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Devs should playtest hotfixes and updates before releasing them

Lots of people play Bedrock Edition as a platform, and it's a shame to see every update introduce alarming game-breaking bugs right as they come out. In the latest hotfix at the time of this post (1.16.100) anybody who has played for 5 minutes can see that the hotfix literally separates mob hitboxes from their visible bodies, especially with villagers, and this kind of rubbish doesn't come about with carefully playtested updates and hotfixes. Further proof was the devs ignorance of the soul sand valley spawn rates (which were fixed in Java before that version got its full 1.16 release) and the release of hoglins that didn't even have either of their 2 core mechanics, the high knockback flinging and resistance, implemented upon release (and still isn't fixed yet). It's understandable for some obscure bugs to get on by into release, but when some things that almost players will experience gets in it feels like the devs don't even test their features. Vote for this idea if you want your devs to play their game before they release another hotfix that stops you from playing.

Note: This is not a bug report, just using bugs as examples.

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    Been a while since this was posted, but it really does feel like the devs don't playtest the updates.

    Take 1.16.20 for example. Minecraft was almost unplayable on Switch due to the game constantly freezing. The entire console would freeze up when trying to exit out. I had to restart my Switch several times in a day.

    It was a huge blatant bug that shouldn't have existed in the first place. If the update was playtested then surely such a massive issue would've been noticed. And then when you look at Java, barely any bugs are game breaking.

    Minecraft developers should playtest new updates on every version to make sure everything is perfect.

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    Honestly this is a good idea.

    My agreement is due to how many issues the team has made in C++ that even fixes for it won't do much, and Java sitting right there working perfectly as it should. Honestly if they took a bit of time to test it a bit, there's a chance of it working more better.

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    1.19 is completely unplayable on iOS. It seems like there is no QA.