Guild Wars 2

Hey guys im sure this was asked before but was it anywhere stated how ANet is going to handle the update if there will be one ?
Im pretty concerned that when release hits they just drop a massive patch and instead of getting to play on time we´ll have to stare at the very uninformational updater and stare….and stare…and stare…

Since there is STILL no prepatch im getting a little bit panicked.

TBH, we have probably been downloading it for months. How else to you think we have been able to data mine all this information? I can remember at least a couple times in the last few weeks when there were big patches and no release notes accompanying them. That’s not to say there won’t be anything to download come launch day, but you can probably bet that everything they have revealed is already downloaded.

Considering they have been able to datamine chunks of the xpac (maps, elite specs, skins, etc), a portion of the content is already downloaded. The rest will get downloaded the same way any other content does – when the patch goes live.

The betas were on the live server. This means, as the others have said, we have been pre-patching for months now. Why else would we have been able to log into out normal account and play on beta toons with our banks and gold copied over to them? Sure we didn’t keep anything but all the stuff was still on live and not on a test client.

We have the raid and first map as of last beta weekend event on the live server and thus installed into our current client. Elite specs, ranger pets, and so forth are in game just not able to be accessed.

I am assuming we will get another patch tonight when HoT launches which will unlock the new areas, elite spec, hopefully let those of us who consumed the glider skin by mistake when we bought the xpack skin our gliders, and so on so forth.

Keep in mind we also have streaming updates in this game now. Meaning we can play after a certain part is finished updating. It will be a big patch no matter what. Every MMO i’ve played even with a pre-patch has a large update when the xpack launches. It’s just the way it is.

You could always go into Windows Task Scheduler and create a task to launch the game in the middle of the night so that it updates itself. Then when you have a chance to play, you can start it up and hopefully have only hotfixes to download.

Well my problem isnt exactly that there will be a “pretty big update” but i fear that there will be a “ZOMG kitten IS DIS 35 GIGABYTES?!” patch even though this is blown out of proportions

Since as far as i know we only got Betastuff and only this was Datamined, and this is only, lets think up a number, about 10% of what the Addon weighs.

Im pretty sure im mistaken on that, and this is only my uneasyness due to excitement talking.

The original game is 21-22 GB about, still massive… actually I think without updates it was originally 15GB. Given we already have some of the information from HoT in the current GW2 client (and thus the GW2.dat file and just the normal file in wherever you saved it is) it can be assumed GW2 HoT isn’t going to be 35GB download.

Granted I could be completely wrong on this, but I just feel like it won’t be given the size of the current game ^^; that would be over double what we already have. I realize mmos are massive, but again, given the size of what we have 35GB is a little extreme to assume.

frayon.3984:

Granted I could be completely wrong on this, but I just feel like it won’t be given the size of the current game ^^; that would be over double what we already have. I realize mmos are massive, but again, given the size of what we have 35GB is a little extreme to assume.

Yeah i already said that this assumption is blown out of proportions

Jem.9634:

frayon.3984:

Granted I could be completely wrong on this, but I just feel like it won’t be given the size of the current game ^^; that would be over double what we already have. I realize mmos are massive, but again, given the size of what we have 35GB is a little extreme to assume.

Yeah i already said that this assumption is blown out of proportions

^^;

patch? sounds like someone was assuming something…..