Patch System

[Nightmare!]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but I just want to give a suggestion. There are always some updates that players really want and most of the times there's a need to update the client. How about if the client checks all the games files through the server and it download any new content instead of having to download a new client every time there's a update (sort of a patch system) . It can even have a feature where the whole client can be reinstalled if there's a problem with the game files. This way more updates can be implemented faster. I know it would require some coding but I think the effort worths it.

 

[HitmonFonty]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but I just want to give a suggestion. There are always some updates that players really want and most of the times there's a need to update the client. How about if the client checks all the games files through the server and it download any new content instead of having to download a new client every time there's a update (sort of a patch system) . It can even have a feature where the whole client can be reinstalled if there's a problem with the game files. This way more updates can be implemented faster. I know it would require some coding but I think the effort worths it.

There used to be an Updater but it was disabled or removed due to some problems I don't recall. The Dev with the source code is no longer active here though and we're stuck with what we have until the new client has been built.

 

[Krowe]

I'm certain that this style of feature will return with the launch of the new client. PWO used to have a pre-launch auto-updater, similar to other games, a few years ago. Changes in the development team phased this feature out, but that is more due to circumstance than choice.

 

[Jinji]

There has been some interest in future clients also including a Launcher-type system for news and updates, which might also include a patcher - however it likely won't be given discussion priority until such time as a new client is close to releasable state.

There HAVE been two attempts in the past to create an auto-updater for PWO. Both were found to have failings - the first was unreliable and had no error correction; the second fell down when the client was redeveloped for the current 1.7/1.8 branch and included files the Autoupdater was not aware of, thus resulting in incomplete patches. I can go into further detail technically about both, but I won't right now. It's generally agreed that if PWO WERE to include a patcher or auto-updater in future, a system would need to be visualised that was reliable and self-correctable.