ProMods

There can only be one correct answer to the question in the topic title.

It'll be released when it's ready. And it's ready when it's ready.

460 Bugs, so i'm going to think around Sep 15-Oct 6. "JUST MY IDEA"!!

We smashed nearly 200 bugs in 1 day this week, but then another 150 were added by the testers again, it's an ongoing process

if you seek a bug.. you found it

It is just a thought of mine, but why there is no dev alpha builds that are available for the public? The same way as bunch of other games does, ETS2 included!

volodo wrote: ↑

10 Aug 2017 11:34

It is just a thought of mine, but why there is no dev alpha builds that are available for the public? The same way as bunch of other games does, ETS2 included!

Hi,
with a public beta you have also the problem, that most of the people just want to have the new version and do not know (or want to) how to report bugs.
In my opinion, if ProMods would release Betas, there would be also people which start complaing about the bugs in the beta.

Best regards,
bmwGTR

volodo wrote: ↑

10 Aug 2017 11:34

It is just a thought of mine, but why there is no dev alpha builds that are available for the public? The same way as bunch of other games does, ETS2 included!

The simple reason is, as described above.
Multiple reports of the same bug. Like lots of them.
And most people indeed just want to play the new version, and aren't testing at all.

Besides that, we've got a beta team which does the work just fine. We don't need the public to test our map for us

Would some sort of “blog-like” thread with regularish updates on the number of bugs found and squashed etc during testing phase be an idea? To keep the community feeling informed and involved (read: happy and not-so-inquisitive ) as well as get words of support. Just a thought! I understand if it's not worth the hassle.

Personally, I believe that we (As a team) shouldn't be wasting time on useless blog-posts or other similar things, as that literally causes moderators or developers to be not focused on actual bugs, but on some kind of thread, that doesn't give much to the people, and could make matters even worse.

If we begin to make posts about how many bugs are left, people may think that update is today, next week, or in an hour (at least that's what I have noticed in another forum, therefore, it could be the same thing here) and start spamming questions such as "When is it? Where is it?" (Happens everyday, even without that kind of thread - therefore, we don't need even more of that), and of course, get disappointed when the update is not released.

That's my opinion, and opinions may vary across the team, but that's how I think about it.

I do agree, making such a blog post will just become a countdown timer.. For no reason at all, because as long as ETS2 1.28 isn't released yet, we won't release ProMods 2.18 and 2.20 either. Even if we've managed to don't have any bugs anymore (which is pretty much impossible)