#60 - Sept. 18, 2007, 3:47 p.m.
2.2 does include a new revision of the basic sound engine that is not connected with voice chat. It also includes the new voice chat technology which is a separate effort, but it does rely on the new sound engine to function. Astute players can see that we have always used a third party licensed sound engine for the former, and we have upgraded to the most recent version of that library in 2.2.
The last few builds on PTR have helped us isolate and fix a few serious bugs that you really would not have wanted to see on Live. WIthout the player input on PTR (error reports online and forum reports) some of those bugs could well have been undetected.
If any of you have time this week to try out the PTR build, we can always use the feedback on how good it is doing. 7272 is the latest version and we want to rack up as much testing on it this week as we can.