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This downloads the whole game. He hardest would be waiting for download to finish for me.
Huh? That sentence doesn't make sense.
Yes it redownloads the whole game. Not a big deal.
I don't have gigabit network or a lot of disk space.
Okay well that's an issue with your setup in general. It has nothing to do with what we're talking about.
It's not adding extra data. You're replacing your game with an older version. If anything it'll use less space since newer updates add more data usage to the game usually.
Also your slow Internet is an overall issue. Then you have an issue with downloading things in general. Again, irrelevant.
Correct me if I am wrong: If you use steam console to download an old version of the game, regardless of currently installed version, steam downloads the whole game. Let's say I was on v2.1, the game received an update v2.2 and I downloaded it normally through Steam, this downloads only the difference between 2.1 and 2.2. Let's say I have 2.2, the game doesn't use the "betas" feature and I want to downgrade the game. Steam ignores the current 2.2 install and downloads 2.1 in its entirety.
Yes it downloads the whole game. But you're overwriting the old one. Hence no significant shift in disk space used.