JoMax
Level: Delver

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I've only just started Beta testing holds and have noticed what is at best an anomaly - if not a bug.

When re-importing a hold with changed rooms, the current demos are validated, and if necessary deleted. However, the room conquer status and checkpoint data are preserved.

The room conquer flag being preserved can be beneficial to the tester as it is not necessary to replay the level/hold and I have now have a conquered status for an impossible room . However, the tester is not immediately aware of which rooms have changed and therefore need retesting.

The preserved checkpoint data is a problem - especially if the checkpoints have moved. I now have restores available on non-existent checkpoints, where Beethro is restored on top of a monster and immediately dies.

schep
Level: Smitemaster

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JoMax wrote:
When re-importing a hold with changed rooms, the current demos are validated, and if necessary deleted. However, the room conquer status and checkpoint data are preserved.

There's not much we can do about room conquer status. Every saved game contains a list of previously conquered rooms. When validating these for a hold change, there's no way of knowing whether one of those rooms became impossible or something like that.

However, the tester is not immediately aware of which rooms have changed and therefore need retesting.

Check the drod.log file, which should have messages about any saved games which failed validation.

The preserved checkpoint data is a problem - especially if the checkpoints have moved. I now have restores available on non-existent checkpoints, where Beethro is restored on top of a monster and immediately dies.

There's a pending fix which should prevent situations where restoring a game puts it in a messed up already-dead state. See here.

It may be a good idea during validation to delete any saved games which claim to be for checkpoints where there's no checkpoint, though.