Rusknight

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I got the same bug in 18.1 - all my combat armor disappeared. It has smth to do with switching loadouts and assigning soldiers to dropship\reserve

Then it shouldnt be possible to build more than one standard radar at the base

No save needed Just start new game and build one more standard radar and you will see that it gives no boost to your tracking distance It was the same in v15/1/2 but nobody reported it and I was too lazy to report it either thinking that such an obvious bug will be noticed and fixed anyway

I already have a full time job in gamedev I am paid for So I play xeno like other games in my free time just for fun I dont even pretend to be a tester here though I reported some bugs before

I didnt say one tester can find everything in one day but most critical and obvious bugs of v15 like twice money deduction for buildings or AI refusing to move in battle - it can be found in first 30 min of testing indeed. I am game developer myself for more than 15 years already and for me its weird to release any public builds (even beta) without internal testing for the reasons mentioned above. But sure its your business and you can do it the way you want - I just expressed my opinion here and wont argue on it anymore.

You wrote a lot but there is no answer to my simple question: whats the problem to spend a single day of testing by a single tester internally to release a more solid build not to make everybody test the same content with hotfixes again again? I can speak for myself: I simply skiped v15 and v15.1 cause I knew they will be very buggy and I dont want to lose my time by starting playing and then geting new hotfix in a couple of days and starting playing again. So I waited for v15.2 and now I think I should wait for v15.3 maybe for my playtrough. I think many potential testers are frustrated with all these hotfixes too so devs simply get less testers and less feedback as a result.

I know its a beta test but still what is the point in releasing public versions without any internal testing? Most bugs of v15 could be found by a single tester in a single day of testing at your side and you could release a much more solid build for public testing then. But you release an untested version and a bunch of hotfixes then making players test the same content again and again what is borring so less players will want to test it and you get less feedback.

In my case in v15.2 mars simply became invisible As for the pink soldier (mars) I remember I saw this bug in v12 or so - its not new

Did you mean v15.2 which is not released yet or are you planing to have two more hotfixes for v15: 15.2 and 15.3?

Yep I have ssd but get the same with you long loading problems in v15 which I didnt see before

Well in v12 or so in the second month I had a battle where 10 adrons attacked my dropship at once (it was a balancing bug obviously) I had to change my squad composition to 10x lmg guys to win that battle I doubt final game will be that tough and except this case my squad composition worked really well for me

my team setup that I dont change as it works fine for me till the end game: 1x mars with rockets as recon and artillery 1x shield guy with pistol and stun weapon 2x lmg guys 2x snipers 2x infantry

LMG are very strong at close range (run directly to the enemy to hit it with all 5 shots) and still somewhat usefull at midle range where shotgun doesnt work at all

I am not a coder but I think to avoid it you should have something like a timer for AI: 30 sec gone after AI turn start - end AI turn doesnt matter what it was doing.