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On 09/01/2022 at 21:57, layten said:

Somebody on the Deathloop run is claiming to be a QA tester at Bethesda. Which is obviously a lie.

Did some digging on this. Turns out it was true and that they had a team assigned to testing the game as if speed runners had gotten their hands on it.

 

I can see why something like that could be useful considering there are games that can either break, bug out or give you unwanted loading screens if you go too fast.

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32 minutes ago, Dig Dug said:

Did some digging on this. Turns out it was true and that they had a team assigned to testing the game as if speed runners had gotten their hands on it.

 

I can see why something like that could be useful considering there are games that can either break, bug out or give you unwanted loading screens if you go too fast.

I don't think anyone is buying the obvious lie that Bethesda has a QA department.

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9 hours ago, Dig Dug said:

Did some digging on this. Turns out it was true and that they had a team assigned to testing the game as if speed runners had gotten their hands on it.

 

I can see why something like that could be useful considering there are games that can either break, bug out or give you unwanted loading screens if you go too fast.

I do not think the speedruns are comparable. I was part of a dev team once where one of us was tasked by going through the game on an almost daily basis to make milestones. We had to deliver builds that could be played through by the publisher while we as the dev team were making changes to builds left, right and centre. It was that one team member's task to make sure the most direct line from start to finish worked. No optional stuff, no out of bounds, no upgrading. Just straight through the end.

 

There's other speed runners, I remember God of War 3 having a Trophy named after an internal speed runner, something akin to "As fast as Dave" which meant you had to beat the game in less than 3 hours or something.

 

I do not think any go these type of speed runners try to break the game, go out of bounds, strafe jump etc.

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10 hours ago, layten said:

I don't think anyone is buying the obvious lie that Bethesda has a QA department.

 

I know you're trying to be funny, but they absolutely will have and the reason their games get shipped in a state is because production and publishing will be over-ruling QA (and pretty much everyone else involved) and shipping the games to a hard-deadline. 

Their QA department are probably over-worked and stressed as a result so, SO LEAVE BETHESDA QA ALONE!

 

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df0

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Is it that tike of the year again? I'm a year older now, surely I'll be annoyed by something new this time around. Maybe everything is too loud.

 

edit: how come sooo many games have an estimate of 10 minutes? Placeholder?

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14 hours ago, df0 said:

Is it that tike of the year again? I'm a year older now, surely I'll be annoyed by something new this time around. Maybe everything is too loud.

 

edit: how come sooo many games have an estimate of 10 minutes? Placeholder?

 

the time on the right is the setup length

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The blind custom Mario World levels race is essential. The Mario Maker races are always great fun, this one goes further by being modded so the level creators can do whatever they want, introducing entirely new mechanics, and it's amazing.

 

 

And this Ocarina of Time co-op randomiser by GDQ royalty/husband and wife combo spikevegeta and nukkuler.

 

 

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I have to admit I've not watched anything this event. Previous events I had a Picture-in-Picture running on my work machine, this time I just could not muster the enthusiasm for it. Think I'm getting bored of it by now, seen so many fantastic runs over the years, some runs now just feel... old news.

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I enjoyed this one. Shows off loads of stuff that is on the Ocarina of Time cartridge but was cut from the game. They execute code  in the game with specific button presses at specific times (performed by tasbot) to access all sorts of bits that you weren't meant to see. Worth watching for anyone who has played the game through loads.

 

 

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