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From Steam's self-published stats.

Baldur's Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam's bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection.

Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.

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[–] dan1101 55 points 1 year ago (26 children)

It's always amusing to me when a game has a huge download size but is also an overhead view game and you probably can't even get the camera close enough to the world objects to see the full texture detail.

[–] iforgotmyinstance 81 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Camera isn't stuck in isometric view. You can zoom, pan, tilt and see all the fantastic detail.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (16 children)

The original Dawn of War ruined isometric games for me since it allowed the pan and zoom, with mods allowing even more zooming in an out. BG3 having that ability has my interest peaked!

[–] icesentry 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The zoom out is very limited. I constantly wish it could zoom out more

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The inability to zoom out is my dealbreaker for Diablo. The limitation doesn't feel immersive to me, it feels claustrophobic.

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