[2021] The Native Mac Client is now the default client for Singularity 🎉

Hi all

The Native Mac Client was developed in a separate branch from the main EVE codebase. In simple terms, this means we have had to do dedicated deployments to Singularity of our Native Mac branch for testing. Many of you have been kind enough to dedicate your time to these tests, with more bug reports being filed than we anticipated. I’d like to thank everyone who has done this so far, as it’s helped us significantly with our development effort.

Over the last month, the game codebase for the Windows and Native Mac Client have been brought together and are effectively the same.

As a result, a deployment to Sisi this week will make the Native Mac Client the default client for macOS from this point forward! I’ll update this thread once this has happened.

We plan to run a masstest next Tuesday (28th) but will provide more details about this via the normal channels soon.

It is important to know that being live on Singularity does not mean we have decided to ship the Native Mac Client in the next release. Like previous tests, we will be evaluating player feeback, monitoring crashes, and taking both client and server performance measurements. While no final release date has been decided yet, this is a major step for us on this project.

We hope to see you on Singularity soon!