Having to download again after already preloading!!

[CheanaVista]

Well this sucks! I've had this game pre-loaded and ready for WEEKS! And now that we are at release it's making me do it all over again. What was the point in even pre-loading and waiting all that time before just to now do it again when I'm trying to actually play!! Pre-release happened and there was no upgrade button so here we are on the global release and this happens. It'll be even longer now before I can play and I'm highly upset. Probably not even tonight which is why I'm so mad. Thanks.

[SMK]

It was unpacking, and unpacking means it was decrypting the files so people can't poke their noses into them before launch. Geez... the smoothbrains in here tonight

[SMK]

Originally posted by -OG-:

2nd time I am having to redownload this...preloaded....files were empty....downloaded again tonight....went to launch game and it validates then starts downloading the game again. I hate to refund, but steam is kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it so Im not downloading anymore, I have no issues waiting an hour for an unpack but downloading 86.6 GB to have it just disappear makes no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sense.

You realize the files were hidden for a reason.... right?? You re-downloaded for no reason other than ignorance.

And the second "download" was unpacking, whereby the files are decrypted. They were encrypted and hidden so that people can't leak or spoil file contents before release. People I swear...

[Zebryl]

97% of unpacking i'm dying

[Want to be my Friend]

one hour later still unpacking 88%

[Tal Kamar]

Originally posted by draccopm:

Welcome to Fallout 76 ----ops wrong game same thing happen . don't know if its Bethesda or steam ♥♥♥♥ up

100% Steam

[LORD_BUMBLE]

Originally posted by SMK:

It was unpacking, and unpacking means it was decrypting the files so people can't poke their noses into them before launch. Geez... the smoothbrains in here tonight

Whats the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ point of preloading it then? Its not local, because if you disconnect from the internet it stops 'unpacking' and continues once you connect to the internet again. Annoying BS for a nonexistent problem.

[DerpinJohn]

Originally posted by LORD_BUMBLE:

Originally posted by SMK:

It was unpacking, and unpacking means it was decrypting the files so people can't poke their noses into them before launch. Geez... the smoothbrains in here tonight

Whats the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ point of preloading it then? Its not local, because if you disconnect from the internet it stops 'unpacking' and continues once you connect to the internet again. Annoying BS for a nonexistent problem.

exactly

[Maikeru]

Not exclusive to PC, I had the game preloaded on Xbox, just came home excited to play, only for it to start downloading again. And it's definitely downloading it and not unpacking since it's limited by my slowass internet..

[Oozaru]

On game pass same thing is happening. I pre-installed the game days ago, wanted to start playing today. Now it's re-downloading the whole 122GB for some reason. I have the fastest internet speed that's available currently (1Gb/s), but it's still frickin annoying to have to download the whole game all over again after having done so before. Like, wtf?

And I'm pretty sure it's downloading, not unpacking. Since it shows the internet speed it's using. Unless that's the disc speed. Then it should be much faster tho, since I'm running the game on an SSD.

[Yuki]

It does indeed also show the disc speed while unpacking (also while downloading btw).
So if its unpacking and its slow- thats a problem.
If its downlaoding. Well. *shrugs* nuthin much one can do about. However there where no "week full of patches". We are all waiting for the day one patch still.
They are not as necessary as they are for other titles though.

[AddForm]

Me too :( I would have made my character by now.... 29%!!!!

[Bearsuit]

It's not downloading, it's unpacking and unencrypting

[juskom95]

Originally posted by Silver_SIr:

Originally posted by Yuki:

Just about every bug you may have heard of is caused by people installing it on old hard drives. Doesnt work. (Yes even the AI bugs out on a slowmo drive)

wow id like to see that. First time i here ssd is required for a game. Might transfer it to my hdd for fun.

It really isn't the first, this has been the 'requirement,' for games for a while now. Until recently I still had a few games sitting on an old HDD, and I could see the load times suffering for it.

[SternLX]

Unpacking can take awhile. Even on my Seagate Firecuda m.2 SSD that's capable of 7000m/t per second it took about 30 mins.

[Acidburns]

How much free disk space is required in total for unpacking the files ? I downloaded the 116Go few days ago, so today it tried to unpack, but unfortunatly my SSD didn't have enough free space. How much space do i need to free for the unpacking ? ty