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[Raggedyman]

So, all told, it's going to be about 4 hours for my machine to download and install the latest patch.

That's really quite insane, as it basically wipes out any chance of me playing today. And I'm on decent broadband on a machine that has no problems playing the game. This is just raw server to me download fun.

Not the end of the world for me, but right now I honestly think the biggest barrier to entry for this game is the incredible amount of time it takes to actual start playing it.

[Frosted]

Took me 30 minutes.
I bet that you didn't run the repair tool before the patch.
Not your fault, it was poorly communicated, there should have been an announcement in the launched it self telling you to run it before this patch hit.

Edited by Frosted, 21 April 2015 - 01:00 PM.

[Revis Volek]

I knew it....actually took longer to have one post this then i thought....

Well you should have done this then before the patch....

http://mwomercs.com/...pair-tool-fixes

Otherwise you will be there a while...

Most problems i see peeps having when patching is due to ISP issues and NOT mwo but this one might be a bit different then the latter.

Edited by DarthRevis, 21 April 2015 - 01:01 PM.

[Joseph Mallan]

LOL. I'm in the middle of the Repair download.
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MECHWARRIOR WORKED FREAKING FINE AND DIDN'T NEED REPAIRED!

Edited by Joseph Mallan, 21 April 2015 - 01:01 PM.

[Revis Volek]

Joseph Mallan, on 21 April 2015 - 01:01 PM, said:

LOL. I'm in the middle of the Repair download.
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MECHWARRIOR WORKED FREAKING FINE AND DIDN'T NEED REPAIRED!

Im assuming you did not read anything at that link i posted Mr. Mallan? They made changes tot he repair tool and other things and have been stressing this for a while.

[Piney II]

Ran the repair tool last week. This patch took 10 minutes.

[Raggedyman]

DarthRevis, on 21 April 2015 - 01:00 PM, said:

I knew it....actually took longer to have one post this then i thought....

Well you should have done this then before the patch....

http://mwomercs.com/...pair-tool-fixes

Otherwise you will be there a while...

Most problems i see peeps having when patching is due to ISP issues and NOT mwo but this one might be a bit different then the latter.

curious, as I thought I had done that. Hence my assumption of metric flipton of info and slow delivery.

Could be the ISP I guess, but everything else runs through fine and dandy.

Frosted, on 21 April 2015 - 01:00 PM, said:

Not your fault, it was poorly communicated, there should have been an announcement in the launched it self telling you to run it before this patch hit.

Yes, it should of. Much like when VOIP was added and it wasn't announced on the launcher.

[9thDeathscream]

Less than 10 mins for me to patch. I did do the earlier repair though!

[Corbenik]

For future reference its always good to read the latest news announcements on the home page of this. I also bet with the upcoming CW event alot of people are going to not be ready or complain about something given week or so notice in advance on how to prepare.

[Raggedyman]

Akulla1980, on 21 April 2015 - 01:19 PM, said:

Less than 10 mins for me to patch. I did do the earlier repair though!

Honestly happy for you. Well, that and a bit jealous.
But then again my cat decided to muscle in on my lap whilst my stupid ape arms weren't flailing around, so we're quite possible even.

However my main beef is that my average is an hour+ (patch time, a clean install is two or so) and I can find no reason for it as nothing else of the size takes that long to download. I know ISP paths and all that are a chain of smoke and mirrors, but whilst I'm not going to ask for EURO servers for the game itself maybe some DL mirrors to take the pain away wouldn't be too much to ask?

Corbenik, on 21 April 2015 - 01:23 PM, said:

For future reference its always good to read the latest news announcements on the home page of this. I also bet with the upcoming CW event alot of people are going to not be ready or complain about something given week or so notice in advance on how to prepare.

Again, I did and I had, afaik, done all the bits asked.
I just get stupid slow delays on patch day, and today it was worse by about an hour

[Roadkill]

I ran the repair tool over the weekend. Don't know how long that took, as I launched it and then made dinner.

Got online within minutes of the servers coming back up today. Patch took ~5 min. In the past I have noticed that if you're slow on the draw that PGI's servers bog down pretty quickly. Any time after noon (Pacific) it's going to take over an hour to patch simply because so many people are attempting to download the patch at the same time.

[Johny Rocket]

I didn't run the repair tools, I use a joystick and mouse/keyboard no way was I going to try to save time and then have to rebind all my keys.
So I just ran the patch today and it took 45 min. But my ping off the server is usually around 50ms at 70mb/s DL and my box be beastly.

[JohnnyWayne]

Frosted, on 21 April 2015 - 01:00 PM, said:

Took me 30 minutes.
I bet that you didn't run the repair tool before the patch.
Not your fault, it was poorly communicated, there should have been an announcement in the launched it self telling you to run it before this patch hit.

I did, the download took me about 2 hours. The servers dont give sufficient bandwith to download, I have an max of 2.3mbit they give me like 10 kbit...

[Sir Wulfrick]

While the repair download was relatively slow, today's patch downloaded and applied VASTLY faster than any previous patch that I remember. Good job PGI on updating your patch system

[Ovion]

Took maybe... 10-15 minutes tops in the UK.
Certainly done before I noticed while working on some locust writeup related stuff.

Then I got my Locust, and it was good.

Tractor Joe, on 21 April 2015 - 03:51 PM, said:

I didn't run the repair tools, I use a joystick and mouse/keyboard no way was I going to try to save time and then have to rebind all my keys.
So I just ran the patch today and it took 45 min. But my ping off the server is usually around 50ms at 70mb/s DL and my box be beastly.

You can save a copy of your keybindings just in case.

I use twin sticks, so I know the pain of losing it - always keep a backup.

Frosted, on 21 April 2015 - 01:00 PM, said:

Took me 30 minutes.
I bet that you didn't run the repair tool before the patch.
Not your fault, it was poorly communicated, there should have been an announcement in the launched it self telling you to run it before this patch hit.

It was on the front page, I saw at least 3 threads in general discussion, it was in the launcher, the town hall and in the weekend update.

Short of emailing everyone, I'm not sure how much better advertised it could have been.

Edited by Ovion, 21 April 2015 - 05:16 PM.

[Raggedyman]

This -> POTENTIAL SERVICE DISRUPTION/INCREASED LATENCY FOR EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS <- could have something to do with the problems I experienced.

[Joseph Mallan]

DarthRevis, on 21 April 2015 - 01:02 PM, said:

Im assuming you did not read anything at that link i posted Mr. Mallan? They made changes tot he repair tool and other things and have been stressing this for a while.

Nope. I don't usually read about the repair tool, because the game runs pretty stable. So I don't have a need/desire to read Repair tool threads, posts or tweets.

[Raggedyman]

Ovion, on 21 April 2015 - 05:13 PM, said:

It was on the front page, I saw at least 3 threads in general discussion, it was in the launcher, the town hall and in the weekend update.

Short of emailing everyone, I'm not sure how much better advertised it could have been.

I only saw it on the launcher as a side-bar entry. Given how important it was they could have had it on the scrolling marquee to really get the message across. But, as you said, they went to town on this one so that's 'every possibly action' comment rather than a criticism of their attempts as a whole.

Given the problems announced with EU connections today I'm thinking that might be the problem, though I'm still not sure if an hour or so to DL the basic game is a good thing (even if that's just my ISP's issue that's a fair chunk of the UK market going 'nahh, can't be arsed to wait that long')

[Almond Brown]

Joseph Mallan, on 21 April 2015 - 01:01 PM, said:

LOL. I'm in the middle of the Repair download.
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MECHWARRIOR WORKED FREAKING FINE AND DIDN'T NEED REPAIRED!

Yup, come on PGI. Never change anything (Patcher) for the better ffs. It just pisses off Joseph. Come on..

[blood4blood]

I already posted in the other thread, but FWIW - my MWO launcher has been screwed up for a week or two. It wouldn't launch unless I ran the Repair Tool first. If I closed the game after launching, I'd have to run Repair Tool again to launch. So I have literally ran Repair Tool every day, sometimes two or three times per day, for over a week before this patch. Last night the Launcher wouldn't launch, as usual, so I ran the Repair Tool. It took over five hours, and by that time, I just gave up because it was about midnight. If it doesn't launch right away tonight I think I'm just going to reinstall, errors and delays like this are just ridiculous for a game this old.