Follow literally every other development cycle

[[email protected] 19]

Here's a hint: no other developer on the face of the earth would decide to introduce 6(or more) systems changes (Zombie LOS, zombie spawning mechanics, player spawn changes, new brightness limitations, vehicle spawning, humanity lookover heartbeat) in one patch. It's hell to accurately keep track of the changes and bugs that need to be fixed with that many variables and completely fucks with the player base. You put temp/the gear changeover in its own patch and then bugfixed half a dozen times in the patches after. You're going to force a dozen hotfixes at the least thanks to this.

Follow every other development cycle: introduce a change, test change (on an actual set of full servers, which you obviously didn't do for this one since you didn't see the horrendous zombie spawning issue), bugfix. Adding 20 new "features" in one patch makes going from one to the next like dropping off a cliff and forces server owners to decide between the horrendous bugs of one or being outdated.

[seannybgoode 10]

Lol you obviously don't know anything about game development.

I've worked at EA sports. Before a game is feature complete, they add in features as fast as possible, and send the build down the pipeline. Why? They're trying to get the game finished in this century.

If you've used software engineering best practices, then you will be able to isolate bugs (something rocket seems to have had no problem doing).

You don't test one change at a time unless you're in first year CS classes doing 2 hour lab projects.

[[email protected] 19]

Apparently my opinion is being vindicated as we speak since we're now on "Hotfix #3" at this point. 2 of the bugs would have been noticed with less than 10 minutes of testing (zombie counts being drastically increased in 1.7.1, guns spawning 20 hatchets in 1.7.1.2)

[Turin (DayZ) 3]

I'd tend to agree. While the intentions were good, making so many significant changes in one update was asking for trouble. Maybe the concern though is that if they add only one thing at a time, people get fed up with the constant updates?