Redownloading the game from ptb to live everytime

PatchNoir

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This is a quick way to spend a lot of internet data + killing the life of hardware like hds and ssds.

Most of online games have a beta separated from the game like pubg, making it unecessary to feel this problem about downloading over and over

The fix for this aint genius play and it was solved 7 years ago in the dbd reddit with a bat file: https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/9al2ny/quickly_switch_between_live_dbd_and_ptb_dbd/

basically the devs could officialize this while only coding a bit to delete the ptb archive after its over since you have to do it manually after the ptb is over.

Or just make like the other games do, we can be better, these redownloading shenanigas keep players out of the ptb just because its extra work lol

PatchNoir

Just for data ill link all posts made about this problem on different websites or forum threads so the devs can have a big scope on player demand about this, wich is factually big. //dont forget that fnaf ptb is small 5gb, but there was once a time we had to reinstall 32+ gbs

https://steamcommunity.com/app/381210/discussions/0/1679189548076320569/

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/1594/switch-between-ptb-and-original-dbd-without-redownloading

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/13qef0m/how_to_play_regular_game_and_ptb_without_patching/

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/qqbl5i/if_i_download_the_ptb_on_steam_do_i_have_to/

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/1eln187/downloading_the_ptb_without_losing_the_main_game/

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/207331/once-again-why-is-the-ptb-held-on-a-beta-branch-instead-of-a-separate-library-entry

This last one is the best one in terms of explanation