Tuesday, April 16th saw the highly anticipated Storm Rising Archives 2019 event go live on the Overwatch servers and allow players to begin their adventure of capturing the Talon accountant of Maximilien with Genji, Tracer, Mercy, and Winston. As with all Overwatch events, players had to download an update in order to gain access to all of the Storm Rising content. However, the large size of the Overwatch Storm Rising update did not sit well with many players. This led to developer Blizzard Entertainment to explain the reasoning for the large size of the latest Overwatch update.
Overwatch Storm Rising Update Size Explained
The Rising Storm Archives 2019 patch is a very large piece of content, as it sits at 25GBs. Unfortunately, this large update size was seen as a negative for some members of the community. Seeing this negative reception by one player, the official Twitter account for the popular first-person shooter title responded and explained why the update size was so large.
"Hey all, this patch features a remaster that impacts players on console," stated the Overwatch Twitter account. "Benefits to this remaster is load time performance improvements, optimizations for memory constrained systems, numerous bug fixes across many maps, and data format changes to support future content. Worth."
Hey all, this patch features a remaster that impacts players on console. Benefits to this remaster is load time performance improvements, optimizations for memory constrained systems, numerous bug fixes across many maps, and data format changes to support future content. Worth.
— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) April 16, 2019
Unfortunately for Blizzard, this reasoning did not get them off of the hook with many players, as they stated that the developer should have implemented these changes before the event in order to cut down on the size of the Storm Rising patch. Another major reason for the negative reception by players is that ones with slower internet speeds were not pleased that they would have to wait longer than originally expected in order to experience the new content.
How about doing this in a separate update a week before an event ? You are basically screwing over all of Europe because by the time that's downloaded it's 12am
— ???-???? @Hanami Lu (@Sunless_Realms) April 16, 2019
I doubt I'm gonna get to play tonight and I have work tomorrow and don't finish till 8pm ??
— Laura ? (@TheNearlyWitch) April 16, 2019
For some people it may take days because they aren't obviously in a city with great ass internet. Good job. It's like the second time I think you're doing this, how about you don't? Like the previous mentioned it, you're screwing up the event for many people in the end.
— Bluetato (@BlueSky38738662) April 16, 2019
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