Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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104 Gig Patch? (self.baldurs_gate_3)

submitted 1 year ago by beebarfbadger to c/baldurs_gate_3

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That's like Theseus bringing in his ship for maintenance and when he returns to get it, the ship mechanic saying "so I have good news and bad news..."..

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably because they pack a ton of files into a handful of compressed archives, which means the full archive needs to redownload when a single file is changed. Does Steam not have a delta patching system to handle this? They already compress downloads so it's not like a delta patch framework would cost extra CPU in comparison, and the bandwidth savings would be immense. Seems like low hanging fruit to me?

[–] Quetzalcutlass 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They do have delta patching, but it's pretty useless for some types of compressed archives. A single changed file could completely change the remainder of the archive's contents due to different data in the compression buffer.