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NOTE: Some were reporting a WAITING FOR DOWNLOAD issue. If you had this problem, please try to close the launcher, then re-open it for the SMITE PUBLIC TEST CLIENT. Hopefully it works now.

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EVERYONE SHOULD READ AND UNDERSTAND THESE LIMITATIONS PRIOR TO PARTICIPATING

1) In order to participate in the preview test, you must download a completely new game client. When the "real" patch is delivered next week, you will still need to download the new patch.



2) At the moment, only PRACTICE queues are available. (This may change late on Sunday if we can reconfigure some server capacity). The limited queue availability is for two reasons:

a) Because of the other technical test we ran this week, we do not have significant server capacity currently assigned to this test. So we do not have the ability to run a lot of matches.

b) Because of low planned publicity for this initial experimental test, we do not expect a large test population. This could affect ability to get timely matches.



3) The Gems/XP/Favor/Level/Everything for your player record will reflect what your player record was approximately 1 week ago (this is when the test database was mirrored). Don't freak about this. Your live account is unaffected! (NOTE: For this test, I did give some gems onto every player record just in this test environment --> these will not apply back to the live environment. This is so that new content can be accessed to test).



4) Note that if you try to buy gems while on this test environment, it will let you, but the gems will be applied to your LIVE account, not to this test account. So you will not see the gems in the test environment, but you will get them when you log back into the regular SMITE.



5) Unlike this week's Special Tech Test, there are not special guaranteed rewards associated with playing on this test environment (other than the satisfaction of helping and the joy of seeing content early).



6) If you have previously downloaded the Public Test Client for Smite (many months ago), you may have to do special steps (if you do not see Khumbhakarna on login page):

-- Open your Smite Public Test Launcher

-- Hit Options

-- HIT TROUBLESHOOTING AND DIAGNOSTICS

-- In the INSTALLED GAMES list, select SMITE PUBLIC TEST and then hit the REINSTALL button.

INSTRUCTIONS TO PARTICIPATE