Any other Alex Murphy editions have to download the whole game again?

[Spooky_Squatch]

I had installed and was happily playing the game yesterday. Sat down after dinner tonight to clean up the streets some more and found steam redownloading the entire game. I guess with the official release I got put into a download even though I already have the game?

I tried revalidating the files which didn't do anything, also copy and pasted all the files into the download folder but it also didn't make a difference.

Anyone else run into this? Wouldn't be a huge issue but my internet kind of sucks and I wont be able to play at all tonight if I have to download everything again.

[potato]

it had a 30gb day one patch

[Spooky_Squatch]

Originally posted by potato:

it had a 30gb day one patch

Oh damn, I remembered the original download being about that size and just assumed it was the whole game again.. hahaha. Thanks for clearing that up! Makes a lot more sense.

[ToxicDutch]

It's not a 30gb patch and you're not redownloading the whole game. It's just a small patch but Steam shows it as patching the game folder (that is 30gb in total)

[Spooky_Squatch]

Originally posted by ToxicDutch:

It's not a 30gb patch and you're not redownloading the whole game. It's just a small patch but Steam shows it as patching the game folder (that is 30gb in total)

I feel like it's got to be a fairly sizeable patch? I'm at 20% and Steam is telling me it'll be another 8 hours before it's done downloading. Roughly how long it took to download the entire game.

My internet is pretty ♥♥♥♥ but it's not that bad.

[Yongkykun]

Sorry to hijack this thread but since you bought the Alex Murphy edition, I have to ask does it also include the vanguard / blue robo?

Thanks

[Spooky_Squatch]

Originally posted by Yongkykun:

Sorry to hijack this thread but since you bought the Alex Murphy edition, I have to ask does it also include the vanguard / blue robo?

Thanks

Sure does! I've got the Blue Armor, Damaged Armor and Black Auto-9 all accessible through the game settings.

[Yongkykun]

Originally posted by Spooky_Squatch:

Originally posted by Yongkykun:

Sorry to hijack this thread but since you bought the Alex Murphy edition, I have to ask does it also include the vanguard / blue robo?

Thanks

Sure does! I've got the Blue Armor, Damaged Armor and Black Auto-9 all accessible through the game settings.

Good to know, thank you!

[Tryyton]

my *.exe was gone for some reason. verifying the files fixed that.

[Draxuss]

Originally posted by Spooky_Squatch:

Originally posted by ToxicDutch:

It's not a 30gb patch and you're not redownloading the whole game. It's just a small patch but Steam shows it as patching the game folder (that is 30gb in total)

I feel like it's got to be a fairly sizeable patch? I'm at 20% and Steam is telling me it'll be another 8 hours before it's done downloading. Roughly how long it took to download the entire game.

My internet is pretty ♥♥♥♥ but it's not that bad.

Doh.... I downloaded the game in under 20 mins...

[Tryyton]

i miss the times when only the fixed file was exchanged, without the majority of the game getting redownloaded for no reason. what patch fixes e.g. textures, videos, or such?

but it seems to be easier just to upload the whole thing... but there are still people with bad internet, and devs should keep those in mind. just replace what was fixed, and let us play again. also saves our SSDs from unneeded transfers on them.

[ToxicDutch]

Originally posted by Tryyton:

my *.exe was gone for some reason. verifying the files fixed that.

That's your antivirus, has nothing to do with Steam.

Originally posted by Tryyton:

i miss the times when only the fixed file was exchanged, without the majority of the game getting redownloaded for no reason. what patch fixes e.g. textures, videos, or such?

but it seems to be easier just to upload the whole thing... :conwayshrug: but there are still people with bad internet, and devs should keep those in mind. just replace what was fixed, and let us play again. also saves our SSDs from unneeded transfers on them.

You're not redownloading the whole game. Stole this comment from somebody else but stop complaining about things that don't exists.

It's called patching. It's a way of updating files by issuing a patch file that goes through the files you have installed and make necessary changes. The alternative is that instead of a small patch file to download, you will be forced to download large amounts of data, possibly the entire game, every time the developer updates the game. Patching has been around for years and is not unique to Steam.

The only difference now is that Steam's download page is actually telling you what's happening where it didn't before. Too many people would see the download "complete" but the update not ending, wondering why their updates weren't completing. Now the client tells you why. It's patching.

[Tryyton]

Originally posted by ToxicDutch:

That's your antivirus, has nothing to do with Steam.

i never said it was anything, it was just gone, and nope, my antivirus didn't cause it. i played the game since tuesday.

Originally posted by ToxicDutch:

You're not redownloading the whole game. Stole this comment from somebody else but stop complaining about things that don't exists.

so what you posted there says basically what i posted, right!? "The alternative is that instead of a small patch file to download, you will be forced to download large amounts of data, possibly the entire game, every time the developer updates the game." is basically what i was saying... "without the majority of the game getting redownloaded for no reason"

and thanks, i know what patches are and how they work, hence why i don't understand why they don't to it the "right" way...

in the 90s you only downloaded the file that was actually changed. and that is not like they patch these days. well, some do, but the majority goes the easy way. yeah, maybe not uploading the full game, but e.g. dying light 2 wants to patch atm, and wants almost 50 gb or so. i have 90 gb free and thanks to unpacking, that is still not enough. cyberprank's patch is basically the install size of the game. for that game and gog, i have a temp folder with 60 gb on a hdd, so it won't download, unpack, delete, and such on my ssd every single time.

[꧁<̴Iитєrnєт KIllєd Тнє TV Ѕтαr☆]

Originally posted by Yongkykun:

Originally posted by Spooky_Squatch:

Sure does! I've got the Blue Armor, Damaged Armor and Black Auto-9 all accessible through the game settings.

Good to know, thank you!

This is not true, got the edition and it didnt come with vanguard dlc

[Yongkykun]

Originally posted by ꧁Internet Killed The TV Star!:

Originally posted by Yongkykun:

Good to know, thank you!

This is not true, got the edition and it didnt come with vanguard dlc

I've bought the Alex Murphy edition already but haven't tried it yet, still busy with other stuff. Sad day for me if it isn't true...

[Tryyton]

Originally posted by Yongkykun:

Originally posted by ꧁Internet Killed The TV Star!:

This is not true, got the edition and it didnt come with vanguard dlc

I've bought the Alex Murphy edition already but haven't tried it yet, still busy with other stuff. Sad day for me if it isn't true...

if you bought it pre-release you have everything, the vanguard pack is/was the pre-order bonus and not part of the AM edition.