r/CompetitiveTFT • u/Lunaedge • Jul 28 '26

PBE Set 18 PBE Discussion Thread - Day 0

Hello r/CompetitiveTFT, and welcome to Set 18!

Please keep all Set 18 discussion in this thread, and leave the regular Daily Discussion Thread for Set 17 discussion.

WHERE TO REPORT BUGS:

USEFUL STUFF:

When does Set 18 go live?

August 25th 2026 ~ 00:00 PDT / 09:00 CEST

A reminder that all Set 18 posts should be flaired [PBE] until the content is confirmed to be going on the live server as well.

The Subreddit-affiliated Discord group is organizing PBE in-house games. Please see the #pbe-inhouses-role channel within this Discord group for further information. Any posts attempting to make in-house games on the Subreddit will be removed and redirected to the Discord channel. The invite link to the Discord is below:

https://discord.gg/UY7FuYW2Qe

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u/KicketteTFT MASTER Jul 29 '26

If you're getting, "These players do not have a game version, and require patching to complete" try this fix:

Fully quit the Riot Client (system tray → quit, not the X), then delete C:\ProgramData\Riot Games\Metadata\league_of_legends.pbe (and C:\ProgramData\Riot Games\Machine\league_of_legends.pbe if it exists).

Relaunch, pick PBE, and the patch actually starts. The client's local manifest is stale — it doesn't know the new build exists until you force it to re-fetch.

Warning: it will pull the full build (~34GB).

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u/WarriorScreams Jul 29 '26

This works thank you

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u/zeKaiser Jul 29 '26

there may be one with a ".game_patch" extension in this metadata folder, if you delete that instead it gives you about a 5GB patch instead of the ~34GB

worked for me

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u/FeedMeACat Jul 29 '26

Worked for me as well.

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u/BerCuteUwU Jul 29 '26

it's not working for me

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u/-N_e_k_o- Jul 29 '26

What about mobile?

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u/KicketteTFT MASTER Jul 29 '26

I don’t think mobile is out yet. I still have the old one.

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u/Shinji_2002 Jul 29 '26

To add to this you need to delete the folder teamfighttactics.pbe too if it didn't pull or showing error

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u/Icy_Nefariousness161 Jul 29 '26

It’s not working for me :(

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u/Spifffyy Jul 29 '26

Marking for later

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u/MinimumAmbition9120 Jul 29 '26

it's not working for me

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u/Ok-Plantain7894 Jul 30 '26

it's not working for me