Enough is Enough - Test and Fix Your Game
February 6, 2017 5:08PM
edited February 2017
This game has such great potential, but it is brought down and bombarded with bugs and exploits that seem to fall on deaf ears, or take far too long to fix. We, as a player base, expect a certain standard from a company we support.
You could focus on Zarriss, who was recently fixed (that could have been noticed with one battle test). You could focus on Biggs' ship that doesn't gain its bonus on all target lock scenarios. You could focus on FOTF ship on defense gaining absurd amounts of TM. You could focus on other bugs out there that have been addressed yet have yet to be fixed or received a response from Devs.
Let's focus on TIE Reaper.
For those that do not know, Reaper is currently bugged. Not just bugged, but game-breakingly bugged and worse than pre-fix Zarriss. Reaper has two distinct bugs:
1. Reaper's Grim Voyage persists through death.
This is comparable to Zarriss persisting through death. Your Capital Ship will continue to lose TM regardless if Reaper is alive or dead, which is critical in a ship arena without mods.
2. Reaper's Grim Voyage applies EVEN WHEN TIE REAPER HAS NOT ENTERED BATTLE
This is where the game breaks. You can hide your Reaper as the 8th reinforcement and the turn meter reductions will apply regardless, even if your Reaper never sees battle.
It is extremely disappointing to see this occur when this could have been prevented. If the company took literally one single battle for their new shiny pixel, they would have instantly found the first bug. The second bug could have been found with testing different scenarios.
But testing seems to be lacking in general. Where is the quality assurance? Many bugs could have been found in one or a few battles and fixed. Not only are they found by the player base, they take far too long to fix.
Now, many are exploiting Reaper only because they have to so they can keep up with other Reaper exploiters. It is almost impossible to win a battle with a Reaper buried as a reinforcement when you do not have a Reaper of your own.
Please, there is no reason these massive bugs should be missed on release, especially when promoting the character/ship at such a drastic price tag. Please test your game more proficiently. Please put more priority on fixing bugs before pushing out new, and sometimes broken, content. Thank you.
You could focus on Zarriss, who was recently fixed (that could have been noticed with one battle test). You could focus on Biggs' ship that doesn't gain its bonus on all target lock scenarios. You could focus on FOTF ship on defense gaining absurd amounts of TM. You could focus on other bugs out there that have been addressed yet have yet to be fixed or received a response from Devs.
Let's focus on TIE Reaper.
For those that do not know, Reaper is currently bugged. Not just bugged, but game-breakingly bugged and worse than pre-fix Zarriss. Reaper has two distinct bugs:
1. Reaper's Grim Voyage persists through death.
This is comparable to Zarriss persisting through death. Your Capital Ship will continue to lose TM regardless if Reaper is alive or dead, which is critical in a ship arena without mods.
2. Reaper's Grim Voyage applies EVEN WHEN TIE REAPER HAS NOT ENTERED BATTLE
This is where the game breaks. You can hide your Reaper as the 8th reinforcement and the turn meter reductions will apply regardless, even if your Reaper never sees battle.
It is extremely disappointing to see this occur when this could have been prevented. If the company took literally one single battle for their new shiny pixel, they would have instantly found the first bug. The second bug could have been found with testing different scenarios.
But testing seems to be lacking in general. Where is the quality assurance? Many bugs could have been found in one or a few battles and fixed. Not only are they found by the player base, they take far too long to fix.
Now, many are exploiting Reaper only because they have to so they can keep up with other Reaper exploiters. It is almost impossible to win a battle with a Reaper buried as a reinforcement when you do not have a Reaper of your own.
Please, there is no reason these massive bugs should be missed on release, especially when promoting the character/ship at such a drastic price tag. Please test your game more proficiently. Please put more priority on fixing bugs before pushing out new, and sometimes broken, content. Thank you.
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Oh boy a TI player dropping reality bombs.... they might actually listen to you
Hope that won't land on deaf ears...
I'm wondering the same, my Tie Advanced is 4* now, so it is a win/win situation
I don't have tie advance but my vader is over 10k crew power so it's a win win.
this is currently being investigated by our team and a fix should be plugged in a future update. Thanks!
Thanks for the response !
Thank you for the prompt response and communication. Very much appreciated!
Your response misses the point completely, the bug shouldn't have existed in the first place, it should have been detected with a properly run & analysed set of test scripts before release to the player base. That is a fundamental stage in any software development & deployment process, nothing goes out the door without full testing & service assurance.
I've wondered about this too, and asked something similar once, but don't think it got answered.
I have no idea how these get thru testing
It can happen. Some things are "supposed to" work for all but that doesn't always happen. For example i am a program tester and sometimes when i test, I ask the developer if I have to go through every scenario with each user or should it work for all. Half of the time they say to do all and half of the time they say a couple will be fine because it should work the same.
So I understand why and how some of these get through testing but I agree that every scenario should be tested. Also we must understand that we don't "have to" pay for this game as it is free so testing every single scenario is not required but suggested.
Yes, I understand.
@CG_Kozispoon this Reaper bug isn't just another bug, it's game-breaking. People are missing their daily payouts due to this, vs a fast DPS team the capital ship just doesn't get a turn at all - no reinforcements, it's a slaughter.
This can't be slotted for "a future update", this needs a HOTFIX. Seriously, the OP made some remarks about QA/testing that you've conveniently side-stepped. Bugs aren't being fixed nearly fast enough, look at the First Order Tie Fighter and its crazy TM generation when on defence, that bug has existed since ships were released. Numerous updates since then and no ship bug fixes whatsoever. Poe's "can't be evaded" attack being dodged by Tie Fighter, etc. etc. etc.
The list of bugs goes on and on, prices for packs go up and up.
@CG_Kozispoon it's time to start fixing what you've produced so far instead of just cranking out more over-priced broken content. Sorry to be harsh, but you know this is the reality, just as well as the rest of us.
Do you remember when they actually fixed 20+bugs per update.
I hate getting screwed by bugs like STHan gives TM to allies if his taunt was buff immunitied.
Everything in ships is bugged.
Now all it is new content, new content, new content, crap we have to fix Zarris, new content, new content...and with every new content comes more bugs to add to the ignore list. Can't wait till they break the game with an update and are forced to do fixes.
We need a response devs. Tie reaper needs to be fixed asap.
I'm bumping this because I feel it is an important message and customers have a right to have toons work as advertised.
I have never seen so many bugs.
There were plenty of posts a couple months ago saying who cares about the bugs, this game is boring now and we want new content. Now they bring out new content and people are complaining about the bugs. They can't win.
But yes i personally think bugs are a priority over everything else but that's just me.
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