A new Overwatch patch is currently in development and now available for testing on the Public Test Region. For information on how to participate and what changes are included in the upcoming patch, read on below.

Mission details:

If you encounter any game-related bugs while playing the PTR, please post in the PTR Bug Report forum.

To participate in the public test, you must have an Overwatch game license for Windows PC attached your Battle.net account in good standing (i.e. it hasn"t been suspended or banned).

Q. On which platforms is the PTR available?
A. The PTR is available on Windows PC only.

Q. What regions are eligible to participate in the PTR?
A. Accounts from all regions (excluding China) are eligible to participate; however, the PTR will be hosted on our Americas region. As a result, if you plan to play the PTR from a region outside the US, please anticipate lowered performance and increased latency.

Q. Is there a cap to how many players can participate on the PTR?
A. The PTR can currently support 10k concurrent players (or players logged into the PTR at the same time). If we happen to reach this cap, any new players attempting to log in to the PTR will be placed into a queue.

Q. What languages will be supported on the PTR?
A. The PTR is available in all supported languages, though some content may not be fully localized yet.

Q. Will any account progress from the live game transfer over to the PTR with me, or do I need to start from scratch?
A. A copy of your account from the live game will be transferred over to the PTR automatically, and all progress will transfer over with it (level, unlocks, stats, etc). Please note that this copy is pre-made, though, and based on an earlier snapshot of your account. As a result, depending on when you last played, your PTR account may not be as up-to-date as your live game account.

Q. Will any progress I make on the PTR transfer over to the live game?
A. No. Any progression earned during the PTR-including levels, achievements, stats, skill ratings, loot boxes (including rewards from loot boxes), currency (including Competive Points), and cosmetic items unlocked with currency-will not transfer over to the live game.

Q. Will I be able to purchase Loot Boxes on the PTR?
A. No. All real-money purchases are disabled on the PTR.

Q. Where can I share feedback about the upcoming patch content?
A. This iteration of the PTR is intended to make sure the upcoming patch is working correctly before it"s released, so we"ll be primarily focused on uncovering major bugs and technical issues. Though you are still welcome to share your feedback through our normal channels, it"s unlikely that we"ll be able to incorporate changes based on PTR feedback in this patch cycle.

Please note that the below patch notes only include changes available for testing on the PTR. While the PTR is PC-only, many of these changes will also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the forthcoming retail patch.

PATCH FEATURES

New Feature: Competitive Play
Once you hit level 25, you’ll have access to our newest feature: Competitive Play. This mode was designed to be a more serious experience, allowing players to hone their skills and perfect their strategies. But before diving into the fray, you’ll need to play 10 placement matches. These will allow our matchmaking system to gather enough information about your abilities to assign a skill rating.

With your newly acquired skill rating, you’ll be matched against players of a similar ability level. And if you play well and win games, the competition will become increasingly fierce throughout the two-and-a-half-month season. Plus, your performance will be rewarded with unique in-game items like sprays, player icons, and Competitive Points (which can be traded in for cosmetic Golden Weapons).

We’ve also made a number of changes to Overwatch"s match format for Competitive Play. Some of these changes are simple interface changes, while others ensure that maps and modes don"t favor one side or another-plus we’ve added a sudden death mechanic that ensures tied games are broken as fairly as possible.

Because Competitive Play is more serious in nature, we want to make sure that player behavior is acceptable. This means that the penalties are more severe than in the Quick Play or Weekly Brawl! modes. Leaving a game early or stepping away from your computer will make you ineligible to join a game until the previous game has ended, and continued infractions could result in restrictions or removal from Competitive Play.

GENERAL UPDATES

Gamepad Controls

  • Players can now swap the left and right sticks on a control pad
  • "Legacy" controls option has been added:
    • Left stick up/down moves forward/backward
    • Left stick left/right turns left/right
    • Right stick up/down aims up/down (these can be inverted)
    • Right stick left/right strafes left/right
    • Sticks can also be switched
  • Improved dead-zone controls, giving players increased accuracy during off-center and diagonal stick movement

Miscellaneous

  • When activating Widowmaker"s Ultimate ability, Infra-Sight, her voice line will now be audible map-wide
  • "Weapons" section added to the Hero Gallery
  • Added McCree as an AI hero in Practice vs. AI, Play vs. AI, and Custom Game modes
  • Added a variety of a social options to the hero selection and end of match screens
  • Removed the "Avoid This Player" option from the in-game UI

BUG FIXES

General

  • Fixed a bug that would cause players’ weapons to auto-snap straight up or down when the crosshair was aimed between 85 and 90 degrees
  • Fixed a bug that caused players who backfilled and then completed a game to sometimes receive a loss on their Career Profile and not receive their XP bonus for backfilling
  • Fixed a bug that would move players toward the source of a knockback rather than away from it
  • Fixed a bug that caused Hearthstone-themed sprays to ignore localization
  • Fixed several framerate issues that could occur when cycling through the hero selection menu
  • Fixed a variety of issues with and made several improvements to ambient lighting
  • Made some improvements to how AI heroes respond to one another
  • Made a variety of performance and optimization improvements across the game
  • Unicode keys for non-English keyboards are now displayed properly in the keybinding interface

Maps

  • Players can no longer be resurrected in out-of-play areas on Ilios

Heroes

  • Fixed a bug with the "Junkrat RIP-Tire Kills-Average" lifetime statistic
  • Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause projectiles to hit Reinhardt instead of his Barrier Field in non-High Bandwidth games
  • Fixed a bug that allowed Torbjörn to pick up Scrap while dead

We need your help! Create a new character on the Public Test Realm (PTR), level as far as you can, and send us your detailed feedback. By leveling through the content and sharing your thoughts with us, you will have a direct impact on improving the new dynamic leveling experience.

We Need You!

  • What You Want: To help make World of Warcraft a satisfying and seamless world to level through.
  • What We Want: Your feedback-the good, the bad, and the ugly-so we can iron out the wrinkles.
  • How We Do This: Create a new character on the PTR, level up as far as you can, and send us your considered, original opinion on the overhauled leveling experience.

The Big Ask

As you may have heard, we are significantly overhauling the leveling experience in World of Warcraft to make life more interesting for all the lower-level characters out there. Leveling zones from 1–100 will dynamically scale to your character’s level for a certain range, so you can spend longer in the places you love and experience more of your favorite quest lines and stories as you travel through Azeroth.

This is where you come in. On the 7.3.5 PTR, we want you to level a character, then give us your detailed, original feedback on the changes: zones, dungeons, quests, and the entire end-to-end experience in the zones you love and at the pace you enjoy. Share your thoughts on the experience, warts and all, and give us valuable insight that will change the game for the better.

Just the Facts

  • You will need to access the PTR build for Patch 7.3.5 (see below on how to do just that).
  • Level up over the course of the 7.3.5 PTR and provide detailed feedback on the experience. Examples could include:
    • Specific zones you played, and what level you were when arriving and moving on
    • Pick a leveling range to tell us about
    • Tell us which zones you chose and why, and what dungeons you completed
    • Your thoughts on the difficulty, pacing (including any specific quests or areas you had trouble with), and rewards
    • You can also let us know about any bugs you find: big, small, and downright squishy
  • We would also like to know:
    • Class
    • Specialization
    • The bug was annoying” is nowhere near as helpful as “When I arrived in Hellfire Peninsula at level 58 the quests were grayed out.”
    • (In other words: the more detail you give us, the better you will help us make the game!)

How to Create a PTR Account:

  1. Select your World of Warcraft account.
  2. Select Additional Services , then click Public Test Realm .
  3. Click History/Status to create your PTR account.

Planning Ahead

Be sure to log in to your Blizzard account and select the Public Test Realm (PTR) in Game Accounts .

  1. Download the PTR client from within the Blizzard Battle.net desktop app.
  2. Log in to any of the available Test Servers.
  3. Create a new level 1 character.

Forgive Us Our Maintenance

Champions take note! We plan to leave the PTR up throughout the holidays, but as with any test phase there may be short periods of downtime to apply changes, perform maintenance, and other trickier things that pop up. If the PTR isn’t available for any length of time, please know we appreciate your patience, good humor, and participation. We are working hard behind the scenes to keep everything on an even keel.


PTR - тестовые мира разработчиков, которые иногда становятся доступными для открытого тестирования игроками. Что там тестируется? Ответ прост - будущее обновление. Если Вы имеете русскоязычную учетную запись и хотите попасть на ПТР, следуйте следующим шагам.

Шаг 1: меняем страну
Поменяйте страну, указанную при регистрации, на Великобританию. Сделать это .



2. Создаем пробную учетную запись
Вы выходя из панели управления учетной записью, Вам необходимо создать новый европейский аккаунт пробного характера.

3. Скачивание клиента и перенос
Зайдите сюда и авторизуйтесь под только что созданной учетной записью, чтобы загрузить специальный клиент (он не зависит от Вашего существующего) и перенести персонажа на тестовые мира. Страничка эта выглядит вот так:



Дальнейшие действия просты и очевидны: прокликивая соответствующие ссылки, Вы сможете загрузить клиент и скопировать персонажа на тестовые мира.

Часто задаваемые вопросы
В: Можно ли играть на тестовых мирах без проплаченной учетной записи?
О: Нет.

В: Что нажимать после попадания на страницу копирования персонажа?
О: Выбрать нужно Copy a Premade Character. Дальше - понятно будет.

В: Можно ли потом поменять страну обратно?
О: Вы изменили существующую страну на другую. Конечно же, обратно поменять можно и затем спокойной играть на живых серверах.

В: Почему ничего не получается?
О: Внимательней читайте сей материал и убедитесь, что Вы были активными за несколько недель до начала тестирования.

После долгих и нудных путешествий по форумам я решил просто позвонить в тех поддержку и мне там подробно объяснили как это сделать.

Так как копирование с русской учетной записи персонажа невозможно, то нужно создать премейд персонажа (персонаж максимального уровня, который экипирован для походов в рейды).
Первым делом заходим в управление учетной записью и в разделе "Информация о записи", в пункте адрес, нажимаем "Редактировать".


Возвращаемся в Управление учетки и создаем пробный аккаунт World of Warcraft. Обратите внимание, теперь при создании у вас регион будет не "Россия и СНГ, а "Европа (EU) или "С. и Ю. Америка и Океания (US)"

Далее заходим по ссылке http://www.wow-europe.com/ptr/ (если вы выбрали европу) или http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/ptr/ (если вы выбрали us), авторизуемся и выбираем только что созданную пробную учетную запись WoW. Дальше у вас будет след. страница:


Download client — это скачать клиент PTR (Он независит от вашего текущего клиента ВоВ)
Copy a Character — копирование персонажа, собственно то, что нам и нужно.

P.S. На момент написания PTR закрыт и создание персонажа недоступно, но на американском PTR тест патча уже идет, так что скоро он и до нас дойдет.
P.P.S. После всего проделанного можно спокойно менять страну обратно на РФ.
P.P.P.S. Если на европе слишком долгое ожидание на создание чара, или просто не удается создать, то попробуйте создать через амеркианский триал.