That is probably the result of the red tape hits from the measured.  We have made changes that makes it so that you can always move since.

Okay, ran a small experiment and, yes, Red Tape caused that twice; not a definitive scientific sample, but, hey...

Didn't see it happen with any other weapons, but didn't really try; the more I looked, the more I just saw raging death that would require a lot of testing.

The only other weapon I might want to try this on is the whatchacallit...Demotivating Bolt? That it? I can never remember the names of certain weapons. But anyway, its entire function is to make your ship stop in its tracks...if I can get a ship to be stopped, not killed, and then not restart again, then we'll know it isn't just Red Tape.

(Ugh. My inner game tester is coming out to play; I did that for a few years. It was...interesting. But not exactly fun. Heh.)

Yeah, well...that's not quite what I did.

In one case, I was more testing hardware than software: they gave me an XBox360, a game, and told me to play all day; if something broke, tell a supervisor. But we weren't trying to break it; we were just playing to see whether the hardware could take it.

Sometimes it was the same game all day, sometimes everybody rotated games once and hour. Sure, you might get a really un-fun, craptacular game for the all-day test, but even if we did, we had it better than the boot-testers. THEY had to load a game, see it boot, eject, lather, rinse, repeat. All damn day. *shudder*

I also worked on the production end a while back; cut-scene scripter on one game, level designer on another. We had to test our own levels before handing them off to someone else.

*poingpoingpoing*  

Beta 3goes our just after the 4th of July holiday.  I thought you had the chapter 1 beta.

and now we see Frogboy verifying your email address and sending you an invite letter....  

How are those hopes?  😛