I know pre-loading the patch has been requested by many, and I doubt I’m the only one to think of this, but I’m gonna suggest it anyways. AaronRPG mentioned that EHG said the reason was mainly due to offline mode preventing pre-loading.
I don’t know how difficult it would be, but what about making offline mode available via a different client? I have beta-tested other games on Steam, and they have you add another client to the “Game Versions & Betas” in the game properties on Steam. You could call that game version offline mode and separate offline and live, allowing pre-loading.
why not release patch during 24 hour maint. and have a day 1 patch that turns the game back on on release day. update the game files but make it not launch untill the release patch after maint…
20gigs ugh. Im not sure how this race thing suppose to work. I play true offline mode. but it doesnt seem fair to those with slow internets. I hope that was taken into consideration for this race.
They should do like “timed” patches on my Playstation, download a day or two in advance (Poe 1 & 2 for ex.) but locked until the release time. For example PoE games always unlocks 19.00 Swedish time when a new league starts. Just click play and have fun, not this slowmo downloading. I have 1000 Gbit fiber but Steam don’t seem to care about that much
Because then you wouldn’t be able to play it offline. But if the patches worked like they apparently do on PS (per PaladinZeke) then yeah, that’d be fine.
