Preload

[The Last Hope]

when?

[Яeplicant]

TBA.

[Xan84]

Let's hope we get one. I think STEAM has this policy with no preload on EA games.

[OWNED]

No preload announced

[LinkToReality.ttv]

Swen said on the recent podcast interview that he want to do something but he didn't have the information to promise anything.
Most likely there will be no pre-load for the reason mentioned above.
Basically in the Steam system the game is already released.

[Mister Inadequate]

At this point, with no announcement I am aware of, I would say it is a good bet that there will be no preload. I could of course be wrong but one would think they would have announced it by now, also Being an EA game and Steam not usually allowing preloads for them...I kind of doubt it. A long winded way of saying 95% no preload.

[Hocer]

What podcast are you talking about?

[Xan84]

The big issue with this game is downloading 150g. Even assuming STEAM would not burst into flame when we all try dwn, it still takes like 40 mins for me.

[breadman]

early access games don't support preloads, it's not a thing

[Яeplicant]

Originally posted by Hocer:

What podcast are you talking about?

Dropped Frames.

[Xan84]

I will hold hope that STEAM will make an exception here and do something about preload.
This is a massive game, both in popularity and size (150g) and it will better with preload for everyone, including them.

[LinkToReality.ttv]

Originally posted by Hocer:

What podcast are you talking about?

The Dropped Frames Podcast with itmeJP, CohhCarnage and Ezekiel_III.

This one. (It contains some minor spoilers so if you wanna remain fully pure, don't watch it :P)
https://youtu.be/S5__muccL1c

[breadman]

Originally posted by Xan84:

I will hold hope that STEAM will make an exception here and do something about preload.

it is literally impossible to preload an early access game due to technical reasons

[Jon]

Originally posted by Xan84:

I will hold hope that STEAM will make an exception here and do something about preload.
This is a massive game, both in popularity and size (150g) and it will better with preload for everyone, including them.

Its not up to steam. Larian is slacking.

[breadman]

Originally posted by Jon:

Its not up to steam. Larian is slacking.

it has nothing to do with larian, you can't initiate a preload in the steam api for an early access game as you can't encrypt it

Originally posted by Maronchan:

You could have Steam employees here, showing all the tech and why there's no preload. People will still close their eyes, shove their fingers in their ears, and screech.

seriously

no matter how many times i try to explain it they just keep being in denial

[AdahnGorion]

There will not be a preload.

For the vast majority of users, this wont make a difference, since downloading the game will be faster than unpacking the preloaded version.

For those that sadly do have ancient connections (due to area, bad ISP, etc) will still in most cases get the game down from 3-5 hours, the few that has really really bad intenet, might have to wait that one day, such is the life with ancient connections.

The important part is that they will get to play the game a month before expected and that it will be awesome, so it will be worth the wait for them.



It is a common mistake that people with avarage to high internet connections preload, instead of waiting and just downloading on release.