20gb patch?! Are you kidding me?

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This patch better contain Ashe and A LOT of other stuff… What even is this? Has anyone updated already?

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maybe read the forums before creating this topic

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This patch completely reinstalls the game.

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well yea there was this update you could install since last week so the big update today woudnt take long.

you didnt install it then?

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And maybe you could actually write a constructive reply instead of that…? :man_shrugging:t2:

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they said it days in advance… its on you if you missed that

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it is constructive, all the information you need is on the forums, like the top topics

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I didn’t even get 20gb patch but 6gb yesterday… I’m sitting here confused

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So am I, such a huge patch out of the blue?

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lol wut? Its been all over the place that it requires a full game install…

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It’s an optimization patch. The games been updated for over two years and it was starting to get bloated so blizzard did some work on the games foundation that requires a full reinstall.

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Same /20charactersokay

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The background update reduces the time to download the current patch.
I got the BG download yesterday too… Current patch took like 30 seconds to download.

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Does anyone not see the forums tag at the top? It’s been known for awhile that 1.30 reinstalls the game unless you already downloaded PTR…

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Probably looots of background stuff for that update Jeff mentioned.

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It’s pretty much a bran new engine.

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I know this, but yesterday’s download was literally only 6gb.

It’s like it never reinstalled OW on battlenet and idk why.

No I’ve never downloaded ptr.

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I’m on Xbox so maybe that’s why. Also I had no idea there was going to be a huge patch like this one, has it been said anywhere?

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It actually did uninstall/reinstall, but it did it in the form of that update.

I didn’t download the ptr either.

Yeah they announced it, and even pinned it at the top of the forum page.
Here.

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For me it was a very small patch, took maybe a minute.