Pre-load

so I don't know if it is possible but would we be able to preload/pre-download Heavensward. reason is my net is not fast and would like to be able to play day one of early access.;)

IIRC, for the release of ARR (early access) you were able to DL the game before the official launch.

We will all download at same time when they patch it in.

You will most likely be able to download the new client a few days or a few hours before early access (around ~1.6GB)

But when servers go up after the expansion is released (early access) there are sure gonna be patches that you will have to download before you can play. They might be small, or they might not...

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Originally Posted by aerolol

You will most likely be able to download the new client a few days or a few hours before early access (around ~1.6GB)

But when servers go up after the expansion is released (early access) there are sure gonna be patches that you will have to download before you can play. They might be small, or they might not...

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My guess is that the patch for the full release will not be small. Not as large as the full download for the expansion obviously, but still fairly large so that all the new content will be compatible with entering old areas, and thus compatible for players without the content to see and interact with, (Read: materials, armor, weapons, mounts, and minions)......

Dont forget those who are dling the dx11 version as well, hopefully it is released around the 15 that would be nice ^_-.

Also expect at least a day's worth of server downtime prior to it (which would probably be on the day before early access - this is a massive addition to the game so SE will need to do a lot of tinkering under the hood so to speak.).

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Originally Posted by aerolol

You will most likely be able to download the new client a few days or a few hours before early access (around ~1.6GB)

But when servers go up after the expansion is released (early access) there are sure gonna be patches that you will have to download before you can play. They might be small, or they might not...

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Eh? WHere did 1.6GB come from? Can't e that small.

The PSA thread for the PSN purchase of Heavensward said that the content would be 1.7GB, so assuming that's the size of the new content. It would be nice if you could download the main content at the beginning of down time before playing it.

That sounds incredibly small for an expansion. But then again the patch is probably split into 2. The first patch being important for compatibility and all the necessary assets needed for character and mount and stuff. The other from the expansion being the new areas and quest and other assets for it.

What I wanna know is if SE gonna do this patch on Tuesday and lock all content til Friday (which would make sense with the reset and tomes) or pull the game down for those 3 days til Friday (highly doubt this tho). It was easy for beta to 2.0 but this one is a bit different lol. If I remember correctly, XI updated the game the day before the expansion release. There was no early access for XI. I'm curious on how they will go about doing this. Since this one has early access, we'll have download the entire expansion to have full compatibility and no odd or weird after effect to cause a server rollback.

I was looking at the PS4 version last night on the store and I remember one of the tags saying that the download size was a little over 13GB

It really would be nice to know when we'll be able to download the expansion content. The OP is not the only one stuck with a slow net connection, and a 13 GB download is literally several days of non-stop download for me.

Like I said in the PSA, the 1.7gb files refers pretty much to the client itself, if you read a bit below it you can tell the game itself will be something from 10 to 50gb which we still don't know (PS4 not sure about PC). And like a few said here, I'm sure we'll have to download the 1.7gb client but in-client might ask us to download an even bigger file like we were downloading a patch.

Would like to be able to pre-load would save some downtime, but time will tell though.

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Originally Posted by Cakekizy

We will all download at same time when they patch it in.

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...and that will be the reason there servers will crash at patch day! >_<

Millions of people(we have over 6millions of players SE says) downloading a huge patch/expansion at same time!

Really brilliant! >_>

Im prepared with a new game. Im pretty sure 1st week(s(?)) of heavensward will be near unplayable because everyone want to go there.
Its like a permanently S-Rank on big populated server! S:
And I dont wanna spend hours just to login like on 2.0 and getting more mad just to see afking people blocking the way!

It's likely that there will be a 3.0 patch before the expansion, including all the expansion datas.

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Originally Posted by aerolol

You will most likely be able to download the new client a few days or a few hours before early access (around ~1.6GB)

But when servers go up after the expansion is released (early access) there are sure gonna be patches that you will have to download before you can play. They might be small, or they might not...

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The HW patch will be around 10-15gb, not 1.6gb.

While it would be nice Im assuming you cant preload an mmo that is live. It wont be available for download until the servers go down on the 18th. Probably only like 12 hours before early access begins.

Yes you can preload.

At this point all the art assets and models must be finished and checked off, NOT going to change. All that data could be made available today for download in the background while playing, or while you're asleep tonight. WoW has been doing this for years, it is just a matter of having the data available despite nothing on the servers ever requesting the data to be shown.

http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/fin...productDetails

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Originally Posted by Destinova

http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/fin...productDetails

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They always put that as a whole, including the base game size, expansion, updates, unpackaging, it needs room to unpack and update, modify files, etc, but doesn't necesarily mean it will take 30GB of space.