How the hell did they never pick this up. Patches released for the game right? Did they just never include that? I don't understand how you can just miss this.
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Aliens: Colonial Marines AI fixed by a single letter
- Thread starter JigglesBunny
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"Looks fine to me.......?"
- Gearbox
Came for this, not dissapointed.
On-topic. It's amazing how a misplaced letter could have costed millions of dollars and the downfall of an entire AAA mainstream franchise.
It's almost as cathastrophic as a genetic mutation, almost.
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This was posted in October and if it weren't for the post in the other thread, I would have never known. I think this has flown under the radar until now so I doubt there is video of it anywhere but believe me, it's noticeable from the second you press play.
Someone tweet Randy Pitchford for this little fix.
So in conclusion which area failed in this coding stage? QA team? Thanks in advance.
So in conclusion which area failed in this coding stage? QA team? Thanks in advance.
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If this is true, this is what years of apathy and having a studio you unceremoniously dump a game on imploding looks like.
This is just so insane to me haha, I believe, but I just wanted to see the difference with my own eyes to actually fathom how they missed that. If it's that drastic of a change how did they never catch this, it's just crazy. So when people were asking for patches for this games AI, they literally could have fixed that one tiny thing and made it much better.
It's not a line of code, it was a misspelled property in a conf file that the game engine uses. These conf files are normally plain text consisting of key/value pairs, the engine will look for keys and change behavior according to the value associated with the key. If either the key or value is not recognized by the engine, it will most likely ignore it and assume default behavior for that particular entry.
But don't they alert the developers and inquire if there might be something seriously wrong with the AI?
So just one line of code screwed the entire IA? what? there arent like more conditions to make the IA work?
Yeah I REALLY don't know how the compiler didn't throw an error for this.
A reminder before continue to unfairly blame gearbox, they tricked people, but weren't the reason the game was bad. They were given 9 months to finish a game that wasnt even half finished and wasn't even going to be on ps3 since the other devs couldnt make it work. Also Sega was the one that chose to release in that the state it was.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that there was something seriously wrong with their AI.
I wonder if they forgot to implement proper error handling or if this generated a warning message which they ignored. This would have been easy for Gearbox to detect if the parser which handles the "ClassRemapping" command gives a big error message if it fails.