As I said earlier:
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.