Issues with the Patch

[barocca]

my theory on the odd units appearing in rebellions is that somehow the "rebels" are being selected from what is avaiable to the faction and includes units that may be available from the mercenary pool.

Is this a "feature"?
after all if the player can hire such units, then why not the rebels??

[This message has been edited by barocca (edited 11-08-2002).]

[Fearless]

Hey Barocca! I think we agree on this that this could possibly be a feature rebels hiring mercenaries..............why not! I just wish it was mention in the tutorials.

[giskard]

Sorry ive not been around. I have been setting up a new mod making group of mercs. check out the site, im rather pleased with it.
http://www.mercstorm.com

On topic
Previous experience with activision beta testing gave me the impression of a less than professional approach to the testing of patches generally. I know there is a player group testing the patch and I firmly believe players will do a better job of testing anything that any company could any day of the week.

Previously companies such as pandemic where forced to leak their own patches to get them tested after several major bugs in previous releases got by activisions testers. Bugs that where spotted within minutes of loading the game after patching it i must add.

Once these leaked patches started appearing no more serious bugs ever made it into the final versions.

So official or not, it is in our best interests to use this patch and test it because if we dont we may end up with a patch with more problems than we currently have.

Just for the record, activisions own testing team used to test the patch and not the guys behind a game. If the same process is still being used we should not blame CA for the bugs that get past the testers. The old way activision worked was to offer testing services to companies who make games they publish.

I have the new patch now and Im going to be following Baroccas advice and doing a clean install. Anybody that wants to run some serious tests on the patch can contact me when they see me in the lobby online. I will be up for it.

I stayed away from online gaming after it became a battle just to join a server. If thats fixed I will be very happy.

Whilst we are dealing with the bugs it is important to remember that MTW is a very fine strategy game and the bugs that exist wont change that.

Giskard

[This message has been edited by giskard (edited 11-08-2002).]

[This message has been edited by giskard (edited 11-08-2002).]