Why am I prompted to install this thing when I click Play in the launcher after today’s patch?
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Because the game depends on it
Probably a new version of anti-cheat software. Game would login and go to the hanger view without it.
It has to do with the c++ programming language and c++ visual studio some programs that utilize c++ visual studio need the c++ redistributable
I just cancelled this installation, went into the game, played a match - everything works as fine as it did yesterday.
So why would I want to install this thing at all right now??
A misleading prompt by Gaijin.
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You don’t want to make November’s “Fair Play” list?
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I do not understand your remark.
EDIT: There was a second patch today, really tiny,
and now this pesky installation prompt is gone.
EDIT 2: And after today’s patch it is back!
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The fair play list is the list of players banned for cheats/banned mods to the game.
If you don’t have that it might make you eligible for that list.
What has this got to do with this unnecessary installation prompt?
I play Arcade battles that don’t even need anticheat bloatware.
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I joined a custom battle without installing it before I came up upon this thread, how screwed is my account?
youre not gonna get banned for not updating the c++ redistributable
Alright thanks
Yeah I got this too. Rather annoying. Closed out, made no difference.
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Why is Gaijin not commenting on that? It would make it easy for everyone.
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They did recently make anti cheat neccesary for arcade as well. But I was just explaining what the other guy meant. You probably won’t have any issues with this.