game is preloaded and just sitting there on my desktop, teasing me
the hype is so real!

Game preloaded too. The hype is very real!!!!

Mine, too! We'll be playing before we know it. These last couple days are gonna fly by.

Im so jealous of you people! I dont have Fallout 4 ;-(

I made the shortcut onto my desktop and now we play the waiting game.

Wow. Good thing I saw this otherwise I wouldn't have known about the preloading thing, and would've ended up downloading and waiting even longer on release, cause I only get about 1.5mbps. So thanks making this post about it. Currently almost done downloading it right now.

Mine is downloaded as well. Wish I could find the downloaded file to be sure. Steam and I don't have a trusting relationship on that front. Does anyone know where in Steam that file is held? Name etc. I don't want to do anything with it. (can't since it is heavily encripted) just want to be 100% it is there. Like others here it would really suck having to wait hours for it to download again.

Also someone on another thread stated the file formats for the archives are now different. BS2 or something. Might be awhile after the release before we can crack it and see the textures and detaled structures.

@ritualclarity

I believe it should be in the \Steam\steamapps\depotcache folder, that's where it is for me anyway.

@gabet347

You wish... It's the eighth day, two more to go... and I'm going out of my gourd waiting. I mean, I'm still playing through NV myself for the final time, but I've also been playing quite a bit of Halo - ElDewrito to boot. Problem now is I'm stuck in a rut on one, the other has terrible lag, and it's not the 10th yet. D: Two more days.... two more days...

Legend wrote:

@gabet347

You wish... It's the eighth day, two more to go... and I'm going out of my gourd waiting. I mean, I'm still playing through NV myself for the final time, but I've also been playing quite a bit of Halo - ElDewrito to boot. Problem now is I'm stuck in a rut on one, the other has terrible lag, and it's not the 10th yet. D: Two more days.... two more days...

I've been hibernating for the past month (staying up all night sleeping all day) it seems to make time go faster for me . Two more days until the next love of my life is released.

@Legend

Lol, I know I'm just trying to tell myself whatever I can to make these two days go by fast
I've actually been doing the exact same thing though. Getting all I can out of New Vegas with some Dewrito in the mix every now and then. Have an exam on tuesday morning though so that's keeping me busy. Can't wait to just get home and fire the game up and see that new menu screen though.

Fallout 4 is pre-loaded on my PC. ITS ON MY PC!!!!! YAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Ahem ... excuse me. I was getting a bit carried away there for a moment. I just wanted to express my excitement about the imminent, impending, soon-to-happen, gonna-happen-in-13-hours release of FALLOUT-F'ING-4!!!!!!!!



OK, maybe this isn't the most mature or constructive post ever, but damn, what do you expect from a Fallout Fan-Girl who has over 3300 hours in FONV alone?!? Think I was gonna be all cool, calm and collected as we hurdle towards the release of FO4? Nooooooooope. Not gonna happen. I'm pretty much gonna be flyin' high all day, jumpin' up and down, drinking too much caffeine (which is not even necessary since I am on a swing-shift schedule and I stay up till 4 or 5 AM every day anyway).

Oh, and did I mention that because I am cop, I just happen to be starting my weekend - I am off until 4 PM Thursday. Hahaha - I love it.



Well, OK, all of the above is true until (1) the pre-loaded game won't authenticate; (2) the game won't start because the cache needs to be verified 400 times (I don't even know what that means, I just know they always tell you to do it); or (3) the game is so buggy you can't play it until 2 weeks from now when the patch gets release. And, even if none of those things happens, well, I am on Comcast, so I have no doubt that at 1201, just as I am getting ready to hear about how War Never Changes, my internet will go out and I won't be able to play for some god-awful technical reason because while War may never change, neither does Comcast's crappy service.


Nevertheless, despite all the things that can (and probably will) go wrong with the release, ITS ALMOST HERE!!!!!! YAAAAAAAYYY!!!!!!!

Now ... get modding!  



-Wykd

EDIT:

Merged your topic to this one as this topic already covers the subject at hand and i dont feel your post is worthy of it's own topic.

:no minus rep given:


FoVet20

For any of you who are eager to play Fallout 4 but can't wait till tomorrow. VPN works.

Here's a tutorial:
http://www.ibvpn.com/2015/11/how-to-play-fallout-4-before-being-released-in-your-timezone/
(Doesn't have to be the software they put in the tut, you can use any other VPN programs).

I just did it and it's unpacking (basically takes off the encryption off the pre-load) right now and the Play button is now there instead of the Pre-load. See you guys on the other side!

Oh and guys, please don't spoil it for others if you got into the game first.

Glorious Unpacking Moment:

hitman47101 wrote:

@ritualclarity

I believe it should be in the \Steam\steamapps\depotcache folder, that's where it is for me anyway.

Thanks.. I found it and it appears to be fully downloaded. Strange thing is if you hit pre-load it does another update. Didn't do that yesterday. Perhaps they are still doing some last minute updates for the game.

According to the clock I have about 6 hours and 19 minutes as of this post. Yea..

Just finished pre-loading! 5 more hours until I can play Fallout 4! I'm so pumped I can't contain my fluids! Brb, bathroom break! \[ T]/