1. We have a dedicated Player Test Environment on our QA server available for player use. This server will be kept open with periodic database resets, when we will copy the database from the live server. The server database will be updated at least twice a month during a scheduled maintenance window.

    Though players are welcome to use the QA server to experiment or test anything they wish, we will post patch notes and testing directives in this area. Players testing new content, features and systems will greatly help in reducing post release bugs and making the game better.

    To assist players in helping us make the game better, the Test Server will award login bonuses in CotOs and Gold coins to allow players to purchase resources or anything they may need to test from the Crown Store and/or from the in game vendors. In Addition, the Developers will announce dates/times when Dev Assisted Player Test Events will occur on the QA Server.

    Please use the Test Environment Bug and Feedback forums for QA Server activities only.

    You can help test by downloading a new SotA Launcher(QA) installer to download a separate QA copy of the game. It exists independently from the regular live version of the game and installs to a separate folder. To use the Player Test Environment, please download the QA Server client here:

    Windows: https://d2sx9mrt4zumaq.cloudfront.net/Installers/SotAInstaller(QA)-1.2.0.exe

    Mac: https://d2sx9mrt4zumaq.cloudfront.net/Installers/Shroud of the Avatar - Installer(QA) 1.1.0.pkg

    Linux Package: https://d2sx9mrt4zumaq.cloudfront.net/Installers/shroud-of-the-avatar-launcher-qa_1.1.0_amd64.deb

    Linux tar.gz:https://d2sx9mrt4zumaq.cloudfront.net/Installers/shroud-of-the-avatar-launcher-qa_1.1.0.tar.gz

    For information on installing the Steam QA client, click here.

XP Pool changes on QA Server now (4-2-2020)

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  1. Ravalox

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    Greetings!

    The changes to the experience pool are now on the QA server and should be available for testing throughout this week.


    Here's how the changes should work:

    * The shared pool will be used/drained first before using the individual character pool.

    * Daily experience bonus will be added to the shared pool. All other experience gain should be added to the currently active character's pool.

    * Unlearning skills should transfer experience from the skill to the character pool.

    * The UI should display only the total of the two pools.


    So if there is any XP in the shared pool, whichever character you logon to will use that XP first, then start using the character's XP when it is empty.

    Please test this out on the QA Server!

    NOTE: The current build on the QA Server has all of the known issues we saw earlier this week. The team is using the server to go through each issue and determine cause and correction. Please do not flood the Player Test Environment with bugs about Crash To Desktop issues, Visual Effects issues, and invisible items.

    If filing a bug on QA, please remember to use the /devbug command and look in the bug listings to make sure no one has reported the issue already.

    Thanks!
     
    Ravalox, Apr 2, 2020
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