I don't know if Uplay changed any of this, but one game I got on Uplay (Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist) was not pre-patched. So it started at v1.0, and I booted up the game, it patched once, to 1.1. Then the next time I booted up the game, it patched to 1.2, and so on (actual version...