Please think of the children...err the low bandwidth internet crowd!
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Per Quakecon...When you redo the game and it requires a redownload (something I totally get and appreciate), please consider ways...if possible..for people who will end up needing possibly days!!! a chance to preload as much as possible, pretty please!
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starkerealm✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭It sounds like there's a pretty major refactoring going on.
At that point... probably not much they can do. While the front end doesn't change much, the back end is getting an extensive overhaul, so while it looks like the same game, it really won't be.
If everything goes to plan, it should be a one time thing. So, while it'll suck once, it should, hopefully, hurt less every patch day. Irony is, this is something that'll benefit you. Even if it means you've gotta swallow a horse pill one time.2 -
snarkomatic✭✭✭✭starkerealm wrote: »It sounds like there's a pretty major refactoring going on.
At that point... probably not much they can do. While the front end doesn't change much, the back end is getting an extensive overhaul, so while it looks like the same game, it really won't be.
If everything goes to plan, it should be a one time thing. So, while it'll suck once, it should, hopefully, hurt less every patch day. Irony is, this is something that'll benefit you. Even if it means you've gotta swallow a horse pill one time.
I don't have the slow internet issue anymore, but I lived it for years and I get where OP is coming from. Lots of games now allow preloading for patches or even initial installs (e.g. RDR2 digital preorder was loaded days before it was available for play, and WoW does similar with their big patches). I think that's all OP is asking for, if I understand correctly.1 -
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✭✭✭Hopefully it'll be possible to separately download the new engine or whatever, then do a switchover when it goes live and do a final update. Then delete the older data folders.0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Please think of the children...
Sadly, that bottleneck won't easily be avoided....err the low bandwidth internet crowd!
And the better the game is, the more data they need to feed your machine for each major update. And when many, many people download at the same time... no matter if preload or not, it will get iffy either way.
Makes me seriously wish for a new version on shiny silver disk to get past the worst of the downloadings... sadly, that is a bit difficult with mere updates...
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✭✭✭✭✭snarkomatic wrote: »starkerealm wrote: »It sounds like there's a pretty major refactoring going on.
At that point... probably not much they can do. While the front end doesn't change much, the back end is getting an extensive overhaul, so while it looks like the same game, it really won't be.
If everything goes to plan, it should be a one time thing. So, while it'll suck once, it should, hopefully, hurt less every patch day. Irony is, this is something that'll benefit you. Even if it means you've gotta swallow a horse pill one time.
I don't have the slow internet issue anymore, but I lived it for years and I get where OP is coming from. Lots of games now allow preloading for patches or even initial installs (e.g. RDR2 digital preorder was loaded days before it was available for play, and WoW does similar with their big patches). I think that's all OP is asking for, if I understand correctly.
I mean, I am sympathetic, even if it doesn't seem like it. Just pointing out that, if this works like it's supposed to, it will make things better in the long term.1
My hope was to preload whatever is reasonable. 