Patch PB4a (AV Fix)

[Steeveeo]

Just wondering, whats the ETA on the PB4A emergency AV fix? Im sure everyone not on the build team would like to know.

[Nielk1]

More bugs keep comming up and getting fixed. Its kind'a funny.

[Warfreak]

It'll come out before July 4th (hopefully) Also fell i should let you know that we are making sure to address all the AV's you guys have found.... so keep the new ones comming

[GSH]

There's a bunch of bug reports that keep coming in. Most of the crashes should be fixed, but the one w/o a callstack (see http://www.bzuniverse.com/forum/index.php/topic,7958.0.html ) hasn't given me any clues as to what's wrong. Plus, I'm up to my eyeballs in bugs as part of my day job -- finishing out http://www.pandemicstudios.com/mercenaries/ .

-- GSH

[bigbadbogie]

I cant believe this - i wait a year for pb4... now im seeing pb4a games, which I cant join!!!!

seems ill always be seeing something that is just out of reach 

[GENERAL MANSON*]

Must have been my game up you saw. Decided to pull up an all nighter.

[Nielk1]

GM was working REALY LATE. 6AM here...

[GENERAL MANSON*]

Didnt quite pull up an all nighter like i had hoped. Passed out after testing heh.

[Dark Scion Soldier]

When is this "fix" out?

[bigbadbogie]

When its ready presumably 

[lucky_foot]

When GSH is satisfied with it. That's the important thing.

[bigbadbogie]

Yeah.. pb4 took a year to complete, and he was so satisfied that it was finally released. Within the first 20 seconds I had found bugs, obvious bugs.

Pb4a will probably take longer than pb4 did.  (ever the pessimist)

[Red Devil]

That's why it's called Beta, so BBB's can find BBB's.

[bigbadbogie]

bigbadbugs

[wug]

Just my opinion, but I don't think it will be too much longer.  Maybe a week or two at most.

What's important is that PB4a not only has cleaned up a lot of bugs, there's now enough time to add some refinements.  IMHO, PB4 was just too rushed.  With PB4a, there has been a real concerted to fix and clean-up first, before considering any new additions.

Personally, I wasn't quite ready for PB4.  I was still trying to grasp all the changes that had happened to AIP scripting.  I made changes that made it *compatible* for PB4, but not optimized.  It has only been in the last 2 weeks that I have better idea of how to use the added flexibility.

Nothing's perfect, but PB4 and PB4a are necessary steps.  Have to keep moving forward.