Pre-Loading & Game Size

[paablo]

This one is aimed purely at the developers / steam team.

-When will the game be available for pre-load?
-What will the size of the game be?

I ask this because my internet is slow and I wan to play it as soon as possible!

Looking forward to the release.

Thanks

[sikbok]

Hi paablo,


Not sure how pre-load will work, that's a Steam thing.
I'd assume the game will preload.

The game will be about 1.7 GB, as compressed for download.
That would be the standard edition btw.

[NoBuddy]

WHAT???

[Cougarific]

What what. 1.7 GB is tiny by today's standards. I'd guess less than a half-hour to d/l and install at cable connection speed.

I just bought Assassin's Creed: Black Flag on sale and that was a *30 GB* download that took more than 2 hours.

[Fully Sick Monaro]

1.7 ay? That's pretty small size, considering the games I'm used to. Heck, I'm still playing Baldur's Gate and that's about the same.

[sikbok]

We hit a compression of about 50%, which helps : )>

[paablo]

1.7GB! I was expecting 10-15 GB.
Thats great news! Will only take an hour or two.

Thanks Dev!

[Zalzany]

1.7 is preload, that isn't bad at all. Last time I had a preload was rome II it took more time for my comp to decompress and install the game then to download it, although Rome II sadly is a bad example of a new release game...

[sikbok]

Isn't pre-loading standard?
Nice way of preventing peak load on the servers.

[nutcrackr]

I'm not sure its standard. A year or two ago it wasn't. Steam might decide based on demand and game-size which get preloads. At 1.7gb it's probably not critical for a preload. Would only take me an hour or two to download and I don't have the fastest connection.

[Szeron]

<3 non-bloated assets.

I miss the pre-CDROM days when people actually knew/learned how to manage assets within size constraints. You folks are a dying, under-appreciate breed. o7

[sikbok]

Thanks Szeron,

We worked on previous gen console games, i.e. Overlord & Overlord 2.
Trust me, that teaches you how to optimize content size and memory usage : )>