But they later said they have their own testers and things and they do QA internally. So which one is it?
This would be nice to know. I would have waited to buy if they had just come out and said that to begin with.
Although forums in general are seeing much less traffic than they used to, there's no plans to "outsource" Larian Forums to social media or Discord and they're still the same as they always were except for periodic software updates.
This makes me happy. I would hate to have to sift through all the ridiculous crap people talk about on Discord to find anything of value being mentioned. This is probably the point though, they don't want to hear about any bugs or constructive criticism and think only rainbows and unicorns and how many times someone farted in a day are more important.
If Larian is aspiring to be Bethesda we really have no business talking here
Larian has a long way to go to get to that level of aggravation for me. This is the first game I have played by them, there are several things I wish for improvement with but I can give them a chance. Bethesda just keeps ruining FO76. It was advertised as having pvp and being a survival game, but they ruined both of these and keep making other things worse. Those are the only two reasons I bought FO76 and now I am done with Bethesda multiplayer games. Not sure if I will play older Larian games if the equivalent of barrelmancy is the expected playstyle, but I would consider future games of theirs if this one comes out well.