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Despite being in beta, often a stage of software development where the project is "feature locked" and only bugs are addressed, the changelog details some fairly sweeping changes. | Despite being in beta, often a stage of software development where the project is "feature locked" and only bugs are addressed, the changelog details some fairly sweeping changes. | ||
The changelogs for the earlier betas contain information on playing/beating the game, as well as preemptive apologies for | The changelogs for the earlier betas contain information on playing/beating the game, as well as preemptive apologies for crashes and known issues, such as the Pepper mission seeming "a bit too hard to win". The first build's changelog also instructs players to uninstall previous versions of LEGO Island and manually delete registry keys, indicating at least some of the testers receiving the early betas also received even earlier pre-beta/alpha versions of the game. | ||
Occasionally, the changelog lists fixes for bugs that [[Glitches|remain in the retail releases]] or [[Compatibility Issues|have re-emerged in newer versions of Windows]] (particularly crashes involving leaving the game). These sections of the game may have been poorly implemented and fixed via hacks or workarounds that later became incompatible with more modern versions of Windows, causing the original bug to re-emerge. | Occasionally, the changelog lists fixes for bugs that [[Glitches|remain in the retail releases]] or [[Compatibility Issues|have re-emerged in newer versions of Windows]] (particularly crashes involving leaving the game). These sections of the game may have been poorly implemented and fixed via hacks or workarounds that later became incompatible with more modern versions of Windows, causing the original bug to re-emerge. | ||