Update Speculation thread

Bro..thats when I am home from work

 

Also usually updates for mods and new mods on the repo are not getting verfified and released/posted within a couple of days before a new update drops and we got new mods on the repo yesterday and also today...

 

im assuming theyre struggling with bump stops and it glitching out when turning... that or something with .... engines or hydraulics or tires going BANG and stretching across the universe. who knows whats goin wrong before the update but i wish the devs well. hopefully they get to a stable release ready level of stability with whatever the update is so we can have it this week. fingers crossed I hope its today

 

They can cherry pick what mods they aprove

 

they do so and dont fully automate anything like that due to safety and stability reasons

 

That's only been true for 0.37, as of recent (there were no mod approvals on the 15th of September) - the other five previous updates (0.36, 0.35, 0.34, 0.33, 0.32) had update approvals carry out as usual, for the most part. Also, mod approvals skipping days is fairly normal, even outside of usual update release windows. For instance, there were no mod approvals on the 19th or 26th of November, 2024.

I can say that it's almost 100% guaranteed we'll get 0.38 this year - someone in the Discord said that the update might drop next year, which is...understandable, but highly unlikely.

 

If the update were to arrive at the end of the year or the beginning of next year, version 0.39 would most likely arrive in mid-2026, and that would still take a long time to arrive.

 

gotta be this year since normally theres a Winter Update every Year and we didnt got one yet so ye

 

Exactly, because every year there's always an update in the middle of a season.

 

Yes, I agree with both of you that it's practically certain we'll get 0.38 this month - outside of some freak disaster or the data being lost. However, there's been an odd trend in the past few years where people say that the devs will release the December update in January or February.

We have gotten a January and February update in the past (0.21.3 (Jan 2021) and 0.5.2 (Feb 2016)), but those are the only ones. 0.21.3's big content additions were loads for the D/H-Series, which makes it tiny compared to a usual holiday update.

While 0.5.2 was quite big even by modern standards (it had the 800 Series, the node grabber, two new scenarios, and a bunch of new vehicle parts), it was released almost 10 years ago, and at a time where the devs were regularly cranking out major updates once every month or two. So, it can't really be treated as an example of a "holiday update released late", either. (For both of these examples, there already were major holiday updates the year before - 0.5/0.5.1 (Dec 2015) and 0.21 (Dec 2020)).

In the meantime, it's looking less and less likely that we'll be getting 0.38 today - usually, Tdev's posting images on Discord of the new content, but there's not been a peep of that.

EDIT: Yeah, it's not happening today. Not this close to 15:00 UTC.

 

my guess is maybe Thursday or tommorow where the new GTA Online Update will also drop

 

I hope it's extremely unlikely because I'm getting impatient and I'm sure a lot of people are impatient right now. The devs are working hard. Im doin my best to sit still and let them work
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You genuinely can't build that much hype with the community and then leave them hanging That's why they're probably working their butts off right now. I wish them luck
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https://youtube.com/shorts/aj3GcktPsok?si=W8Lm7IyuXTHCCp3m

Something tells me that the 40 in the sneak peeks is going to be a hint at more than just the loader. I'm guessing from thin air so if I'm completely wrong about this one thing forgive me.

 

They really should though. Having mods not be updated on weekends is insane.

 

Their HQ is in Bremen, Germany, so offices aren't normally open on the weekend

 

i wouldn't be surprised if the 0.38 update is delayed a bit

 

Please let it be this week
Bro i can imagine the devs seeing us here and laughing about our messages

 

They're mostly yapping in the Discord (at least, Panda and Stenyak are). Speaking of which...

Hmmm...

I still don't think this means that 0.38 will release in January/February, but this could be a thing for 0.39 or 0.40.

 

what

no like seriously i am not braincells enough to understand this

 

There's further explanation here, but TL;DR - the way that the file structure works for Beam is getting revamped to reduce/eliminate compatibility issues and file migrations. We already got the first half of it in 0.37, and while the devblog said that the second half was planned for 0.38, it probably will come out in a later update.