They are going to have to release another update so dont think you will be fd just looking a bit deeper on mine to see what has changed, bit hard though has I don’t have the broken copy any more!
I can confirm that doing a scan and repair does bugger all. Down to 118GB remaining on this stupidly slow speed. Also having to continue the download every 5/10GB takes the piss. I wouldn’t mind as much if I could just leave it to download and come back to it in the morning, but no, the download servers are stupid.
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Scan and repair doesn’t do anything on the existing “broken” files, the actual update is only 200mb Just trying to find out what ones actually need to be over written to get it to sort itself out.
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absolute joke company
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Helpless here, evening ruined trying to grab a few bites of download, second withing few days, redownloading the full 183 GB again… with the supersonic choking speed of 135 Bps/sec… Enough, thinking of uninstalling the game and claiming refund.
This is very sad that during #stayathome and overloaded network we are forced to download the full game due to “we know the issue”.
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guys for me i need it to BUY and VPN and use the american server… now it is at 8 mb/s… its still slow and it will take 2 days to get this crap but at least is downloading… still make a ticket to complain guys they are joking with our faces so we need to protest and get refunds.
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@Drakuloth
PhD in Computer Science with specialisation in High-Performance Computing writing here:
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First of all, thank you because Academia will probably use, for years, this failure as a unique study case in university programming modules world-wide and international conferences. I am genuinely sorry to inform you you are going to be History along with the Ariane 5 rocket explosion due to an unhandled exception in ADA and so on.
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What makes this failure unique, excluding the ludicrous amount of data to be downloaded again or the fact that the download gets interrupted randomly, is that what is described as the solution (which is yet to be confirmed as such by players by the way) does not even provide failure recovery despite a whooping 170GB of existing files. For reference, in High-Performance Computing we feel guilty when we dare to use 100MB of files to monitor the progress of our large-scale scientific applications (my specialisation is not in video-games but if with 100MB of files we are able to resume nuclear simulations, maybe so could you given you have 170GB to help you). The good news is your failure will become valuable to us: a unique example of industry-scale catastrophic unit testing & failure recovery we can show to our students for years to come to finally convince them that understanding the importance of unit testing and failure recovery is important.
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Anyway, bottom line is: such a laughable failure at such a massive scale, you know the drill; prepare an air-tight refund strategy and give a lot of coffee to your community managers, you will need it over the next couple of days. In addition, I would argue that the objective and passive phrasings used to nicely avoid saying something along the lines of “it is our fault / we messed up / we are sorry” are counter-productive, proof is: read the messages on the forum. And to make it worse, tough luck: current confinement situation means millions of players are stuck at home with nothing else to do but behold that cute 170GB download progress bar and the nonexistence of your apologies.
Advice: please do take your time before letting your developers go anyway near MW2, I know the commercial and marketing teams are all excited to leverage that confinement and the current momentum from Warzone into a larger potential player base but there is no rush to humiliate yourself again with that kind of unit test & failure recovery software and alienate the players again about MW2 this time. You have just damaged Battle.net and COD MW reputations, go easy before ruining that of MW2; we are talking about the pantheon of video-games here…
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Okay a fix for me is.
The Europe Region is messed up. So you can still download from America / Asia perfect no issues what so ever 
downloads fine. When you switch to the Europe region it will fully mess up everything Just wait until there is a fix out and all will work xD Hope this helps
[quote=“Drakuloth, post:413, topic:4681”]
reinstall .
[/quote] After re downloading the 83GB 5 hours later back in the game.
If I download the full game again using the Americas region, will it affect me trying to play it using the Europe region when the download is complete?
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If you are back after redownloading take a copy of the working files if you have the space so that you can avoid this IF they don’t permanently fit it.
I am most surprised that there have been no admins on this forum engaging with the customers…
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I was downloading the update and now it stopped and says “waiting on another update” this is beyond a joke at this point
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I really do hope this come becomes bankrupt tbh
Hey I found solution with this glitch.
- Backup you game files
- Uniinstal battle.net
- Copy your game files back on “gamin” harddrive
- install battle.net
- Locate your game folder in battlenet
- Hit play
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Whats really annoying is the fault probably lies with a small file but everyone gets the pleasure of a complete reinstall, from what I understand it unpacks the files whilst downloading… I wish we didn’t have to use a client and could just fire straight into the game
I hope this works for people, when I tried it earlier it just kept resuming the download to where it previously was so had to remove the folders to in AppData to clear that.
How is there no response from support team yet, this is the worst customer service I have witnessed. They need to give us some sort of compensation for this bollocks
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what means “backup your game files”?. if you deinstall battle.net, the installfolder of mw wont be deleted - so it is automatically backed up, when deleting battle.net?!
so i did: I uninstalled battle.net, reinstalled, chose the installorder and same procedure… it begin to download again or continues at the same percentstage as before
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I’m currently using the ‘Americas’ region to complete the download, seems to be pretty stable… the Europe one seems to be the issue in regards to slow/stuck downloads
You need to fix this, for HARTI!