Steam fully redownloads Factorio everytime?

[Venatos]

everytime i restart steam(about once a week or on a steamupdate), it fully redownloads the factorio client.
i noticed this since the steamversion release, with a 100mbit line and factorio only beeing ~100MB its not a big thing, but i wonder if thats intended?
ps: havent launched factorio yet, still waiting for .13 to drop.

[DaveMcW]

Once a week is approximately the patch release rate.

[sillyfly]

It only redownloads the changed files, but since the Factorio binary is one massive file (presumably it contains all dependencies?) this means that every change in the code calls for a massive download.
Still, at least the graphics and sounds aren't downloaded with each update (at least, I think they're not).

As for 0.13 - You'll be waiting for a month or two, at the very least. No reason not to enjoy some 0.12 actions until then

[daniel34]

The update from 0.12.26 to 0.12.27 is only 14MB on Steam, and the previous one was about the same size.
I think Steam also performs a diff or similar to updates so it doesn't have to download the whole binary (and the .pdb), just the differences.

[Venatos]

the download is allways the same size, 113MB.
i probably need to start it up at least once, so it gets recognized? ill try that. soon-ish.

[warmadmax]

using experimental in steam, only used 14mb to go from 12.26 to 12.27

[Koub]

I already asked the question, only new files are redownloaded. But when there's a rework of ... the audio file for example, i'ts quiclky a lot bigger.
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