Why does game breaking glitches exist in videogames? Take for an instance the new call of duty weopon that shoots and kill thru walls or pathfinder in the new apex legends update were half the screen gets blocked when he uses is ability. Doesn’t the developers test updates before they launch it or whats happening? The changed the cooldown system on his ability and you still somehow manage to make him unplayable and you may think they would’ve noticed that if they were testing.
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Like Scout_On_Drugs said, sometimes some code crosses some other code.
So generally with bigger programs, like games or other big software with a lots of functionality, there is too much happening to test every scenario.
Sometimes a bug is pretty apparent when testing and it gets sorted before release.
Maybe they change a part of a character and the game crashes when you load into a map. That will definitely be fixed.
Other times a bug would be caused if you have only a specific set of parameters. Like you have a team of 4 players, and something weird will only happen if character 1, 4, 9 & 15 was select for play. Maybe only even if character 4 has ability 3 loaded and character 9 picked up a weapon dropped by an enemy in a specific place in the map.
It can get very difficult to test these things, so we leave it to the consumers to test for us.
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