[2022] CK3 Dev Diary #92: Anatomy of a Game: From Report to Resolution

Chatoustikmou said: Great stuff ! Love to sneak peaks backstage.

Question about the bug report forum: there are long periods of time (sometimes months) when bug reports aren't flagged, which always leaves users wondering whether they are being parsed at all, and if it's even worth reporting more bugs. Any reason for this, and should we keep reporting?

Bonus question: what's the proper etiquette when QA flags a bug report As Designed, and you're pretty sure it's not so? A report I have in mind was about a Varangian Adventure war after which the character that used the CB kept one of its initial holdings - which from what everything the game says about that CB, shouldn't happen.

CK III - Keeping an old county when ending a Varangian Adventure

Short summary of your issue Keeping an old county when ending a Varangian Adventure Game Version 1.3.1 What OS are you playing on? Windows What platform are you using? Steam Do you have mods enabled? No Have you tried... forum.paradoxplaza.com
And yet another one: there are instances where reports are flagged As Designed, but where there's likely a flaw in the design itself. If it's flagged As Designed, it'll likely never be looked at further. What's the proper way to report those? On one such report, it was suggested I post it in Suggestions, but we have no idea what's your process in handling those, and there's no feedback at all (which doesn't really encourage using them).

So while we'd love to have a permanent presence on the forum, currently we ensure that we do a lot of coverage around patches - that's when we usually have a huge influx of players eager to test out new content, which coincides with higher report rate on the forum.

In the past we used to be able to do it more regularly, but because our process is becoming more and more complex, our workflows complicated and QA is now involved in almost all parts of development like a helix, we have less time to do it ourselves.

But that doesn't mean we don't do it - we simply concentrate efforts to go through current and some of the backlog.

If you are very particular about certain bugs and you'd like them desperately fixed, you can help us locate and see them by upvoting threads with bugs you are very interested in. Usually each release in subsequent weeks we pick out top upvoted issues from the past week or two, select a few pages of them and make sure all of them are fixed.

MaxMon said: Hello, could you fix the banner editor in russian localization? Problem is that when editing any figures, the sliders go off the screen.

I really love the game, soon I will get all the achievements!

I'm pretty sure we fixed this one. Heavens, is it broken again?  

NATOaster said: Slight problem with this is that threads marked 'As Designed' are usually locked immediately?

That shouldn't be the case, but if it is - feel free to report these to the respective QA who have locked the thread to keep them unlocked. We try to keep the conversation flowing, and sometimes it's not the QA is speaking, but we simply are the extensions of our internal dev team answering questions for you.

Please don't be getting mad at us! (Also, I unlocked your thread )