Why is this patch the size of the entire game?

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Also turns out they’re doing another background update to make updates run smoother and smaller in the future.

(Souce: BlizzardCS Twitter)

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I think we have the right to complain, when the estimated time for this download for me is 19 hours.

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RIP you, I’m actually almost done updating. Oh wait queue is long af and I gotta go off pc because reasons

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I just leave the computer running overnight for these things and do something else in the meantime (Like play Borderlands). My only concern is if i’m ending up with a 30GB folder after the update.

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Jelly why you always speak in third person. :thinking:

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You mean third person. First person is I and we.

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Thanks wasn’t paying attention.

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It’s a habit I have, sorry if it bothers you😓

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No not at all, I was just curious you know.:flushed:

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That’s fine, I’m curious all the time😂

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This is already being discussed in other threads, the patch is big to help expedite future patches:

Also the patching cycle may take a long time or pause at times, this is normal:

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They’ll eventually condense it all down to a smaller file size… but yeah, these requirements are getting a little ridiculous.

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I re-checked the overwatch folder and after the download it’s only 900MB larger. Thank goodness i don’t have to delete anything on the SSD.

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I’m more curious on why the download is going so slowly. 3 BPS when my current download speed on several test sites is clocking around 50-80 mbps.

Maybe Blizz should have been trickling this downloads in smaller bite size chunks over the last few weeks rather than cramming an 14 gig download through a chokepoint.

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Could be worse, Star Citizen was sitting at 65GB 8 months ago.

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I’m currently using my 256 GB SSD that i use to put Windows on for my game storage (bc my HDD is slow speed) and my space is slowly diminishing with this update :frowning:

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Hey, Johnny Mnemonic can do better than that in his head.

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Don’t worry, it’s almost the same size. You just basically redownloaded the entire game because they completely changed their filing system. It replaced the previous files.

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Curiously, the Overwatch install on my PS4 went down from 25 GB to 21 GB.

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Boi 6 GB for 10 minutes is a godsend