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Downloads bomb if servers are down?

Grumble

By Grumble,
Posted on: 2009-08-07 07:20 in The Global Training Room Test Server

 

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Hi Guys,

am having to set up a test version and am going through hell with the agonisingly slow download speeds.

Yes I know all about the "their end, my end" debate but my first question is, if I am downloading the latest updates to either test or live and the servers go down, as today for routine maintenance for example, does that interupt the download of data as well?

I am doing all the usual tricks to set up test, but the latest version is a nine hour download at approx 100 kb/sec and I need to schedule that. I also know that the usual updates save their postion and restart when data restarts but for an initial installation it goes into "Fixing Files" mode which does not remember and so restarts from square one! Arghhh.....

My end? Well in the time it has taken me to type this in, I have also downloaded 5.8 Gb of data from Tom Tom, being the entire maps for Europe for my Sat Nav. So no problems there!

Finally and because of the slow download situation, my last question is, when the new Going Rogue issue goes live will we non-users still have to download any patches to it. I wonder what happened to anybody who had only CoH when CoV was released?

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As far as the server status affecting downloads: I don't know.

As far as having to download anything when the expansions are pushed to live: Everyone has to download those in order to be able to continue playing any aspect of the game, even if the expansion is not purchased, so that your system can render anything new that the expansion contains, such as costume pieces and environmental graphic updates to city zones. It's highly doubtful that they would make a separate download for expansion-exclusive zones like whatever Praetoria might be.

So, even if you don't buy Going Rogue, your system will have to download and install it. And there will most likely be a pre-download weeks before the issue is intended to go live.


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Yea there was an entire patch/update when COV was released as there was a graphical update along with COV. I will assume that GR will provide something similar to update everyone regardless of ownership of GR.