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[Lygerseye]

Brand new here... Forgive the impudence.

Just downloaded the game for the first time after a friend recommended I play (played the old PC games for years). The download and install took less that 5 minutes! Watched the training tutorial, read some of the FAQs, then tried to start the game.

Oh. A patch? Already? Ok... Download ETA: 1:08:58. Not leaving me with a good first impression. Tell me this gets better.

[Arnold J Rimmer]

You downloaded the installer - it still has to download the game and all the recent changes. One of the patches lately ran to ~1.2GB, if memory serves, but generally they're 50-200MB. Once you've done this once, there's only a relatively small patch once every two weeks.

[Lygerseye]

Arnold J Rimmer, on 21 January 2014 - 06:25 PM, said:

You downloaded the installer - it still has to download the game and all the recent changes.

Thanks. That makes more sense, especially since what they labelled a patch is 3.7GB. That's one hell of a patch.

[Arnold J Rimmer]

Lygerseye, on 21 January 2014 - 06:29 PM, said:

Thanks. That makes more sense, especially since what they labelled a patch is 3.7GB. That's one hell of a patch.

Yeah, I'd have been surprised, too!

[Adran]

I'm not sure how many online games you've played, and I'm sorry to be the one to destroy your fantasies, but no online game can be downloaded in 5 minutes XD Almost all online games will download the patcher/installer, then download the game through the patching system. To give you a comparison, I've seen WoW patching after the initial download run upwards of 6 hours. Personally, 1 hour of patch-time is nothing when compared to that monster. And like the guy above said, average patches are significantly smaller and will take (at MOST) 15 min, if that.

[Lygerseye]

Adran, on 21 January 2014 - 06:31 PM, said:

I'm not sure how many online games you've played, and I'm sorry to be the one to destroy your fantasies...

Lots, and my fantasies are unscathed :-)

I guess it was a matter of the expectations I got based on their labels. Click "Download Now" and I'd expect the game.exe, not just the installer. Call it a "patch" and I'd expect just a patch. Had it taken an hour to d/l the initial file, I would have been thrilled. The last game I downloaded took 7 hours (their servers were slammed - beta test).

[xMEPHISTOx]

However, do be ready for another large patch in two weeks...that is assuming they release UI2.0 in the time they specified. I am gathering that will be a very LARGE patch to look forward to. I myself welcome big patches as it is indicative of PGI doing the job that we all expect of them to be doing for the games future improvements and added features.

[Koniving]

Personally when U.I. 2.0 comes I'm going to uninstall the game and do a fresh install. The last game-changing "patch" I did, simply did not work well until I completely reinstalled.

Better safe than sorry.

[Darth Futuza]

Protip: patch at work / college / somewhere with backbone fiber connection to a thumbdrive, and then copy paste to computer when you get home.

[Zerberus]

Darth Futuza, on 21 January 2014 - 08:56 PM, said:

Protip: patch at work / college / somewhere with backbone fiber connection to a thumbdrive, and then copy paste to computer when you get home.

*thumbs up*

Assuming of course that the Network Admin(s) are incompetent and do not have policies in place that specificaly disable USB ports (major virus risk bringing data from home, even greater integrity risk of people TAKING data home) and the ability for the user to install software (stability risk in addition to the security risks presented by any unknown installation, which in this case is ANY installation as far as IT is concerned). "If it`s not in the Coreload, then you either don`t need it or we need to see it first." is teh motto of most professionals, and there`s a few good reasons for it, aside from teh obvious IT related risks things like multiple workplace continuity and guaranteed productivity from any site-standard workstation.

Edited by Zerberus, 21 January 2014 - 09:10 PM.

[Kjudoon]

Don't feel bad. On another game, their "patch" from the base software was 8gb. Of course, I had a lot of catching up to do. Took me 8 hours to download it, so I went to bed.

[Darth Futuza]

Zerberus, on 21 January 2014 - 09:07 PM, said:

...stuff...

Most college campuses aren't locked down that tight since student's want to be able to save documents to a removable drive. The workplace might be different as you said, depends on how sensitive the data is you handle at work. In general though, if your internet is too slow, leech off of someone else for the patch. If your work allows you to connect via ethernet or wifi to the network then hell just bring a laptop in and do the same thing.