ZLOrigin & cracked "Game"-folders.

It has always been an admirable strategy of this forum to reduce downloads for new DLC's as much as possible in size.
For the Sims 4 these downloads are still at least a couple of GigaBytes.

With the upcoming of ZLOrigin future DLC's can be reduced to about 50MB, all you need is a new folder Game if you want to PLAY the game offline (no login to Zclient, no login to ZLOrigin).

Once you have made an account for Zclient, you can download The Sims 4 with all DLC's. see https://games4theworld.forumotion.com/t30092-zlorigin-made-simple

Make sure however that the install folder is not in a folder Origin or ZLOrigin games (You can change the install directory for the download in the ZLOrigin program).
This download acts as a torrent, you can pause, stop, continue the download at any time but you're not dependent on number of seeders.

When a new DLC is published, just update via ZLOrigin and you can play the latest version on-line.

As soon as this new DLC is cracked, all you need is the cracked folder Game, rename it to Game_cracked and place it in the install folder of your ZLOrigin copy of the Sims 4.
Now you can play on-line via Game and off-line via Game_cracked.

We no longer need the GigaBytes-consuming downloads of the folders _Installer, Data, Delta, Support and the folder for the addtional DLC f.e. EP04
No additional patches, no fixes, just a folder Game of approx 50 Megabytes renamed to Game_cracked.

No doubt G4TW will also continue publishing torrents for a complete download of a DLC for those not familiar with ZLOrigin.




Mod edit: topic title improved.

- The_gh0stm4n

This is exactly what I've been doing for months.

Tarac wrote:We no longer need the GigaBytes-consuming downloads of the folders (...)

Except you still have to download your DLC and main updates through zlOrigin, even if you afterwards use the cracked Game-folder to play "offline".