Hearthstone Patch 8.0.4
A new patch has hit the live servers with.. minor text changes. Official notes were sourced from the Hearthstone Appstore page since they weren't posted anywhere else.
Official Patch Notes
Quote from Blizzard
- Resolved several card localization errors.
- [iOS] Addressed an authorization issue with iOS purchases.
Everybody are connected by dial-up or why that flame due to 1.4GB update? Feelsconfusedman
They most likely added more than just 'text changes'. Text changes aren't going to take 1.5gb to update..
HS updates are always large, but they usually pre-patch things. They probably added in some chalkboards, cardbacks, and bug fixes. Probably some visual work, too.
Yep, the first approach to 'update' implementation to basically replace the whole thing. The reason is that even small changes to software tend to ripple through the whole thing as addresses get pushed up or down by insertion or deletion of the executable code. Systems that only update the changed portions are much more complex and don't actually save that much in download size due to the need to transmit not only the updated content, but the file offsets and lengths associated with each change.
Even if it is Unity, these are files on a computer (or phone), patching algorithms and utilities have existed since the early 80s. There's no reason to push GBs worth of data to update any file on a computer disk regardless of what platform is being used. Finding out when you are on the road and want to play a quick game that you have to wait to get back home to play is frustrating to say the least.
What I don't get is why the text isn't stored in some resource outside the executable code. Even stupid-ass Microsoft managed to pull this off ages ago and their software is dog shit.
I understand now why Blizz take so loong time to nerf some card! If they need 1.4 gb for some text...they must change a lot of terabyte for just one card! XD
Update dropped heavier than Kendrick Lamar recent album
The comments on this thread are just killing me
I hope blizzard releases 2gb patches for all its text updates
The update is 1.4 GB in size and has minor text changes - nice oxymoron blizzard
LOL, not at all, but I get what you mean.
You know how big a text file is? Im pretty sure you can fit a whole lot of literature in a txt file 1.5 gb heavy
you have no idea what you are talking about
You made an account to say that
If you were to add up the entire history of literature ever produced in the world, it would amount to 86,666.666 (repeating, of course) times 1.5GB of text (130 TB).
You were close, though.
Mine has been closing okay lately.
Mine was fixed with this last update