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Originally Posted by Mad Mike67
Quick question... I was under the impresion that being a title through Steam that the updates would be auto applied when the game was initiated via steam. I'm not a wiz kid but I figured it was going to be that simple, am I missing something?
Thanks
Mike  |
That happens with the final, official patches. The testing patches (alpha and beta versions) like this one do not get applied through Steam but manually.
The reason is that this allows us to test for bugs on a voluntary basis and be able to revert back to the last stable version through Steam if something goes wrong (eg, you can see some people are very happy with the new patch and some are not).
If the beta patches were applied through Steam, then there would be no way to revert back, they would be applied to everyone in a mandatory fashion and everyone would be stuck with a testing version.
This way, only those that want to deal with bug hunting and providing feedback are installing the test patches and the rest wait for the official release through Steam.
