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Request to Farsight: Stop releasing updates until you have basic testing down
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<blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 63507" data-attributes="member: 134"><p>When I say 'home tester', all I'm really saying is to try document and see if you can consistently repeat what causes the bug.</p><p></p><p>There have been many bugs I've never seen at all, others that appear quite frequently. I think a lot of the reason for variances is we all play the tables differently. There was a table that the way I played, I never let the ball have a chance to bounce a certain way 'cause I was always nudging beforehand. After reading about someone else's strategies, I stopped nudging. Well, soon after I noticed that I was consistently seeing a certain phenomenon on the table I had never noticed before.</p><p></p><p>What may always happen for you may not always happen for someone else because your play styles differ. That is why testing for pinball is so difficult, the shear amount of variety possible. So take note, try and recreate the bug. If you notice a string of events that leads up to it, write those events up. Saying the ball always goes through the side of the machine is not helpful, but saying that during x,y, or z mode with two balls on the table this always happens, then there's at least a place for FS to start looking. And yes, game revision numbers, system update numbers, those can play a factor too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shutyertrap, post: 63507, member: 134"] When I say 'home tester', all I'm really saying is to try document and see if you can consistently repeat what causes the bug. There have been many bugs I've never seen at all, others that appear quite frequently. I think a lot of the reason for variances is we all play the tables differently. There was a table that the way I played, I never let the ball have a chance to bounce a certain way 'cause I was always nudging beforehand. After reading about someone else's strategies, I stopped nudging. Well, soon after I noticed that I was consistently seeing a certain phenomenon on the table I had never noticed before. What may always happen for you may not always happen for someone else because your play styles differ. That is why testing for pinball is so difficult, the shear amount of variety possible. So take note, try and recreate the bug. If you notice a string of events that leads up to it, write those events up. Saying the ball always goes through the side of the machine is not helpful, but saying that during x,y, or z mode with two balls on the table this always happens, then there's at least a place for FS to start looking. And yes, game revision numbers, system update numbers, those can play a factor too. [/QUOTE]
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