I guess it's because the game is made with a crapton of separate files for every animation. There are a little more than 55000 files in the folder, imagine how slow it must be to read every single file, especially if your disk drive is fragmented.
Are you sure that you're talking about the same game?
In that case I do not see purpose (at least for me) of compressed version - saving circa 15.5 GB of space and getting as result huge number of small files.
These are actually very interesting numbers. Never downloaded the compressed version and I always imagined that there would be thousands of image files in the game files, but that is just mind blowing. So let's say if some files are sound files, text files, icons, effects, etc, then there should be almost 45000-50000 actual renders.
Yes, it's a known bug which also mentioned in his release post in Patreon.
Saves aren't backwards compatible. The way you do it is to load in the extra file full of old saves (link in op), then on the main menu click on "autosaves" and choose the last version you played.
Sorry , after full reinstal and download from patreon all work, i have willy from 0.45 and patch it, but now better after full reinstall. Thanks from Russia. If you may accept this thanks )))This sounds just like either bad extracting or bad re-packing of game cause game has no missing pictures or/and sounds I test my game before every update and dev console would scream if any files are missing
