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For your first time downloading the game you'll only need part 1 and 2. Note that you need to extract both parts manually (and copy / paste the part 2 files), since they aren't linked compressed files.So first of all, thank you SO MUCH, for making an entire archive of everything its super easy and helpful. But I am a bit confussed. What is that "HoTM64dif" is that something I need to paste over the main game from 1 and 2? Or is that something else?
The HoTM64dif files (one will be released for every version) is only the changed files from the previous version to the current version (listed as update only in the first post). So if you have a full download of the current version (20211029, it's release date in year month day format), when the next version comes out you'll only need the HoTM64dif file for that version to copy and paste over, instead of having to redownload the whole game again.
It's honestly a really good system for in development games, since it really cuts down the amount of data you need to download when the game updates, especially just bugfixes. It sucks to download a 1.5 gigabyte game, only to find out it had game breaking bugs and the developer posted the bugfix as the full game again, instead of only the 100 kb file that was changed to fix it.