Season 2 Patch Pre-Load

[City Hall]

Anyone knows IF we get that option soon ? Starts in 2 hours tho

[Ankarin]

Originally posted by Paradoxica:

Originally posted by Ankarin:

POE1 and now POE2 has been doing this for the last 10 years lol. They just take down the servers for 2-4 hours beforehand and let people preload.
Other games have done this too, typically mmo-style games like Lost Ark always did this too ever since its release.

this game has offline mode they cant let you download early

They could actually, they could just require a small like 10-50mb patch that "unlocks" the game to work right as servers go live, including that of offline players.

[rusticuswombulas]

hi,does anyone know what time in UK it will be live?

[Tyyne]

Originally posted by rusticuswombulas:

hi,does anyone know what time in UK it will be live?

lastepoch.com

[AgentFisher]

Originally posted by Arkaea79:

I have never seen a patch "pre-load" in a game.. why is this being asked all of a sudden. The patch is either live, or it isn't. There is no "pre-load"

You never seen a patch preload? more games than not do this

[TimsGamingDen]

Originally posted by Arkaea79:

I have never seen a patch "pre-load" in a game.. why is this being asked all of a sudden. The patch is either live, or it isn't. There is no "pre-load"

Poe does that + server queueing hours before release ;)

[Ankarin]

Originally posted by rusticuswombulas:

hi,does anyone know what time in UK it will be live?

https://lastepoch.com/
Countdown is on the front page of their website. 1 hour and 30minutes from now.

[xKeli]

Originally posted by Mordy:

Can't wait.

PoE2's new "league" was such a huge disappointment that am legit excited to give Epoch a go.

same

[SsX]

wheres the download omg xD

[Keesasha]

Remember, they took the servers offline almost 24 hours ago. This is not a case of offering a "patch pre-download" while the servers are up.

[Axel Arden]

Originally posted by Paradoxica:

Originally posted by Ankarin:

POE1 and now POE2 has been doing this for the last 10 years lol. They just take down the servers for 2-4 hours beforehand and let people preload.
Other games have done this too, typically mmo-style games like Lost Ark always did this too ever since its release.

this game has offline mode they cant let you download early

There would be zero harm in people playing an update offline before servers come up.

[Ankarin]

Originally posted by Axel Arden:

Originally posted by Paradoxica:

this game has offline mode they cant let you download early

There would be zero harm in people playing an update offline before servers come up.

Would impact the speedrun event, people could practice and get an advantage, also would just impact everyone experiencing it at the same time.

[City Hall]

Originally posted by Keesasha:

Remember, they took the servers offline almost 24 hours ago. This is not a case of offering a "patch pre-download" while the servers are up.

doesnt make any sense to me. Download server and live server are 2 different things, especially is you got that game published on steam. Didnt know about the offline mode :p but what the other guys said was plausible with the mini patch at startup to block early offline tester. The dude who said whole game is 10 gb got the biggest point about preload for me in this thread lol
HF at Leaguestart People

[Rogan]

29 minutes and counting.

[Kyutaru]

Originally posted by Ankarin:

Originally posted by Axel Arden:

There would be zero harm in people playing an update offline before servers come up.

Would impact the speedrun event, people could practice and get an advantage, also would just impact everyone experiencing it at the same time.

Is part of the speedrun event a contest of who has the better ISP and can download the patch the fastest?

[Ankarin]

Originally posted by Kyutaru:

Originally posted by Ankarin:

Would impact the speedrun event, people could practice and get an advantage, also would just impact everyone experiencing it at the same time.

Is part of the speedrun event a contest of who has the better ISP and can download the patch the fastest?

No, which is why not having a preload is silly and the solution is what I proposed earlier, where the main S2 patch can be preloaded, but there is then a mini patch right at launch that "unlocks" the game so offline people will need the patch too.