Bethesda's game turned out to be unprepared for a massive nuclear bombardment.
Recently, Colin McInerney shared his memories of working at Bethesda Softworks. At that time, the future founder of Pedalboard Games studio worked in the quality control department.
As a tester, he managed to find a way to break Fallout 4:
At some point, I just decided to experiment with RAM. We were conducting tests on the Xbox One. The console has 8 GB of RAM, so if you exceed that value, the game will simply crash. I displayed the RAM usage indicator and thought: how can I break it? As soon as this thought came to me, no one else had done it. It's not standard testing practice: asking the question "how to create a memory leak in the game?"
Colin used the console to give himself experience and reached level 240+. Then he armed himself with a unique version of the "Nuka Nuker": after modification, the weapon was capable of launching several nuclear bombs.
After that, Colin began to bomb the world of Fallout 4 and discovered four different crashes. At that time, each such crash was recorded and triggered a notification system for employees, as well as managers:
In those days, it activated a mass mailing throughout the entire Zenimax Media company. So Robert Altman received letters about someone finding four crashes in one morning. I would love to see how AI tries to do my job. I am professionally stupid to a degree that a machine can't even dream of.
