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[timferius]

Ok, well, if I'm streaming on Wednesday, it'll have to be at about 8 P.M-12 P.M Eastern, after the kidlets go to bed.

[rabidgam3r]

I was ALSO going to record this. Huh.
Nobody would mind if I recorded my part of the Starbound BS12 server when it gets up? Assuming, of course, I get a decent goddamn microphone. The inbuilt one on my laptop makes me sound like I'm straight out of first grade.

[Jopax]

Is there any info regarding the size of the Beta?

I have the unfortunate luck of returning to uni on the 3rd which means severly limited bandwidth, hopefully it doesn't turn out too large.

[Girlinhat]

The... size?  Well, it's everyone who preordered.  The size doesn't matter much though, it can be played singleplayer...  The worst you might encounter is a slow download, but an overnight run will fix that pretty easily.

[Sirus]

I'm pretty sure he's talking filesize. As in, how many megs or gigs it will take to download.

[BigD145]

I doubt it's even ten times as large as Terraria, but who knows? It's not going to be in the gig range. Find a cafe with wifi near your university if you're concerned.

[Girlinhat]

Oh, haha.  Still, overnight download torrent is really more than enough to handle this sort of thing.  You get it a day or two late, big deal right?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Actually, given how much content Starbound has compared to Terraria, both audio and visual, and how its graphics style is richer and uses larger sprites than almost anything Terraria uses, I wouldn't be surprised if the beta pushes a gigabyte in size, at least installed.

The archive for the OST, although weakly compressed due to being all MP3s, is ~540Mb all by itself. Even if the format used by the game is lossier/better compressed, you're still looking at a very sizeable download.

[Jopax]

Hmm, oh well, it'll have to wait a week or two in that case. Just in time for winter break

[Twi]

Commencing countdown engines on

Check ignition, and may god's love be with you~

[etgfrog]

there was speculation that the installer is 1.9 gb large since that was the size noticed during one of the live streams.

Holy shit. I just checked the calender, and the 4th is my day off.

The one day I get at home each week.

This must be fate

your forgetting murphy's law, the emails with the keys could get delayed, steam could end up slowing to a crawl on download or derp in general, if any issue apears then expect the starbound site to not work as many anxious gamers refreshing the site over and over again.

[Sirus]

there was speculation that the installer is 1.9 gb large since that was the size noticed during one of the live streams.

Holy shit. I just checked the calender, and the 4th is my day off.

The one day I get at home each week.

This must be fate

your forgetting murphy's law, the emails with the keys could get delayed, steam could end up slowing to a crawl on download or derp in general, if any issue apears then expect the starbound site to not work as many anxious gamers refreshing the site over and over again.

Shush you, shush! Let me have a slight glimmer of hope!

[etgfrog]

well...there is one glimmer of hope, chucklefish seem to be rather competent with their workings of steam, while the devs of wanderlust:rebirth were doing a stream of starbound and when one of the other people in their skype call asked they managed to get a key from a starbound dev, download the game and set up a dual stream of both of them playing.

edit for all the typos

[jhxmt]

OK, looks like I'll be doing my videos by myself. That's be between 1 am and 5 am

Being in Britain can be kinda sucky, sometimes.

I might be able to join you, GO (fellow UKer here), but my timing's likely to be somewhat sporadic - the beta appears to be being released during one of the busiest working weeks I've seen! 

[Baneling]

Again, timezones - I'm in Ireland myself, so I'd be happy to enjoy the motley crew of GMT+0 peoples. I have a pretty free day since I'm a secondary school student - as long as it's between the hours of 4 and ~9.30pm I'm free.