It's 2022 and it's disingenuous at best to say this is legitimate business practice. Unless 50% of the game was re-written completely JUST for these patches every single version someone needs to own up to the fact that you are unnecessarily straining your customers' bandwidth and storage because of bad development practices. It's asking me to download 44GB today for a new map, some new skins, and "a number of fixes" ?! The base game at launch required 82GB unpacked. I'm sorry but how is that an acceptable answer? The new free 'Amongst the Rubble' map will have added to the size of the patch. This patch was a little larger due to not only the additional content being added, but the number of fixes that came in tandom with the DLC drop. Originally posted by Tommy_Rebellion:Hey there. This issue doesn't seem to occur on the PS5 or Xbox Series X by the way both of those not only install the updates quicker but seem to work fine even when I only have 10-20 GB free on the drive the game is installed to. SSDs are not cheap but it seems that developers (and Steam) expect people to keep 100-150 GB free for game installs which could be better used for new games. It is getting really tiresome to be honest. In the end I uninstalled the game and redownloaded it which took around 20-25 minutes! I have also had to do this for several other games too that have large updates and complain about the lack of space on the SSD. That was an hour wasted as these patches seem to take an age to install too, even to SSDs. Yesterday's update meant that Steam stalled during the update of this game on an SSD that had 92 GB of space free! Of course, I did not realise that was why it stalled as there was no error until I tried to force it to download again. The patch sizes are ludicrous but also so is the way they are installed requiring the game files to be copied prior to patching, thus doubling the space requirements needed for it to complete.
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