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Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by TrevorJ on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @01:33PM (#18452422)
I've been pretty surprised at how good a job steam does at this. When I release an update for my game, the download size is typically quite tiny relative to all the files I've touched.
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Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by hamilyon2 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @01:44PM (#18452555)
Steam itself however downloads full installation, as it seems. Which is interesting.
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Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by makomk on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:13PM (#18455131)
If a game update goes wrong, they can just send down another update. If a Steam update goes wrong...

(This has sort of happened. Valve managed to roll out a version of the launcher for Linux a while back which used instructions not available on older CPUs, and crashed before it reached the point where it could check for updates. Was a pain. Normally, if Steam exits uncleanly they force an update check immediately on next restart, but if it never gets that far you're screwed.)

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Re:Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself by gmueckl on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:41PM (#18454278)
Self-updating on Windows is a horrible thing to get right. I wouldn't be surprised if they did this to keep the complexity of the process as low as possible.
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