Size does matter
Sono
Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 105Members
Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 105Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Or not?</div>So just a question about size. Not alien size, not human size, no MOD size.
Can you think of some kind of size the long waited, wonderful 'beta1 full installer' will have?
So that I can already think of things I tear to pieces while the download still takes 6 hours on my wonderful 64K single ISDN. Or things to tear in peaces during waiting for my pal to finally burn that on CD after he has downloaded it just cause he got DSL.
Not a very dramatic question, but try to answer if you feel like doing it.
Can you think of some kind of size the long waited, wonderful 'beta1 full installer' will have?
So that I can already think of things I tear to pieces while the download still takes 6 hours on my wonderful 64K single ISDN. Or things to tear in peaces during waiting for my pal to finally burn that on CD after he has downloaded it just cause he got DSL.
Not a very dramatic question, but try to answer if you feel like doing it.
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go find it yourself, there is some semi-official-ns-info there i believe.
so my guess it that the first build is 80 - 110 mb
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are you kidding? 95 megs would take like about 9 and a half hours on a good connection, meaning much more for 56kers on the British Isles.
When it comes out, if anyone wants me to mail them a burned cd with the installer on it, tell me.
in the UK and other country's within europe most of the time sombody has cable in your area.
I'm really surprised that it'll be that small though. The models seem really detailed, the maps are, from what I hear, HUGE, and the game seems like a huge departure from anything I've ever seen before in half-life...
The team keeps impressing me more and more. It's a miracle it's under 100 megs when Firearms 2.5 was over that.
On another note- Will you guys have a Fileplanet download mirror? I ask because they offer you the option of having large files burnt onto disks and sent to you in case your connection's too dang slow.
I hope this question doesn't tick anyone off, but what are the chances that the beta will be released before June 12th? If it's released after that I'm gonna have to pray you guys get a fileplanet mirror because I'll be on a 56k unless I can convince mommy to grab a DSL provider that doesn't suck.
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As for June 12, well, that's a month away. It's, well, let's just say don't hold your breath.
/me also wonders that its that small. I thought on about 150 megs. e.g. DoD is 138 megs big.
A word to fileplanet: Yeah it sucks, that you gotta have to wait about 15-30 mins. to download, cause servers are full. But on the other side when you start downoading, it works. Thats the pro, so I think it would be hosted on FP.
The Burn on CD thing is good, but expensive. For me that would be $9,99 + international shipping, sure thats not much, but for one CD I think its quite much. On the other hand: till the CD arrives at me, I also get the file burned on CD from one of my lazy friends, who have DSL <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
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By the way, most of the waiting on Fileplanet is artificially inflated. They deliberately jack up wait times for popular files.