[2021] SMITE Season 8 Update PTS Issues and Feedback Thread

Divine deities!

Thanks so much for helping us test Season 8! We’ve had a close eye on this thread and have been tracking all of the issues sent over as well as all your feedback on Season 8 items, balance, and the new Conquest map.

We’ve still got a lot of work to do, but we’re making great progress thanks in large part to all your testing and reporting. Plus, the design team is working on a round of PTS balance changes based on your initial feedback(more news on this in the coming weeks).

That being said this weekend will be the only weekend for Season 8 PTS, and servers will be unavailable starting Monday Jan. 11. The team is in a place where they would like to move forward with our next phase of testing, and having PTS closed to the public will allow us to run through our tests more efficiently, and get things fixed more quickly.

We’ll be sure to update on social media when servers come offline on Monday for PC and Console PTS.

On the note of console PTS, the team has been at it all day trying to work through the version mismatch issue on PlayStation. After hammering at it for several hours and trying all options available to us, we were unfortunately unable to come up with a solution to resolve the error before PTS will end.

TL;DR of what’s happening - There’s an issue with our discovery service for PlayStation that is causing the PlayStation PTS client to point to live servers instead of PTS servers.

We’re so sorry to our PlayStation players. We had high hopes to bring PTS to you all for the first time but unfortunately missed the mark due to some unforeseen circumstances. Console PTS was a huge undertaking and something we’ve never done before. While we don’t plan to have console PTS for every update going forward, we definitely learned a lot about the process and will take what we learned to possibly bring it back for another special update with all issues resolved.

Again, thanks so much for helping us test our next update. Season 8 will hit the Battleground in the best state it can be thanks to your help.