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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Cyonamie on April 17, 2002, 03:47:06 am

Title: Tech Demo
Post by: Cyonamie on April 17, 2002, 03:47:06 am

?Will it be updated as it goes along, or will we dl a new thing each time, or will it be half and half?

thanks
-cyo--NOT CYCO OR CLEO:P

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Post by: kyalin on April 17, 2002, 04:00:15 am

I think i might know the answer to that. I think it was in the faq section that they said you would just download an updater for it, then update it from that.  Check in the faq.
Yea it says \"TO play the game you will need to download a client for your OS (Windows, Linux, etcc...). This client will be for the first demo only about 30-40 Mb. It will increase in size in later releases, but we will provide an auto-update program that will downlaod necessary software when you start the game.\"

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Post by: Vengeance on April 17, 2002, 06:34:35 am

We will have an auto updater at some point, but nobody is promising when that will be. :-)

I would guess we will have 2 or 3 more releases after this one before we start working on auto-updating.

Of course, if someone would like to join the coding team and work on this task, it could be done much sooner...

- Vengeance

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Post by: Link on April 19, 2002, 07:46:28 am

if i spend a night downloading a 50mb client, at the next update will we have to totally redownload the client or just the update? like a bug that took 100kb to fix, wpi;d we dpwm;pad tje (hehe) (would we download the) 50.01mb client or the 100kb fix?

Title: Boop!!
Post by: Tok'ra on April 19, 2002, 08:55:33 am

probly be just small patches that updates the game...  wounld be a a pain i nthe ass to download it over and over... even with a Cable modem, it get anoying. So I\'d asay patches whould be more like a reasonable Idea.

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Post by: alcapalis on April 19, 2002, 01:21:49 pm

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wpi;d we dpwm;pad tje 50.01mb client or the 100kb fix?

erhm.. what did he say?
:D

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Post by: el_salvador on April 19, 2002, 07:22:42 pm

well he said  

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wpi;d we dpwm;pad tje 50.01mb client or the 100kb fix?

 :D

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Post by: Vengeance on April 20, 2002, 07:19:18 am

I would guess that we will split the patches up a little bit, so you are d/ling 20MB instead of 50MB or something, but to get down to 100KB patches is going to require the auto-updater.

- Venge

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Post by: Echelon Verenathuu on April 28, 2002, 12:57:04 pm

Well, I hope we won\'t have to wait too long for it then.
This could get annoying.