Hi all! Meant to respond earlier, but it's a busy day over here
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TL;DR - The main progress bar doesn't show because you don't need this data yet - our thinking is you should be able to ignore this and not let it interrupt your game play.
For those who are interested here's a little more info: We call this "next patch" or "future patch" data. Ronny, we deliberately trickle this type data down really slowly because we don't want to choke your connection for data you don't actually need yet. But we do want you to be ready to go on patch day without waiting for a massive patch. So the default is to trickle... Does that make sense?
As blackwidow notes the default download speed for future patch data is 20 KB/s but you can configure this in settings if you have a beefy connection and/or you just want to get it done. (Game Install/Update>Future patch data)
We have some ideas for showing more information, some of which you've touched on here but it would be unwise of me to promise exactly what we're going to do or when we might be able to do it. Everything is subject to scheduling and iteration!
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We do appreciate your feedback on this, FWIW in this case it sounds like we're heading in the right direction. Please keep it coming! (
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