So, I got on Xbox today and discovered that Halo Wars 2 needed an update which is fine. My friend said his update was 12 GB’s give or take which had me inwardly groaning because my internet is crap and that alone would take me about 7 hours to download because DSL internet rivals potato internet. However, upon trying to update the game, I discovered my update is 41 GB’s…which can’t be correct. I thought maybe my Xbox had derped and uninstalled my game but no, it said ‘updating’ not ‘installing’.
So, can anyone explain to me why everyone else is downloading 12 GB’s while I’m waiting for the next 24 ish hours for a 41 GB update to go through?
You’re not the only one, I’m currently installing a 40 gb update aswell. Was really itching to play 2v2s today too.
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> You’re not the only one, I’m currently installing a 40 gb update aswell. Was really itching to play 2v2s today too.
Guess we’re in the derpy update file size club together. Hope you brought some snacks, it looks like we’ll be here a while lol.
If your download is 40Gb is sounds like it’s re-downloading the full game. They touched a little bit on this in the update blog, it’s partly due to how the Xbox One update system works.
> As it stands right now, if a single byte changes in an existing game file, the Xbox One update system requires the entire file to be downloaded instead of doing a more granular only-download-the-changes.
Hopefully with the improvements they’ve been doing this should occur less in future, at least that’s my understanding from what they’ve been doing