Hi there, I'm posting here to complain about the updater, because I really think it should be improved : It's the first thing you use even before playing the game, so it should make a good impression. Besides, when you just downloaded the game you're usually eager to get into the game and don't want to waste time fixing an updater. I reinstalled the game the other day, and had some trouble with it... I knew planeshift was a good game and worth the trouble (I've been around since Atomic Blue) so I took the time to search a solution, but had it been my first experience with the game, I'm pretty sure I would have thought "oh ok it's another crappy game that doesn't even work" and forgotten about it.
Now here's what I had to do :
-download the game
-install the game
-download the fix for the updater
-fix a .xml file manually
-launch the updater with a command line to add the "CheckIntegrity" option.
-update... and watch the ugly console output, not even knowing how much was left to download.
I should just have to DL the game, launch the installer and play !!! I think there used to be a graphical updater in Atomic Blue or Crystal Blue, which was much more user friendly (even if it doesn't affect the way it worked, it looked much better and gave a better first impression of the game). I think a typical installation should go like this : You install the game and run the client, which automatically checks your version (both the integrity and if it's up to date) if it's broken or outdated it should then tell you "you're client is out of date, updating now" and display a nice little window with a progress bar, then restart the client (still automatically) and connect you to the server.
thanx for reading !
