Potential Bugs

napi

<div class="IPBDescription">How will the NS team deal with them?</div> As much as i can't wait for ns 1.1 to arrive, it will, as all updates in mods, bring with it a new set of bugs and exploits. Even the best coders in the world make mistakes now and then.

I was wondering - if a fairly major bug or exploit is discovered, will the coder team make a small patch to fix it? or just leave it be until the next major version is released?

This is purely interest, and i'm sure the NS team will handle it in the way they deem to be best (Which probably would be best lol), but i curious.

an example of where a Dev team (IMO) made a mistake, was with 'Firearms 2.65' or what ever the version was. if you wore a helmet, the target to hit your head was the proper size. if you didn't wear one, it was almost impossible to be shot in the head.... regardless of the number of complaints the team got, they did nothing about it until the next major release (2.7). IMO this was the wrong action to take... but then again, i'm not part of any mod dev teams <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->


/me twiddles thumb in expectation of 1.1 mayhem hehehehe

2of12B0RG

Were you here before 1.04? Did you know about the stopcommandermode exploit that allowed aliens to wear marine skins? They patched that fairly quickly if I recall. They didn't just wait for the next release to fix that.

Anyways, hopefully the next version will be bug free.

Mouse

Actually the plan is to Iron out all bugs in the pre-release playtesting phase. In the (unfortuantly likely) event that some bugs slip through and are present after release, Flay uses the server side patches to squash as many bugs as possible (as well as any minor balance tweaks that may be required).