For a single update or even two, meaning for whole 2-3 months on average, just clean up spaghetti code and fix as many bugs as you can, especially the major ones. Focus on spaghetti in particular, every time a update rolls out something unrelated just breaks or some bug that was fixed gets reintroduced, on top of the new content being buggy. This is the third time we've had the sideways planetmen/swagger spawn in the game, and Lodestar spawns glitching through terrain used to happen with Sunderers too some years ago. These bugs shouldn't randomly come back by themselves, unless something in the code is ******.
all of the recent bugs should have never happened anyway, its the reason that the PTS exists, sadly its just being neglected and things are getting shoved to live without proper testing. and most worrying is that this happened directly after the update which added the cancerbow, everyone was screaming "WHY WASNT THIS PUT ON PTS FIRST?!" and then what happens? a big patch gets shoved directly to live... people are spawning underground from lodestars, lodestars aren't targetable by lock ons, router spawns count as lodestar spawns, people are spawning sideways from any spawn point on a slanted surface, NC maxes are hilariously made immune to small arms fire, NSO can't spawn vehicles from smaller bases etc etc. bugs bugs bugs, some of which are pretty gamebreaking, all because DBG can't be bothered to use the test server.
I'm quite sure they knew Lodestar would spawn people underground as it is impossible to miss if trying it a couple of times. Instead it was considered good enough given the overarching quality level of the game.
This post, Daybreak! The game is a buggy mess and I have no doubt that contributes to the retention stats. Want more customers? Sell a functioning product.
