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ZackDark — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 10:19:13 +0000

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Oh thank god (reply)

Leviathan — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:38:32 +0000

Flashbacks to 2011 for the rest of our lives thanks to a bad rpg

I think you meant one of the best RPGs of all time. Easy mistake. :)

Oh thank god (reply)

Spec ops Grunt — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:24:19 +0000

Flashbacks to 2011 for the rest of our lives thanks to a bad rpg

Oh thank god (reply)

Claude Errera — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 18:03:42 +0000

I clicked this message with apprehension, expecting to read "but then I took an arrow to the knee."

Thank you for a regular post.

Off-Topic (reply)

RaichuKFM — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:17:23 +0000

I love Rise of Nations.

Why yes, I will take any viable opportunity to say this.

>_< (reply)

Blackt1g3r — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:10:19 +0000

You have heard the joke about the software engineer being sent to the grocery store right? I pulled this version from a random google result:


A wife asks her husband, a software engineer, “Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6!”

A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk.

The wife asks him, “Why the hell did you buy 6 cartons of milk?”

He replied, “They had eggs.”

You need better testers Bungie (reply)

Pfhor — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:08:49 +0000

Thanks for telling me this! I just received two of them and will buy the perk in one but not the other and check the differences out. They say if you buy the hive disruptor the white nail is only deactivated on hive units but works with any other enemies.

This might be BS (reply)

someotherguy — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:05:51 +0000

My clanmate has both upgrades and tells me it works just fine (on yellow Ogres at least)

Of course (reply)

ZackDark — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 01:56:00 +0000

But still a LOT more viable than testing by hand everything. :p

YOU don't know what you're talking about. (reply)

Grizzlei — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:02:59 +0000

Bungie has excellent playtesters.

*looks deeply at herself in the mirror*

The Interceptor was perfect!

I used to be a professional tester, and programmer (reply)

Cody Miller — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:54:36 +0000

And I disagree. This game has a massive amount of the tiniest details.

All it would have taken to find this is to use the gun fully upgraded on a Hive. It's not some obscure weird thing.

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iconicbanana — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:41:08 +0000

heh. Well as I stated a little earlier, I'm a software engineer. My feathers were ruffled too much by being called a recall specialist to get the humor ;-)

Hey, it's all good. Another reason to go back and rewatch Fight Club, amiright?

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Earendil — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:39:38 +0000

heh. Well as I stated a little earlier, I'm a software engineer. My feathers were ruffled too much by being called a recall specialist to get the humor ;-)

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iconicbanana — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:37:31 +0000

In the case of a vehicle recall, they already have a solution.
In the case of a dangerous item recall, you voluntarily give it back to the company.

The first scenario is exactly what Bungie will do, they will issue a "recall" (update) when they have a fix. For the second case you are welcome to put Destiny down if you notice a bug and it scares you.

Personally, I'd rather they release some of this stuff with these sorts of really minor bugs, than to give me nothing and spend more time finding and fixing.

The major bugs they should fix before releasing, but I don't consider this one of them.

It's my own fault. Sarcasm is impossible to write.

Seems quite different to me (reply)

Earendil — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:32:39 +0000

In the case of a vehicle recall, they already have a solution.
In the case of a dangerous item recall, you voluntarily give it back to the company.

The first scenario is exactly what Bungie will do, they will issue a "recall" (update) when they have a fix. For the second case you are welcome to put Destiny down if you notice a bug and it scares you.

Personally, I'd rather they release some of this stuff with these sorts of really minor bugs, than to give me nothing and spend more time finding and fixing.

The major bugs they should fix before releasing, but I don't consider this one of them.

Software Devs are the new recall specialists (reply)

iconicbanana — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:25:38 +0000

I can fully imagine that Bungie knew this existed, knew the fix would be tedious, so they shipped it instead of delaying the update by a month.

I guess these days releasing a patch is like evaluating a recall for an airbag. Except nobody dies while Bungie tries to figure out how to patch, or if they should.

What exactly is that? (reply)

Earendil — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:20:43 +0000

I know what a "professional tester" is, or quality engineer as most like to be called. But what does it mean to be a beta tester professionally?

I'm just a regular own desktop software engineer, where the question of input, output, and state are difficult to test completely, but do-able. The combinations that a game like Destiny has is near infinite.

This board also seems to mistake "knowing a bug exists" with "Fixing a bug that exists". Knowing a problem is not the same as knowing a solution, which is especially not the same as knowing the RIGHT solution.

I can fully imagine that Bungie knew this existed, knew the fix would be tedious, so they shipped it instead of delaying the update by a month.

I'm just curious (reply)

Earendil — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:14:20 +0000

Easier said than actually done.

I used to be a professional tester, and programmer (reply)

kidtsunami — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:54:13 +0000

And I disagree. This game has a massive amount of the tiniest details. Going through every unit's animation in Rise Of Nations made my eyes bleed and I can't imagine the time and effort the test team at Bungie are putting in.

I used to be a professional beta tester (reply)

Cody Miller — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:25:05 +0000

On top of that is the atrocious approach to user interface. Slick at first blush, but so full of poor decisions like forcing players to orbit before selecting where to go next

A network engineer on reddit posted regarding this, and his conjecture was that this was to reduce congestion on the network. If you started off in the tower, or went straight to the tower from a destination, it would clog stuff up.