Open betas are useful for large mechanical changes, but they won't become the norm.
The Open Beta is specifically tailored to help us tune the numbers to make it as smooth as possible, not hunt for bugs. We're paying attention to the bugs that come in for sure but you are also being presented with a version in the Open Beta that I'd never sign off releasing as a full patch
In a full release, most of them would not be there anyway.
Each of our releases strives to be better than the last and Aquatics/3.2 really demonstrates that. It was stable enough that, save for a single hotfix for a crash that we fixed within 24 hours, I felt no need to disturb work on 3.3 and ask for another patch.
Mods drama can be circumnavigated by asking said modders to apply for early access
Hope that makes things clear.
The Open Beta is specifically tailored to help us tune the numbers to make it as smooth as possible, not hunt for bugs. We're paying attention to the bugs that come in for sure but you are also being presented with a version in the Open Beta that I'd never sign off releasing as a full patch
In a full release, most of them would not be there anyway.Each of our releases strives to be better than the last and Aquatics/3.2 really demonstrates that. It was stable enough that, save for a single hotfix for a crash that we fixed within 24 hours, I felt no need to disturb work on 3.3 and ask for another patch.
Mods drama can be circumnavigated by asking said modders to apply for early access
Hope that makes things clear.
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