I looked in my notifications to see if anything was still downloading. What the hell? I just spent forty five minutes playing patty-cake with my controller to make sure the last bit of data downloaded so I could start playing. Please wait for it to install and try again.' The plane crashes, I jump to another one, and I'm about to start the next area where hopefully I get to start shooting Nazis. I hopped in, and played through the main tutorial level that has you running around a large warplane, putting out fires and dumping cargo out the back.

I literally couldn't leave the room, or it would never get done.Īt long last, the game was ready. In all, I probably had to restart the download about 25 times in order for the last 25% of the 4 GB patch to download. The PS4 would reconnect to the patch and download anywhere from nothing to 100 MB before dying again. What that meant for Wolfenstein was that for this last troublesome patch, I had to literally sit there with my controller hitting X to 'retry' every five minutes. When PS4 fails to download something, it simply stops, and may or may not try again later at an unspecified point in time. Finally, the first one finished about a half hour later, but the second struggled along like it was being dragged through digital mud.Įnter another problem. Both were about halfway downloaded, but kept dying as something was restricting them from completing. The game was trying to download a pair of patches, and failing to do so.

'Huh,' I thought, 'This is going better than expected.'Īfter finishing up some work, I tried to play the game at 10 AM, but found I was still denied.

Then, when I came back maybe 50 minutes after I started, it was done. My timer went from a hard-to-believe 41 minutes to 1 hour to 2 hours. PS4 at least gives you estimated time remaining, but even that is wildly inaccurate. The problem with both Xbox One and PS4's download system is that it doesn't give you the rate of download. I started downloading at 8 AM and left it running as I worked. The 51 GB file size seemed pretty daunting, and I knew it would likely be a few hours until I was actually able to play.

Wolfenstein the new order won't start