Pre-patching for Season 8 has been enabled! Upon logging out of Holodeck, the launcher will pop up again and start the pre-patch download.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Brandon,
can we also have a breakdown on how the pre-patch is going to behave?
because now upon exiting - on ALL closing the client; it starts downloading pre-patch - stops at 2Megabytes or something, and disappear. Whenever i starts the launcher, its also patching 3GB-ish, going until 7% and poof 100% done.
Is this normal behavior? or my patch has already borked? or I have just downloaded partially? whether there will be other prepatch tomorrow?
There is just so little information regarding the prepatch.
It will help a lot, at least to verify succesfull pre-patch or not - if there is some hint for expected behaviour, guide to prepatch folder checklist or something.
Brandon, please forgive my sense of "gloom and doom! The universe is ending!" but I have been over on Tribble a lot doing testing and getting ideas of what to do to pass on to my fleet and I have to honestly say that Season 8 is nowhere near ready to even be pronounced a form a life let alone live. I hope you guys in the office there are not planning on launching this soon. It's in a horrible state of existence. Don't rush this season to try to gain people. Make sure this one works before you push it out. We still have a massive amount of bugs from LoR and then more bugs caused by fixing other bugs. I only speak for myself here but maybe whisper in someone's ear over there to have a bug hunt on Holodeck and slow the pace for Season 8 a bit. I know you have deadlines and budgets but...
Pre-patching for Season 8 has been enabled! Upon logging out of Holodeck, the launcher will pop up again and start the pre-patch download.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Bran, I rarely say this to all y'all, but you did good! You listened to the community, and finally gave cruiser some love. And the new content looks pretty exciting! Actually looking forward to Season 8!
Is tribble still Gold/Silver only?
Tested before, but as off late i am unable to enter tribble for testing.
This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
I am having the same issue. However mine is a 5.5 gig patch. And Season 8 isn't due to come out until the 12th. Is there going to be yet another patch on Thursday and again on the 12th?
It's a pre-patch for season 8, you can let it patch up now or wait to the 12th and let it all patch up when everyone is trying to access the servers at the same time to get at the new content.
Just close the launcher when it pops back up if you don't want to pre-patch. While it looks like it's starting over next time, the amount to patch should be represented by a smaller number. You still go 0-100% but the patch size should be smaller based on what you've already patched.
Every time you exit, you'll still get a pre-patch pop up as it's checking to see if you have the latest pre-patch version. If you do, it should close out fairly quickly.
It's broken in exactly the same way it was for LoR pre-patching: closes after a few seconds.
This usually indicates your pre-patch is complete/ up-to-date. Have you been staying up-to-date with Tribble patches? That may have reduced your pre-patch size.
This usually indicates your pre-patch is complete/ up-to-date. Have you been staying up-to-date with Tribble patches? That may have reduced your pre-patch size.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Got both test clients up to date. Doesn't look like patching is complete, though, judging by the completion % displayed for download and patching, neither goes anywhere near 100%.
Just dipping this out there, no more Tribbles please.. they're clogging up my bank and inventory as it is. I would however LOVE more unique DOFF's like the "Ang the Vicious" Breen DOFF we got for Season 6 testing. Something useful please Cryptic! Although I think it's already a given that we'll get a Solanae Tribble "1 Dyson mark per hour" bla bla bla.
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Any idea why is it downloading all over? I finished, started game, quit and it downloads something again. Just a few MBs it seems. Then the launcher closes and when open, my game starts to patch (3000 kb). It is all over. Please FIX it.
when it tries to execute the patch, it does not get very far in the download, and the launcher exits suddenly without so much as an error message. Then when I go back into the game and exit out after a subsequent play, it does the same thing. The patch never completes. Has anyone else seen this?
Got both test clients up to date. Doesn't look like patching is complete, though, judging by the completion % displayed for download and patching, neither goes anywhere near 100%.
If there is nothing new to pre-patch, it would close after a few moments, as you described, and not go from 0-100% again. The few "MBs" you are seeing is the client reading the data and looking to see if it's up to date. Sounds like everything is working correctly.
For me too it keeps patching the game everytime I exit or start game. It feels like its patching the same thing over and over.....what in the heck is going on? 4 or 5 gigs....everytime i start the game or exit? we talking 4 or 5 times now.....ridiculous.
I feel like I've been TRIBBLE lmao. This is as suspicious as Arc not working for me, and then having to download the game from steam. And then having corrupted pigg files....having to delete the hogg files.....then having to just delete everythign and download again through the launcher.. Had nothign to do with my connection or my pc.....but I was like yes finally i got the game installed and running good for a week no issues.
and now this? This does not seem legit to me.
Especially frustrating since these servers are so dam slow...Their servers are killing this game and probably why peoples downloads always get corrupted......This is one way to get people to quit alright lol.
This is a much better approach, avoiding the congestion on 12th that would have occurred. It's good that you have learned your lesson from the last "THIS IS SPARTAAAA!" we had. Good job!
If there is nothing new to pre-patch, it would close after a few moments, as you described, and not go from 0-100% again. The few "MBs" you are seeing is the client reading the data and looking to see if it's up to date. Sounds like everything is working correctly.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
No, it definitely started patching again, here too. It was at ca. 2%, then jumped to 100%; but, as you well know, if there's truly nothing to patch, launcher will just say "Patching...", without actually starting a patch-process (with percentage bar).
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Brandon,
can we also have a breakdown on how the pre-patch is going to behave?
because now upon exiting - on ALL closing the client; it starts downloading pre-patch - stops at 2Megabytes or something, and disappear. Whenever i starts the launcher, its also patching 3GB-ish, going until 7% and poof 100% done.
Is this normal behavior? or my patch has already borked? or I have just downloaded partially? whether there will be other prepatch tomorrow?
There is just so little information regarding the prepatch.
It will help a lot, at least to verify succesfull pre-patch or not - if there is some hint for expected behaviour, guide to prepatch folder checklist or something.
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Thanks mate.
At least now i know the never-ending-repeating patching is not something uncommon.
Jolan tru!
Bran, I rarely say this to all y'all, but you did good!
Tested before, but as off late i am unable to enter tribble for testing.
After I exit STO the launcher updates the game again and again. Its a 2.3 GB patch which takes too long to wait for every time. How to fix?
It's not broken. It is meant to be doing that. It's the prepatch for season 8.
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I should have remembered this from LOR prepatching.
Tribble is open to Gold and Silver now -- that means all players as you're either Gold or Silver
No formalized Tribble Test Weekend, however the current plan is to provide a new, free Tribble as reward at S8 launch
Just close the launcher when it pops back up if you don't want to pre-patch. While it looks like it's starting over next time, the amount to patch should be represented by a smaller number. You still go 0-100% but the patch size should be smaller based on what you've already patched.
Every time you exit, you'll still get a pre-patch pop up as it's checking to see if you have the latest pre-patch version. If you do, it should close out fairly quickly.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
This usually indicates your pre-patch is complete/ up-to-date. Have you been staying up-to-date with Tribble patches? That may have reduced your pre-patch size.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Got both test clients up to date. Doesn't look like patching is complete, though, judging by the completion % displayed for download and patching, neither goes anywhere near 100%.
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so it looks it isn't a Wine issue
If there is nothing new to pre-patch, it would close after a few moments, as you described, and not go from 0-100% again. The few "MBs" you are seeing is the client reading the data and looking to see if it's up to date. Sounds like everything is working correctly.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
I feel like I've been TRIBBLE lmao. This is as suspicious as Arc not working for me, and then having to download the game from steam. And then having corrupted pigg files....having to delete the hogg files.....then having to just delete everythign and download again through the launcher.. Had nothign to do with my connection or my pc.....but I was like yes finally i got the game installed and running good for a week no issues.
and now this? This does not seem legit to me.
Especially frustrating since these servers are so dam slow...Their servers are killing this game and probably why peoples downloads always get corrupted......This is one way to get people to quit alright lol.
No, it definitely started patching again, here too. It was at ca. 2%, then jumped to 100%; but, as you well know, if there's truly nothing to patch, launcher will just say "Patching...", without actually starting a patch-process (with percentage bar).
Large Patch this morning when I closed the Launcher and a small "check" patch when I closed it just now.
What are you up to?
Season 8
They should have had something on the website like one of their blogs about this.
OR... simply post it in the Announcements section?