Tester Stories

[Myrdyn98]

In the spirit of the ongoing beta, What is the biggest/worst bug you have found while beta testing an MMO?

My favorite is still the old :ninja:chest on a players front steps to teleport into their house:ninja: trick from UO

[mebraingot]

when i tested aoc and warhammer i always hated falling through the world

and that actually still happend a lot more after the releases

in warhammer i was stuck falling through the ground where i rezzed for 10min... spawned fell died /repeat

[tripletake]

In the spirit of the ongoing beta, What is the biggest/worst bug you have found while beta testing an MMO?

My favorite is still the old :ninja:chest on a players front steps to teleport into their house:ninja: trick from UO

Also in UO I gm'd archery and healing in 1 day by attacking a monster next to a serverline and running back accross it and the monster wouldnt follow but would continue to attack. as the monster got close to death, i would go back acros server line to heal the monster and then back acros for more shooting.

[Jargo]

In Warhammer I was trying to get on top of terrain I wasn't supposed to get on top of and I died while jumping on top of a bush. I ran back and tested the same bush and sure enough the fucking thing one shotted me. It was an evil bush.

I tried hoping onto the tops of other bushes from the ledges they use to keep you in the little gameplay area (invisible walls) and those things were all fucking killers. I reported it and it was acknowledged but I never found out if they were able to subdue the wrath of the killer bushes before release or not.

[fermer101]

In Warhammer I was trying to get on top of terrain I wasn't supposed to get on top of and I died while jumping on top of a bush. I ran back and tested the same bush and sure enough the fucking thing one shotted me. It was an evil bush.

I tried hoping onto the tops of other bushes from the ledges they use to keep you in the little gameplay area (invisible walls) and those things were all fucking killers. I reported it and it was acknowledged but I never found out if they were able to subdue the wrath of the killer bushes before release or not.

lol funny stories

[Kietharr]

SWG: Jump to Lightspeed had a fun beta. I figured out a few XP bugs involving blasting weak ships as they spawned. Only the difficult advancement quests stopped me from hitting master privateer in one day. I also experimented with a super hyperdrive by plug pull warping to point blank range against people farming faction in one spot in Kessel/Deep Space, you could bug your way through a lot of locked door areas and past enemies doing that in the ground game too, I don't think they ever fully fixed that bug.

[DoomShepard]

in VG as a lvl 10 ranger could somehow equip a lvl 32 bow....and basically could one shot anyone my own level and mobs that were 15 lvls higher than me, that was fun....hmm come to think of it there were alot of fun bugs in VG lol, most are cleared up now though :sly:

[Lionshead91]

AoC as ranger you could hop climb up towers with no stairs and could hit people down below without them seeing you, could usually 2-3 shot people in the area too so it was good fun with no guards.

[Carl Ragadamn]

The 17years I paid to beta test Shadowbane were filled with to many bugs to list.

[Qikdraw]

Well I was a paid tester back in the late 90's for a few years, but the best bug I found was later on being a paid external tester for Ultima Online: Age of Shadows. This was the expansion where you could design your house tile by tile. Well I found a shard crashing bug that all you had to do was transfer the house to another character while you were in the house design mode. Easy fix, but it did panic the team for a bit.

[Sabbathius]

Worst recent beta is a tie between AoC and PotBS. AoC had plenty of problems, but I could live with them. That it's empty past 55 I didn't know, because of frequent wipes. PotBS though, so many quests were broken, sometimes I would do 4 in a row and have to report each one.