Players saw on ISC earlier that the M50 revisit was going to have squared engines similar to the 300 series, but the version of the M50 that's currently on PTU does not have the squared engines. What happened there?
TL;DRBoth engine styles were built and the older round ones were kept because they looked cooler; the plan is for swappable thruster sets, with the M50 almost certainly first in a future patch.
So we built both sets. When we were doing the M50 rework, we thought it'd be cool to see what it looked like with the modern Origin style slatted engines. And ultimately we presented both options to Chris. I was like, this one fits with the style guide, looks cool. And he was like, yep, looks cool. But here's the older style ones. And he was like, yeah, sure, they don't meet the style guide, but they look cooler. And that's what's there to start with, so let's keep them there. But in the future, we are going to enable you to swap out thruster sets, and so the M50 will almost certainly be the first one, in a future patch, where you can go to an in-game shop and buy square slatted style rear thrusters and put them on your M50 and have slightly different handling and slightly different visuals, because we built both, it'd be a shame not to use them. I know some people really love the round engines, some people really love the slatted engines, so why not both?