I have to laugh at people still arguing about whether or not SM was enabled in the 2.6 build.
Now one Shillizen is saying...
SM was in there and was playable, but not to every evocati tester. You don't have it nor have access to it, so you wouldn't know. I don't blame you otherwise.
It's
FALSE. And it is an attempt to say that if someone didn't have access to SM, that's because he wasn't part of that test set.
There is only
ONE Evocati build. All other builds are standard builds.
DEV (pushed by devs for testing) ->
QA (internal QA) ->
EVOCATI (usually the same build as QA) ->
WIDE PU TEST (out of Evocati to larger group, usually subscribers) ->
LIVE (public release)
Anyone with access to Star Marine when 2.6 was first released on 11-30, did
NOT have access to SM other than via
hacking the files and ending up in solo play
Think about this for a moment and you will see what's going on.
- on 11-30, 2.6 was only pushed to Evocati (800+ people). It contained the SM files, though it wasn't playable
- The 2.5.x patch will NOT download the 2.6 Evocati build
- Anyone (not in DEV or QA - as above) with access to 2.6 had to have downloaded it as part of the Evocati release
- If they had access to it - as per of #3 - why then did they have to hack it in order to access Star Marine if it was an official build they could just play?
Simple. The files where. But it wasn't an official release of Star Marine. They enabled it later via a "Star Marine only" patch update due to all the noise that's been going on about it. Which is precisely what I said they would do. They did that about 48hrs later.
I can't even believe that people are arguing about this still. This is
what I stated back then, and I was 100% right.
Some Shitizens are still spreading false rumors that SM is in the build. It's not.
In fact, now even the /r/StarCitizen/ denizens are actively stifling any information about this. My guess is that by the time word is widespread, they're hoping that CIG would have released it as an update.
Just now posted on my Discord channel:
the subreddit is cracking down on anything pertaining to whether or not star marine is in the release pretty hard. That post from yesterday was deleted. two threads about it have been removed. their posting guidelines about evocati leaks are the following: "When an Evocati testing session begins, information about it may not be posted until one month after the end of the session in question. Exceptions to the rule include posting the fact that an Evocati session has started, and very basic information regarding the Evocati session theme (e.g. "Balance is being redone." or "3.0 Evocati testing has begun")." I would consider whether or not the main component of the patch is actually in the patch to be pretty basic info but I guess not..
It goes like this: dev (pushed by devs for testing) -> QA (internal QA) -> Evocati (usually the same build as QA) -> wide testing (out of Evocati to larger group, usually subscribers) -> live (wide public release)
Like all builds, the Evocati builds have a unique internal build number that is incremented with each update. The updates during the Evocati test phase, go through the normal test cycle.
And it's all one build. They don't send different builds to different groups.
This release of 2.6 sans Star Marine indicates to me that either i) they want to test other things first before pushing it to Evocati from SQ or ii) it's so badly broken, that it's never coming out this year.
Note that they had slated Dec 8th as the official release. That date pushes up against the holiday sales. So this preemptive move to push 2.6 to Evocati, to me, is yet another carrot stick ploy by CIG to boost confidence during the upcoming sale, then post-sale, announce that SM isn't coming after all, let alone 2.6 going wide. Mark my words.
It's horrible. And this sort of thing is why it is hilarious to me that whales keep funding this project.
And here is Ben Parry saying he can't even talk about whether or not SM is in the 2.6 build. And my response.
WRT Star Marine, contents of evocati builds are NDA'd, but also I don't work in CS, QA or production, so why would I know?
LATEST: /r/StarCitizen_Leaks/ (<--- run by a known Shitizen, so approach with caution)
