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Aphrodite posted:Bitraider is less work for their content servers, so it's preferable for them. It's not. BitRaider, despite the "Bit" in it, is wholly unrelated to BitTorrent and is not a peer to peer patching solution. What it does is prescribe a particular format and API that allows clients to partially download minimum required data (i.e.: lower quality assets), allow execution with incomplete data and seamlessly stream in new data as it comes in. Ultimately, their servers still have to deliver the same data, unless the patch happens to be so terrible the player ragequits before it's done streaming in.
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Jan posted:It's not. It does mean that you only download the patch and not the whole executable that's being patched, right?
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prefect posted:It does mean that you only download the patch and not the whole executable that's being patched, right? You can't really patch executable code on the fly, so the executable is probably the first thing that gets downloaded. There is, after all, a minimum amount you need to download before you can start the game. That said, BitRaider somehow remains terrible compared to Blizzard or ArenaNet's own versions. 
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Reddit posted:To those wanting Free CC self.swtor
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Okay, I guess sometimes things that are not horrible can come from Reddit.  Edit: That said, I wanna play the game now! 
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people work themselves into a frothy rage over a very very very tiny amount of actual money. Never fails. they feel they're entitled to riches and splendor over a minor inconvenience, every single time any game patches and they can't sink their life into it for a tiny amount of time. Really sad.
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Telex posted:people work themselves into a frothy rage over a very very very tiny amount of actual money. poo poo is actually ridiculous to watch. It's almost too much second hand embarrassment
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The Locator posted:When code gets really complicated, it's simply impossible to test every possible strange corner case. While this is true, the fact that they spotted something wrong and took the servers back down within minutes makes me doubt this is one of those one-in-a-million fringe cases.
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Nipponophile posted:While this is true, the fact that they spotted something wrong and took the servers back down within minutes makes me doubt this is one of those one-in-a-million fringe cases. Yeah, it makes me think that it wasn't something they could have patched tomorrow night--it had to have been something fairly gamebreaking.
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Alter Ego posted:Yeah, it makes me think that it wasn't something they could have patched tomorrow night--it had to have been something fairly gamebreaking. They said it had to do with an alliance alert that wasn't supposed to happen yet.
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Feb 9, 2016 22:38
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So, is Chapter 10 of KotFE out?
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kalstrams posted:So, is Chapter 10 of KotFE out? You should probably read the last 3 pages or so.
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Hulk Smash! posted:You should probably read the last 3 pages or so.
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kalstrams posted:So, is Chapter 10 of KotFE out? Yes, but the servers are all down for bonus maintenance.
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Medullah posted:They said it had to do with an alliance alert that wasn't supposed to happen yet. Probably the Darth Malgus recruitment mission  (he's still alive dammit)
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kalstrams posted:If I felt like reading 120 unread posts, I would've done so already, don't you think? Then I guess you'll never know
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In that case, the servers blew up, it's your fault, everyone hates you, and you're banned from the guild.
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prefect posted:Yes, but the servers are all down for bonus maintenance. Colonial Air Force posted:Then I guess you'll never know 
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Can I still apply the giant patch when I get home even if I can't log in? 5GB is a large amount of data...
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Alter Ego posted:Can I still apply the giant patch when I get home even if I can't log in? 5GB is a large amount of data... I was able to get patched up even though the servers were down. You should be okay.
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Alter Ego posted:Can I still apply the giant patch when I get home even if I can't log in? 5GB is a large amount of data... Yup, should be fine. I usually patch before servers are back up.
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Alter Ego posted:Can I still apply the giant patch when I get home even if I can't log in? 5GB is a large amount of data... Yeah you can start patching. There might be another small patch to fix the issue if it's not server side, but the main patch is available.
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quote:Alright folks, it as almost an hour later. I checked in with the team and unfortunately I don't have a ton of new information to report. We are still very actively testing solutions in an effort to get the servers online as soon as possible. BRING ON THE WHINING!
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Jedi posted:BRING ON THE WHINING! I strongly prefer getting updates, even if they amount to "nothing yet". Just let me know you haven't completely forgotten about me. But people are going to start shrieking, of course. 
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I don't even really want to play right now, I just want [as was stated by others] to organize my cargo holds and buy a hypercrate so I can get that sweet, sweet saber
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Jedi posted:BRING ON THE WHINING! I DEMAND COMPENSATION FOR MY CRIPPLING ADDICTION  Rannison posted:I don't even really want to play right now, I just want [as was stated by others] to organize my cargo holds and buy a hypercrate so I can get that sweet, sweet saber I just want a hypercrate too, I don't really give a poo poo about the KOTFE chapter. It's just an extra perk.
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It is fairly lovely that anyone outside the US has lost a day of their "early access", as lame a subscriber bonus as that was anyway. I was looking forward to playing this tonight (but it's okay I shot all the aliens in XCOM instead).
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But if it takes less than a day it doesn't really matter.
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Aphrodite posted:But if it takes less than a day it doesn't really matter. won't it probably take less than an hour? I mean I don't have high expectations for these chapters being anything more than an instance's worth of stuff to do then back to the grind.
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Medullah posted:Is your company by chance centered in Missouri? Nope. I live in Arizona (about 600 people at the office here), but the company is headquartered back East.
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Is it really a 5gb download? Guess I won't be playing tonight.
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Nipponophile posted:While this is true, the fact that they spotted something wrong and took the servers back down within minutes makes me doubt this is one of those one-in-a-million fringe cases. About 18 months ago, I found an extremely critical defect in our code during the release process, entirely by mistake because I did something wrong. It took me close to an hour to figure out exactly what I had done, since it was abnormal and by mistake, at which point everyone got called in and everyone worked 16 hours straight so that we could have the systems back up before the beginning of business on Monday morning. Summary - poo poo happens, and sometimes you get lucky and notice it *before* the clients, at which point all hands on deck to fix it.
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Athenry posted:Is it really a 5gb download? Guess I won't be playing tonight.
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"Hey folks! I have some updated information. We have a possible fix which we are now moving to test fully on the live servers. Best case scenario, the servers are live within an hour! That means that the next time you hear from me will be an update on the current status of the fix, or that the servers are live. -eric"
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So if my patch download is literally not moving at all, that's because the servers are down or whatever, right? I don't need to cancel and start over? I'm always paranoid about canceling anything SWTOR-related in the middle of a download for fear that I'll have to flatten and reinstall the game or something.
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Ainsley McTree posted:So if my patch download is literally not moving at all, that's because the servers are down or whatever, right? I don't need to cancel and start over? I'm always paranoid about canceling anything SWTOR-related in the middle of a download for fear that I'll have to flatten and reinstall the game or something. Download servers and game servers aren't the same thing. Download servers are working at the moment - but yeah I'd say just leave it for now!
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My patch download was hosed all afternoon. Just let it sit and it should resume eventually.
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prefect posted:I strongly prefer getting updates, even if they amount to "nothing yet". Just let me know you haven't completely forgotten about me. But people are going to start shrieking, of course. I agree. I do appreciate the updates even if they have nothing to update. Also: quote:The Old Republic @SWTOR 3m3 minutes ago Sorry, I don't remember how to embed a tweet.
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