PBE

CamQuatch·10/25/2016, 10:16:02 PM·1 votes·366 views

Last week i checked my email and found out that i had been given a PBE account by Riot Games, Which is something i have wanted since i started following the pbe patches on Surrender at 20. So i set up my account and waited a day for proper IP amount so i can afford runes, and then i jumped into a game. During this time the only available queue was blind pick and chat had been down all day so there was no way to communicate what position i wanted. Which was fine i just picked support and played bard with exhaust so that my team could easily see the position i wanted. Then i was shocked to see 4 assassin auto locks happen almost immediately. Now i said ok sure, maybe its like graves jungle, and Talon jungle is good too. The game was a complete mess and not cause of our picks, but as soon as we get in game there is insults flying about why someone took their role, which lead to an intentionally feeding player on my team. I waited till the next day to play again as i was pretty frustrated about how my first game of PBE went. The team chat was enabled which made communicating their positions easier, but people still fought over rolls and auto locked champs that aren't even close to viable in each position. AS much as i am happy that people are excited to play these champions, they are not playing them in a way that tests the champions properly. Which can lead to alot of broken shit being pushed to live. I sincerely hope that Riot are paying CLOSER attention to their Public Beta Testing ground in terms of Summoners Code Violations than they do to their live client. These new jungle changes are near impossible to test when you dont have an adc or support, just talon and Rengar in the botlane. New support items aren't being tested cause people just keep playing assassins in the bot lane cause they want to try their champs. This beta test realm is for testing new things in a COMPETITIVE environment in order to get balance changes. I think this discussion needs to be had in order to create a productive testing environment/PBE for everyone. I know tons of people who would kill for an account on the PBE so that they can test new stuff properly as opposed to locking Teemo and muting the entire team, while he intentionally feeds.

3 Comments

Kei14310/25/2016, 10:28:23 PM2 votes

Try to separate your sentences into proper paragraphs first. It makes reading much easier instead of that block of text.


Messed up team comps are common in the PBE environment esp when they push out new content such as assassin updates.

In regards to flaming, it will be nice if people can actually focus on testing stuff, but if they do get permabanned in PBE, then they can't just simply re-create an account there. I prefer Riot to focus their efforts on the live server instead of the health of PBE.

ShinkoMinori10/25/2016, 10:17:38 PM1 votes

PBE is only for trolling imo... The devs barely listen to you anyways.