31 gig download every patch?

[CrisW]

Do i have a wrong setting or something because that feels very wrong. I'm being forced to download the full game client like everyday pretty much. is it just me or is this universal, although i suspect not as someone else in a thread just before this one here mentions a patch of 791.3 mb, which for the kind of tweaks we've been getting is more appropriate.

If you have any thoughts Id love to hear them.

[Kaz]

Youre not downloading 31 gb, youre patching 31gb. You only download the 700mb (in todays case)

[Rageoverrun]

Not a widespread issue as far as I know. My friends and I have all had relatively small patches, usually all under 1GB from what I recall. Not sure what could be causing this for you. Sorry you are having issues!

[Shawzy]

It's happened with me too, every day I come onto Steam and there is a 31gb patch available, it doesn't seem to take as long as downloading the full game so I'm unsure but it's a good sign that they are patching up bugs.

[verarticus]

It's an UE5 thing (and possibly other engines) thing where instead of having to download large patches with quick patch times, you download smaller patches with more time patching. Less internet intensive but more hardware intensive.

[SlantedRhetoric]

I remember reading somewhere that it's an issue with UE5, but I don't remember where and I don't know if that's accurate.

[Livy]

It's not a gb download.

Due to how UE5 games are made 31gb worth of files has to be updated whenever a patch is added. So it's just steam saying that it verifies that the game file was patched correctly.

[PostalGibbon]

You are downloading less than 1GB patch. Then you process 31GB data in your hardrive/SSD/M.2 applying the patch data to your game install.
Steam even show when you are downloading data and when writing to HDD.

[CrisW]

thanks for the replies - i ll pay closer attention next time and see exactly what its saying. Because i was sure it was downloading X/31gig but maybe i was wrong. I hope i was ;)