"Hotfix" for 1.13 beta?
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Next time you could test your patches before releasing them.
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You literally can not colonize. As in, it is impossible to send colonist to uncolonized province even when you have sufficient colonial range. It is also impossible to send ships to any "explore the waters / coast of XXX" missions.
Or well, mostly impossible. I think you can still explore some areas close by your starting position and the circumnavigation mission still works. It is also possible to send colonists to empty provinces that are next to provinces you already own.
Next time you could consider that It's a beta patch.
and YES I can be a dick too.
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That's the excuse for zero testing people should accept?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle
"Beta, named after the second letter of the Greek alphabet, is the software development phase following alpha. Software in the beta stage is also known as betaware.[3] Beta phase generally begins when the software is feature complete but likely to contain a number of known or unknown bugs.[4] Software in the beta phase will generally have many more bugs in it than completed software, as well as speed/performance issues and may still cause crashes or data loss. The focus of beta testing is reducing impacts to users, often incorporating usability testing. The process of delivering a beta version to the users is called beta release and this is typically the first time that the software is available outside of the organization that developed it. Beta version software is often useful for demonstrations and previews within an organization and to prospective customers. Some developers refer to this stage as a preview, prototype, technical preview / technology preview (TP),[5] or early access. Some software is kept in perpetual beta, where new features and functionality are continually added to the software without establishing a firm "final" release."
In my opinion we should be glad to have access to the beta in the first place. Stop being so snarky.
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Actually, by signing up for it, you AGREED to be a "beta tester." It's an opt-in process that you opted into. Don't be dense.
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But it's beta, the universal excuse in the game world today for any problem what so ever!
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Iv'e already run two observer games, and in both of them, the AI just seems to ignore the new world XD.
They propably did have relatively extensive testing going, considering that the patch notes posted last week were mostly identical to the actual patch notes. (I am assuming that they do not put stuff into patch notes before actually implementing those changes.) While testers were busy testing previous build, programmers would have been been coding new stuff. In this case likely some additional changes and fixes that were deemed small enough to be left quite safely last and thus lightly tested, but still important enough that adding them to the publicly released beta build was worth the risk.
Of course, one or more of those last minute changes was not as harmless as hoped, but such things do happen now and then.
Of course, one or more of those last minute changes was not as harmless as hoped, but such things do happen now and then.
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Yeah, Paradox really does use this excuse all the time, right?
If you can't process what it means to opt in a beta branch, I think that's your problem.
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...And the multiplayer constantly crashes with the official patch, which means that "beta" is just an excuse.
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Seems to me they haven't released 1.13, yet. Seems to me that they are testing it. Seems to me that some of the community is trying to help. And seems to me that some of the community doesn't understand what opting in to a beta entails.
<Hint: opting in to a beta does not equal early access to finished software>
Undoubtedly, a serious bug for those effected. I trust and hope that fixing it is a priority. It has nothing to do with the beta process, however.
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I have played hours and hours of multiplayer with no crashes, what are you talking about?
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Some games stay in constant Alpha but each released Alpha works perfectly.
Such as Besiege.
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its not a cloud issue. all saves from 1.12.2, both ironman and not ironman cannot be loaded with 1.13, it actually tells you in game (when you look at the local non cloud saves) that its incompabile. Which is rather disappointing because there are some games I Wanted to continue
Would you have preferred to wait until after their holiday for the release of the patch? This is what's called a compromise, you get access to the additional bugfixes, balances and features etc. but in exchange you accept that it has not been tested to the extent it otherwise would have been and might have problems overlooked. If you don't want to make that compromise then 12.2 still works just fine.
Regarding MP, I haven't had any crashes in recent memory but just because they might do things that are criticisable doesn't mean this completely reasonable situation is unreasonable.
Do I refer to Paradox in particular, or the game scene as a whole? Straw man, followed by another.