Todd Howards comments on Kotaku; Bug Squashing. : V

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:21 pm

http://kotaku.com/5834914/the-skyrim-team-has-a-better-plan-for-squashing-bugs-this-time

Paragraph #7;

They are also adopting this new EA Sports-style "live update" system that will let Bethesda tweak the data in their game almost immediately. If a quest isn't triggering because players are doing some unforeseen combination of actions, that might be addressable by tweaking the data tables that dictate the flow of events in the game. If the game is proving to be unbalanced in an unexpected way, that can be fixed on the fly too. And these fixes—Howard prefers to call them "improvements"— will take effect fast. "We can change stats on a sword and it will be available to everyone in a few hours," he said.

Elemental/Damage Resistance bugs are data-oriented. People have been making esp files on skyrimnexus that alters things similar to this such as damage perks and whatever.

Im also willing to bet that the dragons flying backward are "data-oriented" as well.

Fix it. By the end of the day. You said you can do it, so do it.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:43 pm

Marketing, my friend. Marketing.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:54 am

Yes, immediate improvements. Please give.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:08 pm

That was only "in theory"... They didn't actually intend to impliment that until patch 7.9.28372654.1

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:16 am

Kind of funny reading that now, huh?

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:14 am

Lol, this is funny. Not gonna happen.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:59 am

Yea, they decided that having 1.7 million bad game connections to bethesda wasn't a great idea...

There working on that bug, the one stopping the instant-bugs from being fixed.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:50 pm

Great. So instead of Bethesda having a couple of weeks to not test the stuff they release, they'll be able to release the stuff they don't test in a few hours instead. Just lovely.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:49 pm

Great. So instead of Bethesda having a couple of weeks to not test the stuff they release, they'll be able to release the stuff they don't test in a few hours instead. Just lovely.

Yeah, ironic, isnt it?

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:51 am

Great. So instead of Bethesda having a couple of weeks to not test the stuff they release, they'll be able to release the stuff they don't test in a few hours instead. Just lovely.

They'll be able to break the game even faster than ever! YAY!

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:44 am

Sounds like they will be right on par with windows then...

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:28 pm

Ah Todd Howard, Americas answer to Peter Molyneux.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:51 am

Todd is always talking out of his rear end. Best advice: Heed him not.

Actions speak louder than words.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:02 am

The thing that really pisses me off is that we are essentially forced to wait until they fix it because of Steam automatically applying the updates.

I re-installed my game three times. Twice in online mode with automatic updates off. When the game finishes installing, it immediately starts to update, even if turned off and if you turn it off in the midst of it and click play, it will "finish" updating which means your screwed.

I tried installing the game in offline mode and it says I need to be online.

So yeah. Im a wonderfully HAPPY customer. Too bad their isnt a "birdy" emoticon on this forum. I would so love to use it right now.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:15 pm

They probably implemented it, but it's broken with bugs and needs patched before it can be used to .... wait a second... PARADOX..... /me runs away from the Black Hole forming.....

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:08 pm

I know Epic does this already. When people griped about the Sawed off shotgun they reduced it's range without an update, but some said it was only on the dedicated servers and not Peer to Peer ones.

I think it's possible, not sure why they aren't doing it though. Blood on the Ice won't trigger for me, but I'll do other things until it does.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:04 am

Oh look! Locked thread incoming! Nooooooo!

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:45 pm

But Todd Howards wasn't the guy who was saying they were trying to do the "best warrior game", the "best assassin game" and the "best mage game"? :hubbahubba:

His idea of "best" is having people wait for two weeks to have dragons flying backwards for a misundestanding of "backward-compatibility" concept on part of his QA team? :hubbahubba:

If he's the same guy...he's a comedian, not a developer! :hubbahubba:

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:58 pm

Ah Todd Howard, Americas answer to Peter Molyneux.

Oh, I ENDORSE this statement.

:rofl:

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:43 am

They can in theory change things immediately, but in practice they're probably going to test changes before implementing them, so you won't be seeing everything you request an hour after complaining about it on the forums. Sorry.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:19 pm

Ah Todd Howard, Americas answer to Peter Molyneux.

lol, is anybody familiar with Brad McQuaid? I think he is still in hiding.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:27 pm

They can in theory change things immediately, but in practice they're probably going to test changes before implementing them, so you won't be seeing everything you request an hour after complaining about it on the forums. Sorry.

I would bet the money I spent on this game that they didnt seriously test their own damn patch before releasing it in the first place and, just to point out, I said by the end of the day. Thats several hours. :banghead:

Still, at least I can play without V-Sync on now and the ratios arent screwed up.

» Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:22 am

Immediate improvements also means immediate bugs. :teehee:

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:34 pm

Marketing, my friend. Marketing.

This is all that is, and if they implement that system it would eliminate whatever VERY LITTLE testing they actually do with their patches.

Just release the CK and let us fix your game Bethesda. Seriously.

» Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:00 pm

Ah Todd Howard, Americas answer to Peter Molyneux.

that is harsh.......damn........ :sweat: