Well let’s start with the obvious – that’s a ridiculous size for a patch isn’t it? I suppose it’s also obvious that a game from Bethesda should be on the shelves with a huge amount of problems that need fixing before the game is worth playing.
Anyway, fire up your broadband and tell mother she can’t stream Strictly It Takes Two because you are going need all the bandwidth to download the 9.1GB of day one patch for Dishonored 2. According to the updates notes on PS4 (and posted on Reddit) the patch does the following:
Improved texture streamer, shadow quality, reloading time, audio mix, framerate performance. Added mid mission stats screen and screenshot preview for saved games and various bug fixed
“Before you play, remember to make sure that you’re online so you get the update,” advise Bethesda. “Fix your effing game before you put in a box,” I advise in return.
Remember there are no reviews for the game as Bethesda want everyone to “enjoy” it at the same time. However, you can go on YouTube and watch lots of videos where young people scream about the game as Bethesda have given them piles of cash. Allegedly.
Source: Reddit
MrBiron
That’s ridiculous. Sounds like they put half of the game on the disc and you download the other half. Yay for “next gen”
ron_mcphatty
Oof, that’s a biggun’. Does this top the D1P league? I can’t remember seeing any 9’S before or any in double figures.
wonkey-willy
Ron would you kindly translate your post for those of us who are in out 40’s..
jeez you yung’ uns’ and your street talk?
ron_mcphatty
Sorry, I didn’t mean to type in code :) D1P meant Day One Patch and by 9’s I meant 9GB patches. I’m also not very street, I’m a grumpy old thirty something!
homerjnick
Well I’m 40 and had no clue what he was on about!
bunimomike
To quote a certain game. “You want to know what I like most about people? They die!”
:-)
homerjnick
This simply has to stop…online patches are ok to fix small issues but not to make the game workable on day of release.
No other product or industry does this…its mental…yet accepted.
Youles
I thought about this the other day – as a sort of collector (I always buy physical copies) – I wonder how many of my games will actually be able to be played to completion without access to patches/fixes. Am probably being a bit OTT, but still…
homerjnick
And yet if you get the digital version that you pay £40 for it can be revoked from the platform and you can never play it again and you don’t get your money back!
I blame Trump.
beeje13
The game IS workable and complete. How do you think people that don’t have their consoles connected manage?. I’m not defending the practice though.
Notable exception is the original Xbox One cosole which wouldn’t work without the day 1 patch.
Youles
Not a surprise nowadays.
Whilst I preorder almost all my games, I don’t often play them at release – usually 4-6 weeks after once any major issues are sorted. World of Final Fantasy and Mafia 3 not yet started for this reason. I did start Tomb Raider though and already looks like I might have run into a trophy glitch for completing all 9 side missions, which will require a new playthrough to obtain! I mean seriously, the game has been out for a year on Xbox already, WTF! Then there was Firewatch with a DLC trophy issue that no one could obtain before it was patched.
For 9gb sounds like it’s some pretty major things. I guess the games are just rushed to release and still worked on whilst in the manufacturing stage.
tactical20
I really didn’t enjoy the first one, so what miniscule interest I had in the sequel has just been firmly quashed!
TSBonyman
9Gb is pretty big, you have to wonder what the performance is like without the patch.
The Lone Steven
First of all, it’s not developed by Bethesda. It’s the publisher side of Bethesda that is handling it and just publishing it.
Second of all, 9GB!? WHAT THE FECK!? THAT’S BIGGER THEN BIOSHOCK 1 or 2! How is a patch bigger then a game!? I mean, it’s bigger then some PS2 releases! Bigger then some PS3 games!
How the feck did this…
ARkane, what the heck!? You…
AAARGH!
Great, by the time I get it, I could be looking at spending hours staring at the poxy download patch screen, installation. Feck this crap!
This is a damn joke. A joke of damned and it sucks.
Even Skyrim with all of it’s patches on the PS3 didn’t come to this size in total(Patch size only).
How the feck?
Either this is post Gold additions, which is fair, i suppose and stuff they are patching in for free or it’s a whole lot of bug fixes.
Since when did the idea of playing a game turn into buy, download patch, wait for the bastard to install, play?
I swear, I am going to just go “Feck this. PC gaming it is.” at some point. At least, with PC, i can do other crap whilst it downloads! Not consoles, no. It’s takes up the entire thing. Feck installs, feck patches, feck this 9GB patch!
Go ahead, make 40GB the normal ones. I dare you, developers. I know you want to. Go ahead! DO IT! DO ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!
wow, that came out of nowhere.
I best make a nice cuppa, calm down as that rant was unexpected.
But still, 9GB is a pisstake.
Tuffcub
“First of all, it’s not developed by Bethesda. It’s the publisher side of Bethesda that is handling it and just publishing it.”
So what you are saying is it’s a Bethesda game. Glad we agree :)
The Lone Steven
No. It’s published by Bethesda but developed by Arkane. I will admit, I dislike it when people apply the developer side to every title and make “Bethesda buggy games” with every title as most are fine. Doom, the original Dishonoured, both were released without bugs and both by different studis.
Pitcher-T
I know it’s still ridiculous but I swear I read an article somewhere that the reason for these day one patches isn’t down to the developer not finishing the game its to do with certification and having to get it approved ages before it can actually be released. Therefore in the time it takes for it to be approved to launch they can tweak the game more and more. But this goes into the day one patch rather than the disc?? I’m sure I’m oversimplifying this.
Its not fair to blame it all on certification, and I think as a whole a lot can be done in the game industry to streamline the production in a way that benefits both the developer and the consumer.
Tuffcub
It’s not certification, in a lot of cases the ESRB dont even play the game. The submitter has to fill in a form and tell the ESRB about any violence, drugs use etc, and where appropriate provide videos of the content. They do NOT need to supply a finished, playable game, they just have to show what it will contain.
tactical20
Just gone back to Arkham Knight to clear up a few side missions and that’s now got a 6GB patch to download, so won’t be playing that tonight.