You should only pre load if you have bad internets....

[Fast]

When you pre load the game it comes without the exe and encrypted and has to unpack this can take an excessive amount of time on even decent PCS.

When you download directly from steam following a release, the game is installed and unpacked during the download so you dont have these excessive unpacking times.

If your PC is simply very good and has good storage (fast NVMEs etc) and good internet you dont need to care either way and can do whatever you prefer.

[Kittysune]

Originally posted by Fast:

When you pre load the game it comes without the exe and encrypted and has to unpack this can take an excessive amount of time on even decent PCS.

When you download directly from steam following a release, the game is installed and unpacked during the download so you dont have these excessive unpacking times.

If your PC is simply very good and has good storage (fast NVMEs etc) and good internet you dont need to care either way and can do whatever you prefer.

OP i thought the pre-load is up

[Fast]

Originally posted by Kittysune:

Originally posted by Fast:

When you pre load the game it comes without the exe and encrypted and has to unpack this can take an excessive amount of time on even decent PCS.

When you download directly from steam following a release, the game is installed and unpacked during the download so you dont have these excessive unpacking times.

If your PC is simply very good and has good storage (fast NVMEs etc) and good internet you dont need to care either way and can do whatever you prefer.

OP i thought the pre-load is up

1 more day.

[Derivat949]

Originally posted by Kittysune:

Originally posted by Fast:

When you pre load the game it comes without the exe and encrypted and has to unpack this can take an excessive amount of time on even decent PCS.

When you download directly from steam following a release, the game is installed and unpacked during the download so you dont have these excessive unpacking times.

If your PC is simply very good and has good storage (fast NVMEs etc) and good internet you dont need to care either way and can do whatever you prefer.

OP i thought the pre-load is up

It'll be up in like 27 hours

[Cú/Moon]

Or you could have a decent cpu and this isn't a problem.

[Thunderholes]

Originally posted by Cú/Moon:

Or you could have a decent cpu and this isn't a problem.

It really depends on how good or bad your internet is, even with a good cpu. I've got a 7800x3D with games installed on a Nextorage G Series NVME drive and a preload decrypt still takes longer than just installing the game at release as long as I don't try downloading within the first 30 minutes-hour the game is released in while the servers are bogged down. Wilds will release while I'm at work so personally I'll just install it when I get home.

[OnePunchGay]

my internet is potato chief, i can assume it going to take like 8 hours+ to download that size

[Chaos]

Yeah.

Helldiver 2 taugh me that lesson lol.
That unpack time is unreal, makes me wonder if it will be faster if I just download it normally.
And it was indeed, faster.

[artcypher]

how long is this "excessive amount"?

[Thunderholes]

Originally posted by artcypher:

how long is this "excessive amount"?

The last game I tried preloading took about an hour with pretty high end hardware to decrypt slightly over 80gb. If you have an ssd with slow read/write speeds or an older cpu I wouldn't be surprised if Wilds took 2 hours+ to decrypt, even longer if you're still using an hdd.

[zmanbuilder]

I have a powerful pc but a slow internet, that is why i love pre-loading.

[Cú/Moon]

Originally posted by Thunderholes:

It really depends on how good or bad your internet is,

I have Australian internet. Pray for me.

[RedViper]

Originally posted by Fast:

When you pre load the game it comes without the exe and encrypted and has to unpack this can take an excessive amount of time on even decent PCS.

When you download directly from steam following a release, the game is installed and unpacked during the download so you dont have these excessive unpacking times.

If your PC is simply very good and has good storage (fast NVMEs etc) and good internet you dont need to care either way and can do whatever you prefer.

You do realize that you are wrong right? What if the servers overload because of how many people are downloading the game on release?

[Surviva 777]

Originally posted by Cú/Moon:

Originally posted by Thunderholes:

It really depends on how good or bad your internet is,

I have Australian internet. Pray for me.

Me too. We can pray for each other.

[ElnoSVK]

Originally posted by RedViper:

Originally posted by Fast:

When you pre load the game it comes without the exe and encrypted and has to unpack this can take an excessive amount of time on even decent PCS.

When you download directly from steam following a release, the game is installed and unpacked during the download so you dont have these excessive unpacking times.

If your PC is simply very good and has good storage (fast NVMEs etc) and good internet you dont need to care either way and can do whatever you prefer.

You do realize that you are wrong right? What if the servers overload because of how many people are downloading the game on release?

I never preload and i NEVER experienced any problems with downloading on day 1. And despite being a great series, its not THAT big.

[★ Moonlight ★]

Originally posted by Thunderholes:

Originally posted by artcypher:

how long is this "excessive amount"?

The last game I tried preloading took about an hour with pretty high end hardware to decrypt slightly over 80gb. If you have an ssd with slow read/write speeds or an older cpu I wouldn't be surprised if Wilds took 2 hours+ to decrypt, even longer if you're still using an hdd.

only an hour? my pre-load is gonna take 2 and a half to download. Where are y'all that you have internet that can download things that fast