Halo 3 in its final stages of testing |
Bungie seems to be up in arms to drive out all the bugs they can find before Halo 3's release. Leading a team consisting of more than 100 testers, Harold Ryan is bent on making the highly anticipated game live up to its promise.Ryan served as test manager before for Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2, so you can be sure he knows what he's doing. He's also been playing the Halo series with his son for five years now, so it's also a rather personal thing for him to make the quality exceptional for this game. Ryan explains:
With 100 testers in the building, [if] you can find a bug one time, 8 million people are going to find it a hundred or a thousand times a day. In my opinion there's no room to let that bug you only find once go, and that's really the model we follow. We have a system that logs every single crash the game ever has and we investigate and fix all of them.
With the countdown nearly up, the hype surrounding the game needs to be justified. And this puts a lot of pressure on his shoulders and the testers, especially now with the increased anticipation from the announcement of the 4-player co-op.
So with his team of 100 in a bunker-like hardware store in Kirkland, Ryan is looking for every bug he can drive out and every crevasse he can squeeze more features into. He talks about the drive for quality for the game:
There was a lot of internal pressure on ourselves, certainly pressure I put on myself, to keep the quality bar and what was it that made it so popular that made everybody like it. A lot of people can tell me what they like about it — polls, marketing and P.R. stuff and the fans certainly are very vocal, a big fan group tells us what they like and don't like all the time — but internally it's hard to say, what did we do that made them like it that much? And so the real pressure is, first, making something that we're happy with again.
Halo 3 will be out on September 25.
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Comments [refresh]
Good that there taking bugs serious this time, no more swipe snipers, BXR, super bouncers days are now over and there gonna get owned by legit players since they can't rely on their cheap tricks anymore XD
This game is ***** house anyway...
a hundred ppl doesnt sound serious to me. and there will always be bugs, and there will always be more with patches, etc.
omg getting closer I hope it lives up to the hype not because I want microsoft to kick sonys ass but because halo has an amazing universe and bungie better do it justice
Halo3 launches in Europe around the same time as the Elite(very nicely priced) and Bioshock, Motogp 07 and the 360 price cuts etc should be a huge increase in 360 sales very soon.
U THINK IM GONNA BOTHER READING THAT GAY ARTICLE?? YEAH RIGHT....... ILL JUST SAY THAT YOUR ALL GAY AND BE ON MY WAY
i hope this game can live up to it's rep because this will be the first game that i've ever reserved and i hope that it will be worth it
I just realised that all the hyping of this game has led to extreme uninterest in the game. Wow look at the amount of comments before me. Staggering.
***** Halo, its BioShock all the way! BioShock is actually worth my 60 bucks. Can't wait till August 21.
I do both BXR and sweep sniping, not super bouncing (I hate super bouncers) but how are any of those "cheap tricks" if anyone can do them? I agree that bouncing is somewhat cheap, but even the "legit" players you mentioned do both BXR and the sweep sniping, quite frequently might I add.
In fact, most of the top people on the MLG Halo 2 circuit, legit players who are wayyyy better than you, will tell you the BXR only adds to the game. The BXR actually takes a little bit of skill, pressing B twice does not.
You're probably just one of those chumps who gets raped by the BXR every day on Halo 2 so you deem it a cheap trick. If you go try it for yourself, you'll notice that's it actually very useful, and makes for some easy kills against bad people.
I'm willing to bet Halo3 will flop in comparison to CS. ROFL!
are all little cheap tricks that are not supposed to be in the game but little noobs who cant play fair think they are cool using them. stupid f*ucks
only one way to find out