Week before they used to post steam warning about save compatibility. I don't think we got it this time (am not on steam) but we did get early blog update in November.
I know they always describe and talk up the patch during PfH. The PfH is about the next patch, but there is often a lag of a few days after the PfH before the patch is actually put out on the servers. I was just wondering if we had some official reason to believe otherwise for this one.
To be fair, I have not played the last few patches, so maybe they are faster about it now.
As I recall, the last few patches dropped alongside the pfh. I can't find any official word stating so explicitely, though.
