Okay long story short, I had to reformat my system (Windows 10) and after downloading the .msi and loading the launcher, the downloader pops up and begins downloading. Verifies 100%, seems to download the entire patch 100%, and then when at "applying" step, it gets to about 6% and force closes.
I reformatted my system again thinking maybe it was a bad driver or something, but same issue.
Of course when loading up the launcher, the UDK.exe spits back a bunch of direct X issues. So i've even tried manually installing the UE3 Redist.
I even downloaded iTweek's full game install. That got the game running, but then in game it was spitting back all sorts of Blue Screens of Death.
I haven't had a chance to run a memory check, but I wanted to see if anyone else has had similiar issues or if its simply a hardware issue on my end alone.