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From Steam's self-published stats.

Baldur's Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam's bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection.

Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.

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[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Camera isn't stuck in isometric view. You can zoom, pan, tilt and see all the fantastic detail.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (16 children)

The original Dawn of War ruined isometric games for me since it allowed the pan and zoom, with mods allowing even more zooming in an out. BG3 having that ability has my interest peaked!

[–] joe@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Please, please don't take this as any insult or criticism, but for future reference, it's "piqued".

This particular homophone is almost as devious as "milquetoast". (Sounds like "milk toast")

Edit: someone beat me to it and now I feel like a jerk for piling on. Sorry!

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