It's been 5 hours

[solidwolf52]

And I'm only at 51%. This is ridiculous!

[Inverted]

And I'm only at 51%. This is ridiculous!

If I may, I would like to refer you to this visual representation of what you are experiencing.

Drawn by Twinklepops.

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/1867/halm1.png

[solidwolf52]

You made me laugh but in still annoyed, Ms really need to improve the demo download system

[LordLeckie]

well its to be expected, i see it as a good sign that BioShock is more popular than we thought.

[conantheking]

My gosh a gig usually takes me like 6 hours today is going to be so slow. I will play Rainbow 6 to pass time.

[TwinklePops]

You made me laugh but in still annoyed, Ms really need to improve the demo download system
yeah I wish there was some sort of bit torrent system for these kinda things. that would be much better..

[deathcheckedin]

kids online that downloaded it an hour ago are playing now andnd ive gone nowhere in an hour man this is bull

[SirCoke]

kids online that downloaded it an hour ago are playing now andnd ive gone nowhere in an hour man this is bull

In 3 hours I was at 19% I just cancel it and will wait till tomorrow maybe they will fix this lagg by then

[solidwolf52]

I canceled and then restarted, it went up 1%

[LordLeckie]

you know guys, i love BioShock just as much but maybe you could just have patience? ive learned it comes in handy when anticipating games (or maybe its just the fact that i wont be able to download it?)

[PrivateJoker]

And I'm only at 51%. This is ridiculous!

I'm at 63%! I have DLed gigs in less than an hour over Live. I think its the traffic of rabid fans!

[Kihou]

I had the same problem with my % sticking what I did to fix that is unplugged the ethernet cable wait for it to say it cannot connect to xbox marketplace replug it in you may lose some % but you should gain a speed boost I was stuck at 70% for a hour I did this went back to 60% and was at 100% within 20min

[solidwolf52]

I don't have patience :p

[Amazing Larry]

I managed to pull it down over the course of two hours, my advice is to not obsess over it. I just switched over to my dusty old game cube and played Resident Evil 4 until it was done.

Anyway I wouldn't sweat it, the demo doesn't give any more info than we already had and you basically just waste about a dozen splicers with a grand total of two guns and two plasmids. You just go in meet up with a few solitary and easily smacked down splicers, you see the introductory stuff that establishes the setting and the status quo (stupid splicer tries to grab a little sister and gets owned lol) and then Andrew Ryan chews you out and it ends.

[BlinkyTheReaper]

Yeah, my download is going slowly as well, but I dont think its because of the amount of people downloading. In the Halo 3 beta, it downloaded in about 10 mins, on the first day when hundreds and thousands of people were downloading it simultaneously.

Not trying to start an argument here, but Halo is more popular than BS. theyre both great games, but I think MS has just cut down the download allocation of the demo (for some reason), while for the beta they put it way up. Everything else went very slow in the first couple of beta days.

[Amazing Larry]

Strike that the demo reveals one thing we didn't know already, the controls work. I was worried seeing some of the videos that the controls would be overly convoluted or obtuse but the gunplay and plasmid stuff works just great, guns are fired with the right trigger and selected with the right bumper while plasmids are fired with the left trigger and selected with the left bumper. X reloads whatever you have active be it a gun or a plasmid, Y jumps, B uses health packs and A is the action button. My only gripe with the controls is that I think the functions of A and Y should be reversed but otherwise it's fairly ideal.

[Goddy Of War]

You made me laugh but in still annoyed, Ms really need to improve the demo download system

Trust me, It is worth the wait ;) Have faith my son

[akratch]

I managed to pull it down over the course of two hours, my advice is to not obsess over it. I just switched over to my dusty old game cube and played Resident Evil 4 until it was done.

Anyway I wouldn't sweat it, the demo doesn't give any more info than we already had and you basically just waste about a dozen splicers with a grand total of two guns and two plasmids. You just go in meet up with a few solitary and easily smacked down splicers, you see the introductory stuff that establishes the setting and the status quo (stupid splicer tries to grab a little sister and gets owned lol) and then Andrew Ryan chews you out and it ends.

thanks for ruining it dick.

[LordLeckie]

Strike that the demo reveals one thing we didn't know already, the controls work. I was worried seeing some of the videos that the controls would be overly convoluted or obtuse but the gunplay and plasmid stuff works just great, guns are fired with the right trigger and selected with the right bumper while plasmids are fired with the left trigger and selected with the left bumper. X reloads whatever you have active be it a gun or a plasmid, Y jumps, B uses health packs and A is the action button. My only gripe with the controls is that I think the functions of A and Y should be reversed but otherwise it's fairly ideal.

thank god they have jumping, i was woundering about it but didnt think it was a thread worthy subject, thanks larry.

[TwinklePops]

thanks for ruining it dick.but his name is larry, not richard :o

[solidwolf52]

i have a whole 53% woo

[lil sister savior]

OK fu** THIS demo i cant download it i dont know why it dosent move its been stuck for about 3 hours now it hasnt gone up or anything im going crazy i swaer that i am

[PsychotropicPineapples]

You know what's weird... my friend(who also lives in New Zealand, obviously) downloaded the demo in 1 hour and 15 minutes. And that was only a few hours ago when heaps of other people were downloading it as well.

[conantheking]

OK fu** THIS demo i cant download it i dont know why it dosent move its been stuck for about 3 hours now it hasnt gone up or anything im going crazy i swaer that i am You might have to try cancelling and starting again then. It seems its stopped.

I am currently on 20%.

[Amazing Larry]

thanks for ruining it dick.

I already said it, the demo doesn't reveal anything we didn't already know except for the control sheme. So by describing the demo I didn't reveal anything that wasn't in the press already, it's just the same background information we've had for a long time except that it's hands on.

thank god they have jumping, i was woundering about it but didnt think it was a thread worthy subject, thanks larry.

The jumping isn't what we're used to in FPS though, it's not like most where you can vault six feet straight up. You can only jump as high as a normal person, enough to clear a small gap or to vault over an overturned couch or dive behind a bar or something. Maybe there will be a jump enhancing tonic down the line I don't know.

[SuperSaiyan4]

I downloaded Stranglehold that was 1.2gb in like 30-40mins as my connection is running on around 11mb.

But this demo is taking ages, I noticed that some demos that arent even that popular cant take really long.

But yeah everyone is hitting the download on this one :D

[LordLeckie]

The jumping isn't what we're used to in FPS though, it's not like most where you can vault six feet straight up. You can only jump as high as a normal person, enough to clear a small gap or to vault over an overturned couch or dive behind a bar or something. Maybe there will be a jump enhancing tonic down the line I don't know.

Thanks, its good to know at least some realism is in there (and yeah a jump enhancing one would be cool)

[Clush]

Turns out the 360 demo will be arriving later this month as well :D

They just gave them a headstart with the downloads.

[SuperSaiyan4]

Turns out the 360 demo will be arriving later this month as well :D

They just gave them a headstart with the downloads.

Eh? Its already out.

Or you do mean they released it early? But then again they DID announce it :rolleyes:

[Clush]

Eh? Its already out.

Or you do mean they released it early? But then again they DID announce it :rolleyes:

What i meant was that if it's gonna take 360 owners 3 days to download the demo, both PC and 360 players might just end up starting to play the demo at the same time afterall... but nvm... it was a joke.

[jackinthebox]

The DEMO Thread! (http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3015)

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