Guild Wars 2

Yo,

Since that update yesterday my client is trying to download over 30k files, i left it downlaoding today as I have slow internet and I’ve downloaded 1.6gb and still 28k files to go, this is the patch size? or something gone wrong?

If you have HoT, there is a new Raid wing in there. I’m pretty sure that and associated files are big.

Even if you don’t have hot, your still downloading the same things.

Wasn’t sure if they did that because of no access.

Deedrick.4372:

Even if you don’t have hot, your still downloading the same things.

Change your streaming settings to “On Demand” …

Na man, my game was fresh up to date until Tuesday’s patch but at the moment it’s trying to download 28,000 files and done 1.8gb so far, the other raid wing didn’t take this much data.

I’m a WvW player and dn’t even wanna play this new pve stuff but taking so long to update lmao, did anyone else have this amount of files to download?

My download speed is a baseline 120kbps maximum usually sitting on around 70kbps.

It’s not the download speed I’m worried about that as I know it’s slow as hell, but that the amount of data it’s trying to download?

Essentially did the update have over 30,000 files to be downloaded? Same with having already downloaded over 1.8gb

There’s definitely something wrong with that. I’m sure I didn’t have to download anywhere near that much.

Manasa Devi.7958:

There’s definitely something wrong with that. I’m sure I didn’t have to download anywhere near that much.

Thank you for confirming that, I didn’t know if something was going weird or smth, I’ll update my backup of GW2 from an External HDD.

Unless anyone has experienced this before and knows whats wrong with my regular copy?

Try a different server:

Gw2.exe -assetsrv drwkwiejruot6.cloudfront.net

Just in case, as a simple test, open your GW2 folder and make a copy of Gw2.dat, delete the original, rename the copy to Gw2.dat, then run Gw2.exe -repair

How do I try a different server?

27,285,045 before (off by a few KB)
28,002,054 after

The patch shouldn’t be more than 800MB.

xXBAKESXx.6731:

How do I try a different server?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments#Using_command_line_arguments

Cheers all, will work on it

I have the same big update and it’s downloading really slowly (my internet is not that slow).
It says it’s playable and it does seem to be playable so… I guess it can just download whatever in the background. It’s lucky I don’t have monthly download limits any more.

Yeah man, mines exactly like that! Mine’s also stuck on that 10% before playable part, still doing files, guess I’ll just take it to work on a hard drive and update from there, cri no wvw for me tonight

xXBAKESXx.6731:

Yeah man, mines exactly like that! Mine’s also stuck on that 10% before playable part, still doing files, guess I’ll just take it to work on a hard drive and update from there, cri no wvw for me tonight

Stuck at 10% and 1.8GB downloaded sounds to me like the asset server has a corrupted file.

1) launcher downloads the corrupted file
2) launcher checks if the file is good
3) the check fails
4) laucher attempts to redownload
5) go to 1)

You didn’t change the language setting did you? Have seen other people pop into the forum that ran into a similar issue in the past after having changed the language which caused the patcher to download a new set of files.

Mine was like this as well. Large that is not problematic. Thought it was odd but I have no idea what the raids take so I didn’t think too much of it.

i really had no issue. i guess if your super excited to play asap then it would feel like forever. but i have verizon fios and it downloded in less than 10mins for me. gave me time to make some food.

DeadlyDohnut.7052:

gave me time to make some food.

lol food, where you from mars?
i mean srsly.

Stand The Wall.6987:

DeadlyDohnut.7052:

gave me time to make some food.

lol food, where you from mars?
i mean srsly.

so you dont eat food on earth?…u might not live very long eating nails and wood chips.

Make food for normal humans can mean making some popcorn, or reheating last nights dinner, or making easy mac and hot dogs. gamers got to have their munchies while they play. unless this game is your form of anerexia. where you dont eat anything while your playing the game. if mars is where gamers are alowed to eat chips and drink water while gamining then i will say im from mars. plus men are from mars right?

ok.

At such a huge amoutn of files, I personalyl would rather know, if this is all realyl just only for the new Raid Wing, or if Anet has put into this patch also a big amount of Stealth Content into that isn’t in the Patch Notes, basicalyl already I think stuff for the April Patch to let us preload already stuff for that patch to make that upcoming patch for us “smaller” due to havign already some parts of it loaded in earlier patches as Stealth Content that needs to get “activated” then only later by the April Patch

Somehow i cant believe, that just this raid Wing should be so much more massively bigger, than the first Quarter Patch, which brought alot more content and features to the game, than just a single Raid Wing …

345mg and just only 10k files done, so its basically around 3x as big of a patch, than usual and that just only for a Raid Wing?? Nah, Im pretty sure, in this patch is alot more stuff in, than we may beleive, and than Anet has told us via the notes

I hate Stealth Content personally, I want to know what I’m downloading, even if that stuff isnt maybe directly now for me relevant but rather later with an other update.

Shouldnt be wished too much to say in the patch notes then something like

• Other Patch relevant Content for upcoming Updates, approx of the size of xxMB/GB included (something like this to spoil not things, if story stuff is included)