Guild Wars 2

Unable to find a clear answer on this -

-Do we know if HoT will have additional files to download at launch?
(Or are they already downloaded on the current client)

-And if there is a download, what the approximate d/l size will be?

This is hugely important for me, cause I have to play on a tethered connection right now and would have to move my desktop to another location for a full (large) download.

Any links or references would help, thanks!

I am 99.9% sure there will be a download of some description tomorrow, what we don’t know is how big it will be. This is because we don’t know how much of it is already downloaded through previous updates So it could be of any size really.

Well there def going to be around 700meg Halloween download,then there’s the dlc.
I guess we have most of it but not all.(dlc)

So i’m guessing Around 2 gb at least.
I hope it’s less though as i’m on a bandwidth cap.

I would really want to download it now. Tomorrow will be quite the messup. I mean, its expansion day, thats like patchday³… not having the dl upfront is a huge setback for me to be sure :-(

Im pretty sure it will be around 10gb.

My guild wars 2 folder is 23.5 gb at the moment,im sure it used to be 21 gb.
I think i read that hot will use 35gb,so im expecting an 11.5 gb download on the 23rd.
I could be wrong though.

Bear in mind that they recently changed the downloader to let you log in after the minimum requirements to play were downloaded. Chances are that a large portion of the ‘required’ stuff is already downloaded for the BWE’s, along with a large chunk of the first map. There will no doubt be another chunk of ‘required’ download, but I suspect the majority can be streamed in the background after logging in.

Like any expac for any mmo, Im expecting a large patch in the morning, regardless of how much is already in the client, especially with any changes that have been added over the last couple of months.

10GB sounds like a reasonable expectation, but realistically we wont know until the patch hits

And don’t forget the new streaming in feature will help (see above comment from Kaz)

karik.8293:

My guild wars 2 folder is 23.5 gb at the moment,im sure it used to be 21 gb.
I think i read that hot will use 35gb,so im expecting an 11.5 gb download on the 23rd.
I could be wrong though.

Keep in mind that we already have probably 90% of the HoT content. Its just not activated. I seriously doubt 11gb will be added.

I totally forgot about the streaming, yeah

Dawdler.8521:

karik.8293:

My guild wars 2 folder is 23.5 gb at the moment,im sure it used to be 21 gb.
I think i read that hot will use 35gb,so im expecting an 11.5 gb download on the 23rd.
I could be wrong though.

Keep in mind that we already have probably 90% of the HoT content. Its just not activated. I seriously doubt 11gb will be added.

90%? Where you pulled that number from? Beta? Beta had olny 1 map and on top of that it wasnt even fully revealed. There is tons of stuff to download. New items, new fractals, new maps..mobs.. story.. Not all was put in to prevent datamining.

On top of that changes based on feedback.

I really hate doing anything that can slow down the patching so I tend not to start playing until the patch is done, streaming or not.

If I’m in “playable” with 45 minutes left to go on just patching, though, I might make an exception.

If it’s like other games, we already have the majority of the data. No idea if a-net is doing it like that though.

Burtnik.5218:

Dawdler.8521:

karik.8293:

My guild wars 2 folder is 23.5 gb at the moment,im sure it used to be 21 gb.
I think i read that hot will use 35gb,so im expecting an 11.5 gb download on the 23rd.
I could be wrong though.

Keep in mind that we already have probably 90% of the HoT content. Its just not activated. I seriously doubt 11gb will be added.

90%? Where you pulled that number from? Beta? Beta had olny 1 map and on top of that it wasnt even fully revealed. There is tons of stuff to download. New items, new fractals, new maps..mobs.. story.. Not all was put in to prevent datamining.

On top of that changes based on feedback.

From data mining we know we have all of Verdant Brink, even if it wasn’t playable. Also there aren’t any new fractals.

Fractals go down an hour before hand. Usually when they push a patch, the “old” version is still good for an hour so … maybe the patch goes live an hour before? Otherwise we will all be patching at midnight.

But we might have enough already downloaded to get in quickly while it’s downloading the later maps we won’t be able to get to until we get gliding or mushroom hopping.

Who knows.