what evo already said, it downloads what it needs, and thats that. blizz just havent got to using one cumulative singular patch just to get v1's to say, v10 like they've ALWAYS done for diablo1-2, war1-3, WoW, sc1 for some reason and im sure they are prolly testing (oh, this is still the beta, right?)something out on the patching system. you'd think that it wouldnt raise questions to do something different (or in your viewpoint, obsolete and outright terrible) when they've already done what you have describe all the time for all their games.

and lets put it this way, not ALL of us are having painful and slow patching. i dont, for instance.

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Added on May 5, 2010, 2:53 pmoh wow someone actually understood whats the purpose of a beta test...

/jokes aside, yeah they are using really similiar tech thats been used for WoW, just a lil different as there arent cumulative patches yet, and/or smarter/faster/better patching compared to WoW

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Added on May 5, 2010, 2:54 pmnvm we can play good enuf LOL

just enjoice our sc2 games

This post has been edited by Quazacolt: May 5 2010, 02:54 PM

They added the gigantic map editor + new maps which resulted in a larger patch, what so bad with letting it patch a little bit longer.

It's not the size but the speed of the download.

I gonna let the installer run again in an older PC and see what happens.

Then I gotta test it, hopefully the experience won't be as bad as on my new PC.

well i'm i'm having no problem with the current sc2 patches...
wut it does is that it download files into a hidden 'update' folder and tracks the files in it...
so u could manually download patches and dump them all inside that update folder to patch up by running the client...

patch 9 is close to 500mb (based on the manual patch size)...
it took me around 20 minutes to patch up patch 9 (while raiding lol)...
so it depends on ur connection i guess...

This post has been edited by evofantasy: May 5 2010, 03:23 PM

Be patience laaa .. last time it took me 3 days to patch and download maps.

Meh, I still can't get a map to work. Sad. The download would just stop without any error message.

Wow you all seem to have lots of problems downloading and patching the game ehh. I guess I am lucky that I do not have much problem.

Ouch man. Its only 70 pounds in uk .. >_> ..

70 GBP is more expensive la.

This post has been edited by fujkenasai: May 5 2010, 03:59 PM

Ouch man. Its only 70 pounds in uk .. >_> .. i.e. rm 350 .. sighz.

From what i see on the thread, there are quite a few who spent few days in patching the game which means the patching system isnt efficient for some people.I have even seen people using a 3.5MBps connection who also took like 2 hours to patch the Beta.

It's not doing what is Steam is currently doing now, Blizzard updater is downloading each individual patches and apply them one by one which is slow and inefficient. Steam does it all in one go like find whats different and download whats different to replace it. There are cases where my TF2 just have a corrupted texture, it just find an replace that texture without the need of reinstalling the whole thing. Does Blizzard Updater does anything like this?

Considering Blizzard's past reputation and how close is the game to release, this isnt forgivable at all. Seems like the same DoW2 1.0 incident gonna happen again.

I cant be spending days to patch the damn game everytime i install the game.

Exactly. The size has nothing to do with it.

It took me 2 hours for Patch 9,while the earlier patches are pretty fast.

2 hours is consider fast enuff, it took me 1 day for patch 9.

Could be better,IMO.

1 Day to patch a game is ridiculous.

LoL yeah same I downloaded it before I went to office, for that patch.

But then again patch 9 is considered a huge patch, I wonder whats the size of it. Its almost like downloading the whole SC2 beta client, I guess.

This post has been edited by fujkenasai: May 5 2010, 04:39 PM

anyone has an extra key? lol

almost 500mb...
there's a 470mb file within the patch 9 manual patch...

ok i am able to dl the maps.. at last.. using VPN.. anyone wants to play?

exactly, i didnt have probs too.

hell, i didnt even manual patch, just let it run by itself while i play WoW at the same time while spamming on chat room (lol dual screen)

Dang, Can you help me? I'm facing the same problem!

FFS theres a patch thats around/over 500MB which includes a map editor that wasnt included before along with new maps etc etc.

500MB is 500MB no matter how you slice it. if you choose to be ignorant and ride on blizz's lolreputation, just go ahead. we'd rather just play the game anyways.