To facilitate the release of Update 59, a Pre-Patch War will commence on Wednesday, Nov 13 at 1PM ET and run until Monday, Nov 18th at 6AM ET. The goal of the Pre-Patch War will be to perform stress testing of the update and online infrastructure in the live environment ahead of the official release. Additional bug fixes and changes will continue to be made up until the official release on Nov 18th.
Please take notice of the following events.
Tuesday, Nov 12th @ 4PM ET
The Victory Town requirement will be reduced until one side is victorious
ABLE shard will be taken offline
Update 59 Pre-Patch will be deployed to the live environment
PREPATCH shard will come online in Resistance Phase
Wednesday, Nov 13th @ 1PM ET
Pre-Patch War will commence at 1PM ET on PREPATCH shard
Monday, Nov 18th @ 6AM ET
The Victory Town requirement will be reduced until one side is victorious in the Pre-Patch War
PREPATCH shard will be taken offline
ABLE shard will be brought back online in Resistance Phase until the official update and war start begins in the afternoon on the same day
Other Information
The majority of new Update 59 content will not be available in the Pre-Patch War
Tech Tree pacing may be sped up during the Pre-Patch War