Greetings,

When can we expect a standalone Patch1 update - there is NO WAY i'm re-downloading 65GB of the game files.

Kind regards,

midrand

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There is a standalone patch, two of them in fact. One is 523mb and the other 42mb. However, expect the unpacking/patching routine to take a while.

I am not seeing a standalone patch on GOG offline installers for "Patch 1" by Larion Studios. Only 3 hotfixes are there as standalone, 40 odd MB each. Nothing else.

Patch (4.1.83.5246 to 4.1.83.6620) 4.1.83.6620 41 MB
Patch (4.1.83.3931 to 4.1.83.5246) 4.1.83.5246 43 MB
Patch (4.1.83.2651 to 4.1.83.3931) 4.1.83.3931 43 MB

Exactly. I also see only three above small patches. Where is the standalone patch?

This isn't the first game GOG has done this to.

Had to download all of Grim Dawn cause they wouldn't issues a single intermediate patch.

How do we make GOG pay attention?

there should also be one about 72mb which is a patch of the last patch... the main result is your game crashes at certain vid points because changes got made to the files ;)

You open a support ticket. When you get responses you share them with us. Warning it's not impossible that this is a problem on the Larian side. Even so, GOG should be made aware that they have customers having a bad experience.

Here is the response from GOG:

Hello,

If a patch would be available, we would deliver that. As you are able to find on your GOG account, under Baldur's Gate 3, we already provided three patches for the game.

However, the game is still in development and both frequent as well as massive changes are expected in various updates. Sometimes patches for offline builds will take a bit more time to make and additionally unfortunately if an update will require provide changes in almost all files architecture, we might not be able to release a patch at all and only provide latest build of the game.

If you do not wish to redownload the offline installer every time where a patch is not available, but you wish to keep the game up to date, then your best option will be to use GOG GALAXY. You can download it here:
https://gog.com/galaxy

Please note that we had the exact same conversation, back in 2018.
Regards,
Dr Cat
GOG.com

Then we went on to debate this further and the answer basically was - use GOG Galaxy or suffer re-downloading the game when GOG or the developer decide not to issue a specific patch. I did not get down to the nitty gritty of whether this is GOG not willing to do the patch or Larian - but the morale of the story is that GOG will not be providing standalone patches for every version of the game. This was a game breaking bug for me in early access and I stopped playing. I will not be refunding the game as I think Larian is doing a great job so don't want to punish them but I will not participate in any future early access title through GOG.

I had the same issue with GOG in 2018 regarding Kingdom Come Deliverance where GOG would also refuse to provide standalone patches for some updates. If you played that game, you would know that the download size is enormous (for 2018 - Larian has certainly outdone that by another 20 GB).

Unlucky

It's GOG.

They've done this to multiple games; really crappy lazy support staff.
I've even had them delete support tickets they didn't want to deal with.

Standalone version for all patches are now available :)

Yes, I saw that as well now - well done GOG!!! Lets do this consistently for all titles!