Ashamed to admit it, but testing just isn't for me (anymore)...

EddyRockSteady

EddyRockSteady
Got a lifetime pass since release last year and have never had the slightest desire to test anything in any beta. Why should I? Not my job. If anything, all releases are early access builds to be looked at and used to plan future builds of new ships etc etc and to plan new strategies around newly introduced gameplay.

So yes, no reason to be ashamed of something like not testing a beta build.
 

Navigare Necesse Est

Navigare Necesse Est
I know what you mean. I have restricted my "Early Access" budget, too. Apart from the buggy mess of some, even with the great ones I can only endure so much restarts of playthroughs when new features are added. I played "Prison Architect" and "Kerbal Space Program" until they got finished and it was a jolly and good time, but I can't bother for many titles like that.
I even put Rome II Total War aside for a year and looked again when they had done the patch-work.
 

andyraptor

A
Agony_Aunt said:
Patience. Servers are being hammered, as usual after a beta launch. FD could do with adding more horsepower to cope with the demand, but its a peak, and should settle off within a day or two.
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Em......


It's a shambles mate.... We are patient but it's a amateur mistake by a team that should know better

If Dave Walsh can present this

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/frontier-games/

perhaps they could have sorted expected server loading, with AWS, before deployment ???

I know you are a forum Mod... but no acknowledgement or update ... on any of the social media site(s) is 2nd rate... sorry to be grumpy but ......

EDIT

UPDATE

The Frontier Help, on Twitter, just now responded

We're currently investigating the 'Cannot Connect to Frontier Servers' error message affecting some players.
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better late than not at all ..
 
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Aewarin Jameson

Aewarin Jameson
Log in & try to land on a planet.. Exit ship using SRV .. redock .. leave planet.

If it doesn't crash then the build is OK for you and you can leave it at that (and as you said let others test it)

That's all I did .. game crashed, twice, so I logged the crash dump and will wait for the next patch :)

No shame in it - you're not an employee of FD.
 

Bran Tse Mallory

Bran Tse Mallory
I've seen plenty of Beta's from the inside and there is no shame in what you have said. In fact it's good of you to give any feed back and I'm sure the data logged while you did take part will help. The same goes to those who just 'play' in the beta, you're actions are logged and help give data that is invaluable I.E. Server stress testing, load balancing etc.

The move to paid beta testing has been done by many companies not as a cash grab (although it seems as such to many) but to give players early access as well as get some good test feed back. A lot of the players will just play the game and rush towards a perceived end game, this is good as the people who test everything in-depth and send War and Peace like reports (Very welcome BTW) tend to concentrate on testing the new features to death.

Software is such a large and complex beast these days that QA departments try but always fail to find every bug (Sorry QA but I've rarely seen ISO standards maintained or even achieved or just plain ignored) and I've even seen QA people blame beta testers for not spotting a bug, which is about as stupid a comment as a QA person could make!

On a personal note I am not taking part in the beta due to other obligations but from what I am seeing Frontier have done an exceptional job so far, I can only wonder at what the coming season will bring!?!


TL;DR Just keep playing the beta or don't. If you do, make reports or don't. The choice is your's!
 

Jason S

J
I understand OP, I also refuse to do unpaid "Testing". Beta for me is like a sneak peak for a few evenings perhaps, then I put it down and wait for release and more stable play.
 

excalibus

excalibus
nothing to be ashamed of OP, we all do things for various reasons... I brought in at beta 1.0... played and tested every beta EXCEPT 1.4 as time constraints on me with work were such that I rather spent that time playing the main game or with my lovely wife...

I logged into 1.5 briefly looked at a couple of ships etc etc but did not do any real testing with it compared to all the other beta releases where I was quite active with testing and reporting bugs etc...

If time permits, I will do more in depth testing of the horizons beta, specifically I will test the clear save mechanic for startting on a planet surface etc...
 

Hellhawk666

Hellhawk666
No shame. This is the first test build I've bothered to install since 1.3

Beta testing is time consuming and most people only do it once or twice before getting tired of the process.
 

Kernel Kwatz!

Kernel Kwatz!
I think that over "testing" in pre-release beta (which really amounted to me playing the game loads and reporting a handful of bugs along the way) ultimately took away a lot of the joy from the game.

Testing - i.e. intentionally interacting with the game in order to uncover bugs - ain't the same as playing and it's not for everyone.

And that's a good thing.

I've learned a lesson and I now play betas for a very short period and only to satisfy my own curiosity.
 

{SAS}Stalker

{SAS}Stalker
Just do what you can, if its a pain then stick to main game. I'm similar in that I dont go out my way to test thing beyond playing the same way I do in main branch.
 

Noddie

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Yep. I decided not to go with the "Beta" programme because I understand they drop the price of the ships and modules in it to encourage people to test them.

Which kinda ruins part of the experimentation/discovery process for me. It's like getting all your Christmas presents in September, and having nothing to open on Xmas morning. And then finding out most of them are broken. And you're being asked to pay extra for them.
 

DaveB

DaveB
I do test and do play with the betas, but usually when they first drop I hop in, take a brief look around then go back to the main game until the first patch cycle hits. By then the most egregious bugs will be either fixed or on the known issues list and I can get on with poking at stuff that is on my personal radar to test and try out. I report bugs that I find but I'm not deliberately looking for them - I'm mostly fiddling with areas of the game where the patch notes tell me that something has changed which might impact my personal play style. If it's a radical enough change I'll stick in the beta to get used to it by the time the release drops but otherwise will be in and out of beta as the fancy takes me.
 

Bazil

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I think that the number of people beta testing had declined steadily since release.
I've got a lifetime pass from pre release. 1.5 beta was the first one available to me and from what was said early on I shouldn't have ever got a beta access. However, it is here and I do have access so I will test to help make the game better.
As I see it, I either test or I don't access it at all. Anything else would be unfair on those who paid for PB or normal beta.
 
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