offline patch download?

DarkAmaranth1966, what I read his post as meaning was that he could download the patch on its own as a separate executable, so that he could then have it stored on his computer to run at any time, the way patches used to be distributed. He of course needs to be online to download it initally, but he wanted a digital copy of the patch executable.

Of course, Origin and Steam have changed the way patching games works, so you can't donwload a patch file, you simply auto patch. GOG still allows you to download a separate patch file like he wants. The advantage of downloadable files is that you can start from a base game and patch it to whatever version you want. With the way Origin and Steam work, you can never play the patch 2 version now from a fresh install. If you have the disks, you can play either an unpatched version, or a patch 3 version. Having patch 2 downloadable would allow someone to patch the base game to version 1.02 instead of being forced to the current version.