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Just letting you know of new site we are building.

https://community.unpacked.pw

Features:

  • For now we will mainly focus on PC games.
  • Sharing releases via p2p only (torrents).
  • Friendly community.
  • Sha256 checksums of release files so you can alway check the files are clean (no viruses, no malware).
  • You will find in our community only the UNPACKED releases! No zip, rar, iso, just unpacked files.
  • You can request releases.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Without exaggeration I have had to download a zipped tar, that contained a rar split into ~100 parts, which contained an iso which contained a custom installer that extracted the compressed game files.

Seems to be overkill.

With an unpacked release I can pick and choose what to download, if it's on a newer patch level I can just point it at an existing folder and it will just download the difference. And of course I don't have to jump through the stupid installation hoops.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Sounds like this thing was redistributed multiple times before you got it lol