How to update to newest version.

[Execute Order 66]

Forgive my ignorance but the news page says the update (7.0) is out and people are talking about it but steam does not seem to think there is an uppdate yet so I am still on 6.7. What am I not seeing/doing/understanding?

[Undead Rufus]

It's experimental, not yet public. You gotta opt into the beta.

Right click -> Properties -> Betas, choose "experimental" from drop-down menu.

[rphillips1986]

Be warned, if you opt into expirimental you are playing, well, the expirimental version of 7.0. We have only received the first 2 parts of 7 so its incompleate, meaning some changes and features don't fully work or make compleate sense yet. There are bugs and glitches a plenty too. You will be starting a new game with pretty much every expirimental update (even some of the smaller bug fixes) where as in the regular Alpha you really only need to start fresh with a major update that occures like every month or more.

So if you opt in don't get mad and go ranting about a crap game when things don't work like some people have been doing. If you can handle that then opt in, and have fun. It can be pretty cool being involved in this part of game development.

[grapplehoeker]

Generally you play on the stable branch which is the current version of the game.
Steam will automatically update the game. It will do this by default unless you configure this feature to set times in Steam/Settings.
The beta option is for experimental testing of implementations to a new version and this is for the purpose gaining feedback from participants. It is not an official new version until testing has been completed and released as stable. Inherent bugs and inconsistencies with an experimental build are to be expected and these will be discovered and patched as testing progresses. Therefore there will be a lot of patching and fixing, meaning that gameplay and saves may be interrupted on a daily or weekly basis. Once it is released to the stable branch, 'normal' gameplay and saves may be relied upon.

[Execute Order 66]

Ok, Thankyou guys. It wasnt clear (to me) that it was an early access to the early access game haha. Is there an expected official release date for these changes or is it more of "Developers Discresion" for when it is safe to distribute?

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by ndvorsky:

Ok, Thankyou guys. It wasnt clear (to me) that it was an early access to the early access game haha. Is there an expected official release date for these changes or is it more of "Developers Discresion" for when it is safe to distribute?

You can see the patch frequency here and form your own opinion.
https://empyriononline.com/forums/patch-notes.7/
Keep up to date with news from the devs here,
http://store.steampowered.com/news/externalpost/steam_community_announcements/2175660043472305393