Marauders -> RE: Beta testers blog (10/16/2006 8:49:03 AM)
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Here is a quick update: Release 3 is coming along well, and barring some major unforeseen problem, I believe a public beta release is close. In my opinion, it is important to get this out to the Maximum-Football community. To have a public pre-release is a risky thing to do, because there will be some minor issues that David and the beta team know about that people will blow up in the public as a sign of great demise, and there will be new things that the development team just did not have the resources to test all at one time. The key here is to get the update into the hands of the community and allow feedback on a much greater scale than the beta team alone can provide. It will also allow game owners to see some of the new stuff the game will provide for them. Some recent defensive code changes have been given a primary test by the beta crew, and they are working pretty well from a code point of view. We will still have to try to check for AI breaking and that sort of stuff with the new defensive code. Along with my playbooks, I am trying to get the default playbooks recreated for when Release 3 becomes the standard release in the near future. Because of a few work related delays, and because of changes in the defensive code, I don't believe I'll be able to get my playbooks ready for the public beta release. Because of this, I have actually made the default playbooks the priority over my playbooks. nmleague and Old Coach are testing some of their playbooks as well. I suspect both members will need to make a few updates to their playbooks because of the defensive changes and other factors. David has been testing some updates to the fatigue code. Of course, finding the right balance will take some time with the new code in the game. The ability to do this, and to make changes in other areas, is enhanced because David has kindly placed more variables into the data constants tables over the last few months. That's about it for now. Please leave feedback on these items if you wish to, but be aware to consider that the Public Beta Forum area is primarily for members of the Maximum-Football community that own the game and wish to contribute. Thanks all. - Marauders
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