20 years later, GTA: San Andreas developer comes face-to-face with the "embarrassing" bug behind the game's infamous plane crashes
In his defence, it was a "QA nightmare"
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Over on Twitter, Vermeij explained how the planes worked. Before spawning, his code would look for potential obstacles along the flight path, scanning ahead in the direction of the plane’s travel. To limit resource-use, the scan only ran out from the main body of the plane and …
