In an age of multi-gigabyte launch day patches, Horizon: Zero Dawn is bucking the trend: Guerrilla Games has announced that the role-playing release will have a day one update of just 250MB. Details pertaining to what the update will include remain underwraps for the time being, but it's likely to be your usual roster of bug fixes and minor balance tweaks.
For those wondering why the outing needs a patch at all, it's perhaps worth remembering that the title went gold a fair few weeks ago, so the team at Guerrilla Games has had plenty of time to iron out any minor issues in the interim. And at just 250MB, even a slow Internet connection won't delay your date with Aloy too long.
Update: Turns out we already covered this one. This is new territory for Push Square. Do we delete the duplicate? It's probably too late for that. It remains as a mark of shame.
[source twitter.com]
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Ooops.
Well at least it reinforces how great this news is!
Sammy's just trying to piggyback on my #content.
There's only one way to settle this.
FIGHT TO THE DEATH!!!
Hopefully this becomes the norm. I really like how it has almost nothing in the way of a day one patch, no season pass, etc.
It's cool. I don't read Rob's articles anyway..
Any day one patch is too much though, no matter how small.
Used to be a time when games were actually shipped in working order, without dlc crap or patches .
@KitsuneNight Game development is different now. The game is finished and ready, but if the team has time to tweak things while the disc's being manufactured, why not?
@KitsuneNight The game won't be broken without it.
I know what your saying as some do go too far but a lot of old games came out with minor issues and couldn't be fixed. At least now if something discovered it can be looked into.
Thats an almost complete game then. You dont see that everyday.
So 500mb total?
Sounds like there's not 'ALOY' of changes.
Sigh. Even I'm ashamed of that.
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