Play With The Devs Tomorrow!

trailturtle · September 2012

Several devs from the Champions team will be on PTS tomorrow (September 20) between 5 PM and 6 PM PDT, ready to join forces with players against certain Mega-sized robots. PTS' version of Millennium City needs heroes too, so if you've got PTS access, make sure to transfer your character over and help playtest. Gentleman Crush and the gang might be devs, but even they'll need help against this enemy.

In addition, this will be your first look at the anniversary gifts we've been hinting at. Veteran players who've been long-time supporters of Champions will be getting nice rewards, almost all of them exclusive to this giveaway. Veterans, if you jump onto PTS tomorrow, you'll be able to try out your rewards before they hit the live servers.

Blog post here...
... and PTS transfer here.

fudgemonsta · September 2012

:biggrin:

Will be there, senior.

theravenforce · September 2012

OMG yes :biggrin:

Defo wanna see Crushy and the Gang of Devs in action xD

I'll be doing what I can with my very weird telepathy build xD...oh wait..will they be available?

theapygoos · September 2012

veteran rewards? ooooo

bellesorciere · September 2012

How are characters transfered?

flyingfinn · September 2012

Link in the 1st post.

http://co.perfectworld.com/community/pts

ummm...Today is, as wednesday 19th, thursday is 20th.

bellesorciere · September 2012

Clearly I need to properly wake up.

Thanks much for letting me off easy.

wesleytansg · September 2012

NO! NO!! NO!!! Why am I in GMT+8, it is always working hours for me when the devs go on to PTS.

*sulks*

*contemplates*

*touches forehead*

wait, is it feeling a little warm? Kinda woozy, maybe need to see a physician.

*snaps back to reality*

Need to work to pay for Zens.

trailturtle · September 2012

bellesorciere wrote: »

Clearly I need to properly wake up.

Thanks much for letting me off easy.

Well, no, I added that link after the fact...

fudgemonsta · September 2012

Wait a sec, it's 6:30 PDT on the 19th...

Did...This already occur?

flyingfinn · September 2012

It says...'tomorrow' written today...so the date is wrong??

mistformsquirrel · September 2012

Gah... but I have things to do tomorrow <;_;> (Seriously, I'm rarely busy, but tomorrow is already spoken for)

trailturtle · September 2012

flyingfinn wrote: »

It says...'tomorrow' written today...so the date is wrong??

Date is wrong.

maleb666 · September 2012

Dang, I have being silver...

chalupaoffury · September 2012

I'm gonna do this one one of the 2 40s I actually use on live, transferred directly as she is. Seems like that's the best balance test possible, for me.

kittenofpixels · September 2012

Agfdgg. Nooo. I work tomorrow at that tiiime. crap.

As far as veteran, how far vet are we talking about? I've been around since open beta and the first three months, but since then i've been between jobs and could only champs for intermittent periods. Nowadays i got something stable, and can afford this (and will be loooking at lifetime when i can absorb the cost. I mean i've got the mini-mega destroid, but is this vet stuff something i should worry about or is it for the elevenhundred day folks?

crypticbuxom · September 2012

Probably getting our rewards based on what we unlocked with the old stuff. So maybe it will show the new stuff as unlocked if we already unlocked the old version of that equivalent.

Before I forget:

Would someone be so kind as to record this get together just to see how many deaths may occur and by what builds? I would but by far this is the biggest lag I have ever seen on PTS and that's just me running around with all they mobs. My computer couldn't take it.

skcark · September 2012

Okay, a few questions if i may.

1. Does this mean we have to use PTS if we want our rewards in live too? I'm a little confused by that whole thing. And each time i tried the bots was all alone

2. When is 5-6pm pdt, in GMT+10 time?

azzamacaza · September 2012

skcark wrote: »

2. When is 5-6pm pdt, in GMT+10 time?

10:00 am the following morning. I'd be there, but I'll be busy.

theravenforce · September 2012

So in the UK...it'll be... Midnight till 1? or 1-2am?

ethanmorrigan · September 2012

theravenforce wrote: »

So in the UK...it'll be... Midnight till 1? or 1-2am?

Since Germany seems to have the same time like in UK right now, it will be for me the same time.

Another event i miss again...

lordhavelock · September 2012

Play with the Devs today 5-6p? Hmm... I don't normally get home from work until about 5:30-6p... Oh well, next time.

New/additional vet rewards, eh? Huh. Groovy. I'll be curious to see what I qualify for (being a 526-day vet)...

So testing tonight, and what... This goes Live tomorrow?

theapygoos · September 2012

lordhavelock wrote: »

Play with the Devs today 5-6p? Hmm... I don't normally get home from work until about 5:30-6p... Oh well, next time.

New/additional vet rewards, eh? Huh. Groovy. I'll be curious to see what I qualify for (being a 526-day vet)...

So testing tonight, and what... This goes Live tomorrow?

on pts what i got out of my "1 year tier" chest box was:

-special edition AF: hawkwing interceptor
-special edition AF: Nighthawk
-grab bag 3 pack, which includes a drifter, mountain, and halloween grabbags
-the titles "The Courageous" and "The Undeterred"

..no sign of vanity pets *is still looking around the city

championshewolf · September 2012

I don't know what titles I got I didn't look. But 2 year chest, I got afs for all three jet,s nighthawk, a box that gave me the halloween, rock and harmon grab bags, and 3 heirloom primary items and something else I can't remember.

fudgemonsta · September 2012

I wonder if you will only be able to claim the bags when it goes live, and you can't get the ones from later on.

lordhavelock · September 2012

theapygoos wrote: »

on pts what i got out of my "1 year tier" chest box was:

-special edition AF: hawkwing interceptor
-special edition AF: Nighthawk
-grab bag 3 pack, which includes a drifter, mountain, and halloween grabbags
-the titles "The Courageous" and "The Undeterred"

..no sign of vanity pets *is still looking around the city

That sounds like some neat stuff. Thanks for posting! Did you get that box for each of your toons, or just get to claim it once?

theapygoos · September 2012

lordhavelock wrote: »

That sounds like some neat stuff. Thanks for posting! Did you get that box for each of your toons, or just get to claim it once?

i would need to log back in and check..
ther needs to be a 1.5 year tier...im ALMOST 2 years, and teh 2 year tier just seems to blow the rest outta the water. yes, it should be the best, but second place shouldn't pale in comparison

cascadence · September 2012

Seems the vet reward is bugged.... because my first login was on Jan of 2011... so unless I got it wrong, I should be getting the 1 year package right?? I am getting the 6 month one =S

nepht · September 2012

Pity I have to do my books for my shop today this event sounds like epic fun ^_^

arblaque · September 2012

Been here since launch and only got the two year bag. Beta lifer. It was a nice bag all three jet afs a new nighthawk af a full primary heirloom set and drifter catalyst bag mountain bag and halloween treat bag. Three titles Undeterred, Courageous, Indomitable. I really like the full primary heirloom set been running my alts between two full pri/sec sets and this should allow me to build a third pri/sec set

solomonk1ng · September 2012

arblaque wrote: »

Been here since launch and only got the two year bag. Beta lifer.

According to Trailturtle, the 2-year bag is the highest tier they're offering, so it looks like you received the intended gift.

trailturtle · September 2012

Just a heads-up: The dev team is going to drop in on PTS around 5:15-5:30ish, probably closer to 5:15. (all times PDT)

zedulon · September 2012

PTS seems to be down.

fudgemonsta · September 2012

zedulon wrote: »

PTS seems to be down.

Went down literally a minute ago for maimtenance.

They have to glue together the Destroids so we can take them apart.

zedulon · September 2012

Figures I would try to log in within a minute of it going down.

chalupaoffury · September 2012

f5 f5 f5 f5 f5

lol I hope they post when it comes up.

fudgemonsta · September 2012

Patching now, so I believe it is up.

admflameberg · September 2012

The client couldn't take it on my end and exploded when I got close to the action. So I guess I will not be taking part in it then. I sure the party i was part of might be wondering where I flew off too.

flyingfinn · September 2012

yay! game crashes like mothafunker.

zedulon · September 2012

Yep, crashed out on the 5th Destroid, can't get back in so far.

underchicken · September 2012

Can't even get close the action or the client crashes. Completely unable to even load back into the game if the Mega D fight is still in progress, client crashes at loading screen every time.

gaslocke · September 2012

Constant crashing, every time I get within 100 ft of a destroyed I crash.
When I try logging back on, if my character happens to be still near a destroyed I dont even make it back into the game I instantly crash before the login is completed.

I can safely make it back on once the fight has stopped and nothing is going on at my character's login location.

trailturtle · September 2012

Well, I want to take a moment to thank you all for helping test this... it's definitely a very, very good thing that we found this.

There will be full patch notes later, but the Mega-Destroid event will not be present in the patch tomorrow -- we'll be aiming to push that live early next week instead, after more testing. The anniversary gifts will be released as planned, though.

zebelle · September 2012

for some reason, travel powers i've already purchased from the Z-store are not available to me on PTS (specifically Lightspeed, Heroic, and Power Flight). they were purchased quite some time ago.

anyone else run into this issue?

also, does anyone know if only one of our toons is supposed to receive the Vet Anniversary package, or is each toon supposed to get something?

so confused...

flyingfinn · September 2012

Most of them are unlocked on account wide. The Drifter bag is for character. So you unlock them on one toon only.

lokikin · September 2012

zebelle wrote: »

for some reason, travel powers i've already purchased from the Z-store are not available to me on PTS (specifically Lightspeed, Heroic, and Power Flight). they were purchased quite some time ago.

anyone else run into this issue?

also, does anyone know if only one of our toons is supposed to receive the Vet Anniversary package, or is each toon supposed to get something?

so confused...

I believe you need to transfer a character that was created after you purchased the TP. The PTS is a separate server from Live and it can't tell what you bought over there until you transfer a character that has it available. I have all the TPs you listed available to me because I've transferred a toon over almost every time a new TP has been released....

Sadly, for some reason I haven't been able to transfer some of the latest TPs, nor the ones I purchased with Questionite...

zebelle · September 2012

flyingfinn wrote: »

Most of them are unlocked on account wide. The Drifter bag is for character. So you unlock them on one toon only.

see, this is what i get from being away from the game so long...the sudden inability to realize the simplest things.

thanks, Finn. :redface:

lokikin wrote: »

I believe you need to transfer a character that was created after you purchased the TP. The PTS is a separate server from Live and it can't tell what you bought over there until you transfer a character that has it available. I have all the TPs you listed available to me because I've transferred a toon over almost every time a new TP has been released....

Sadly, for some reason I haven't been able to transfer some of the latest TPs, nor the ones I purchased with Questionite...

hmm...i'll have to play around with this a bit. i don't recall it being like that before, but it's entirely (and most likely) possible that i simply hadn't noticed. regardless, as long as it's PTS specific and not live, it won't be too much of an issue for me.

thanks, Rhyatt.

lokikin · September 2012

zebelle wrote: »

hmm...i'll have to play around with this a bit. i don't recall it being like that before, but it's entirely (and most likely) possible that i simply hadn't noticed. regardless, as long as it's PTS specific and not live, it won't be too much of an issue for me.

thanks, Rhyatt.

I'm sorry, I take that back...

What I said USED to work; I did it a number of times...

But now that they wiped the PTS, it seems my work around is a no go...

Edit: Just tested further. Characters transferred over with a purchased TP get to keep it, but you have to actually unlock the TPs on the PTS for them to be available for all toons. I transferred my main level 40 over and I didn't have Millennial Flight from the 1000 day Vet reward. Made a new toon and he got spammed with all the Vet rewards up to 1000 days. Now MF is available to pick. I think it's because I actually earned it on the PTS...

But it seems that, since the C-Store and Q Exchange are dead on the PTS, obtaining any other TPs is impossible...

Dimmit...

zedulon · September 2012

trailturtle wrote: »

... the Mega-Destroid event will not be present in the patch tomorrow -- we'll be aiming to push that live early next week instead, after more testing.

*applause*

Pushing back the release is definitely the right thing to do. Gather up all those crash reports we submitted, go through them, fix the issue.

That is the entire purpose of testing, glad to see it is being put to good use here.

fantasycharacter · September 2012

It was nice to see Robobo

nepht · September 2012

fantasycharacter wrote: »

It was nice to see Robobo

Darnit ...question does Robobo still look like a thundercat?

Play With The Devs Tomorrow!

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