Icon passing not working in club games
Since patch icon passing was to be fixed, in quick play it works but in club games it doesn’t work.
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I used to beat the drum of, "of course they test this game" for years but this particular issue proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these patches are rushed out with no testing.
I can picture a scenario where a group of devs test the new build with icon based passing fixed, and they play ONE game in every mode and determine, 'YEP! Fixed!'.
And now we have a feature that needs to be enabled after every game because QA couldn't bother to test it more than once.
I won't go as far as saying there's no testing at all, but the type of bugs showing up after the recent patches certainly doesn't paint a good picture of the state of their manual and automated testing processes.
The icon passing bug should have been immediately obvious during manual testing. The XP bug, while harmless, should have been picked up by basic automated tests. And I've seen people reporting other issues with stat tracking that again should probably have been picked up by automated tests.
I've been involved with long-lived code bases in the past, and I get how difficult it can be to work with when code is piled upon code over many years. But that's why it's so important to invest in proper testing processes. To catch those unexpected side-effects before pushing things to production.
My speculation is that EA probably doesn’t allocate many devs or resources to this game because it’s not high up in popularity, nor a huge money-maker for them compared to other titles. Given that and the fact that it also seems to be waning in popularity year by year (their own doing), it’s probably essentially a skeleton crew of a team allocated to work on these things.
No disrespect to any dev, but why would we have to post a video of this issue, can you not hop on the game and see it?
I had to turn off the Ps5 controller speaker all together to avoid having to change settings prior to every game... and now I have to adjust settings in other games that do use the controller speaker adequately...
Based from that, these latest patch and what I know of the industry - they work about 3-4 months on the new game, in Q1-Q2, then are given 2-3 months to polish. Then support it for the last Q4.
No wonder it's a mess.
They should have two studios do 1 game every two years like COD/MW. But they don t sell enough copies to justify it, which gives a subpar product which leads to low sales number.
