Patch notes on PlayStation 4 indicate that the day-one update impacts nearly every aspect of gameplay including, but not limited to: new events in the open world, animations during dialogue, money and experience rebalancing, weapon and armor rebalancing, combat improvements, NPC reactions, sound and the user interface itself. “Essentially you are having to redownload the game to replace the existing files.” “That beings said, this is a major patch that improves overarching mechanics throughout the game,” Powers said. He went on to explain that the way the game’s data is structured requires that even slight changes to each 2 GB “archive” requires the re-download of that entire section of the game. “Let me stop the rumor mill dead in its tracks before everyone continues jumping to conclusions,” said senior manager of marketing and public relations, Will Powers. Still, we strongly believe that after four years wait it will pay off to wait a little bit longer while the Day 1 patch is downloading.”Ĭommenters went after Klima for that statement, however, prompting publisher Deep Silver to speak up on their behalf. At a hefty size, it’s going to take some time to download and it’s a shame. “The drawback of course is that most of the data in the old build was replaced and has to be downloaded as a patch. The results are obvious: quests are more balanced, RPG progression is smoother, the game runs faster and every facet of the game got more polish. “We could have used this time to get some rest, or we could use it to create some additional content and sell it to you as DLC, but we went back to the version-to-be-released and worked on it. “The production realities of game development mean that a ‘release’ version has to be finalized some time before the actual release date,” said the game’s executive producer, Martin Klima.
What makes this one unusual is its size, which is far larger than other recent, comparable day-one patches that were criticized by players for being “huge.” For instance, 2015’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt had a 588 MB patch, while 2016’s No Man’s Sky had one around 824 MB.Ĭoncerns about the size of Kingdom Come’s patch prompted a response from the developer on the ResetEra forums.
It launches tomorrow on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.ĭay-one patches are not uncommon in this day and age of always-online PCs and consoles.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a role-playing game set in 15th century Bohemia that began life as a successful Kickstarter Campaign, is getting a massive, 23 GB day-one patch that makes changes to many aspects of the game.
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