Why are patches so HUGE in size?

[Terran]

14GB for a patch!? That's ~6 hours of downloading for me. Why is it so crazy large? Did a lot of stuff get added?
Sure, yes, I get it, most people have 100MB+ connections, but where I live this is the best internet I can get - there's nothing else - I pay $80 for this crap. Canada sucks. But it boggles my mind how I can check the game out again and a small update is 10+GB!
I could understand if it was a full on update, but bugfixes and some minor changes? Maybe the changelogs had something I missed. Maybe they added time-travelling Swadians into the game.

[hoaX]

引用自 Terran：

14GB for a patch!? That's ~6 hours of downloading for me.

Hey dont complain, that's 22 hours for me... (without internet company crash) and with Steam bug that reset my download every time i quit, no other choice than let the pc run all day long...

No fiber here (2.0 max speed, 0.8 download cap). ♥♥♥♥♥♥ country :'D

[[HELL] Emperorpphed]

引用自 Zef：

Lmao 80 dorra for crap internet.

I pay 52 eur a month for unlimited fiber and 2TB download cap.

wow your like my role model i wish i was as cool as you

[jjwalker]

They updated a bunch of textures going from 1.5.6 to 1.5.7. The vast majority of the games sizeable content is textures so...

Other than that huge update on that end, they should never be over 1gb for the most part.

They did something with the shaders that IMO makes the game look far worse overall. I haven't investigated it yet though (as in go digging through the shaders myself).

Speaking of, I have planned a shader mod for Bannerlord, it just hasn't happened yet. It would also be very easy compatibility wise and should rarely break on an update. I did the Float32 mod featured in PC mag in 2008 and a few other notable projects in years past.

[Darth Revan]

that is probably related to the patching methode used, especially on steam it is pretty common to download and replace the entire file in which a change happened instead of injecting the change in the existing file on your pc, that way patches are way larger since if a change happened in a 1gb file the entire 1 gb file gets redownloaded and replaced even if the changes themselfes would just have been 100 MB in size for example.

[jjwalker]

引用自 Kenji：

that is probably related to the patching methode used, especially on steam it is pretty common to download and replace the entire file in which a change happened instead of injecting the change in the existing file on your pc, that way patches are way larger since if a change happened in a 1gb file the entire 1 gb file gets redownloaded and replaced even if the changes themselfes would just have been 100 MB in size for example.

Yep, this is correct.

The reason steam does this is because injecting a file via steam isn't possible. You have to have a proper installer/patcher which steam doesn't have (like good ole' installshield).

[Antonio Margheriti]

Pack it up boys, no more updates. Some dude in Canada has ♥♥♥♥ internet.

(Don't worry my friend took a whole month to download the game. Not kidding.)

[[HELL] Emperorpphed]

引用自 7/11 worker：

Pack it up boys, no more updates. Some dude in Canada has ♥♥♥♥ internet.

(Don't worry my friend took a whole month to download the game. Not kidding.)

lmao im now grateful for my 6mb download speed

[Nesuprantu]

引用自 Zef：

Lmao 80 dorra for crap internet.

I pay 52 eur a month for unlimited fiber and 2TB download cap.

I pay 20 €/month for 1 Gbps with unlimited bandwith, peasant.

[Evil_Doc]

Yep... 14GB! Friggin' ridiculous.... Guess I'm uninstalling this game, and it's going on the backburner for now.

Also, OP beat me to this, I was about to post this very topic myself... like WHAT THE HECK? What's with the patch sizes? dayam

Update is bigger than some of the games I've downloaded downloaded recently!

[Kharn the Betrayer]

引用自 Evil_Doc：

Yep... 14GB! Friggin' ridiculous.... Guess I'm uninstalling this game, and it's going on the backburner for now.

Also, OP beat me to this, I was about to post this very topic myself... like WHAT THE HECK? What's with the patch sizes? dayam

Upgrade is bigger than some of the games I've downloaded downloaded recently!

https://youtu.be/hkKKlq9IzLU

[assasino]

why there are stupid ♥♥♥♥♥ ?

[Shealladh]

引用自 Terran：

引用自 Horse Gang：

the game is in development. Large updates are to be expected.

...14GB for some bug fixes and some stat changes?
I remember when I downloaded the entirety of Skyrim and it was a 6GB game!

Oh wow, back in the day you downloaded something that small on floppies...

[eyehate]

Why is my patch 24.1 GB?!?

I keep all of my games on auto-update. How come everybody else is saying this is a 14 GB patch?

This is unreal.

[Frank Reynolds]

引用自 Evil_Doc：

Yep... 14GB! Friggin' ridiculous.... Guess I'm uninstalling this game, and it's going on the backburner for now.

Also, OP beat me to this, I was about to post this very topic myself... like WHAT THE HECK? What's with the patch sizes? dayam

Update is bigger than some of the games I've downloaded downloaded recently!

It's a patch, what's the big deal, just let it do it's thing, it's not like you need to carry the packets yourself.

[Operation40]

I wonder how much of this is steam.. I don't know if it can do a "file diff" operation. meaning any small change would require re-downloading the entire file. Most of the files are small, but there's some huge resource packs in there..

but if steam did a "file diff" people would then complain that it takes too long to apply the patch because it depends more on your own CPU and drive speed then, and they'd say, why not just download the whole file!? lol