I leave my PC in a state where i can just work. Basically never switching it off. I do make a point of restarting it once in a while.
My power tripped and after i booted up the pc i wanted to get back to work ASAP.
Unfortunately i am forced to update the launcher which is 150 MB in size. Now to you first world country people and to the 3rd world country people who earn enough to afford big expensive DSL or connections this isnt a problem.
But for those of us who have terrible connections i can now not get back to work but instead have to sit and stare at the launcher updating at a painful 50kb/s which is going to take 5 hours.
All because we are not given to option to update but instead we are forced to do so.
Sorry to hear about that. However you do not need the launcher to open and get back to work on your project. That is unless you are updating your current engine or getting a new / old engine version. All you need to do is find the .uproject file for the file you are working on and then just open that. You can then get back to work and have the launcher update in the background while you are working.