Not trying to criticize anyone, just curious about the process.
When I report a bug that the developer acknowledges, why does it take so long to fix it? For example, 2 months ago I report a bug where the characters weapon disappears in this very specific area. 2 months later, after several updates, the bug is still there and the response I get is, “we are still trying to find a fix for this”.
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The end result that you see can be really obvious, but the exact chain of code that actually causes it can be really difficult to pin down. Knowing the exact area it’s happening definitely narrows it down a lot, but it may not be narrow enough to be worth the dev time of just trudging through the code.
A really important step of debugging is finding out how to reliably reproduce the bug. Not just “it happens in this area”, but a step by step process of “do x, y, then z” that causes the bug 100% of the time (or at least very reliably).
Also, whatever is causing the bug might be important for some other part of the code. So fixing the bug well cause more bugs, and there’s just a chain of bugs that need to fixed.
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