Welcome To The Pack: Types of Bugs Defects

Bugs are errors, defects, or faults in the game that cause the game to produce an unexpected result or to behave in unintended ways. Most bugs arise from mistakes and errors made by people in either a program's source code or its design, or in frameworks and operating systems used by such programs, and a few are caused by compilers producing incorrect code.

Types of Bug A – E

· A - Crash: this is when a game stops functioning properly. Often, it will then exit after encountering these errors. The program responsible may appear to freeze until a crash reporting service documents the details of the crash. i.e if you have the PlayStation emulator on the PSP and play Digimon World 3 there are particular areas where the game crash upon entering it. When loading up league of legends and waiting for a client the game crashes.

League of Legends crash

PSP crash from Digimon World 3

· B – Serve: this is when a player interacts with the game and it stops the player from process on towards the game. Sometimes when saving in battlefield the save gets corrupted and isn’t able to move or progress forward. Another example is if you play WWE13 and are in a fatal four way/triple threat match if the other user grabs the referee as his counting the pinfall, the referee glitches and freezes. Leaving the match to be undecided.

Battlefield save corruption

Ref freeze glitch

· C – General: this is any bugs that would not affect the game from playing, but can serve annoyance to players. in the original pokemon if you talk to the old man then fly to cinnabar island, use surf and swim along side the first line, at some point MissingNo. will appear. which if caught will give 99 items on the 6th slot. In WWE 2K14 if you throw a steel steps near the corner barricade the opponent will glitch.