How much % of the game does the preload contain? 70, 90?
Does it include the day 0 patch?

Currently I see 58 GB on my download, on Twitter some people's DL size looked like 63 GB. If the game is compressed differently for different regions or maybe the language packs are different? No idea. Maybe there'll be a day 0 patch to activate it or have I misunderstood the question?

I mean is the day 0/1 patch included in these files, or will it be a separate 40gb download or something.
Consoles need it, but they go through a verification process PC doesn't have, so this preload could be already updated to the release version.

And is this 58gb like 90% of the game files, or less/more. Pre-release usually doesn't contain all release day data.

I've downloaded 63 GB today.
There were some articles about "day one patch" for XBox and PS - 40+ GB but I'm not sure if it's official information.
I won't be suprised if there will be necessary to download additional 40+ GB on release day.

For me

Platform: PC/GOG
Region: Germany
Download size: 58 GB

Dudes and dudettes.

I don't care what the preload size is, and that question was answered anyway.

I care what will the size difference between the preload and the final release will be, since in a few days I'm going to be on a ship with a very, very slow satellite internet connection, where downloading 40GB of additional data will take 2 months and be generally frowned upon :)

It's a question only the devs or GOG can answer.

That's 100% my bad actually, I misunderstood and started a pre-load size train, I apologise. No idea if there'll be a big chunk added on the first day, I'm just assuming there'd be a smaller size DL to activate it on 10th.

On the other hand system requirements say 70 gig for storage space so either the DLs we do now are compressed or the rest will be downloaded on 10th or something.

If the preload is in fact not the full game, you might not even be able to start the thing without downloading the remaining data. My preload is 59 GB plus the 43 GB prerelease patch means about 100GB to download before launch day. The Day 1 patch is very likely optional and you can defer that as long as you need (assuming no gamebreaking bugs).

So anyways, with 59GB being the preload size and the game install being about 70GB on PC then I'm assuming the vast majority of the game, if not the entire thing is in the preload. Accounting for compression of the preload files and all, it looks like you won't have too much to download extra assuming you get that Day 0 patch which is likely required and not optional.

That's my guess anyway. Just keep your computer connected and Galaxy on auto-update until the last possible minute and hope for the best.

Oh man, I hope you manage to download all that is needed. I wish you good luck.

Reviewers are saying 50Gb around... if GOG has the day 1 patch baked in then you should be ok but galaxy will need to properly unpack the files and download core files.. from what I've heard I don't think thats true and an archive patch is coming... they only dropped a portion of the patch for the reviewers so the main patch still needs to drop for us... a massive amount of bug and engine fixes are coming with it so hopefully we wont see any issues like the reviewers saw ;)

New data from a preload that went live on PlayStation its clocked in at 102.446GB

A correction to what I wrote before. The 43 GB "Day 0" patch seems to be console only, so the main 59 GB should be all you will get until after release. This patch seems to be the extra "polish" they used the last 3 weeks doing for consoles and does not affect the PC build in any way.

The Day 1 patch is still coming for all platforms, however. That should be optional if you can't get it in time.

Edit: the preload takes up exactly 59.4GB on my hard drive, so it hasn't even unpacked and installed so I can't make a guess at how much of the game it is. But worst case scenario, if the final install is 72GB like is being reported and 59 is downloaded now, you will have 13GB to download. In all likelihood, it will be a good bit less.