Yeah this is annoying.. There should be an option to 'just use it as installed'. It worked 2 months ago, why would it suddenly need an update to work. Sometimes I don't feel like doing the update but it forces me to anyway.

I'd understand if it didn't allow you to do multiplayer that way but I never do anyway.

I hate this. The only game I sometimes play on my phone (Bloons TD) just sometimes announce I need to download 300MB patch. Not even killing the app, clearing cache and restarting in airplane mode allows me to run it before I download that chunk. My FUP is low and I cant just willy-nilly download it on the go. Let me play the version that I played yesterday!

It doesn't help that the launcher is not only really slow at installing, but their download servers are slow as balls (by today's standards) as well.

I have gigabit internet, and I'm averaging 75 Mbit/s on this 85.6 GB update. At that speed, theoretically it would take just under 20 minutes to download. And I have the game installed on an WD Black NVMe, which can theoretically read/write at up to 3 GB/s.

And yet, I'm 90 minutes into installing, and I'm only 30% done.

What's really aggravating is that I bought the game through Steam. Steam was supposed to solve this bullshit of having to wait for patches to download by doing it automatically in the background.

And what’s even worse is that the downloader is part of the game and puts load my GPU. It usually takes my 3090 from 30W at idle to 105W while downloading. That’s a not insignificant amount of heat and energy when the downloads are slow enough that you need to leave it on overnight.

It’s so bad that there is a meme I’ve seen which shows Steam claiming 55hrs of play time (when the game is open) and MSFS showing only seven hours of flight time.