1.29GB update? :o

[Joanna39343]

Any idea what it is? I know sometimes news/patch notes for updates don't always release right away for some games, but, well, yeah, anyone know what it is?

[Social Distance Warrior]

Messaggio originale di R3dl1ne:

Messaggio originale di tommy:

That's the update. We always do our best to keep the patches as small as possible but the assets in games are packed in bundles and that's the best size we could do.

so a massive patch for a single building Yeh..... Right..... GG

The download size does not equate to the hard drive space used. They're updating a small amount of data inside a large file. This download overwrites existing files on your drive.

[-₪EPIC₪- Fail]

They took the easy route for most people to get the change. Downloading a huge file is "easy/fast" for most people these days. A patch file is tiny file(s) that downloads in seconds and can take a few minutes to do the actual patch job. Its a trade off of CPU/HDD speed vs your ISP.

[RICHLegend]

well, now after the dl , my game no longer loads.

[Lizard]

1.3Gb to beg for twatter updoot... ♥♥♥♥ is wrong with you?

[lowend873]

Messaggio originale di Boon=5th killer perk:

Messaggio originale di piet11111:

What does it do ?
Or does it just take up space ?

What it does is be completely useless and take up 1,3 GB more on your HDD.

People are still using HDDs in 2022?

[thescaryone]

This is a limitation of Steam, not a choice by the developers. Clearly none of you remember back when Doom 2016 did a minor texture patch, which necessitated downloading the ENTIRE 60 GB TEXTURE FILE on Steam, because the game loads all textures into one file for performance reasons. This is the same situation here.

It's long past the time that Steam should have been working on a delta patcher, instead of just replacing entire files from games whole.

[Thorelelele]

Messaggio originale di tommy:

Messaggio originale di Slye_Fox:

Without patch-notes, all that tells us is that it took 1.3GB to add a single building.

Messaggio originale di GuyGuyerson:

1.29 GB to add a new building for just endless mode?

That's the update. We always do our best to keep the patches as small as possible but the assets in games are packed in bundles and that's the best size we could do.

Somehow the main campaign doesn't work anymore. The first mission "People from our Convoy" does not start and you get stuck at the "Refugees from the Frostland" mission. This happened to me after this update, before that, everything ran smoothly

[-₪EPIC₪- Fail]

Messaggio originale di thescaryone:

This is a limitation of Steam, not a choice by the developers. .... It's long past the time that Steam should have been working on a delta patcher, instead of just replacing entire files from games whole.

Um steam does have the ability to patch last I noticed. I have seen a few different games download a few kb and then "update" 2gb+ files. I think I read somewhere that this is optional way to proceed for developers. They just have to know HOW to do it. Most probably don't give a to look into it.

Edit: So I did a small amount of digging and it looks like Steam does NOT do patching. It does a pak system and it will download 1mb chunks that may have changed in the modified pak file.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sdk/uploading

This works well in most cases, but there are still a few pitfalls that need to be avoided when designing the content layout of a game. You may not want to compress or encrypt your game data. This is already done for in-flight downloads and retail discs by the Steam content system. If you do it too, it can reduce the effectiveness of delta patching. Compression and encryption are only advised if each individual asset within a package file is separately compressed and/or encrypted. Otherwise, a change to one asset will always require downloading several other potentially unchanged assets.

[[CTC] Mordecai]

Thanks for the free stuff and continued support. :)

[MarcAFK]

Messaggio originale di RICHLegend:

after update, now the game wont start...WTF?

I have this issue too, I tried verifying the game files, then uninstalled and reinstalled, and now i'm trying random settings on my graphics.
Update: I found frostpunk was running in containment mode from comodo internet security, obviously the program has issues with the way frostpunk handles 'online features'. Weirdly the game always ran fine before, with some audio issues and a single unexplained crash, but now it wouldnt launch at all. Anyway, If anyone else has an issue check your firewall.

[Commodus]

I cant see any option to follow the devs page from launching the game?

[tommy]

Messaggio originale di Commodus:

I cant see any option to follow the devs page from launching the game?

Check the bottom-left corner in the main menu :)

[tommy]

Hi guys, I'll just share with you some info from another thread :)

About the update:
1. It's entirely free and we just wanted to make it absolutely clear. It does not imply that we're about to swarm this game or any other current or upcoming game with microtransactions.
We're both a video game developer and a publisher. Since you like one of our titles, you just might enjoy others as well. By following our Steam publisher/developer page you'll be able to stay updated with what's going on. We just wanted to give you a little something that will work as an invitation and a thank you for following us :)

2. Yes, the update size is over 1GB. The reason for it is that game assets are stored in bundles, not individually. That requires updating the whole asset bundle, hence the update size. It doesn't mean that the building itself is over 1GB or that we're adding anything extra on your PC other than this Frostpunk update.

3. The building is cosmetic only. Because of how it’s shared and that it’s currently available only on Steam we just believe it is the best for it to be that way.

4. It’s only available upon starting a new game because otherwise it could’ve messed up your previous endless run saves.

5. We’re aware of the issues some of you have reported and a fix is on the way.

NEW HOTFIX:
A new hotfix for the yesterday's building update is here. Thank you for letting us know about the bugs!
The latest update will address the following issues:
The intro panel in a New Home scenario is visible again.
The refugees counter is now working properly.
If you've stared a new game in this scenario after the yesterday's update you'll need to start a new game after this update. Sorry about the inconvenience!

Have a good one!

[꧁༺Razgriz༻꧂]

Messaggio originale di tommy:

Hi guys, I'll just share with you some info from another thread :)

About the update:
1. It's entirely free and we just wanted to make it absolutely clear. It does not imply that we're about to swarm this game or any other current or upcoming game with microtransactions.
We're both a video game developer and a publisher. Since you like one of our titles, you just might enjoy others as well. By following our Steam publisher/developer page you'll be able to stay updated with what's going on. We just wanted to give you a little something that will work as an invitation and a thank you for following us :)

2. Yes, the update size is over 1GB. The reason for it is that game assets are stored in bundles, not individually. That requires updating the whole asset bundle, hence the update size. It doesn't mean that the building itself is over 1GB or that we're adding anything extra on your PC other than this Frostpunk update.

3. The building is cosmetic only. Because of how it’s shared and that it’s currently available only on Steam we just believe it is the best for it to be that way.

4. It’s only available upon starting a new game because otherwise it could’ve messed up your previous endless run saves.

5. We’re aware of the issues some of you have reported and a fix is on the way.

NEW HOTFIX:
A new hotfix for the yesterday's building update is here. Thank you for letting us know about the bugs!
The latest update will address the following issues:
The intro panel in a New Home scenario is visible again.
The refugees counter is now working properly.
If you've stared a new game in this scenario after the yesterday's update you'll need to start a new game after this update. Sorry about the inconvenience!

Have a good one!

Thank you!

[Tom D.]

I just checked out the game after the update but for some reason in an endless scenario my whole building menu is just empty, I can't build anything. Is this already reported or fixable in any way atm?