What is that with that daily downloads, around 700mb… f*cking almost each day… wtf
There are less patch notes than downloads…
can anyone explain that why this is done this way and not e.g. one patch a week ???
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That’s been happening for quite a long while now, I think it’s mainly little fixes on the server side which the Dev’s don’t want to broadcast in patch notes, only the large update fixes are listed in the patch notes…
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Every week on Black Desert they pull the server down for 4 to 5 hours. I can’t tell you why the download is the size they are, but I assume those are important updates for the game. My husband here tells me 700 mb is about 2% of the total game size on disk. Also the game is only down for 15 minutes at most, 15 x 7 days = 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Have fun!
The big patches are actual and (mostly) patch notes documented content releases and bug fixes for the expansions. Right after an expansion, it’s only natural to see more big patches.
The problem are the undocumented small patches of ~170 MB before the big patches or that happen without any big patch at all. they are wholly undocumented and CCP refuses to tell players what they load on the computers.
I love the daily downloads — every time that 700 MB bar pops up, it feels like a little reminder that my connection is healthy, the servers are alive, and the devs are quietly slipping fresh goodies into the game. I’d rather have constant tiny injections of updates than wait a whole week wondering what’s broken, what’s fixed, or what’s secretly improved behind the scenes. Daily downloads make the game feel active, tended to, evolving, and honestly? I’ll take that comforting little “updating…” message any day.
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Yes. There are several models of code development and deployment. Some of them are continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment. A software company which is able to perform continuous deployment has very good development and deployment workflows and is able to deliver patches and upgrades to the software very quickly.
Here is an article describing the basics: Continuous integration vs. delivery vs. deployment | Atlassian
The process itself does not guarantee that there will be less issues, but the bugs and issues can be fixed faster.