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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The game's size on PC is 139.84 GB. It's 100.19 GB for the Standard Edition and 117.07 GB for the Premium Edition on consoles, which also comes with a digital artbook and soundtrack, skin pack, and the Shattered Space Story Expansion (when it becomes available).

Preload for Steam users will start on August 30 and require 125 GB of free space

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Thanks for picking up where the summary dropped the ball

[–] absquatulate 7 points 2 years ago

and the Shattered Space Story Expansion (when it becomes available).

What is this fuckery? Unplayable day-1 DLC pre-installed and taking up space on the user's machine? Jesus christ bethesda

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

game's size on PC is 139.84 GB

Preload for Steam users will start on August 30 and require 125 GB of free space

....shouldn't those match?

[–] rambaroo 5 points 2 years ago

The preloaded data could be compressed or it might not include the day 1 patch.

[–] Jaeger86 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't pre order. You know what happens when you pre order? A big dick in your mouth, that's right

[–] Katana314 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I absolutely agree; I’m preloading it because I just have it as a Game Pass benefit anyway. Could be I end up waiting 8 months for stability patches like everyone else.

[–] Jaeger86 1 points 2 years ago

Totally fair. Didn't even know it was on game pass day 1.

[–] EighthLayer 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I never see the point in preloading as it’ll just have a huge patch to install on release anyway.

[–] beefcat 11 points 2 years ago

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game ship a day 1 patch that was the same size as the initial install.

[–] rambaroo 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sure as hell won't be preloading a Bethesda game on PC. Based on the system requirements I expect performance to be ass for a while after release.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It will be ass at first because it's a new Bethesda game.

That said, it is possible to get an early key without actually preordering (mine came with another purchase), so I'm excited to explore all them bugs on launch.

[–] guriinii 2 points 2 years ago

This is helpful. I've been confused that the base game was 100.2GB and not 125

[–] GustavoM 1 points 2 years ago

100 Gb? Eh...looks very standard.