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Normally I would be fine with this but its huge and blocking me from playing my game until it updates something I won't get to use.

yeah that is the big F*** UP that is EA/DICE...

why don't they just release a stand alone patch as well for those that do not plan on getting the new content.

then you have obviously never played any game on Steam. Every game requires you to update to play Multiplayer.

Oh I have. 1 such game that got booted from my drive because of it is Dungeon Defenders. Sure it was only a 200mb update ...every 3rd day!

But you know its weird that they are doing a 2GB update for BF3 when I had to manually update Mass Effect 3 to get both of the map packs. So basicly... I dont want a patch bigger than a game if I am never going to use it and why on the other hand must I manually go and update the 100mb map packs for another game? WHY WHY WHY!?

Ok rant over. Think I will buy CS:GO for the $15 tag

KillerByte wrote:then you have obviously never played any game on Steam. Every game requires you to update to play Multiplayer.

um, isn't Steam reliant on the actual games developers? meaning if they decide a game has to be updated in whichever way they feel like it, then so be it.

and yes, I do have Steam games.

what we talking about is not the actual update, but the fact that you have to update your game with a "content update" which you may in the end not even make use of.

Call of Duty has that sort of content update.

True but they never exceed the limit of "acceptable" which is currently 300mb. That is still large. CoD doesn't update with map packs if you haven't bought them. I think the last update I got for CoD MW3 (yeah I bought it and hate it) was a minor 30mb update.

Getting back to the matter at hand though the update is huge and I am down to a low download speed (100kb or so).

If they released the updates as a stand alone patch then it would not be so bad. They could sell the expansion on a disk(like they did back in the 1942, Vietnam, 2 days) and have all necessary updates contained there making it accessible to us with slow internet.......

But once you have the updates BF3 is really enjoyable, far better than the "lets do another re-badge" call of duty series.........

K now every1 can get p'd off...

another 2.8Gig download heading our way...

just started mine

Ag for () sake.

For what possible reason is this. The next expansions only come in September

Off-The-Chart wrote:K now every1 can get p'd off...

another 2.8Gig download heading our way...

just started mine

OMFG

I have now been playing BF 3 for the past hour and I don't see anything about an update.

THE_STIG wrote:I have now been playing BF 3 for the past hour and I don't see anything about an update.

well he said

another 2.8Gig download heading our way...

so likely in the near future

I don't see that sort of update coming until late August, as there are expansions coming in September.

Sweet

no no,

there is the download, but for the CQ expansion and Premium content.

so you guys are safe

Off-The-Chart wrote:no no,

there is the download, but for the CQ expansion and Premium content.

so you guys are safe

But was that not part of the 2gb update anyway

//mmm, not sure am going to bother with premium anymore. Think I will just get the expansions as they become available

well 1, you will be paying more individually and 2, you will still be downloading all this stuff.

but can understand, if you do not plan on getting a later expansions, going for premium now won't be needed.

Either way you will have to download the content.

But I am sure the 2gb update contained all the content for CQ, so what's with the 2.8gb one?

yeah know, many people would have been thinking that.

but if you try join a server with CQ, it tells me it needed to download it.

so either there was some stuff not included, or they are already bringing out new content for next maybe.

When I buy CQ, I will see

Dont say there is another update. I just finished my old one last night!

it's not a forced update.

it is mainly for the CQ content so only if you have CQ.

Doing the big 5GB update



at least the time has dropped to 6 hrs 8 min, and my DL speed has picked up

Off-The-Chart wrote:it's not a forced update.

it is mainly for the CQ content so only if you have CQ.

But WTH was in the 2gb update then. Meh at this rate I will not bother getting any of the expansions

ADT wrote:Doing the big 5GB update


at least the time has dropped to 6 hrs 8 min, and my DL speed has picked up

But there was a 4.6gb one and 2gb one, how it is now 5gb

It took me a similar amount of time to do just 133mb, man do I wish Telkom would stop giving out bandwidth they don't have and upgrade the exchange

Nice wallpaper btw