Does anyone know when the game will drop on the 24th? (Edit: Preload is now up)

[skeldarday]

If they go at 12:01 Friday morning on the 24th I expect it will work like it does New Years Day. Australia is first in the New Year so I expect will be the same for the game.

 

[Teknomage01]

Steam doesn't announce it beforehand and I haven't seen any information coming from Firaxis either, so I guess that nobody knows right now. From my experience most games with preload are available 3-5 days before launch.

I know Steam has done it, but I have never actually played a game where it did.. which games do you know of that did pre-downloads before launch, so I can go check that all out? If its within 3-5 days than it could be any day now.

 

[gunnergoz]

I usually just quit Steam and then reload the app a day or so before release if there is no sign of an anticipated pre-load on the Steam Downloads page. That seems to kick in any pre-load that has not caught up yet. Don't know of course if this will work the same way with BE.

 

[Cyon]

250 Mbit broadband, living in sweden had its advantages... Games takes usually no longer than 10 min to download and install

 

[Ryika]

I know Steam has done it, but I have never actually played a game where it did.. which games do you know of that did pre-downloads before launch, so I can go check that all out? If its within 3-5 days than it could be any day now.

Some games that had preloading were Dark Souls 2, NBA 2015, Shadow of Mordor... I think Watchdogs also had preload, as had Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel a few days ago. Not sure about the exact dates, but I think they can be found relatively easy via goole if you're really interested. I mostly got my 3-5 days date from just clicking games that were advertised via preload on the store-page.

Although that might be dependent on the game-size (and popularity probably also plays a role)... not sure how steam decides if and when preload is made available.
/edit: Just realized that that sounded a bit confusing: The "if/whether it's made available" was not meant to refer to BE, preload for BE has already been confirmed a while ago.

 

[Makavcio]

Steam games are usually available 1-2 hours after midnight central european time. At least that was the case with last relase from Firaxis, XCOM:EU/EW, and also with Civ5. Cant help with earlier downloads since Silesian Internet is only slightly slower than Swedish and it usually takes longer to install a game than to download it

 

[The Naug]

250 Mbit broadband, living in sweden had its advantages... Games takes usually no longer than 10 min to download and install

Amen brother. Click download, make a toast, grind some coffee, game done DLing

 

[Ryika]

Is Swedish hard to learn?

 

[temprus]

Steam has enabled pre-load for C:BE.

 

[RonMar]

I'm preloading now!

Opened Steam clicked on Beyond Earth and got a prompt whether to preload.

Preload finished 1:50 pm EDT

 

[rexnerdorum]

Confirmed. Thanks for the heads up, Temprus!

 

[RonMar]

After preload you can find the files in the depocache folder

 

[BrotherAriman]

Fingers crossed for Green Man Gaming sending out the pre-orders soon.

 

[joncnunn]

Moderator Action: Preload is Up thread merged with Does anybody know when the game will drop. Thread title extended to note that preload is up.

 

[Jimbo30]

Is Swedish hard to learn?

I'm learning it now (my gf is Swedish) and it's not what I'd call easy. Luckily I have BT Infinity 2 broadband here so it only took me 10 mins as well.

 

[Jimbo30]

Does anybody know if it's the same version as the press beta we've seen video of?

 

[gunnergoz]

Took three minutes to download - better than I expected. Now comes the wait for 3 days, 9 hours, 40 minutes....

 

[Vermillion]

Fingers crossed for Green Man Gaming sending out the pre-orders soon.

Same! Ahhhhh!

 

[BrotherAriman]

Same! Ahhhhh!

Well apparently the last borderlands game sent out their codes from GMG 3 days before launch and its a 2k game too so we might actually have a chance.

 

[Lord Shadow]

Fingers crossed for Green Man Gaming sending out the pre-orders soon.

+1

Well apparently the last borderlands game sent out their codes from GMG 3 days before launch and its a 2k game too so we might actually have a chance.

How does that compare to said game's preload availability on Steam? It's possible they'll want to give Steam the preload "exclusive" for a day or, God forbid, two.