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submitted 1 year ago by scops@reddthat.com to c/games@lemmy.world

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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[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That was always my confusion about people buying skins in league of legends or dota. I can barely see them!

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not true, you definitely can with the right resolution. LoL wild rift especially is close enough (being mobile) you can absolutely make out the skins. They're usually flashy and noticable enough everyone can tell what it is, too. They often have special animations, auras, attacks look different, etc. Some have special voice lines.

Like, just as an example, if you're an actual walking tumor and play Teemo, but get the bumblebee skin, the little mushroom traps he leaves around become beehives.

Also remember League and DotA are big steaming games, and matches are repayable, so getting in with different camera angles on replay is very muxh a thing.

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