Use the PTB more for testing

Shadoureon
Shadoureon Member Posts: 493
in General Discussions

Why is the PTB only used to test content that pretty much is guaranteed to come? Why not just test stuff to see how it affects the game? For example test how the game plays if killers dont have any hearthbeat if that is to strong then test what it would be like if survivors dont leave scratchmarks. Maybe having them both removed would actually be better but we have absolutely no idea because none of this is beeing tested. Just use the damn PTB for more than guaranteed content.

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  • Tsulan
    Tsulan Member Posts: 15,095

    I assume it has something to do with the unwillingness of people to play on the PTB if theres nothing in for them. Just look at the last PTBs, survivors barely played them.

    Having a different client (so you don´t have to alter your normal game directory) would probably help.
    Maybe even give some incentives like BPs or shards that transfer over to the normal account.

  • MegaWaffle
    MegaWaffle Member Posts: 4,172

    @Tsulan said:
    I assume it has something to do with the unwillingness of people to play on the PTB if theres nothing in for them. Just look at the last PTBs, survivors barely played them.

    Having a different client (so you don´t have to alter your normal game directory) would probably help.
    Maybe even give some incentives like BPs or shards that transfer over to the normal account.

    You are correct they have already said that the PTB has such a low amount of participants and testing barely gets played out. I know they want to try and create incentives to play the PTB but the community is just not responding to the call. Its too bad of the limitations for console players because I know I (and other) would be willing to play a PTB server. Sadly this is never going to be viable with Microsoft/Sony.