development [Shrewds Dev Blog] Stability

[ShrewdTactician]

Bugs, unless they are funny, we all hate them. They get in the way of our gaming experience, and can range from unnoticeable, to annoyances, to outright fatal. As a dev and a server owner, I end up looking at the logs a lot, seeing bugs get pumped out. Now there are different types of bugs, logic bugs, gameplay bugs etc, that wont show up in logs generally, and they are usually the more noticeable ones. That being said, you would be surprised how many errors and warnings get pumped out when your playing a match of Renegade X. How many you ask? Well I played a skirmish match, on Canyon, with 40 bots for a typical 35 minutes. I then went to the logs to get the count of how many bug instances showed up, divided into different categories.

The results were:
Errors: 900
Warnings: 6159
Could not: 1765

For a grand total of: 8824

This number doesn't include the 16 compile time warnings, netplay related bugs, missing text errors and even texture/material compiling bugs. None of those bugs are repeated in other categories, so no double dipping here. I've attached the log for those interested. Now, some of these will have little actual impact, some will manifest themselves is unpredictable ways, but all mean something is wrong somewhere.

For this patch, I've spent weeks making a strong effort to deal with as many of these bugs as possible. All the compile time warnings are now gone, nearly all the startup bugs are gone, and the gameplay bug count has been reduced dramatically. We also had some of the mappers fix some of the material bugs as well! Running the same test using today's internal build, the numbers look like this:
Errors: 29
Warnings: 1369
Could not: 1073

For a grand total of: 2471

As you can see, the numbers are a lot lower then they were during the last release, but there are still quiet a few left. I will be continuing to attack these bugs in force, until these numbers are as close to 0 as possible. For you, I'm hoping that Renegade X is a bug free experience, allowing you to enjoy the awesome game the team has made, and that our community continues to help it grow.
 

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[isupreme]

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For you, I'm hoping that Renegade X is a bug free experience, allowing you to enjoy the awesome game the team has made, and that our community continues to help it grow.

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