Earlier today, my PS4 popped up a message telling me it was downloading a patch for Shadow of Mordor. When I checked, the patch was over 8gb!!!

So I'm just wondering if anybody can confirm if it's a legit huge update, or if my console just decided to redownload all the previous patches at the same time. I replayed the game like a month ago, so I had all of them up until that time already.

Word on the street is that those are the files of the next DLC, "The Bright Lord".

That's the one where you flashback play as Celebrimbor and fight Suaron in the flesh.

Probably some fixes, etc too.

I know it's a minor thing, but kind of annoying for a game to push out a DLC content patch you may not be planning on purchasing, between the limited sizes of console storage or computer SSDs and some people having to deal with bandwidth caps or slow speeds, especially for a game with no multiplayer that wouldn't require any kind of compatability patch.

@alanm26v5: Word. Pushing huge patches full of data people might not have paid for yet is obnoxious.

Didn't they do the same for Lord o' The Hunt? I noticed that when I bought it, it was a 55kb (or whatever) key, so it must have come in one of the patches.

But yeah, not the best way to go about it, although it's nice to have it "preloaded".

It is The Bright Lord. About time too. Last season pass I ever get.

Yeah, looks like a lot of people complaining on Steam about a 5.2 GB patch. I don't mind since I got the season pass, but it does seem weird that they would force that download to people who aren't getting the dlc.

Payday 2 lets you play DLC without buying it by joining others.

BF4 is the worst example of this, if you only have the base game you still have to install 20GB of expansions.

Dam that patch on ps4. I thought pc was bad with 5.2 g update today at least it fixes bugs also and adds features on pc not sure about console.

New Features:

• Bright Lord DLC support added. (Note: Bright Lord DLC requires slightly higher system specs than Main Game Campaign. If you’re noticing a loss in performance, please lower system settings.)

Continued PC Improvements:

Stability:

• Fixed rare crash encountered when going into Skills Menu.
• Fixed a crash that could occur if blood failed to render.
• Fixed issue where game would crash after a video card driver crash.
• Fixed crash related to physics.

Performance:

• Improved rendering on domination FX to improve framerate.

Save/Load:

• Fixed issue where users save progress could be lost after watching benchmark to completion.

UI:

• Added ability to skip Splash Screens after first launch.

General:

• Steam Achievements not being awarded properly. (Issue 1: Occasionally Achievement wasn’t awarded even though game criteria satisfied. Game now verifies again whether Achievement criteria has already been met and will re-pop. In some cases, it may be required to perform unlock a 2nd time. Issue 2: Some Achievements weren’t being awarded in Challenge Mode even though they should have. This issue should now be resolved.)
• Fixed issue where player would lose Orc Hunter Rune when restarting Lord of the Hunt DLC.

Didn't you guys get the memo? All digital future.

That's why the patch is so big, best fix of all.

This practice really needs to stop. Game publishers should respect our network and disk space. Clearly they only care about what is easiest for them.

Blizzard did this to me as well with Diablo 3, installing a huge patch containing Reaper of Souls before I purchased it.

Yup. PD2's problem is that the amount of decompressing done coupled with Steam's bullshit throttling of downloads leads to a 1GB patch being a potentially 2 hour-long ordeal.