62 GB update seriously!?

[Bane]

I'm tired of the developers laziness lately. If you can't manage to do an update, what's the point of trying to download the whole game from scratch? Will we have to download the game multiple times after every update from now on?

[Thorba]

Seems only to be 23gbyte, the download information was wrong (at least for me).

[T0nedude]

Originally posted by space:

Originally posted by T0nedude:

Well that includes you then obviously. Large games do not necessarily need large patches every time an update drops. It's all to do with how the game is packaged and distributed. BG3 had the same issue and then Larian repackaged the install so patched files could usually be downloaded on a smaller scale. Educate yourself before accusing others of ignorance.

bg3 doesn't use cryengine

Right. You've just shown your hand, you're fishing for points. When you try to be controversial It's better to not be so obvious. You have to be more subtle, 10/10 for effort though. Protip: you have to pay attention to the intelligence of the poster you're trying to fool. For example in my case you were obviously up against something that has about +100% more IQ points than you so you have to tread carefully and you've blown it XD

[Rattay]

Originally posted by V1ctor:

People are angry because the developers are fixing the game and doing their job.... If you've looked through the patch notes you'd know that a lot of quests needed fixing, so you have to replace files that often take up a lot of space. I'm shocked that there are people who don't understand this, and the fact that they got a complete patch instead of a 30mb patch that doesn't change anything makes them have a tantrum because they have to download several tens of GB.

wait..wait,wait,wait... SO.. let's consider this:

You mean we're all supposed to restart our save files and begin again.. you mean it was it was a piece of ♥♥♥♥♥ at launch and shoved out the door... so to play it properly after 70 odd hours in, we've got to start again for this to be any use to us... And if we're NOT starting again.. we're left with comedy hair cuts for 62gb..

The technical aspects are what we paid to be fixed for us, it's really not the customers issue. It's not a blessing to have someone fix the camera on your phone a year after purchase, and want to take it away from you for a period of time out of your control but suits the manufacturer.

Once again it serves me right for buying a game at launch. While it's not in the awful state the first game was on day one (it got hate and it deserved hate) you get a better product for waiting for it to be sale.... don't you? there's no point in paying for this junk anymore

[space]

Originally posted by T0nedude:

Right. You've just shown your hand, you're fishing for points.

i have nearly 2 million points and nothing to spend it on, i don't even fish for fish, let alone points

[BuLLeTINuRhEaD]

Originally posted by Rattay:

Originally posted by space:

large games require large updates, it has nothing to do with "developer laziness"

anyone that says that has absolutely no clue how development works

I don't care.. I paid for a game that did work. I've come home to relax for a few hours from work and ... whoop de ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ doo. Trolling or not, the internet really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ video games.

Baldur's Gate 3 went the same: some one patted the devs on the back a few times and they didn't stop ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about it for years with sodding patches that added nothing but the need for more patches. This game will be exactly the same now.

It's a good game but I should have bought it on GoG, then I could merrily have ignored this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and the endless updates we've got coming...

It's finished, go MAKE DLC.. or ANOTHER GAME.. it's done..STOP.. get new projects to work on...

The update worked perfectly fine for me. Seems to be an issue on your end.

[AzureLotus95]

how many of you have slow internet like i do (30mb/s or less) and this update stopped you from playing the whole day. because i would understand if you complain about the update size with slow internet since i was also a little peeved about it. (happy they fixed a lot though) now if you complain about the update size with 100mb/s download speed or more then your just barking for no good reason. just complain for the sake of it. lmfao.

Too the my people with slow internet....I feel your pain and sympathize right now. lol

[m662]

Originally posted by Rattay:

Originally posted by V1ctor:

People are angry because the developers are fixing the game and doing their job.... If you've looked through the patch notes you'd know that a lot of quests needed fixing, so you have to replace files that often take up a lot of space. I'm shocked that there are people who don't understand this, and the fact that they got a complete patch instead of a 30mb patch that doesn't change anything makes them have a tantrum because they have to download several tens of GB.

wait..wait,wait,wait... SO.. let's consider this:

You mean we're all supposed to restart our save files and begin again.. you mean it was it was a piece of ♥♥♥♥♥ at launch and shoved out the door... so to play it properly after 70 odd hours in, we've got to start again for this to be any use to us... And if we're NOT starting again.. we're left with comedy hair cuts for 62gb..

The technical aspects are what we paid to be fixed for us, it's really not the customers issue. It's not a blessing to have someone fix the camera on your phone a year after purchase, and want to take it away from you for a period of time out of your control but suits the manufacturer.

Once again it serves me right for buying a game at launch. While it's not in the awful state the first game was on day one (it got hate and it deserved hate) you get a better product for waiting for it to be sale.... don't you? there's no point in paying for this junk anymore

To be fair that mentality is always better as long as does not concern security or investments regardless of how good a product might be at launch.

As for this game the first map was fine I had maybe 1 progress blocking bug and a very few graphical glitches. The second was a bugfest there is no excuse for it. I am personally used to it I can fix it to myself with some reloads and console however it was a choice to release it as such. Great if they fixed the bulk now but it still was a choice.

Otherwise we have to assume the developers actually did not play the second map because some bugs are easily reproducible.

I would not call it junk my self I have a great time with it but my tolerance for issues is probably a lot higher as it is my job to deal with them outside of games. But viewing it from a non tech consumer it was a poor choice. Business wise most likely not a option to delay it due to cost and pr but that is not something a consumer thinks about.

Take it as a warning that reviews are often dishonest or the professional reviewers are simply incompetent. Because any who got to visit the second map should have seen at-least a dozen of issues cropping up. The patch notes are the proof of that.

[Betrayal]

Originally posted by space:

Originally posted by sukovf:

It does in part actually. They literally can fix the engine so that it supports partial updates to .pak files. Knowing how bad is the engine's codebase I can't blame them really, tho.

that's not up to these devs but crytek's

You are still spreading your bs and that's particular funny because you initially said something like "has absolutely no clue how development works".
Kiddo, I'll explain it to you now: Every patch modifies binary files. There are tools out there, that fully build the difference of old and new file, spit out that delta and it's ready to ship, so that it will be patched together again on the customers side.
That way the patches would be tiny. This is how it has been done for decades. It doesn't matter if an engine cannot do it, competent developers could write a patcher for themselves with the tools out there. It's literally nothing but two folders full of subfolders and binaryfiles and all you need to do is go through them, build the deltas and ship all the ♥♥♥♥. That's it! It doesn't matter what files these are, it doesn't matter what engine is used.
And for new assets of a patch, they would surely not be that large compared to the entire game data.

This entire ♥♥♥♥ show is nothing but pure incompetence, greed and laziness of modern studios.
And Dunning-Kruger examples like you, who know absolut nothing about software development, support this nonsense.

Greetings,
a developer.

[Wonka_Vision]

Yeah I though this was a CoD-only thing, but it looks like everyone is doing it now.

[RussianPuzzDestroyer]

when you fix and rebalance core mechanics you need to recompile everything. so yeah... stop crying xD i wonder how many of oyu actualy read full patch log

[m662]

Originally posted by NotOnRoids:

when you fix and rebalance core mechanics you need to recompile everything. so yeah... stop crying xD i wonder how many of oyu actualy read full patch log

*Raises hand*

This feels more like a break to me then work though. I wish my regular change logs where as small as these xd

[Traumaturgy]

It added more realistic gay textures. Now you can enjoy love scenes in superb quality.

[L4M3NT4BL3_K1N]

Be thankful they do anything at all. They owe you nothing.

[Gaunter O'Dimm]

Originally posted by T0nedude:

Protip: you have to pay attention to the intelligence of the poster you're trying to fool. For example in my case you were obviously up against something that has about +100% more IQ points than you so you have to tread carefully and you've blown it XD

no idea who you are are or what the two of you were arguing about but that has got to be the most cringe ass sentence I've read all week. congrats

[AzureLotus95]

Originally posted by ZEFFIE:

Originally posted by MadMatt:

Are you okay? Did you hit your head or something? Is your keyboard broken? I'm really worried about you.

Would you be mad if I told you he adds food colouring to his meth?

"clutches pearls" oh no he didn't how dare he put toxic chemical food dyes in his meth doesn't he know thats bad for your body. #health goals #vegan #bodysafe #kitchengoals.