How does steam work?
How does steam work?
I understand it's a bit blunt, but I was just attempting to grasp it, something similar?
Almost correct – everything works well except the appid parent. It would transition smoothly from Steam to Fallout 4 (AppID 377163), etc., because each game has its own distinct AppID. We notice the "nice name," but Steam sees Fallout 4 as just a bundle with AppID 377163. Regarding updates, your system would receive a list of versions and download any new files from the patches. For instance: App V1.0 (installed) → App V1.1 (updates to app.exe and app.dat) → App V1.2 (updates to app.dat and new file app2.dat). In this case, Steam would fetch app.exe from V1.1 and the updated files for V1.2, as it doesn’t rely on deltas and treats those changes as the "effective" progression from V1.0 to V1.2. I didn’t ask for more details on this, but I wanted to clarify.