Redownload?

[Disciple]

Will I have to re-download the game on October 1st on steam? Or will my already installed blizzard version of destiny 2 be fine?

[Vrekgar]

Well it's leaving the Bnet launcher and becoming available on the Steam launcher. So it stands to reason that you will have to redownload.

But if you have the space, it's possible that once the game is released to download, that you might save some time and bandwidth by just copying the files to the new location and letting steam detect them and skip downloading those. But that's not guaranteed.

[Your Cat From 1000m Away]

On the bright side, we have pre-load :v
Which means we have about 2-7 days to download the game before the it release.

And like the guy above said, the relocate/ Steam detect is an option but it not always work :v

[Disciple]

Originally posted by YFF.YourCat:

On the bright side, we have pre-load :v
Which means we have about 2-7 days to download the game before the it release.

And like the guy above said, the relocate/ Steam detect is an option but it not always work :v

Oh..well this will be wonderful then. I'd just hate to spend the whole day just to re download it when it releases but since I can pre download it then that's not an issue. Thanks for the responses everyone

[ValkyrieWings]

Battlenet does have pre-loading but it has to be a certain size same as steam, pre-loading 105gb is oof

[ValkyrieWings]

Doing that maybe different due to the steam integration compared to battlenets

[Fidller™]

Originally posted by don_joen:

Copy paste your Destiny 2 folder from Battlenet folder to SteamApps ... Launch Steam and just verify... Cool huh

That would only work with games you already installed with steam and transfer them to another PC. Pathing is gonna be different too.

Its gonna be a whole new download. Just let your PC on overnight. Thats what i do

[scristopher]

This along with how gamertags will work seem to be the #1 questions right now, but nobody can really answer these, only bungie knows for now how it will work.

[Sloznoprikolog]

Of course you need to redownload

[Fidller™]

Originally posted by scristopher:

This along with how gamertags will work seem to be the #1 questions right now, but nobody can really answer these, only bungie knows for now how it will work.

Either your steam name or Bungie Acc name

[supirman]

Originally posted by Fidller™:

Originally posted by don_joen:

Copy paste your Destiny 2 folder from Battlenet folder to SteamApps ... Launch Steam and just verify... Cool huh

That would only work with games you already installed with steam and transfer them to another PC. Pathing is gonna be different too.

Its gonna be a whole new download. Just let your PC on overnight. Thats what i do

As long they some same assets it possibly works after add/modify .acf config, except they change the file structure. I will try it before download all the things.

[supirman]

Originally posted by YFF.YourCat:

On the bright side, we have pre-load :v
Which means we have about 2-7 days to download the game before the it release.

And like the guy above said, the relocate/ Steam detect is an option but it not always work :v

Do you have confirmation about the preload?
Never read it anywhere.

[Allwynd]

Originally posted by Fidller™:

Originally posted by don_joen:

Copy paste your Destiny 2 folder from Battlenet folder to SteamApps ... Launch Steam and just verify... Cool huh

That would only work with games you already installed with steam and transfer them to another PC. Pathing is gonna be different too.

Its gonna be a whole new download. Just let your PC on overnight. Thats what i do

If he starts installing Destiny 2 on Steam, then pauses, quits steam, pastes Battle.net's game into Steam and verifies it could potentially trick Steam to think the game has already downloaded.

[Fidller™]

Originally posted by Weilan:

Originally posted by Fidller™:

That would only work with games you already installed with steam and transfer them to another PC. Pathing is gonna be different too.

Its gonna be a whole new download. Just let your PC on overnight. Thats what i do

If he starts installing Destiny 2 on Steam, then pauses, quits steam, pastes Battle.net's game into Steam and verifies it could potentially trick Steam to think the game has already downloaded.

I've tried it with For Honor from the Ubi launcher (was free on there during E3) Then a bit later it was free on Steam and i'd rather use Steams overlay than the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Ubi one. Didn't work

[StiflersMomIsMyBiatch]

Originally posted by No:

if you don't want anything new, play on battle.net

I believe that battle.net will not be hosting D2 on their servers at all once the switch to Steam is complete. Im currently playing on Bnet, and ps4. But as of Oct 1st, I dont believe you will be able to access D2 on Bnet.

[BlackMoses]

Do you need Destiny 2 already downloaded before you transfer to Steam? From what I can tell you do need to have it downloaded. I made the mistake of transferring from BN to Steam before downloading and now I'm stuck unable to play until Oct 1.