Well, the .95 client was made Live for several minutes.
That’s how I and many others got screenshots of T-90M Arena-M’s new and great ERA packages.
However, it was later reverted back, crashing the games and forcing re-downloads of the .90 client.
Announcement or not, that update made it to Live for some time.
Nobody knows or understands why it was pushed and then reverted, though, and as far as I know, there hasn’t been any communication about that mess so far. Some information about what even happened would have been welcome!
As mentioned above, assets and updates can be moved around from internal to external servers as minor updates or other items are prepared for deployment. Unintentional parts can occasionally make it.
The part mentioned above however (NE) was strictly from the datamine, and we made no official announcement that a test would begin today. Hence my response.
Like you said, datamines are fine to exist, but they should always be taken as orientative references and with a grain of salt and not taken as absolute facts set in stone indeed.
It is unreasonable to be disappointed if an unannounced change or addition isn’t fulfilled 1:1 to a preliminary datamine.
You have to understand though that the fact that the datamine SPECIFICALLY informed us of a very accurate schedule would’ve naturally given us a clear expectation :(
added the unlock for a Nuclear Escalation poll (play 2 NE battles between 2026-08-18 13:00 and 2026-08-25 15:00)
I do understand that things may get pushed back though. Sorry.
Datamines are not official nor representative of final content always. Dates are present in all forms of updates large and small, including dev servers. Their presence in code is not official confirmation of anything until we announce something.
Until something is officially announced, don’t take it as official confirmation of something and you will save yourselves disappointment next time. Had it not been for external datamining, you wouldn’t have even known about this in the first place to be upset by it. Despite no official announcement.
Just as vehicles, skins and whatever else being present in the files don’t mean they are final or coming, the same is true of dates. They can and often are placeholders subject to change.
