Dominions 3 development news

Kristoffer O · #1 June 4th, 2006, 03:49 AM

There is indeed school ending here. Grades are supposed to be set tomorrow. I have a last couple of works to go through today.

Good to have you watching

Makes me focus

DominionsFan · #2 June 4th, 2006, 08:57 AM

No school -> more time to work on Doms 3.!

ioticus · #3 June 5th, 2006, 11:49 AM

I notice a lot of new content being added to the game, even though it is in late beta. (Witness the new spells added recently.) Is this unusual for game development? It would seem a risky proposition, since you may end up introducing more bugs as well as not having enough time to thoroughly test all the new content. I thought the purpose of beta testing was only for fixing bugs and polishing the program? I don't want this to sound like I'm complaining about added content, I'm just expressing concern and caring.

NakedLunch · #4 June 5th, 2006, 11:55 AM

Well, it's not like they're short of people willing to test it heh.

DominionsFan · #5 June 5th, 2006, 05:35 PM

Well you know how it goes. We live the world of patches. Usually all games are released with lot of bugs, but this is normal in 2006. The first 1-3 patch[es] are solving all bug related problems for most of the games.
Ofc I dont want doms 3. 1 month before the game would reach v3.0 and play with bugs until the first patch, but all gamers -including myself- wont argue if we spot some bugs in an unpatched retail game.

Gandalf Parker · #6 June 5th, 2006, 06:22 PM

Oh we will definetly see bugs. There will be huge gapping obvious errors in concept and balance. Of course a more diplomatic person would call those opinions but we all know what this community is like.

As long as it doesnt crash just when the game gets exciting then I will figure that the test group did their job. And if anyone can crash it, its me. I will definetly be playing with as large a map, as many provinces, and ALL of the AI's turned on maximum. Every maximum possible and any I can generate as map adds. (I will leave modding excesses to other people)

NTJedi · #7 June 5th, 2006, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Gandalf Parker said:
Oh we will definetly see bugs. There will be huge gapping obvious errors in concept and balance. Of course a more diplomatic person would call those opinions but we all know what this community is like.

Well hopefully the bugs and balance issues won't be that extreme... that's what beta testers should be reporting.

Quote:

Gandalf Parker said:
As long as it doesnt crash just when the game gets exciting then I will figure that the test group did their job.

Well as long as it doesn't crash to the point where the gameplay cannot proceed.

NakedLunch · #8 June 5th, 2006, 06:49 PM

I've been playing it for nearly 2 hours every day for the past two weeks or so and it hasn't crashed on me once.