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1.7 gig patch downloaded last night. hmmmm

stuart1965stuart1965 Member Posts: 691 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Last night, 20th oct, i had a 1.7 gig patch downloading. Now that is too big for any ordinary patch. Logically it would have to be season 11 surely? If so,(yes I know wishful thinking) i would have thought it would be here earlier than 27th oct. hmmm strange. oh well we live in hope.

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  • f9thretxcf9thretxc Member Posts: 505 Arc User
    It's just a prepatch kind of thing I'm sure. which is cool, give it a good week for everyone to be ready for S11.​​
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  • tinyfistedtinyfisted Member Posts: 193 Arc User
    When Cryptic releases a new season or new featured episode that involves new resources, they pretty much always send over most of the patch a week early so that folks aren't freaking out while they're melting down the patch server on release day. :) Spreads it out a bit if they do it on a quieter day _before_ folks are anticipating the release.
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  • stuart1965stuart1965 Member Posts: 691 Arc User
    tinyfisted wrote: »
    When Cryptic releases a new season or new featured episode that involves new resources, they pretty much always send over most of the patch a week early so that folks aren't freaking out while they're melting down the patch server on release day. :) Spreads it out a bit if they do it on a quieter day _before_ folks are anticipating the release.

    You do have a good point there. If this is so then, on the day itself, a minimal download as a guess.

  • tinyfistedtinyfisted Member Posts: 193 Arc User
    stuart1965 wrote: »
    tinyfisted wrote: »
    When Cryptic releases a new season or new featured episode that involves new resources, they pretty much always send over most of the patch a week early so that folks aren't freaking out while they're melting down the patch server on release day. :) Spreads it out a bit if they do it on a quieter day _before_ folks are anticipating the release.

    You do have a good point there. If this is so then, on the day itself, a minimal download as a guess.

    Well, sort of. [wry] The release day patch is likely to be a little bit hefty, too. Just not unmanageably heavy.
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  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,475 Arc User
    They do this everytime, as others have said, so patch servers don't have such a hard time on release. On the actual release, it will then be patched into the main game from there, rather than downloading again. Any patching downloading they do on that day will only be general and small, if you already have it. I'm surprised alot of people cancel the pre-patch, and then complain about it trying to pre-patch everytime they log off.
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  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,489 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Where's the delete button..​​
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  • stuart1965stuart1965 Member Posts: 691 Arc User
    questerius wrote: »
    Where's the delete button..​​

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  • erbe85erbe85 Member Posts: 20 Arc User
    The server kicked me somehow whilest in a mission and now it DEMANDS to prepatch. If I skip the patch I can't log in. Hahaha...ha ]:-/
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  • mayito2009mayito2009 Member Posts: 643 Arc User
    I just downloaded the patch too.
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  • centaurianalphacentaurianalpha Member Posts: 1,150 Arc User
    Pre-patch for me this morning was 4.1 Gb... took quite a while to finish!
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  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    They should've made it a 1.21 GB prepatch for October 21, 2015. ;)


    But on topic, the prepatch is standard operating procedure in the last week or two before a new season or expansion.

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  • lordmalak1lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,681 Arc User
    1.7Gb ??? I got a 4+ Gb databomb which I quickly aborted and changed settings to 'on demand patching'.
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