WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET BUG FIXES?

[Saiph]

It appears that this game is now abandonware. That makes me very angry, as there are STILL numerous bugs which need to be fixed. Taxiing problems at various airports. Aircraft changing their own orders in mid-air, making up their OWN mind to land on a completely different runway to the one the player ordered them to. Planes mysteriously descending to zero altitude and flying around in circles, with the player unable to control them.

YOU HAVE A MORAL RESPONSIBILITY TO SUPPORT THE SOFTWARE YOU WRITE, AND TO SUPPORT USERS WHO HAVE PAID YOU THEIR HARD-EARNED MONEY.

I know you're a one-man developer, but that does NOT give you the right to ignore big problems in a game which people are PAYING for, just because you're bored and want to have fun developing a new game.

I used to play AM:WE addictively. It's one of the most fun air traffic simulations I have played, and I have played A LOT of them. I started with 'Kennedy Approach' on the Atari 800 back in around 1984. I have posted about the bugs in the game before, but none of the problems were addressed. These bugs crop up so often when you reach the higher/tougher levels of the game that it inevitably means that my game ends due to a crash caused by a bug. Due to this frustration, I no longer play.

If you were to commit to trying to fix these bugs, I would come back to the game and try to help you. I have been in the computer business since 1978, and I am an experienced Software Quality Assurance Test Engineer, having worked with Dr Solomon's Software and McAfee.

I am experience in tracking down and documenting bugs so that devs can fix them. I could provide details of scenarios, sequences and possibly game saves which could help re-create the bugs. I would love to help fix this game so that experienced, higher-level players such as myself could continue to enjoy it.

How about it?

[SickRamen]

You got a bee in your bonnet, Mr. Experienced Software engineer?

This game doensn't have game breaking bugs. The only issue you describe that occurs is the plane sometimes flying in circles after you redirect them. It's a minor issue as you can retrieve control and it didn't prevent me from getting 95% achievements. Planes never change their orders without user input and the game doesn't crash even after reaching 300+ planes. In fact the game hasn't crashed for me in 50 hours of gameplay.

Sorry that a higher-level player (Steam level zero) such as yourself is not able to enjoy the game, but if I was a high tier software engineer, I would probably try to post my system configuration first and foremost to see what's preventing me from running it correctly, rather than shouting abandonware on my first forum post.

How about it?

[Saiph]

"This game doesn't have game breaking bugs" - that's a lie.
"Planes never change their orders without user input" - that's a lie.
"Steam level zero"? Can't you read?
"First forum post"? This is not my first post.
And my system configuration doesn't have anything to do with the bugs in this game.

[SickRamen]

liar liar pants on fire?

Steam level zero: I can read - thank you for asking - and your profile appears as level zero when I click it. Perhaps don't set it to private if you want people to see what a high level gamers you are? I also couldn't see other posts by you apart from the other whingy one on the exact same subject in the same board, but I can see now that you have a longer post history so I am happy to admit that I was wrong on these two points.

This game doesn't have game breaking bugs - that's a fact. I have played it for 50 hours and so have many out there. Just because it's broken for you doesn't mean it's broken. The known issues (the game is definitely not bug free) are to do with achievements not unlocking and a few others, but there's nothing like you mention with constant crashes and planes controlling themselves.

If you are the only one experiencing this, tell yourself there is a reason why. The most likely explanation is your configuration or the software you are running in parralel - possibly all the keyloggers you have on your machine since apparently from your past posts you have a history of getting hacked.

Also, just because you have a "mad rig" as you may have doesn't make you immune. If you were a software engineer you would know that.

If you were a software engineer, you would just post it instead of claiming it doesn't have anything to do with your bugs, because you would know that it can help find the solution.

If you were a software engineer, you wouldn't accuse other engineers of making abandonware without even trying to solve the issue.

Edit: If you were an engineer you would also have access to at least one different machine which you can install the game on to test if it's the game or your rig that's broken.

[Nechevo]

I do not suffer from the same problems as the original poster. None of the bugs he mentioned have cropped up for me.

[bigfatsimulations]

Hi,

I'm trying to be everywhere at once, and not always responsive on the AMWE community page.

I'm aware of of rare instances where aircraft circle. I'm also aware of Steam achievement issues with this particular game. I cannot promise a fix date just now, but will revisit this game at some point to fix these issues. Please don't hesitate to send me an email at [e-mail] with any issues. At the very least, I will add these notes to the list of fixes.

[Iceira]

all achivements is working, just did them all.

only bugs i have seen is odd taxi way crash then plains is turning on them and next in taxiroad cue somehow crash with eachother, i even see a secret steam achivement for it. but it happend way to much, and imo BFS should pause screen then crash happend so we can take screen shorts at right moment and not sit here and try explan in so many detail where it happend and on what taxi road or xrossroad... its simple to complicated, and we only try to help him.

but
@Saiph

im not here to debat on how skilled you are or not. but in my world a programmer dont know enough about gameing rig, they have focus on other things in programming.

and it pretty much arogant of you and not tell spec. every time we talk to a programmer they almost want a diagram of what is wrong. what we want it to do. and what is end result of why we are doing it.

but i most agree with them, not the first time we have seen misguide and misunderstod people problem.

and if i was you i will remove what you have worked for in steam forum, its cleasn to me that you have no idea how many hate those companys for blocking issue , yeah i know its people own mistake and responsibility, and there is crazy people today that attack company people where logic simple stop and its always everybody else there is a problem.

[jjeff]

I use keyboard controls a lot and noticed that several of the bugs the OP mentions only happen to me when using the keyboard. Fun fact, I just had a plane at Zurich at the northern terminal push back and keep on pushing back.... all the way across an active runway where it colliding with a landing plane, lol. That is indeed frustrating.