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Thief Deadly Shadows 1.1 Patch Fixes AI
Lemmus writes "A patch for the PC version of Thief: Deadly Shadows is now available. The patch fixes the AI skill level being reset whenever a level is reloaded, the major bug previously reported in a post at Slashdot Games. This is apparently the only thing that the patch fixes, so users with other problems have to wait for another patch. Although Ion Storm warns against installing the patch on installations with user-modified .ini files, most users don't seem to be having any trouble with it."
No offense to Ion or any other fine producer of games out there, but should these kind of patches really be necessary?
I mean honestly, do they HAVE testing? You'd think something like this would be noticed ahead of release.
All I can think of this Penny-Arcade in reference to Splinter Cell.
No offense, but...
Akamai gets attacked, and the story gets rejected from slashdot, yet a minor patch about a game I've never heard about makes the front page? They must be feeding bat guano to the editors down there in the locked basement.
Slashdot usually manages to post good stories, but there's always a quirk now and then.
Without a proper flamewar, Anonymous was undecided on what shell to run.
Honestly, it's pretty damn stupid to not test before releasing as it makes it look unprofessional.
I just wish it was only microsoft who did this kind of thing, but stupidity reigns everywhere...
- Kaos games and encryption systems developer
Come on, there must be more than this happening on earth???
This week we've seen -
New Firefox
New Mozilla
New Thunderbird
New Firefox again
Patch for some game the majority of people reading the article have absolutely no interest in
Read Pynchon.
I mean sure it makes it harder to complete the game but couldn't your friend achieve the same result by just playing the game and chosing to not save?
I mean making mistakes is just human and all but shipping a product with such a blantantly obvious bug is, at least in my humble opinion, just ridiculous.
A lot of people seem to be upset over this being posted on slashdot, because they've never heard of the game. It is the third in a trilogy of games that started the sneaker genre. It has a cult following and is made by some of the same people as Deus Ex and System Shock 2. It's not 'just some game' by any means.
have you noticed console games don't need patches? I mean, I think they test a lot better because they KNOW they can't update them. with PC, I think there must be a mentality of "oh, well, we can always make them download a patch".
... and thanks to broadband, I don't even really care that much. I don't even bother saving the download in case I have to reinstall. By the time I need to reinstall, a new version will be out, so why bother? I just run it and delete it.
It's pretty bad, because the very first thing I do when I buy a piece of software is go download the patch. It's so rare I get something that DOESN'T have a patch out already. Even hardware, there is almost always a patch out for the driver never than the one that shipped with it.
DO NOT DISTURB THE SE
Yep. Would'a been funny in, say, 1999, back when Romero still worked @ Ion Storm. Warren Spector, however, has a whole different reputation in the game industry. Next up: Macarena jokes, and all your base are belong to us!
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Nope. Microsoft will only allow companies to patch the multiplayer portion of a game through X-Box Live. This way they didn't have to worry about companies relying on the "release-in-beta-and-patch-later" strategy for single player games.