Just sayin here - the game shouldn’t use my PC as a distro site. I was looking at the speed of a download of another game on my router, and I thought it odd that I had a lot of UPLOAD traffic, when I was obviously downloading.
I turned everything off that might be bittorrent client related like Steam, Epic, the launcher I was using - nothing worked, but I was surprised to see that I’d opened the Enlisted launcher, and left it at the button to hit “Play” - and it was entirely up to date, so it wasn’t like sending data to/from the server.
I’ve got a pretty good internet connection, but I was still puzzled, so I ran some tests, and yep. Even if you aren’t downloading anything from the Gaijin servers, you’ll still be uploading something to someone.
I don’t particularly mind it if it only happened while I was downloading game updates, but this is pretty disturbing if it’s happening all the time. You can get away with it when the game is launched, I imagine, since at least the Game vendor can argue that you’re sending data back to the game servers, but given that I didn’t have the game launched, and only the launcher, I tend to wonder exactly what is going on…?
Here’s a few screenshots of non-trivial upload speeds (traffic going OUT from my PC, with the Download speeds, being things going TO my PC).
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You are able to uncheck the “seed after download”. This however, SHOULD be default to off.
In the enlisted launcher settings:
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Ah! That did it - and yeah, not defaulted to off 
Honestly, if they made it more obvious, I don’t actually mind it doing it that much if it saves them some costs.
This is what mine looks like, and I installed the game just over a month ago:
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Does anyone know what “Use DHT” and “Use peer exchange” mean?
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I’m a bit rusty with torrent stuff but
DHT means Distributed Hash Table … it allows you to find peers who are downloading the same thing as you to create a network.
Peer exchange or (peer 2 peer) basically makes it so you can download from those that are seeding.
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Interesting.
I wondered why Enlisted drained my internet connection after starting it up.
My pc has a fiber optic wired connection to the internet with 1gb up+down but when the game is running and I’m doing something else on the pc, I always notice less speed, especially in upload.
My “seed after download” is also “on” by default.
This could be the cause.
Interestingly, some of those options didn’t work for about 2y since the open beta started.
what happen if i turn off peer exchange? does it impact the gameplay at all?
It makes downloading slower (in theory).
Those options affect only the launcher from what I know.
oh i see i thought it would make thing in game slower or something
I’d honestly say “it depends” - I have a gigabit connection that realistically gets between 500-700mb download and normally up to, I think 30MB upload.
The game, while playing, will be sending info to and from the game servers, though, I doubt the data is any larger than a very low budget video download, perhaps less.
However, if you have a really slow (say 10MB) connection or less - yeah, I imagine peering while gameplay is going on could impact your latency and lag during gameplay. Particularly since the upload limit on a connection that low is 1MB and the whole thing could be used by seeding.
And, FWIW, as mentioned above, seeding means that you are allowing downloads of bits of the game files for others to download (usually by region or closeness, etc).
If you turn it off, you could see an improvement in game play. But, if you have even a halfway decent connection, it likely isn’t impacting anything. As for when the game is actually updating - I’d think that downloading game updates would be faster if it’s enabled - since bittorrent will continue to search for the fastest connection and potentially download from many sites.
