I have to say, this sounds exciting and will hopefully enable DTG to really speed up performance improvements. TrainSim-Matt sounded very enthusiastic about its potential.
I agree - I'm surprised it's not being talked about more on the forums, but I guess people are too busy playing the game! Which is a good thing!!
I'm hoping to get some kind of article written up at some point in the future to showcase how it looks, what it does, how we use it etc just because it's one of those fascinating things that takes up a not-inconsiderable amount of engineering resource on something that isn't delivering the game itself directly but helping everyone else do their work more efficiently. It also gives some cool overviews, pretty diagrams, interesting charts (I love me some charts) and other stats that just generally make it easy to get a quick overview of what's going on without having to get people constantly re-testing things. The service mode autotester is going to make it much easier to look at any dispatcher improvements and fixes going forwards and gain some confidence of whether it's had unforeseen side effects (we've fixed a number of issues in the past that have caused breakages in other unrelated addons and short of asking QA to retest the entire library with any change that's made, many of it just wouldn't have been picked up) - now they should be picked up for the most part or at the very least provide a decent base level of confidence. It's amazing stuff - game changing
I also like the sound of this autotester. I watched the live stream and Matt was very enthusiastic about it. To go through a whole route in 24 hours to test is amazing. I would hope there would be regular updates to tsw3 with this system in place. All sounds promising
All I care for is that we finally see the stutters fixed and performance improvemet. Can Auto test help with that
Supposedly so. It can show the team were performance is dipping and they can run it each night after things are changed to make sure the changes haven’t done any damage. It has the potential to be a real game changer, but only time will tell.
Still have to see the results. Just hope it means time can be freed up for polishing instead of a way to just get faster testing. Can auto testing see a tree branch entering the cockpit or are there still humans needed to polish up such things?
Yes, it's still very early days. But I was suitably impressed with what I saw from the very limited preview I got from Matt.
