Baldur’s Gate 3 goes to be a really massive recreation—within the neighborhood of 122GB, in accordance with Larian—and it brings me no pleasure to tell you that you just will be unable to preload any of it prematurely of the August 3 launch date.
There’s been fairly a little bit of hypothesis and confusion about Baldur’s Gate 3’s preload scenario, and Larian hasn’t been forthcoming on that entrance. In an interview simply final week with itmeJP, Larian boss Swen Vincke stated he truly did not understand how preloading could be dealt with.
“I think about that they are going to do one thing, however I truly do not know,” Vincke stated. “It’s extremely giant, so it will be cool. Clearly the sport has modified tremendously versus early entry, versus what’s on the market now … so we’ll see.”
Sadly, the ultimate reply to that query is a quite simple “no.”
“Baldur’s Gate 3 will launch on August third at 5pm Gent time, or your non-Belgian timezone equal as proven [below],” Larian stated right this moment on Steam. “There might be no pre-loading of the sport earlier than then.
“The complete launch of the sport weighs in at roughly 122 GB. Please be aware that your early entry save video games is not going to be appropriate at launch; nevertheless, a lot has modified that it’s actually value it to start out afresh.”
Vincke stated primarily the identical factor within the itmeJP interview, warning that there is not any level in entering into the early entry model of Baldur’s Gate 3 now since you’re successfully going to have to start out over from scratch in just a few days anyway. “There may be just a few bytes which might be the identical however mainly it will be a full reinstall,” he stated.
Not having the ability to preload a recreation of this measurement will not be nice, particularly for individuals (like me) with gradual or unreliable web connections. However the issue seems to be a limitation of Steam. Merely put, preloading a recreation downloads the information however retains them encrypted till go time, however as a result of Baldur’s Gate 3 has already been out for almost three years in early entry, Steam cannot try this—thus, no preload. Others have famous that GOG additionally is not providing preloads, nevertheless, which muddies the waters considerably, though the sport is out there in early entry there as properly. I’ve reached out to Larian for extra info within the preload scenario and can replace if I obtain a reply.
Whatever the cause, the dearth of a preload possibility sucks—122GB is a massive obtain—however whereas there are just a few sad responses to be seen, for probably the most half individuals followers do not appear too bothered by it. Perhaps they’re all too excited by the prospect of cramming extra illithid tadpoles up their noses to care.
Baldur’s Gate 3 unlocks in full at 8 am PT/11 am ET/4 pm BST on August 3.
