Examples: diablo 4 on blizzard client will let you play it before the full game is installed. The ps5 also let’s you do this when installing a new game. But I’ve never seen this option on steam games.

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    1 year ago

    Diablo also leans heavily into cinematic cut scenes which can be streamed (at lower resolution) if you encounter those before they finish downloading

    And low resolution textures / compressed audio can be downloaded first while you wait for the higher resolution content

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      1 year ago

      That’s like…the only good use of online functionality in a single player game I’ve ever heard. But I hope it doesn’t catch on lol