Hint when experimental Update availiable

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Hint when experimental Update availiable

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Hi,
the setting "enable experimental updates" is not set when you download an experimental Version (f.e. as zip). So when I read that there is a new Version out, I go into my game About->CheckForUpdates and got "No Updates availiable".

So I've two suggestions:
  • Enable Experimental Updates by default for experimental Versions
  • Give a hint when you manually (About -> Check for Upadtes) check for updates (without experimenatls enabled) and there is a new experimental availiable. (f.e. No new stable Version availiable.\n There is a new experimenatal Version availiable, enable experimental updates to get it.)
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Searched for threads like this because I, too, would like to suggest that experimental builds come with experimental updates enabled by default. The hint that a new experimental release is available if no newer stable release exists would be a nice touch, but mostly I'm here because downloading a standalone experimental release is a pretty strong indicator that I as a user am interested in experimental updates, and having to manually enable that setting anyway shouldn't be necessary from a UX perspective.

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Re: Hint when experimental Update availiable

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I'm constantly downloading experimental zips for different mods, tinkering, and servers. This would be great because I sometimes forget to autoupdate them

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Re: Hint when experimental Update availiable

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I'm torn between this. but basically....
I don't really mind if it tells me about experimental updates or not when I have updates turned on, but experimental updates turned off.

As long as if I have updates turned off all together, it tells me nothing.

In case you want to ask why I have them turned off... As a modder, I keep quite a few old versions around for reference material, and older graphical assets. sometimes I do actually run the game in that old version, and obviously have updates turned off.
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Re: Hint when experimental Update availiable

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I doubt that it is so useful, cause we will not have so many experimental versions left before release.
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