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I just hope that you can still play earlier alphas, rather than forcing you to update to the latest version. I cannot think of any other game that I have ever played that I could play previous versions of. Back in the day of retail boxed games, if you updated your game with a game killing patch you could just reinstall the game. With digital download you might get a game that has already been updated 20 times or whatever and its hard to say if any of these updates kill the game or not. I think the FPs allowing you to play previous versions is a good selling point for the game
 
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Just in case I downloaded pretty much all the older versions and keep them in a folder called Vanilla (do not touch) :)
I have a few of them copied under a C:\7DTD folder that I can mod and play around with as I want.

I couldn't get a version 6 for some reason and have read other had the same problem.
They take up a fair bit of room though lol.

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Gamida said:
Just in case I downloaded pretty much all the older versions and keep them in a folder called Vanilla (do not touch) :)
I have a few of them copied under a C:\7DTD folder that I can mod and play around with as I want.

I couldn't get a version 6 for some reason and have read other had the same problem.
They take up a fair bit of room though lol.

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Tssssk, according to some, 16.4 is the ONLY version you'll need ;)
 
Gamida said:
Just in case I downloaded pretty much all the older versions and keep them in a folder called Vanilla (do not touch) :)
I have a few of them copied under a C:\7DTD folder that I can mod and play around with as I want.
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I just have 1.4 on a separate drive and Steam in offline mode. Just to be safe, I have backed it up with drive image software every day for about 2 months, so now I have about 500gb of drive image data. I got the idea on how to do this from someone on this board.
 
I have my prior versions, backed up the same way as @Gamida, on an external drive.

When transposing between, a new update, I just rename the present playable 7dtd
to the Alpha version. beta number, and download the update. Since, I start it from the
exe directly, I can flip back and forth between them, after a test play, I just rename the
one I am not going to use to it's Alpha beta and Move it to the backup folder.
 
You still can get most. On steam you can get back to A8. With some slight canoodling you can get 5 and 7 (not 6 for some reason) and 1 - 4 I think are ones that were out before they joined steam (fwik).
 
Rabbits Love Cactus said:
Would be nice if the Pimps Officially released all older version as Classics, and DRM free. After all, they are alphas. Rockstar did this with GTA 1 and 2. Free to download and play.
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As it currently is, they can simply keep the steam links up (though those are a limited number). If they release them they have to support them.

GTA1 and GTA2 were released and distinct games, not alpha versions of GTA6.
 
meganoth said:
they can simply keep the steam links up
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And they can take them down on a whim. That's usually what a request for DRM-free is trying to solve; so you're describing the problem, not the solution.

I don't think any "active support" is a mandatory for any software, just a common sense approach if you plan on selling the thing / making customers from it otherwise. Whether they want to distribute it themselves, or slap it in a torrent file somewhere is also entirely up to them. Actual requirements aren't high.

I Don't really have an opinion if they Should, just saying it isn't all that expensive ... :P
 
theFlu said:
And they can take them down on a whim. That's usually what a request for DRM-free is trying to solve; so you're describing the problem, not the solution.

I don't think any "active support" is a mandatory for any software, just a common sense approach if you plan on selling the thing / making customers from it otherwise. Whether they want to distribute it themselves, or slap it in a torrent file somewhere is also entirely up to them. Actual requirements aren't high.

I Don't really have an opinion if they Should, just saying it isn't all that expensive ... :P
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Not my understanding of the term "officially" used by Rabbits. Also I don't ever tried those GTA rereleases he mentioned, but I would assume they did patch those games to work on never versions of windows.
 
meganoth said:
Not my understanding of the term "officially" used by Rabbits.
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I took "officially" as: the IP holder releasing it as DRM-free; maybe even as some form of "freeware". Taking out any potential legal strife for hobbyists.

From there, having Some version out there which can then be easily ran in a Win11 -VM once that's at EoL is a big step up from "we stopped updating them ages ago and now took them down from steam as they no longer work on modern PCs anyway". If one is inclined to grab an old alpha at that point ... :P
 
meganoth said:
Not my understanding of the term "officially" used by Rabbits. Also I don't ever tried those GTA rereleases he mentioned, but I would assume they did patch those games to work on never versions of windows.
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I mean DRM free so we can install them without steam. An official version, not something cracked.
 
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