Larian Studios has confirmed Baldur's Gate 3 won't be available to pre-load ahead of its August 3 launch, which means you'll have to download the whole 122GB file on launch day.
As spotted by PC Gamer, the new Baldur's Gate 3 community update confirmed that you won't be able to pre-load anything ahead of launch, at least not on PC. "Baldur's Gate 3 will launch on August 3rd at 5pm Gent time, or your non-Belgian timezone equivalent as shown above. There will be no pre-loading of the game before then."
The update also confirms that the full version of the game will weigh in at an eye-watering 122 GB on PC. According to PC Gamer, pre-loading the game isn't possible because it's already been out in Early Access for three years. That does nothing to ease the pain of having to wait for such a large download to clear before getting to play the highly anticipated sequel, but it's worth noting that it sounds like the situation is out of Larian's hands.
