There's actually four, aren't there? Two now plus two more added when the game releases. (And perhaps some more added with patches later on.)

We're down to the wire so now I'm starting to get interested in update TIMES! Steam typically releases at 10am Pacific time.

Given this response it doesn't sound like there are four, unless two were already added during the latest patches:

Take your pro steam glasses off
Many comments in the past I've seen people prefer manual patching.Ppl who prefer auto patching seem to be pro steam or come over from steam itself ;).
Neither of us can prove either point unless we do a survey of the whole GOG user base right?;). We agree to disagree I think...

Oh, OK. I thought we were getting two with the release then more later. Arg. I hope those companions scale with your advancement so I can run back and snag them when the patches show up.

P.S. I like manual patching but I would like anyone I'm trying to help troubleshoot game problems to have auto patching. ;)

Nothing to do with pro-steam, just mocking how you're using absolute statements to 'prove' points when it supports your argument and how they're suddenly not valid when they don't.

As for personal opinion. I doubt many people here have an issue with having auto-patching, as long as it's optional.

I prefer manual updates also. My biggest gripe with Steam's auto updating is that there isn't a "notify me of updates but don't auto patch" option. Steam has only 3 option, Auto update off, Keep updated, or high priority ASAP auto update. It makes for a terrible time when a patch breaks more than it fixes things. I often visit the community hubs to see if anyone is posting major patch issues, but if you run steam right away, it's often too late and there is no restore to previous version option which IMHO is a terrible thing to not have.

That's why you turn auto-patching to off, then turn it back on whenever you want.

care to list any games to prove the fact patching breaks it every time? all this years of using steam there is not one game i have come across where i wanted a previous version of it back due to a patch, i have signed into betas and out so that's there .
in multiplayer games patches are critical cause you want ensure everyone playing online is the same version.

You can choose not to have auto-updating in Steam, so..

Wait, standalone patches aren't available for Dragon Commander on GOG? You have to use an auto patching system to update the game?

Someone who owns Dragon Commander will have to answer that (I don't), I only know that Larian said that they made a custom auto-updater for the game just for GOG. Whether that is in addition to GOG's normal method or instead of I don't know personally.

Dragon Commander has a standalone patch.

I bought the Steam version just because I saw it there on their front page during the sales. I probably read that it would show on GoG, somwhere, but I forgot about it, and it was there on the steam front page… I impulse bought it when I saw the release date was so close.

Never said patching breaks games every time. As far as going back to older versions, it's happened to me a couple of times where it patched before I got to see what the changes were, lets see off the top of my head, Torchlight 2 some balance things they tweaked that was bad for my game. I don't care about the balance issues in multiplayer cause I am a single player gamer. Batman AO, one of the patches caused my game to crash to desktop more often, was fixed in the next patch though, but till that next patch was released I wasn't really able to play it. There were a few others over the years, but for the most part, most didn't do anything bad. Still it would be better for them to ask do you want to apply the patch along with a box that shows the change log.

As far as multiplayer game patches, it absolutely is not critical. They want to nerf the game because of multiplayer balance that's fine, but tell me what it is especially when it also applies to the single player game and ask if I want to apply it before applying it. If I don't patch then I can't play multiplayer and that is just fine. But screwing up my single player game because they are prioritizing only the multiplayer side of the game sucks.

I actually pre-ordered this on the basis of the statement by Larian that the boxed version will be DRM-free, despite my laptop being of questionable ability to actually run the game. Turns out that it is only the Kickstarter boxed version that's DRM-free - the retail version requires Steam.

Good thing I cancelled my pre-order in time. Looks like D:OS is another $5 purchase for me down the line. The €35 I've saved will go to something else.