September 1st, 2023 Video Q&A: What can Coffee Stain do to reduce the size of patches?

September 1st, 2023 Video

Q&A: What can Coffee Stain do to reduce the size of patches?

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for instance so we don't manage the patches that you download it's all handled by the respective platforms that being said there are things game developers can do to improve how their games are handled by that patching system to get the most efficient downloading of initial like the initial game install and patching of updates and we've taken most of the recommended steps but there are a few things we can do to improve download download size but these systems are kind of like a blackbox so sort of hard to know for sure in the future we have plans for the game to take advantage of a new runtime loader that should optimize how the game is handled when loading resources and it's possible that we can better adjust how the game is packaged, to make the Delta encoding handled by each platform to be a bit more efficient but yeah it's hard to say like how much better it will actually get at this point one thing I also want to point out is that it's a