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Hey there,
We do check the Testlive sections, particularly when there’s any version different than the live build of the game being tested in this branch. Once that is sent to the main branch, we mostly keep our eyes to the other forum sections as any feedback coming from Testlive past that point is the same as the other branches.
As per why the updates sometimes contain issues not present on Testlive, that can be a myriad of reasons. One is that there’s not as many players trying it out, and with that there’s less particular hardware configurations running that build so less chances to spot certain technical problems. And in cases of bugs that happen, say, with a repro rate of 50%, again less chances to spot them in action. Other times the build slightly differ, with some changes that did not make it into Testlive, others that could not and others just human mistakes (yes, we’re human!). With a sandbox game such as Conan Exiles, many systems are inter-dependent and the smallest unexpected change in one of them can bring some unexpected and critical problems into a dependent system.
And as to why some reported issues on Testlive make it into the live builds of the game, again we can only reach so far and sometimes we choose to release with known minor issues and patch them later rather than postponing the launch of the patch. But mostly we aim to release the builds into the live branch with as many fixes for known issues as we possibly can.
Hope that shed some light into the process of Testlive.