Former Bethesda Game Tester Once Broke Fallout 4 So Completely the 'Entire Zenimax Media Company' Was Sent Email Blasts

Former Bethesda game tester Colin McInerney once discovered so many crashes in Fallout 4 that the entire organization received emails saying, "somebody found four crashes in a single morning." McInerney, now at Am I Your Beast developer Strange Scaffold, worked at Bethesda as a games tester during college, and said that even then, his "approach shifted out of the publisher side and into the dev side." "I was working with the Bethesda developers and learning s*** from them directly and working on weirder stuff," McInerney told GamesRadar+. "At one point, I just decided to play hot and cold with the RAM because we were on Xbox One. The Xbox One has 8GB of RAM, so if you get above that, the game's going to crash. So I brought up a RAM readout and was just like, how can I break this? That thought occurring to me, no one else was doing that. That isn't a standard testing practice of, how can I leak memory from the game?" McInerney added that he ended up going into the console to give himself "a billion experience," putting his character at level 247. "I walked around with the unique nuke launcher that launched two, and then gave it the add-on that made each nuke launch 10 nukes. So I wa

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