Oleg Maddox's Room #1

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by Kira

Yeah it's probably that. I can very much put up with waiting for BoB, but I don't think I'll survive knowing that some people are playing it, when everybody else still needs to wait.

How did the Il2 beta go?

I am Beta-Tester for the Battlefield-Series for some years, now. You know, new releases, Patches, Addons, Online-Stats and stuff.
As much fun as it sometimes might be, it's not at all like playing the game while everybody else has to wait. Sometimes you get builds that are so buggy you can reinstall the game each time you start it up and then it crashes and you can start all over again. Sometimes you sit hours about forums and INI-files to get it working. And then there's nothing like "let's play and have fun." Usually you are on Teamspeak with other people, you try to find bugs and exploits, ask other people to test things and see if it was just an incident or if it really is a bug you can reproduce, then you got to document, take screenshots and grab videos, etc. Sometimes you just stand there for hours shooting weapons at different objects and other players under exact reproducable circumstances to test weapons balancing and hitzones.

I can imagine that it is pretty much the same in the flightsim-business - if not even harder.