New 30+GB update?!?

[SomeoneSomewhere]

Anyone else being forced to download and install a 30+GB update?!?

[giganova]

Mine was a 79.3 MB download, but it had to patch the whole 52.8 GB disk install - didn't take too long on a M.2 NVME.

[Urk_da_WAAAGH!]

As said, the download is barely 80mb, but the way steam works makes it so the entire game has to be repatched

[Endo87]

Made me have to uninstall other things just to do this process. Sloppy af

[Michael Cimino]

But what is the update content-wise?

[fartbutt]

They put a note on their website about this patch. Looks like it's mostly solaris showdown fixes.

https://mw5mercs.com/news/2024/04/102-mw5-mercs-patch-notes

[CTDemon]

Tell you the truth, those patch notes are something that I welcome with open arms.

[Hovis]

It's borked it for me. Update won't properly install and tells me it's busy when I try to uninstall it so I can just install the updated version.

[Tantrumus]

so this mean every mod is broken yay

[Hovis]

Originally posted by Tantrumus:

so this mean every mod is broken yay

And I just got them working again FML.

[Dalinar917]

The patches seem specific to just the arena exhibition matches. I highly doubt this patch broke everyone's mods. Boot the game, get the new version number, update that version number in your mod loader tool, and then re-enable mods.

[Hykril Tynyx]

*sigh* here we go again... that's just how this game works because of all the stuff being packed into a single .pak file, and the entirety of it needs to be updated which might require even more storage space available.

[pete]

Originally posted by Hykril Tynyx:

*sigh* here we go again... that's just how this game works because of all the stuff being packed into a single .pak file, and the entirety of it needs to be updated which might require even more storage space available.

I feel your pain

[Graugger]

Originally posted by Hykril Tynyx:

*sigh* here we go again... that's just how this game works because of all the stuff being packed into a single .pak file, and the entirety of it needs to be updated which might require even more storage space available.

So basically because the devs put the entire game into a single file when you want to update something that entire file needs replaced. If the file is 50 GB then to change 8 lines of code you have to put in a new 50 GB file.

If the devs divided up the game into numerous files like 50 1GB files you'd only be replacing one or two files resulting in a 1 or 2 GB install for the update.

Am I right?

[Hykril Tynyx]

Originally posted by Graugger:

Am I right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdK6sR5Sfdc

[foster]

Originally posted by Graugger:

Originally posted by Hykril Tynyx:

*sigh* here we go again... that's just how this game works because of all the stuff being packed into a single .pak file, and the entirety of it needs to be updated which might require even more storage space available.

So basically because the devs put the entire game into a single file when you want to update something that entire file needs replaced. If the file is 50 GB then to change 8 lines of code you have to put in a new 50 GB file.

If the devs divided up the game into numerous files like 50 1GB files you'd only be replacing one or two files resulting in a 1 or 2 GB install for the update.

Am I right?

thats how unreal engine works for the most part. every UE4 game i own does that.