My team has experienced a few issues with Script Version History ever since it has been enabled on Wednesday for us, and it makes developing a whole lot more annoying and take a lot more time than it should. We don’t have Collaborative Editing turned on and are using Team Create.
The first issue is that whenever you try to make a quick change and then test in a live server, the script history actually takes longer to publish a 2 line script than for the entire game to publish. This causes problems where we have to sit in studio and baby the scripts that are saving, constantly pressing the publish button until all our scripts have committed and our changes can finally be published. After working for days with doing this, it gets pretty frustrating and this feature is causing more problems than it solves.
To reproduce this issue, you can open a new script and add a new print statement or whatever. Then, exit the script and publish the game right after. The script will commit after the game has published and the script’s changes will not show in live servers.
The second issue is if other people are editing scripts when you play test/publish, sometimes their scripts will commit while they are typing. There have been multiple instances where someone joins and there will be a syntax error, and when another person opens the script it will be on a line that hasn’t been finished yet and the person is still editing. For example, if I am typing an if then statement and it decides to save the script, you may see if ... th in the script, causing a syntax error, when the intention was to write if ... then ... end This is also extremely annoying because the published script used to be whatever the person intentionally wanted to publish when they exited the script, not whatever just happened to save at the time. The issue causes entire systems to randomly break when going to test in live servers or even in Studio, and adds onto the frustration of having to baby the scripts you just edited to publish in the first place.
An example of issue #2 happening is when I started studio play test, this error showed up because someone was editing a script while I was trying to test and work on my own scripts, and Studio unexpectedly randomly saved the script while they were typing.
This issue actually happened 10 minutes after I posted this report. I went to play test and it committed my team member’s script, and this is what happened:
Once again, this happens in any game I’ve entered with Script Version History enabled during the week. Collaborative Editing is off and Team Create is on. If we had a choice, I’m sure everyone working in our team would disable this feature until these issues are fixed as it just adds onto the irritation we already have trying to fix annoying bugs.
