"OMG it's a 25GB game patch, must be tons of amazing new content that they're keeping quiet about."

*Could* be, sure, and stealth launches are a thing sometimes, but generally speaking, if it's a big patch for no discernible reason not attached to anything upcoming that's already been announced, the actual reason is probably something very boring and usually non-game-related

@rygorous If a game uses version X of an engine (Unreal, Unity, etc) and updates to version X+1, that's going to have massive butterfly effects in patch size. And the fervent hope of everybody involved is NO GAMEPLAY CHANGES! Because otherwise something went wrong.
@TomF good news: no* gameplay** changes***