Exact same issue here (Australian as well), download was getting stuck at 246.1MB and all the advice: Running wsreset, signing out, deleting game services didn’t work.
Jumped on a VPN that allows you to change geolocation (Can confirm US servers will work) and the file downloaded perfectly fine. Since we don’t know when this will be resolved, recommend that if you want to play, grab a free trial for a well regarded VPN or something.
protonvpn has 7 days free trial, with about 2.5MB/s download speed as far as i can tell.
Australian here as well. It’s not a location issue, but rather a server caching issue (I guess), because I connected to an Australian server with ProtonVPN and it worked just fine. Was getting about 4.5MB/s with the free 7 day trial thing.
When I had a similar issue with Division 2, it seemed to be specifically a problem with Optus customers in Australia, which is why I think that issue (and similarly this one) was caused by a corrupted file cached on a local server.
And for the record - yep, it’s complete bulldust that we have to install a VPN just to get around an issue like this.
If that’s the case what can we do?
Can confirm that VPN kickstarted the download again.
I had to make sure to remove the game from the Microsoft download queue by deleteing temp files from Delivery Optimisation, then kicking off WSRESET.exe and finally rebooting my pc.
Then connected to an American server via VPN (NordVPN) and the game successfully downloaded with save file intact.
Any updates on this issue? I’m facing similar problems and VPN hasn’t worked.
Hey was having the exact issue as original post for a few weeks now (starts downloading and stops at exact same spot every time ~248MB).
-Downloaded NordVPN,
-Connected to US (& Singapore) server (from AUS),
-Opened MS Store
-Started downloading Gears
-Continue from downloading through VPN
I did disconnect from the VPN after it started the first time, and it seemed to change servers and keep downloading for while. However, it did fail after ~5min. So just stay connected to VPN if you have same issues.
Same experience here. Australian. Tried every fix mentioned on the internet and no success. Eventually found this thread and used VPN to get past the stuck bit then resumed on normal connection. Thanks seems to work for me. 5 minute fix but several frustrating days to get here.
Hi is anyone is still having this issue. The way I fixed it, is I removed the xbox (beta) app and then reset the store. Then I reset my PC. I did NOT DOWNLOAD THE BETA APP AGAIN, instead I just downloaded it from the store, now it works fine. That app is garbage.