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There isn’t even a custom message for “scheduled server maintenance” vs “our servers are busy” (which I can get multiple times a night anyway). You NEED to check the tweets to find out which it is. I love PUBG, I just wish it was made by more competent developers.

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It's astounding to me how the last couple patches have made performance worse and introduced new, gamebreaking bugs. The last patch took everything down for 5 hours. The patch before tanked FPS by like 40%. The patch before caused 2/3rds of games to spawn players below the match or simply crash on load.

They don't do QA, and their 'deploy process' takes everything down for hours. It's embarrassing.

> They don't do QA, and their 'deploy process' takes everything down for hours.

This reminded me of this classic: https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/automated-testing-lea...

I'm putting it in a to-read list after 2 minutes of skimming, but that looks like an excellent article.

Sounds like Riot have a good head on their shoulders about how to handle testing games.

If you come from a different domain, it's important to realize that testing games is much more difficult than testing a lot of other types of software. And much like other kinds of software, when it's done well it looks easy.

I have no love for Riot-the-games-company, but there are pretty good reasons why Riot-the-software-company is so well-respected. Bear in mind that stuff like that blog post are just the upper crust of that iceberg. They basically took the notion of Chef best practices away from Opscode (now Chef, Inc.) and completely redefined them with environment cookbooks and Berkshelf. Things in devops have moved on somewhat, as they always do--but they were, and I assume still very much are, serious about building good processes and the tools necessary to make them better.

I wish Valve would do this for Dota 2.

Exploits are such aheadache my friends and I just quit playing pubg. I am not sure how bad hacking is in FR with only a week of gameplay time, but so far I haven’t encountered any really strange kills. FR shooting is actually very lax. You don’t need to aim very precise to get a hit mark.

Its backstory is famously that it was developed by some guy as a side project, and that guy's tacky username is in the title.

I mean, what did you expect?

Sort of. BattleRoyale was initially developed as a mod for ARMA 2 by Brendan Greene (PlayerUnknown). He then went on to make a mod for ARMA 3, then later worked with the H1Z1 devs for the H1Z1 battle royale mode named King of the Kill.

After that, he moved on to making his own game with a supporting development company fully centered around his ideas at his direction with creative freedom that was not limited with being a mod (ARMA 2/3) or under the restraints of a larger company (SOE/Daybreak with H1Z1).

Brendan is largely the progenitor of the video game battle royale mode, and his name carries a lot of weight in the genre itself.

The first 3 versions were. PUBG as we know it was developed by an professional studio.

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