A game tester used “professional stupidity” to test Fallout 4 and the limits of the Xbox as much as possible. This led to a series of concerned emails.
How did the tester break Fallout 4? The founder of Pedalboard Games, Colin McInerney, worked as a game tester at Bethesda during his studies before taking his current position. Here, he was responsible for testing the capabilities of Fallout 4 as part of quality assurance. One day, he overloaded the game’s memory on the Xbox One for testing purposes.
The Xbox One has 8 GB of RAM. When this memory is overloaded, Fallout 4 crashes on the console.
Colin McInerney provoked such a crash by giving himself a billion experience points and modifying a nuclear launcher to fire ten simultaneous nukes with both shots. He cheerfully fired nukes at the wasteland in the game.
Professionally stupid
What did this lead to? Within a single morning, there were four crashes, prompting a flood of emails to ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda. McInerney reports that Robert Altman, one of the founders of ZeniMax Media, received numerous messages that someone had discovered crashes in the game.
McInerney proves that artificial intelligence will likely have a hard time replacing his job as a developer or game tester. It may struggle to come up with the kinds of absurd gameplay ideas he has. He states: I am a kind of professionally stupid that a machine wouldn’t even dream of.
(Source: gamesradar).
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