{"id":26,"date":"2008-07-02T11:20:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T18:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.byteheaven.com\/forum\/index.php?topic=93.msg153#msg153"},"modified":"2008-09-05T15:46:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T22:46:55","slug":"26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the deal with the NCSoft downloader?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like they&#8217;re using a bittorrent engine for their download client, so I don&#8217;t understand why it would start over from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I&#8217;ve turned off the NCSoft launcher and am installing Age of Conan. Its download patcher is better. Yeah, I know. That&#8217;s sad.<\/p>\n<p>To fill the time during the neverending download, I&#8217;m still playing NWN, STALKER, and a bit of Fallout 2.<\/p>\n<p>STALKER is one of those games I stopped playing because of some life event, like moving or something. I&#8217;m enjoying it a lot, again. I think this game has the most realistic artwork of any game I&#8217;ve played since Redneck Rampage. (Don&#8217;t laugh, RR is an believable, immersive &#8220;you are in the south&#8221; experience, especially the first few zones.) STALKER is also one of those games that starts out hard and gets a little easier as you figure it out&#8230; Also, the descriptions are translated in an entertainingly bad way. In several places, &#8220;inefficient&#8221; is used instead of &#8220;effective&#8221;. :D<\/p>\n<p>And all this talk about F3 made me start another Fallout 2 character. I just discovered the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.killap.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">killap&#8217;s restoration project<\/a> patches. [Gratuitous Heart Icons Here] (They also include a load of fan-made patches and bug fixes. (Over 1000 bugs! Yeek.))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like they&#8217;re using a bittorrent engine for their download client, so I don&#8217;t understand why it would start over from scratch. At this point, I&#8217;ve turned off the NCSoft launcher and am installing Age of Conan. Its download patcher is better. Yeah, I know. That&#8217;s sad. To fill the time during the neverending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[93,95,284,92,153,94],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-aoc","tag-fallout","tag-gaming","tag-ncsoft","tag-redneck-rampage","tag-stalker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}