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Old June 24th, 2004, 08:39 PM
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Default Re: Cheat detection overzealous?

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Originally posted by Nagot Gick Fel:
That's perfectly understandable.
Actually, I wasn't alluding to this patch at all. My reply was specifically geared towards the other games I mentioned.

The closest that Dom 2 has come, IMO, to brain-dead testing was the failure to catch the rather obvious Utgard bug in the 2.08, and I attribute that to IW having a non-rigorous/thorough test plan and/or the patch possibly being rushed out the door. What irked me even more is that IW spent 2 months to release the fix for that bug. Frankly, the 2.08 patch should have been recalled and re-released the next day with the fix (a misplaced semicolon, IIRC). The bug was found (by me) and the offending code spotted (by JK, IIRC) within literally minutes of the patch's release, quickly enough that I feel that taking the patch off the Shrapnel site, fixing it, and then putting it back up would have been viable, and certainly would have taken less support time on IW's part than what they spent over the next several weeks in replying to Posts.

But that's all in the past now and there's little point in dwelling on it. The only reason I quoted Norfleet's post is that not only did I find it amusing, but I've felt the same way towards the folks at Atari and various other publishers.
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