r/BeamNG • u/WaffleGlue • 17h ago

Question So why was 0.4 beta updated in 1970?

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u/watarod 17h ago

Because error

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u/Upset_Box740 17h ago

Automatic first computer date

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u/UnethicalDimwit 10h ago

Undertale was ahead of its time

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u/therealshark 8h ago

Timestamp 0 is 1.1.1970 0:00 UTC, so depending on your timezone it might be 1969.

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u/sackbomb Cherrier 16h ago

Y2K compliance

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u/UnethicalDimwit 15h ago

Iirc the issue we had then was that there were too few players to support it so they pulled 0.4 and restarted the game design so that peoples rotary phones could reliably play it. It was one of those amazing things at the wrong time... but we are slowly getting back to it. The original 0.4 was built off of tech from Roswell but consumers didnt have access yet. AFAIK the US Government has the 1.0 release by now though

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u/antmatt 15h ago

this happens when date/time metadata is stripped from a file. this older version was most likely backed up on a dev machine and retro-actively uploaded. date removed to not appear as a recent release. my guess at least.

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u/antmatt 14h ago

i love getting downvoted and being right

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u/OrangeGlub 12h ago

Reddit is all about making jokes for upvotes, sincere answers are not welcome.

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u/WaffleGlue 13h ago

oh that's why it happened

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u/SavingsPea8521 No_Texture 16h ago

yea beamng is a pretty old game

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u/Southern_Worker4102 13h ago

Some files metadata got deleted or something which caused it to be reset to 0, which in the computer language is the first day of 1970

Funny to see the 0.34.2 is the win7 "last" version, the 0.39.4 works too with some small patches
And also the 0.15 works on DX10 GPUs, idk why devs said the 0.14 was the last one using DX10

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u/polishatomek 16h ago

That's basically computer date zero

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u/Averyinterestingname 15h ago

You had to be there to get it.

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u/SupertoastGT 15h ago

It's been in early access for that long. Feels like only yesterday...

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u/olliegw Pigeon Lover 11h ago

epoch time error

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u/Agreeable-Pounder 10h ago

Devs set date to 0 to show it not being a newer version, wich for computers using Unix operating systems like Linux is automatically set to 1 jan 1970 or if ur in a different time zone like in italy, it will say 31st december 1969.

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u/Confident_Essay3619 4h ago

Imagine vet Beam players come back after 0.4 to see that 0.40 has been released which has one more zero but a whole diff game

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u/59Kia 15h ago

Gosh, what a surprising thing to find. There's definitely no way that this has already been discussed here.

Over and over.

And over.

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And over again.

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And over some more.

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u/Admirable_Office_190 14h ago

Its the lowest date modern computers can actually display but for the love of god PLEASE PLEASE OH PLEASE FUCKING GOOGLE SHIT OR MAYBE EVEN JUST LOOK IT UP IN THIS SUB LIKE OHHHH MY GOD WHY ARE YOU SO UGHHH

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u/BlasterHolobot 10h ago

Jeez... calm down. Im studying in programmable electronics (the original name is in french, sorry for the weird translation), and im not going out screaming at people for not knowing that.

You really need to step away from reddit for a bit...

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u/Admirable_Office_190 7h ago

Yeah bad morning but more of this is posted about 2-3 times a day, and dont worry your translation was fine

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u/WaffleGlue 13h ago

yeah i know thats the oldest date for computers, im asking WHY that happened to the beta

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u/Admirable_Office_190 7h ago

Just a bug, its the default time computers reset too because its the lowest date modern computers can display. Sorry for my outburst i was having a bad morning and it shouldn't have been directed at you.

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u/Admirable_Office_190 7h ago

Something to do with 32 bit and Y2K compliance

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u/TannerWheelman Ibishu 7h ago

Why should he google it instead of coming here?

It's not important stuff so asking reddit is not a bad idea.

Also if for some weird reason he googled "why beamng 0.4 says it's released 1.1.1970" he might not get the answer he is looking for.

Also majority of people would just assume it's a bug without knowing why exactly 1970.

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u/Raqnarock 15h ago

Probably had nothing else to do on new years day.

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u/Fueled_by_sugar 16h ago

and why are they not in order

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u/TannerWheelman Ibishu 6h ago

so it annoys you