30 mb update patching over 20gb, wtf is that man?

[Charles Vane]

everytime when i first launch this game, its always some small update patches over tens of gigabytes and forces me to wait 2 hours literally, i have 500mpbs connection dude just give me the 20 gb update ffs, i dont install my games on ssd

[Kilo_60]

Agreed so sick of this daily 20gb download crap it literally takes over 15 mins and locks me out of playing other games as it kills my latency

[Charles Vane]

:(:(:(

[Roadkill]

Originally posted by Kilo_60:

Agreed so sick of this daily 20gb download crap it literally takes over 15 mins and locks me out of playing other games as it kills my latency

30mb is download, 20gb is instalation. It won't slow down your internet.

[x0Z3ro0x]

Originally posted by Charles Vane:

i dont install my games on ssd

Then that's a you issue. The updates are much faster on an SSD. Mine took 3 minutes.

Originally posted by Charles Vane:

500mpbs connection

That doesn't matter when patching and installing. Your system hardware is what effects that speed.

[Charles Vane]

ssd lifespan greatly affected by how much free space it has im not gonna install all steam games on a 512 gigs ssd, i have super fast (500 mpbs) internet i can download 20 gigs update much faster than some 30 mb update patching over 20 gigs basicly, not to mention you cant do anything else on the pc while its patching, its a stupid way to implement updates and this doesnt happen with all the games i have on steam, im playing on a high end gaming laptop

[LazyAmerican]

Why can't you do anything else? Guessing you have an older machine

[Sorvete]

Originally posted by Charles Vane:

ssd lifespan greatly affected by how much free space it has im not gonna install all steam games on a 512 gigs ssd, i have super fast (500 mpbs) internet i can download 20 gigs update much faster than some 30 mb update patching over 20 gigs basicly, not to mention you cant do anything else on the pc while its patching, its a stupid way to implement updates and this doesnt happen with all the games i have on steam, im playing on a high end gaming laptop

Stupid or not, that is the way the game was designed... it's basically one huge file and every time it's updated it needs to be recompiled

[Missing Sequences]

this is definitely better than a massive download and replacement of complete files, this is a RTP style patch for in place data so that it doesnt have to xfer a ton of gigs over the wire.

this is 100% better a choice than poorly optimized upgrades that just come in a giant file replacement and require a ton of free space to do 2-3 copy overwrites

[Lahoo Eckbert]

Was about to make the same thread. Archaic code I guess? All of their patches are like this.

[Missing Sequences]

Originally posted by Lahoo Eckbert:

Was about to make the same thread. Archaic code I guess? All of their patches are like this.

this is modern, and its way better than the alternative, especially for people with metered connections or people down undah

only lazy devs release total bigfile replacement "patches" that force you to literally download virtually the entire game every time 2 kb changes

[Chewie]

No other game I have ever had on Steam has so much trouble updating than this piece of garbage. It constantly swaps between downloading new data and uninstall and then reinstalling said data. It makes even small updates take 5 times longer than a similarly sized update for a real game.

[Missing Sequences]

this is a feature, you should be happy its this way, the alternative is not your friend

[x0Z3ro0x]

Originally posted by Charles Vane:

ssd lifespan greatly affected by how much free space it has im not gonna install all steam games on a 512 gigs ssd, i have super fast (500 mpbs) internet i can download 20 gigs update much faster than some 30 mb update patching over 20 gigs basicly, not to mention you cant do anything else on the pc while its patching, its a stupid way to implement updates and this doesnt happen with all the games i have on steam, im playing on a high end gaming laptop

Unless you have some crap drive, overprovisioning accounts for this. You aren't going to kill your SSD by using it's intended free space.

[Charles Vane]

this update method only good for people who live in US and have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ internet connections tbh, for the rest of us who live in EU internet speed is not a problem and i much prefer direct download rather than some encryption based install or whatnot, guess next time i format my pc, ill just install the game on my ssd

[x0Z3ro0x]

Originally posted by Wohn Jick:

this update method only good for people who live in US and have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ internet connections tbh, for the rest of us who live in EU internet speed is not a problem and i much prefer direct download rather than some encryption based install or whatnot, guess next time i format my pc, ill just install the game on my ssd

What are you talking about? US isn't behind EU on internet. You have that the other way around. In fact median download speeds in the US were twice as fast as in the EU in 2021. The only area EU beat us on was in their median growth by 18%.

That being said we have internet packages for consumers that are 1200mb/s and growing. Far from crap internet by any standards.

Sourcing -

https://fairinternetreport.com/research/usa-vs-europe-internet-speed-analysis