Patching while servers are down

[ItISLupus]

So, if anyone remembers one of the major fusterclucks of a patch early on, we were able to patch while the servers were still offline.(I believe it was the 1.010 patch)

I was wondering if we could do this with the estimated downtime being 4 hours? Now, they'd still have to upload to the distribution server, but I don't see why we couldn't start patching say at 2:30PM EST.

[MacDeath]

So, if anyone remembers one of the major fusterclucks of a patch early on, we were able to patch while the servers were still offline.(I believe it was the 1.010 patch)

I was wondering if we could do this with the estimated downtime being 4 hours? Now, they'd still have to upload to the distribution server, but I don't see why we couldn't start patching say at 2:30PM EST.

I just tried it. Not yet. No patch, it goes to launch and then reports servers are not available.

I tried on both NA and EU PC servers.

[Arsenic_Touch]

Most likely, they'll update everything on their side, then bring the servers back up and then we can download it and install it.

[Ssdmiddleman]

I already downloaded a patch this morning, not sure what it was for though.

[ItISLupus]

I just tried it. Not yet. No patch, it goes to launch and then reports servers are not available.

I tried on both NA and EU PC servers.

1 GB upload to their patch server, then possibly a test patch to make sure it didn't corrupt during upload(although this could be done by checking MD5/SHA-1). I think around 2-2:30 we should be able to start our patching

[MacDeath]

I'm patching now. EU - PC. ~30 minutes at 52 Mbs.

[gobi42]

i'm downloading now as well on the xbox na server

[Hawk2501]

xbox eu seems to be patching for me now

[Misfit501]

Same here, PS3 NA. About 33 mins for me.

[Cycloptomese]

I'm patching on Xbox 360 NA. Hopefully it will save me some time after the servers come back up.