Its with mods is that okay?
Doesn't help much, unfortunately.
Then I am sorry.
That's not then testing quite the same thing, though. In my last very long 1.5.4 playthrough, I smelted all crafted weapons other than two that I sold in the entire game and never saw any crafted weapons for sale (apart from those specific two) in shops. Don't know about tournament prizes, as I don't enter them.
Good to hear you located the problem, and thanks for letting us now
I can understand them not noticing it on the forums, kinda... But internal testing? It pops out right away as soon as you craft something, so it's kinda difficult to believe that it wouldn't be noticed... If they really spend any appreciable amount of time playtesting the game that is...
IIRC Armagan said that their QA tests every feature 1-2 hours, since this is a sandbox game there are lots of ways to play naturally you can't test them all. In this context QA probably crafted some weapons sold them etc. and noticed no problem but in the long run as Steve said the markets fill with your crafted items.
That's quite a specific set of events to test over a long period of time, though - craft weapon(s), sell to city, wait X number of days, has weapon(s) decayed? If a test scenario had already been passed that non-crafted weapons were decaying correctly, it's not necessarily a scenario that would be added for crafted weapons decaying specifically (which is the bug now identified).
Devs are terrible testers anyway, usually. Not a criticism - it's a very different discipline.
Yes can agree on this. Their testers have been more pragmatic then fluid in my opinion and have been relying to much on the community instead. But idk because i cant judge them in action either since they might have seen it but there could be other stuff blocking the progress at the time. However its not like its an big issue to adjust it even if its a lot of math and a long line that affects the change involved which i can understand. Same thing we could see in bad stat ratings on gear as well. I mean it doesn't take long time to just adjust one equipment's stats to almost similar to the ones next to it. Could be that they are stressed out on something else atm and prio that for time being
Not just a different discipline, but a different mindset. The point of view on games when you're a dev and subconsciously think "how the game runs" will naturally tend to limit what you test, just like an experienced driver won't try to ram a car into a tree. And yes, it makes for terrible testers because of this, as dev will tend to naturally avoid lots of potential traps and bugs just by filtering their own behaviours.
