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.

Seeing Pink? (read this before reporting pink objects on QA)

Discussion in 'Player Test Environment (QA Server)' started by Ravalox, Oct 28, 2021.

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  1. Ravalox

    Ravalox Chief Cook and Bottle Washer Moderator SOTA Developer

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    When a texture assigned to an item or area in the game is missing, the engine will display a placeholder color. The color is (pretty much universally) magenta (pink), On the live game server this is most definitely something we want to know about and should be bug reported.

    On the QA server, players may see these pink objects and areas more often. Most of the time this is not an issue, but due to the method we use to compile the QA builds (we call them fast builds). This method fails to validate and verify that all objects have their correct textures in place. Our live builds always are done using the "slow" method to ensure that this doesn't happen on the live server.

    So, please note that pink objects or areas on the QA server can be ignored. Going forward any bug threads created for pink items on QA will be closed with a reference to this post. (this is not to moderate, or put down efforts in any way, just to prevent the creation of extra work for the bug moderators and the team in looking for magenta herrings.

    Thank you for your support!


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