BATTLETECH CRASH ON LAUNCH PATCH
BATTLETECH CRASH ON LAUNCH SOFTWARE

MM: That one, also, weвЂ™re pretty confident is hardware-specific. Nothing else matters to us right now besides smoothing that experience for people.ДЄnother thing that some people have noticed is that BattleTech seems to work their GPUs harder than expected.

MG: Like we said in the update, thatвЂ™s number one. WeвЂ™re hopeful to continue improving that for the people that are experiencing issues, and obviously weвЂ™re continuing to provide a great experience for everyone else whoвЂ™s been playing. This next patch, we believe, has a fix for some of the video player crashes that people have been experiencing. The way we do that is we put it out to a beta branch on Steam first, so that people experiencing issues can hop in.

BATTLETECH CRASH ON LAUNCH PATCH

WeвЂ™ll likely have a new public beta patch coming out or. We just put our first patch out yesterday. We have a couple of leads and a patch that weвЂ™ll be likely putting out.

BATTLETECH CRASH ON LAUNCH SOFTWARE

MM: That said, it is a small percentage of people that are experiencing a combination of hardware and software compatibility issues, primarily.

TheyвЂ™re really focused on solving problems for people, which makes it really cool to work here. You know what I mean? The people that are hurt. MG: The team here is focused less on the bug and less on the game than on the people that theyвЂ™re hurting. Nobody wants somebody to not be able to play or have a good experience with our work. We see that stuff happen and thereвЂ™s a strong emotional reaction.

It took a few days and some long nights from some of our developers here. Do you have a grip on what was causing those issues? Some players have been experiencing crashes and performance issues, which you mention as a top priority in your post-launch roadmap. Over two and a half years weвЂ™ve scaled from that small initial team up to, I think, probably still about 45 people here right now.ДЄny first expansion we put out will not be, 'WeвЂ™re advancing the timeline and hereвЂ™s the Clans now!' -Mike McCain But starting out it was just a few of us on preproduction, and then a core team of maybe 10 or 12 people that were working on the initial prototypes and establishing the framework of the game. We peaked at almost 45 people in the final stretch of development. MM: Average team size, if I had to pinpoint it in the middle somewhere, was around 30. Our character creation system just reflects that belief. Our only public statement is, we believe thatвЂ¦ we make great games that are welcoming to everyone. Internally, what we say to each other is, our work speaks for itself, right? And thatвЂ™s that. MG: We only have one on-the-record answer to that. Right now, of 1,023 negative reviews on Steam, 47 mention 'gender,' and 60 mention 'politics.' What was the reaction within the studio as you were seeing players with very low playtime negatively review BattleTech for such a tiny feature? One of the vocal, minority reactions to BattleTech's release centered around a microscopic element of the game-the ability to select a gender pronoun during character creation. Would you say itвЂ™s performed to your expectations so far? How do you feel about the commercial performance of the game so far, and the critical reception? And now, finally, we can start in earnest, growing this thing from the platform that we built. The way we describe it internally is we just ran a marathon to get to the starting gate. I think some folks have this perception that you ship a game and everybody goes on vacation.

Battletech crash on launch