hmmm so basically if you switch from steam to the stand alone you will lose your account ? or what i don't understand what everyone is talking about , and 2.7GB is annoying if it's unnecessary .
Steam and Standalone are different login details. You can't login using one's credentials on the other and vice versa.
I suspect if you just manually update it using a current up to date client you can skip it, but it's kind of doubtful since you would have to somehow only overwrite files that changed for it to be faster.
(Or if you believe your write times are faster than the dl times, which they probably are)
