Back to collectionFurnace Enters QA With Player Paths Under Scrutiny
Final Form was open in early access, and the team was still working through problems players had encountered. Furnace entered its QA week. The week now had an order of work, along with different card-holding situations to cover.
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Final Form was open in early access, and the team was still working through problems players had encountered. Its winter version, Furnace, was entering internal review. Testers needed to decide which steps that could interrupt play deserved attention first.
Furnace entered its QA week. Starting with the existing paths for entering the game, staking cards and evolving them, A-Zhen proposed checking whether players could complete each flow before noting interface wording that might confuse newcomers. A fellow tester reminded her that players held different cards, so one convenient path would not be enough.
The week now had an order of work, along with different card-holding situations to cover. A-Zhen planned to separate problems the team could reproduce from confusing explanations when reporting back. Whether Furnace could be delivered as intended still depended on what this QA round uncovered.