Everyone said that we won't need to re-download after the updates after the launch so what is Rare doing right now. If it's going to be like this all the time I will stop playing. We are downloading 20GB just because of some fixes. Not everyone has an insanely good internet connection...
Please just do patches.
Re-Downloading The Game Every Update????
@mmasterod i agree, yes i understand why rare prefers it to be new clients everytime for stability reasons, but it will get old very fast if we are re-downloading the game twice a week lol
@MMasterOD
https://www.seaofthieves.com/news/launch-status-updateWe are also releasing a new game client to all players on Tuesday March 27th which contains a wide array of fixes across our services, stability and game experience. This is a full game update as opposed to just a patch. If we'd wanted it to be a smaller client update we would have had to delay by a number of days, and felt the priority here was releasing the improvements to our player base. This will be available to download during our maintenance window tomorrow morning. For our next client update, we plan to be a much smaller patch size.
@mmasterod are you sure it's a redownload? Yeah it's 20 gb, but i don't think that that's a compleat redownload.
@distruttore49 It's the same as all alpha, beta and pioneer sessions it just re-downloads the game with few extra things.
From what I understood, patching the fixes would have taken longer to sort out, so we would have a "broken" game for several more days, so they decided to do a full client update to fix some problems which the next patch was going to do sooner rather than later, and opted to do it during scheduled maintenance. With a bit of luck, most of the annoying bugs will be sorted out.
I do feel for those that have slow internet, as even with faster speeds, it is a ball ache to re download a full client at between 9 and 18 gig, and I personally have a good few hours remaining before I can set sail again.
ARE YOU SERIOUS? I dealt with this through all the alphas, I often missed sessions because of all the redownloading. On pc the game is 19gb, that will take me DAYS to download. I was sure they would begin updating the game normally after it came out, but NOPE. Looks like I won’t be playing with my friends this weekend. What about people with bandwidth caps? I heard some people just can’t afford to download it over and over. You know what was worse? The windows store, it is GARBAGE. No way to cap bandwidth usage, and pausing it often corrupts the download so I have to leave my computer on for days on end trying to keep it going. I know it isn’t a problem for you guys with insanely fast speeds, but where I live internet speeds are pretty bad.
@chaith12
Come guy's give Rare some slack. They Explain why this is this time:
https://youtu.be/D01S8wx0cHg@realbabbus said in Re-Downloading The Game Every Update????:
As a pioneer we had to download the game every little patch, im not saying make a new launcher for the game im pretty sure microsoft won't let that happen. Im sure the store can handle little patches. At least try to keep the fixes small files eh?
The store does updates for other apps without downloading the full app again so yes ofcourse it can, if you watch their update video about this downtime they are just doing it for speed it would of took them longer to sort out a patch and that would of been a few more days work and they wanted to get this all sorted so everyone can enjoy the game asap so they opted to go for the new client completely and get it solved faster.
Alright well this is gonna suck. Here’s some tips for getting this done:
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Download errors every time you try to start it? Restart your pc several times, it will work eventually.
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Don’t update it, delete the game and then redownload.
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I wouldn’t recommend ever pausing it, there’s a chance the update will get stuck when you unpause. If this happens, your screwed, redownload it.
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NEVER mess with the windows apps file, it’ll end badly every time.
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@chaith12 said in Re-Downloading The Game Every Update????:
Alright well this is gonna suck. Here’s some tips for getting this done:
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Download errors every time you try to start it? Restart your pc several times, it will work eventually.
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Don’t update it, delete the game and then redownload.
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I wouldn’t recommend ever pausing it, there’s a chance the update will get stuck when you unpause. If this happens, your screwed, redownload it.
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NEVER mess with the windows apps file, it’ll end badly every time.
I've never had any issues with windows store downloads not ever.
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From the Release Notes:
This is a full game update as opposed to just a patch. It contains a wide array of fixes across our services, stability and game experience. We felt the priority here was releasing the improvements to our player base. For our next client update, we plan to send out a much smaller patch size.
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