Can I swtich from Experimental to Stable quickly?

[sinkatze 52]

I once in a while switch from Stable to Experimental so enjoy both. However when you switch, it needs to download the 800mb file each time. I'm not exactly sure what these downloads are or why it has to be downloaded every time we switch, but is there any way of going around this or not?

Its not a big deal the fact that I have to download a bit, its because unfortunately here bandwidth is limited and some months when I am short, I can't really afford switching over like that. Yeah I know, sad story.

Thanks!

Edited October 3, 2014 by Sinkatze

[Conrad_The_Comrade 577]

No, when you play Exp it's changing the build, basically giving you the update to come for stable, solely for testing purposes. If you don't want to wait for the download, don't switch.

[sinkatze 52]

No, when you play Exp it's changing the build, basically giving you the update to come for stable, solely for testing purposes. If you don't want to wait for the download, don't switch.

What I forgot to mention that made me wonder about this is the other night Stable went down for Maintenance, I was able to join the 0.50 Experimental servers without switching everything, then when Stable came back I couldn't join Experimental anymore for wrong version. So its just confusing.

I know I don't switch as often as I would like to sometimes.

[Conrad_The_Comrade 577]

What I forgot to mention that made me wonder about this is the other night Stable went down for Maintenance, I was able to join the 0.50 Experimental servers without switching everything, then when Stable came back I couldn't join Experimental anymore for wrong version. So its just confusing.

I know I don't switch as often as I would like to sometimes.

Alright, so Stable goes on Maintenance every Wednesday, and before that both Stable and Exp were on the same build, they just increased the player count for servers, but the build didn't change. After that, Exp had an update, so it was no longer on the same build, and if you wanted to play Exp, you had to download the 700+ MB update.

[darth_vaizard 42]

I wouldn't mind so much if it didn't have a large chance to utterly break the game to the point that it needs to be installed again...

[sinkatze 52]

Alright, so Stable goes on Maintenance every Wednesday, and before that both Stable and Exp were on the same build, they just increased the player count for servers, but the build didn't change. After that, Exp had an update, so it was no longer on the same build, and if you wanted to play Exp, you had to download the 700+ MB update.

Ok thanks, it was just confusing because it did say it was on 0.50 so thats why I was like "How am I on experimental if I didnt download the file" lol