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manual patches please

alfamaxstalfamaxst Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 8 Arc User
edited June 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
Hello NW team, would be nice to make available for users, manual patches, for those that don't have super fast connections don't need to wait ages until loader patches over 900mb data. Think about with care please :)
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  • khatzhaskhatzhas Member Posts: 268 Bounty Hunter
    edited June 2013
    When you log out, the game now checks and pre-downloads available files for the next patch.

    Is that what you mean by "manual patching"?
  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    khatzhas wrote: »
    When you log out, the game now checks and pre-downloads available files for the next patch.

    Is that what you mean by "manual patching"?

    It only does that when they turn it on for big patches. Otherwise they turn prepatching off.
  • nanomorphnanomorph Member Posts: 16 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    dardove wrote: »
    It only does that when they turn it on for big patches. Otherwise they turn prepatching off.

    Not necessarily - it's only for major content updates where they have a lot of the static content finished (and are therefore unlikely to issue any last-minute updates to the stuff that gets pushed out in prepatching).

    Honestly, if you want to download patch data early, like say when you're going to be AFK for an extended period of time, set your nw account up for test server access and get the patch data from that - when test server patches get pushed to the live build, the launcher will just copy over everything necessary rather than redownloading it.
  • huckasevenhuckaseven Banned Users Posts: 470 Bounty Hunter
    edited June 2013
    if it takes hours to download via the launcher or if it takes hours to download it manually, wheres the differance?
  • alfamaxstalfamaxst Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    khatzhas wrote: »
    When you log out, the game now checks and pre-downloads available files for the next patch.

    Is that what you mean by "manual patching"?
    no it's not, still an automated procedure. PWE has in other games the option to download the files for the patches launched.
    huckaseven wrote: »
    if it takes hours to download via the launcher or if it takes hours to download it manually, wheres the differance?

    The difference is that i don't need to do it at each computer used to play the game, since i'm not the only one to play the game at home, and if i have the files to download i do it only once ^^
  • shuy1shuy1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    alfamaxst wrote: »
    The difference is that i don't need to do it at each computer used to play the game, since i'm not the only one to play the game at home, and if i have the files to download i do it only once ^^

    And, adding to this, manual patches are usually much faster than patches via the launcher.
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