Update Speculation thread

Quality Assurance, they test the changes for bugs.

 

No, you read it. It says it's "updated daily by automated processes" when it's clearly not in this case. Look at the QA build update history. Yes, usually it happens daily at around the same time. Now it didn't happen for 3 days at all and then we get 3 updates in one day, all updates happening on unusual times. This was not an automated process.

Something is happening, it might not mean the update is coming today or even really soon, but they changed their QA updating schedule and there has to be a reason.

 

When the change the game's files and set it to upload, it automatically uploads to the QA branch. Being silent for 3 days means they were changing smaller code prices (AKA bugfixes), and today they are pushing the changes to the branch.

 

That's not how it works. Code is being changed by multiple people everyday. Only a fraction of those changes is being uploaded unto the QA build.

Again, the rule (and a silly one at that) doesn't apply here since the way they're updating the QA build today is obviously not normal if you go deeper down the build update history. It might not mean anything, but this being a speculation thread, this is actually valuable info, unlike speculating about an excavator for 10 pages.

 

Alright, I understand now. It means that the daily updates don't matter, but unusual updates do. Sorry about that.

 

Hmmm... How long did these 6 extend before the update?

 

So, 6 QA build updates for 0.9, and 3 QA build updates for 0.10.

I agree, we might be onto something here.

 

I don't think today, probably later.

 

Looking at all the facts (great work on finding that the update schedule was like that before previous updates btw ), I think it's safe to say that the update is VERY close. My bet is that it's going to be late tonight (Europe time). If not, it will almost certainly be early next week, unless they find some bigger issues at the last minute.

 

Doesn't show anything new on my Steam...

 

To be honest, I'm doubting anyone saying the update will be today. Yes, it may be BeamNG's fourth birthday, but come on. Are we really expecting a surprise? I'm not. Minivan? Good luck. Map? Have you seen the latest pics and @B25Mitch 's posts? The map isn't very close to done yet. See y'all when the update comes out.

 

This thread in a nutshell