Undead Labs have released patch 1.2 for State of Decay 2. The good news is that 20GB means 20GB of improved gameplay, stability, and overall quality, so fans of the game should look forward to the n... State of Decay 2 Patch 1.2
It means they didn't use an xdelta patch or that the MS store doesn't support that like steam for example, so you have to re-download ALL modified files even if the changes are a few megabytes each.
MS Store is intelligent about updating only what is needed. It is quite common with games on Steam, UPlay and Origin too that when there are substantial updates to maps (which are usually single files) those generate big update size. "Updated a number of strings that were previously hardcoded in English" How this makes me feel that the release has been rushed big time...