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4 years ago
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Repeating & Frustrating Update Requirement

I don’t get this. I just finished ME-1 Legendary Edition on Xbox One X, and was eager to start ME-2. 

However, on the main launch menu for ME2, instead of New or Continue game, it said Install. I was confused since I thought all three games downloaded together. I thought maybe it was an update, but 33GB seemed awfully large.

Then I saw it listed in the XB1-X  download queue as Update. So I thought fine: “update.” It took several hours to download.

After which, the ME-2 button in the main launch screen still said “Install.” With no way to start the game.

I hoped that when I clicked on the ME-2 start button, my console would recognize that the update had already been downloaded and installed. Not so: it’s downloading the whole 33GB update again.

What in the Sam Hill is going on? In several hours, once it’s done, will the same thing happen? What am I supposed to do?

I read online that there was a fairly small patch some months ago, but nothing like this. Wasn’t all the hames and updates supposed to download at the same time, as a single bundle?

Please tell me I didn’t waste $60 for something I can’t play. And please tell me I won’t have to uninstall and then reinstall the whole thing—especially after just wasting six hours downloading the same update.

Any help / info is much appreciated.

  • The Installer initially loads ME1.

    Then ME2 and ME3 may be installed from within the launcher.

    Off the top of my head, ME1 is around 22GB

    ME2 and 3 are each over 30GB.

    You can install and uninstall each game independently.

    The game shouldn't be doing what yours is doing. The obvious (but perhaps not welcomed) answer is to re-install from scratch.

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  • The Installer initially loads ME1.

    Then ME2 and ME3 may be installed from within the launcher.

    Off the top of my head, ME1 is around 22GB

    ME2 and 3 are each over 30GB.

    You can install and uninstall each game independently.

    The game shouldn't be doing what yours is doing. The obvious (but perhaps not welcomed) answer is to re-install from scratch.

  • @jimbo5464 When the game came out on Xbox, it was broken up into separate downloads. It only downloads ME1 when you first install it. ME2 and ME3 need to be downloaded individually from the game launcher (it should say install when you go to the launcher in game). After you install both, the file size should be around 93.8 gb with all 3 games.
  • jimbo5464's avatar
    jimbo5464
    4 years ago

    Thanks. I came somewhat to the same conclusion after the second ME2 (30+ GB) download; whereupon ME2 did finally start.

    Although I still don’t understand why the launcher made me download two separate installations for ME2. The file sizes were marginally different: one at 33-something GB, and the other 32-something. I couldn’t imagine—at those sizes—that one was the install file, and the other an update / patch.

    I thought maybe the second download was for ME3, and a glitch in the launcher caused it to display the status as ME2. But afterwards, the ME3 button in the launcher still displays “Install.”

    Regardless: largely a moot point now. Armed now w/ a better understanding, I think I’ll go ahead and download ME3, so I can jump right in when I finish ME2. Especially if it makes me double-download again.

    BTW: I’m loving this franchise so much, I can barely believe it completely eluded my awareness all those years ago at initial release.

    thanks again for everyone’s help!

  • SofaJockeyUK's avatar
    SofaJockeyUK
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    @jimbo5464 wrote:

    BTW: I’m loving this franchise so much, I can barely believe it completely eluded my awareness all those years ago at initial release.


    If you're loving it when you haven't yet finished 2 or played 3.

    You're in for a good time. 😉

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