[TRENCHES] Thursday, August 1, 2013 - Father’d

Geth

Father’d
http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/fatherd

Best Patch Ever

Anonymous

I was working as a QA Tester at a large publisher a while back. During testing of a particular sports title, the team I was on was tasked with testing a patch coming out for the game after it had already gone live. The patch was suppose to address minor issues and online connectivity problems, no big deal.

So my team goes to test and see if the online issues have been resolved and begin hosting games with testers in another studio. After the first match, one of my fellow tester’s consoles started to act odd and upon examining it, it showed no saved data anymore or profiles. It was odd, but we decided to continue testing, he remade a profile, and connected to a person at the other studio then one of us here and so on.

Every person he connected to had the exact same issue he had, their console’s saved data and profile information was getting erased. He even transferred this issue to the other studio who spread it among themselves when instead of remaking profiles just swapped it out with one from another project. Soon the whole building was filled with Project Managers screaming for everyone to stop connecting, emails with subjects in full caps were coming in asking what we did. Somehow his console took the patch and turned it into a monster bug that devoured all of your data before moving to another console. No other console that didn’t connect with his ever had this problem. The bug was eventually fixed, but I’m still wary of patching on the first day now.

jothki

I remember hearing about Borderlands 2 having a similar issue with a not quite completely removed permadeath mode. Joining a game with someone who had it on would dump you into it as well, but since it wasn't actually supposed to exist there were no checks to turn it off later, and the game also couldn't correctly handle saves in that mode.

RatherDashing89

Dag, Anders. That's cold. The only thing that could make this strip better is a wider shot to show the printer, still intact, on the ground. I really hope we can see it in the next frame.

Tofystedeth

Damn, got the "I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed."
That's the worst.

AI50

The only thing that could make that story better is if it managed to take down an e-mail system as well... People e-mailing the whole company about the problem and then people replying all etc etc... I have seen things like that happen way to many times.

Nightslyr

Am I the only one thinking that Q will now promote Issac to the team specifically to turn him into a scapegoat?

Dedwrekka

Skynet exists, luckily for us it just finds console sports games more annoying than humans.

Spaffy

Cora's Dad continues to be the best character in Trenches.

Secretagentman

Spaffy wrote: »

Cora's Dad continues to be the best character in Trenches.

Although he does lose some points for ending the violence; Q really does deserve it.

But Mr. Anders would immediately regain those points if he were to return in the next strip with his gun.

Ori Klein

1. Awesome father.
2. Is Q gonna QQ?