Patch/Update re-downloads the whole game!

[yui8]

Or am I the only 1?

[juan.adam]

Its so damn dumb
I just wated to play and now have to download the whole thing

[yui8]

I didn't realize there was a new (300mb) update downloading until it was almost finished. Fortunately it did it correctly this time.

[SeraGenial]

it was always a small update, you are just misunderstanding and not listening to the people telling you that it was "PATCHING" the game not redownloading it
when something is patching it needs to essentially copy files into all the already existing files, it was barely downloading anything. People told you this and you choose not to listen.

[yui8]

Publicado originalmente por SeraGenial:

it was always a small update, you are just misunderstanding and not listening to the people telling you that it was "PATCHING" the game not redownloading it
when something is patching it needs to essentially copy files into all the already existing files, it was barely downloading anything. People told you this and you choose not to listen.

3 other people here had the same problem.

I know the difference between downloading & patching. If the damn thing says 29gb & 10 hours left; that's Downloading, NOT patching!

Anyway, if you read post #10; I fixed the issue. This is not the 1st time I've dealt with this from steam, and surely won't be the last!

[tpike92]

I dont understand how you fixed it..I have the same issue, twice now its downloaded 27gb just to patch the game.. its pretty annoying.

[yui8]

Publicado originalmente por tpike92:

I dont understand how you fixed it..I have the same issue, twice now its downloaded 27gb just to patch the game.. its pretty annoying.

2 weeks ago I made a backup copy of steam & sparking on a portable drive; to test on a separate PC. {Thankfully I didn't delete it!} I updated the game using that copy, then copied it to my main PC.

I remember using this same method years ago with another game that kept trying to re-download with every update.

[shadowgasher1]

Even though it's a 300 MB download, Steam wouldn't download for me until I had 30 GB of free space.

[CHROMO]

Publicado originalmente por Plaguv:

It only patches the game, so you dont have to redownload it

It doesn’t need to patch 27 gigabytes for 20+ minutes every other day for a 40 MB update this is absurd and simply ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. They need to knock that ♥♥♥♥ off.