In the past you had to at least be able to wrangle drivers and understand some of what went on under the hood to get anywhere and that taught you a lot and encouraged you to learn more beyond it. They are now used to "magic boxes" in the form of phones and laptops that they've no real idea what anything does. You gotta admit though it was pretty stupid back in the day seeing the bar at 100% and the download not completing it A lot of these problems are because of the more recent generation of gamers being technically illiterate compared to previous ones and the people making the games. Originally posted by BlackRibbon:Many don't understand what that means and see the 100% and come to the forums to complain.Ĭase and point, all the threads that continue to ask that even to this day. Now idk how the payday 2 devs did that or if they even used the variant i know from my programing experience but that should explain it a bit anyways. the actuall building was prob under 10 MB but cause it was in a pack the update was so big. mind you thats a city building sim basically. This is the reason why frostpunk had an update that added nothing else then 1 building and had more then 1 GB size for that one building. Instead you pack up things into groups and update depending on groups, try to avoid changing a group just for one single rare bug fix and instead wait till you gathered some stuff for this. but if you want to update anything inside of that compressed file you need to unpack the entire pack, this is why you would never make it as small as possible cause youd need to redownload the entire game if you want to change a single thing. compressing files is awesome for sending a file from A to B. I don't know how compressing and unpacking a file works, but I always imagine it's like a inflating a beach ball. Originally posted by Nighthawk:way back when in the good old days of 2013, people had really slow internet so the optimal way to download a game was to compress the file as much as possible so the user could unpack it after they downloaded it.
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