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If it doesn't make any progress after a significant amount of time and you aren't able to get into game, I would recommend reaching out to our player support. They will collect diagnostics files from your computer and hopefully either provide you with a solution or ask an engineer to take a further look at it.

Can't speak for other employees but I mainly play competitive.

The speed shown on the launcher is the speed at which is downloading data from a server. As part of updating to a new patch, the launcher has to download data and move or reorganize data within files and executables. Often when its displaying very slow speeds its doing the second part. It doesn't have to download any more data but it may have to move things around. I believe if you wait long enough, it should successfully go through? The slower your disk is, the longer this will take. For example having a solid state drive or NVME drive will greatly help speed this step up.

I am hoping that at some point in the future we will represent disk operations better in the UI. Not sure if we have anything immediately planned though.

Like others have mentioned, it is most likely a smaller patch that fixes very critical issues. These are often referred to as hotfixes. For example one of bigger patches the VAL team puts out every two weeks might accidentally introduce serious performance issues or critically break an agent's ability and a smaller hotfix patch may be released during the week which fixes this. As I mentioned though these are generally only done for the most critical of issues that can't wait until the next big patch.

The 1kb speed often means it is not currently downloading anything from the internet but instead is modifying files on disk. I think the Steam client and the Epic games launcher do a much better job at visualizing this than we do. For example they have separate graphs that display network and disk operations.