so this has been happening more and more frequently when updating the game.

when attempting to update, it constantly fails and has to go into 2 instances of a 1 minute retry time. it will recover and then download as few as 2 and as many as 200 patches and then fail again. it fails with the following messages:
- unknown Error:E_FAIL
- just a generic an update error occurred.
- unknown error: 0xfffffffff80043038

i have been attempting to update the game for going on 8 hours now. it is becoming...frustrating.

i have tried using a proxy server which does not work for me, it never makes it past installing prereqs. i have also tried doing this on both the steam version and non steam version, both perform the same. finally, i have tried adjusting the download speed of the patches in the options settings to all available settings.