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Originally posted by Zipflashly:
As someone with a little experience of computer software upgrading, I'd like to throw a couple of statements into the mix.
1) Upgrading ANY complicated piece of software may have knock-on effects. Anyone who has worked for a large company that has 'bolted-on' new modules to its existing software can tell you this, how quickly faults arise and patches to fix the patches.
2) Why are people saying 'only.....'? Have they checked the code, line by line? No, they are simple reiterating the SI press release. Have the SI programmers checked the code line by line? Very unlikely. They have to trust that what was written before sits well with the patch.
I am not saying there are big changes but it is more likely than not that there are some.
The answer is, no one knows. They may think or believe they know. Remember we are now talking about a game for tailored for precise analyical play where not having player A at position B could have a major effect on the game.
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True enough.
However, no noticable effects have been seen by the experienced (and most in-experienced) posters here.
And, a further however: any knock on effects from changing such a minor detail (oh, yeah, I'm going to make a wide sweeping statement) are not going to change a good tactic into a steaming pile of crap overnight. All of the theories seem to be holding, all of the good tactics seem to be holding.
Yes, I'm making assumptions, but they are based on experience: and, at the end of the day, SI haven't given me any reason to doubt (so far) that what they said in the ChangeLog is true.
Besides, most of the whinging is by the usual suspects.
Downloading the patch - Anything different tactically? 
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