If you're looking in current, you might need to refresh it. I've seen that as recently as a few minutes ago when looking for a new artisan command I just deployed. Just
cd .
Also, if you are seeing config values not changing:
php artisan config:clear
I had this crop up and I hadn't (recalled) initially running config:cache.
I appears I found what might be causing the problem..
It's a legacy non-laravel app being migrated off php5. The forge server has both 7 and 5 installed but it appears that envoyer was having some issues reloading php-fpm v5 once that was done manually everything worked as expected..
I've sent a message to the Envoyer crew for some clarification waiting to see what they have to say.