
And that has enabled us to address some pretty critical bugs that we may not have caught. Tucker agreed with this point, adding: "Once you have more people playing the game, you're going to see more things cropping up. We to track performance, crashes and other issues that are easier for us to find if we are stress testing with larger populations things that our own QA testers can't do in 8-hour sessions." Speaking about the impact of the PTS, Gardiner said: "If I had to point to a single thing that was a sea change for us, outside of the Wastelanders expansion, it was actually the PTS server. It is a bit like early access, in the sense that it allows the development team to collate feedback and tweak updates before they are rolled out to the general public. For context, this is essentially an environment that allows gamers to preview updates and new content prior to it being added to the game's live server. ↑ 'Fallout 76: Steel Reign'-Bethesda Says Please Give Game a Chance After Hard Lessons: "On a related note, Gardiner points to the introduction of a Public Test Server (PTS) as the real turning point for Fallout 76.↑ Fallout 76: Inside the Vault - Nuka-World is Coming to the PTS.Jeff Gardiner and Mark Tucker referred to the Public Test Server as the "turning point" for Fallout 76, as it allowed developers to track player performance, crashes, and other issues that could not be as easily diagnosed without the use of larger player populations, acting in ways that the Quality Assurance testers could not find, ultimately allowing the team to address and fix critical bugs that would have not been found without it. A pennant of Grahm was offered during the testing of Locked & Loaded. The Vault Boy pennant was offered during the testing of One Wasteland For All, while Vault Girl was offered during testing of Steel Dawn. Framed and unframed versions of a PTS pennant for both Vault Boy and Vault Girl are offered for completing the requirements. The user must fulfill a certain number of activities to receive the reward, such as participating for a certain number of days, completing multiplayer Daily Ops sessions, or filling a certain percentage of their shelter budget.




The most version of the Public Test Server launched on October 13, 2022, to test features of the Nuka-World on Tour update.
