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First Install issues - corrupted package in the offline installer

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Agaetis Byrjun Endalaust
#1 - 2012-06-29 16:49:45 UTC
First: this is not a patching problem. This is a first time install which failed _twice_

I downloaded the 2 packages of the offline installer last night (it was still the 392566 version), both were supposed to be around 2.4Gb but package1 after 2Gb was marked as completed. I installed them today after DT and I found out I had a corrupted package. Cool, now since I had nothing installed yet I couldn't try to patch, I went back to the download page just to find out a new version was out. So nice, I had to download both of them again. Please note that it takes me about 5-6 hrs to download 5Gb of stuff with a 2Mb/s dsl. But I'm lucky cause I had something else to do, so I started to download both again..... and found out the package2 was again 2Gb!!! Guess what? The installer couldn't install!!! Corrupted package again!!!

Now, since i had the "old ones" still, I mixed them renaming the 392566-package2 into 392804 and..... it worked! Well not really since the Launcher now is downloading the 256Mb patch but at least I hadn't to try my luck downloading for the 3rd time the corrupted one!

Solution proposed: why don't you split those damn packages into 8 files 600Mb each? And why don't you indicate the precise size of them (or give an hastag to verify them after downloading) so that finding out a corrupted one won't keep you out of the game for *days*? Also leaving the links to the _original packages_ (not the patch) from the previous version would be nice.

I don't know if there is another way to "restore corrupted packages" but I couldn't find one in the offline installer download page.

Now, lemme go and upgrade my skill queue before it's too late

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