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STO Season 8.5 Pre-Patching [Now Disabled]

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited January 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Hi Captains,

Pre-patching for Season 8.5 has been enabled! Upon logging out of Holodeck, the launcher will pop up again and start the pre-patch download.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=
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  • startrek1warsstartrek1wars Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    YAY!! Happiness!
  • fransiscosfransiscos Member Posts: 54
    edited January 2014
    Did not pop up for me yet but one of my friends is doing this.:confused:
  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited January 2014
    fransiscos wrote: »
    Did not pop up for me yet but one of my friends is doing this.:confused:

    Was just coming in here to comment. We've switched it off temporarily as we change some settings with it to ensure the patch goes even quicker for players -- please try again later :)

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • johngazmanjohngazman Member Posts: 2,826 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Just quit my game and my launcher started patching. Didn't realise tomorrow's patch was so huge it required a pre-patch.

    1642MB too. Ouch.
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  • sevmragesevmrage Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I've had to reinstall this game three times since I've started playing it. Try topping an 8816MB patch with every install...
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  • xraiderv1xraiderv1 Member Posts: 488 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    ok...I got disconnected about half an hour ago, and then a few moments ago i log out, click exit and the launcher relaunches itself then it downloaded a 300mb patch...um...what the heck?
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  • xraiderv1xraiderv1 Member Posts: 488 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    this announcement shoulda been more prominantly placed, got alot of captains wondering what the tribble is going on in game..
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  • anothervisitoranothervisitor Member Posts: 414 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    423.2 MB actual download here. No problems; went fast too.
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  • yudhistiroyudhistiro Member Posts: 113 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Hi Captains,

    Pre-patching for Season 8.5 has been enabled! Upon logging out of Holodeck, the launcher will pop up again and start the pre-patch download.

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    I really appreciate you letting us know that pre-patch is enabled,
    but can we also have an option in the launcher to enable prepatch now, or for later.

    some of us can't afford warp-speed-internet connection and stuck with sub-light speed.
    downloading big files might take hours - and in my case 1.6 GB is equivalent to around 2 hours downloading time. Im sure there are plenty others that share the same situation with mine.

    By having option NOT to prepatch now, we can manage our prepatch to a much more suitable timing. Like when we are about to go to sleep, or having a long dinner or other situation. This will help us a lot.
  • anothervisitoranothervisitor Member Posts: 414 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    yudhistiro wrote: »
    I really appreciate you letting us know that pre-patch is enabled,
    but can we also have an option in the launcher to enable prepatch now, or for later.

    some of us can't afford warp-speed-internet connection and stuck with sub-light speed.
    downloading big files might take hours - and in my case 1.6 GB is equivalent to around 2 hours downloading time. Im sure there are plenty others that share the same situation with mine.

    By having option NOT to prepatch now, we can manage our prepatch to a much more suitable timing. Like when we are about to go to sleep, or having a long dinner or other situation. This will help us a lot.
    You are not forced to pre-patch at a time you don't want it. Just press X.
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  • eazzieeazzie Member Posts: 4,250 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    johngazman wrote: »
    Just quit my game and my launcher started patching. Didn't realise tomorrow's patch was so huge it required a pre-patch.

    1642MB too. Ouch.

    All new seasons have pre patching
  • darkelipse04darkelipse04 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Darn; I was hoping this Pre-Patch would "accidentally" release the FE a day early like Sphere of Influence.
  • towanitowani Member Posts: 104 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Mine is just sitting there at 62KB/841MB and not moving... ugh ;)
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  • tigerariestigeraries Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    When I log off it prepatches 8.5... what happens if I decide to log back into STO later today?

    Will the game then patch back in the old content overwriting the prepatch and I would need to re prepatch again?
  • bendalekbendalek Member Posts: 1,781 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    tigeraries wrote: »
    When I log off it prepatches 8.5... what happens if I decide to log back into STO later today?

    Will the game then patch back in the old content overwriting the prepatch and I would need to re prepatch again?

    Pre-Patching just downloads the files to your computer ... It doesn't "unpack" them until the server says "You need version xxxxxxxxxxx.xx to play"...

    It avoids every player of STO downloading the files at the same time and overloading the servers ...
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  • damzelltrilldamzelltrill Member Posts: 443 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I'm trying to do he pre-patch and it keeps disconnecting on me. What's going on?
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  • maltinpolarmaltinpolar Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    yudhistiro wrote: »
    some of us can't afford warp-speed-internet connection and stuck with sub-light speed.
    downloading big files might take hours - and in my case 1.6 GB is equivalent to around 2 hours downloading time. Im sure there are plenty others that share the same situation with mine.

    I hear ya, right here. o/
    By having option NOT to prepatch now, we can manage our prepatch to a much more suitable timing. Like when we are about to go to sleep, or having a long dinner or other situation. This will help us a lot.

    What I do is close the launcher when pre-patching is not convenient for me, then log in and back out before going to sleep. Remember that pre-patching starts whenever you exit the game, so you're always in control.

    Cheers.
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  • xaosmg123xaosmg123 Member Posts: 70 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I'll never understand how people can stay with Dial-Up, or even worse, DSL(worse because it costs the SAME as cable/broadband, but wayyyy slower)

    And the scary thing is people are playing mmorpgs with these horribly SLOWWWW connections - and we wonder why we get lag when there are too many things happening on one map!? lol
  • tigerariestigeraries Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Please add throttle ability to Pre-patch for future use... I dont mind prepatching, but my DSL provider, AT&T really sucks hard. Not even 1Mbit up or download. I basically cant use internet when this prepatch is running cause your program uses up every bit bandwidth I have.

    If I can set it to download in the background at 10 to 20 kB/s that would allow me to do other things like play a MMO or watch youtube or maybe stream a movie.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    If the pre-patch is out, then is that what I am downloading right now for 841MB...cuz I was just playing and when i exited my launcher was patching something at that size...????
  • anothervisitoranothervisitor Member Posts: 414 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    gmillz98 wrote: »
    If the pre-patch is out, then is that what I am downloading right now for 841MB...cuz I was just playing and when i exited my launcher was patching something at that size...????
    Mine was 423.2 as I stated before. Idk what is going on with the size-varied patches. Or you must be mentioning the unpacked patch instead of the download amount. I don't remember what the patched size was.
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  • maltinpolarmaltinpolar Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    xaosmg123 wrote: »
    I'll never understand how people can stay with Dial-Up, or even worse, DSL(worse because it costs the SAME as cable/broadband, but wayyyy slower)

    You'd understand if you lived in a third world country, like me.


    This is my "broadband high-speed" connection right now.
    And the scary thing is people are playing mmorpgs with these horribly SLOWWWW connections - and we wonder why we get lag when there are too many things happening on one map!? lol

    Amazingly enough, I rarely experience game-crippling lag. Go figure.

    Cheers.
    @maltinpolar
  • philchapphilchap Member Posts: 269 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    i downloaded the prepatch last night. i think it completed. when i woke up the launcher was gone. no error message. sio question what the heck am i downloading this morning.
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