial.

The Public Test Realm/Region (PTR) is a special service you can use to test patches before we release them to the public. When we start a PTR test, we'll announce it on the game's website. We run PTRs in English, French, German, and Korean.

note: Make sure you"re purchasing your item for the correct region for it to carry over to your live game account.

Troubleshooting

1. You must have a full World of Warcraft account to participate on the PTR realms.
2. Reset your password to refresh your account information.
3. If you are having issues during the installation process, review our Blizzard Downloader Troubleshooting steps .
4. If you receive the "Unable to initialize storage" error, you do not have enough hard drive space, or you do not have permission to write to the proper hard drive. Move the PTR installer file to your World of Warcraft directory, then try to run it again.
5. If you get a version error during installation, connect to a live realm to make sure you have the latest version of World of Warcraft. If the error persists, move the installer to your World of Warcraft directory and run it from there.