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

My preload just did a thing. I opened Steam lib and it was at 98% done, even though it finished downloading last night. The must be publishing balance patches down to the wire.

 

US release's new games, movies, books, music etc on Tuesday. In Europe and other areas its Friday. Typically when games are released on different days, its due to contractual obligations with various vendors and retailers. Personally, even though i live in the US i much prefer a friday release, since i then have the weekend to mess with new games. Tuesday release day more often then not, i am to busy to really jump into them.

 

DANG IT! I just bought the game for full price this morning on Steam then GMG sent me a code for 30% off of BE!!!! Grrrrrrr.....

 

I bought it from them about an hour before they sent that code.

 

Wooo! I just looked up Steam's refund policy and they will give refunds on pre-purchased games as long as they haven't yet released!

 

Downloaded it. It was only 3.5 Gb - I was thinking it would be more.

Put the shortcut on my desktop - kinda neat. Sort of a tease as well but in a good way.

 

If I recall correctly vanilla civ V was about 2.7GB, and each expansion added another GB or so to that.
And anyway, considering the size of some games coughcoughtotalwarcoughcough it's a pleasant surprise to have the game be that "small" but still be very likely to provide entertainment value.

 

Why is everyone getting different file size totals?

Mine was 5.7GB. :/

 

I've got my new computer, CivBE is downloaded, LET ME PLAY!!1!1!!1!1!!!

 

Maybe because of the different regions?
Living in Europe, my install of Civ V has English, German, Spanish, French and Italian voices in there for the techs and wonders and all that. Maybe the NA release just has English and French, and other regions may have more or less sound samples.

On a side note, my physical copy was shipped today. Hopefully I can pre-load as well.

 

I just checked. My brothers and my friends all had different install sizes, some of us with 5.7GB, and others with 2.7GB.

Is this a bug?

 

I wouldn't think it was a bug. My download was 2.7 GB, and the list of programs installed on my computer contains CivBE, so it should be ready to go when the release time arrives.

This is just speculation, but the difference might be due to the speed of you and your friends' internet connections. It could be that they download a compressed version on slower connections, and an uncompressed version on faster ones. I have a slow connection and the 2.7 GBs took six hours to download.

 

Could you all please let me know what the install size is on your machines? The path on Windows by default is:

[drive]:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth\

 

I don't think internet speed is the difference. My download was 2.7 Gb and it completed in 20 mins.

 

Can't find that directory on my PC. O__o BE is installed though.



My download screen yesterday:

 

That's where it will go once it's unlocked.

The path for the locked file is:

[drive]:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\depotcache\65981_depotcache_1.csd

The number should be close to the most recent manifest here:

[drive]:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\appmanifest_65980.acf

 

my depotcache file is about 2.63GB, so it fits with the 2.7GB.

 

65981_depotcache_1.csd for me is 2.8GB. o___o

 

My "65981_depotcache_1.csd" file is 2.63 GB. OTOH my Steam downloads page indicates 4.6 GB which is consistent with what was downloaded in the pre-load.

 

My depotcache directory is about 2.7 GB too.
2.74 GB (2,948,785,040 bytes)

And the Detail:
Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\depotcache

22/10/2014 11:04 a.m. <DIR> .
22/10/2014 11:04 a.m. <DIR> ..
20/10/2014 12:49 p.m. 13,344,928 228984_depotcache_1.csd
20/10/2014 12:49 p.m. 560 228984_depotcache_1.csm
20/10/2014 12:51 p.m. 100,658,080 228990_depotcache_1.csd
20/10/2014 12:51 p.m. 7,328 228990_depotcache_1.csm
20/10/2014 01:48 p.m. 2,825,419,072 65981_depotcache_1.csd
20/10/2014 01:48 p.m. 329,384 65981_depotcache_1.csm
20/10/2014 01:48 p.m. 4,490,384 65982_depotcache_1.csd
20/10/2014 01:48 p.m. 452 65982_depotcache_1.csm
20/10/2014 01:49 p.m. 4,534,400 65992_depotcache_1.csd
20/10/2014 01:49 p.m. 452 65992_depotcache_1.csm
10 File(s) 2,948,785,040 bytes
2 Dir(s) 385,797,373,952 bytes free