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Title: Former Bethesda QA tester crashed Fallout 4 four times in a day on Xbox One after a “Super-Nuke” stress test
Post by: Redaktion on March 16, 2026, 02:06:38
Former Bethesda QA tester Colin McInerney recalled deliberately stress-testing Fallout 4 on Xbox One by exploiting RAM limits and unleashing "super-nukes," triggering four crashes in a single morning and generating automatic crash reports that reached ZeniMax leadership. In a GDC interview, he argued that this kind of unpredictable, chaos-driven testing underscores why human QA can't be replaced by pattern-following AI.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Former-Bethesda-QA-tester-crashed-Fallout-4-four-times-in-a-day-on-Xbox-One-after-a-Super-Nuke-stress-test.1250953.0.html