The Public Test Universe will be started up when a large patch is nearing task implementation lock. Development Operations (Ops) will select the best working build and deploy it to the PTU servers. Then players and internal staff (QA, Development, Ops) will access the environment for testing.
The PTU is managed by testing “phases”. A testing phase includes a date range for testing, set features per release and build, and wave invites for required account badges. The PTU is not always available and attempting to login when it is not active will give an error. We only open the PTU servers when we have release candidate builds to test for an upcoming release.
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