What is difference between Test server and live server?

[blond]

What is the difference between test server and live server?

Is there any benefits playing in the test server?
Which server should I play?
Do you guys prefer playing the test server or the live?

[The Norfire]

New material comes to test before it's shot out to live. Depending on the material, if it's small update may take a week to push to live and if it's kinda big like a new portion of BWC map may take a few weeks to push to live. I wanna add more, but i'll make this short to answer your questions:
1. You get to play new material that comes out first here. Just watch for updates in Just Survive main page, or click on Twitter or Reddit bubbles on the main page.
2. There's not many servers. I'm just throwing a recommendation on this one: Server 14 for BWC and Server 15 for Z1. I don't mind if anyone contests or disagrees on this on lol.
3. Test can be good in many ways that I can't remember all at once so i'll pull out a few scenarios:

- playing alone or with someone on dead server (assuming no updates on test for some time) Can be good for someone who'd like to try out a car and can't find one (usually this works lol)

-playing when a major patch patch comes thru introducing new places,portion of a map, and items. Test servers will mostly be full during this time so if you don't wanna wait several weeks to play this kind of material in Live, i recommend get a seat fast before the servers fill up.

That's all i have for now. I'm gonna sign off for now. I haven't played for a few weeks now, but i'm still checking forums and waiting for new portion of BWC which i think is gonna hit Test sometime next month along with new concrete bases. Ya better believe i'll be back when that happens. Take care and have fun!

[the Coroner]

Originally posted by The Norfire:

New material comes to test before it's shot out to live.

right, this is how it should be. DB had repeatedly brought updates on the live / prod - environment first, for whatever reason.
talking about a serious release management; as a comparison, in business software development, you're talkin' about the environments
1) dev (development), this is the developpers "playground"
2) Test or Integration -where key users check if software does exactly what it should and how it should; regression test can be done by specific systems and at least,
3) the production or live system.
Updates and patches mustn't be applied on the live systems unless the results of the whole testing had been well.
This point, release management, is a weak spot and probably the core reason for the disaster with this game.

[SGT.Rockman]

Originally posted by The Norfire:

New material comes to test before it's shot out to live. Depending on the material, if it's small update may take a week to push to live and if it's kinda big like a new portion of BWC map may take a few weeks to push to live. I wanna add more, but i'll make this short to answer your questions:
1. You get to play new material that comes out first here. Just watch for updates in Just Survive main page, or click on Twitter or Reddit bubbles on the main page.
2. There's not many servers. I'm just throwing a recommendation on this one: Server 14 for BWC and Server 15 for Z1. I don't mind if anyone contests or disagrees on this on lol.
3. Test can be good in many ways that I can't remember all at once so i'll pull out a few scenarios:

- playing alone or with someone on dead server (assuming no updates on test for some time) Can be good for someone who'd like to try out a car and can't find one (usually this works lol)

-playing when a major patch patch comes thru introducing new places,portion of a map, and items. Test servers will mostly be full during this time so if you don't wanna wait several weeks to play this kind of material in Live, i recommend get a seat fast before the servers fill up.

That's all i have for now. I'm gonna sign off for now. I haven't played for a few weeks now, but i'm still checking forums and waiting for new portion of BWC which i think is gonna hit Test sometime next month along with new concrete bases. Ya better believe i'll be back when that happens. Take care and have fun!

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OK, I will disagree as BWC is server 016 and Z1 is server 014 and 015 and more (LOL). I play on 14, 15 and 16 on test generally. Those are some PVE servers.

[The Norfire]

The 1,2,3 were recommendations in correlation to the OP's questions. I only reccomended said servers cause I knew myself, and Sgt. Rockman played on (myself 15, Sarge 14). I'm sure we all mean well here anywho. I like what i see so far with the new concrete stuff and been paying attention to the problems Sgt lists. This guy is Gung Ho in forums as well as testing that i've ever seen and i mean that in a good way!