Why is the free DLC with 4K videos only available in the Steam version of the game, but not for the GOG version? The game was released in GOG 10 days ago. When will 4K videos be available for Subverse here? Me and many other players here supported your project during the early access stage, and I would like Studio FOV Interactive to provide the same content to Steam and GOG players.

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I agree with Funt_Izyuma,
Where is the free DLC of 4k cinematics that is available for free on Steam?
We have supported financially the project on GOG, so we deserve the same product.

As always, we are often pretty cool with waiting days/weeks before having everything, but the lack of informations is very annoying (even disrespectful).

Any information about this? Will we get this DLC too or are we getting cucked once again for wanting to buy our games DRM Free?

I just installed the offline installer version and in the Settings menu of the game, I was able to tick a checkbox to "Use 4K Videos".

I don’t think this checkbox does anything for the GOG-Version. It’s likely just there because it is easier, to outsource only the videoassets into the DLC, but not the ingame-function.
This becomes evident, when analysing Studio FOW’s communication and the gamefiles:
- The official Studio FOW-Discord in the „subverse-faq“ section has a statement regarding the 4K that explicitly mentions Steam, but not GOG.
- The Steampage for the 4K-Video DLC states that additional 31 GB of diskspace is necessary, >on top< of the basegame.
- The Steampage for the basegame states 40 GB as minimum requirement.
- The GOG-page for the basegame states 35,8 GB as size.
- The local files of a GOG-Subverse-installation is for me at 35.0 GB.
- The videofiles are located in the subfolders Subverse\Subverse\Content\Movies. This folder has a total size of 10.8 GB for me.
- I did not check all individual videofiles. But those I checked, had a resolution of 1920x810, so definetly not 4K.
In conclusion the current Subverse-basegame on gog does not include the 4K videos.

It would also be very surprising, if the 4K-videos are a sepatate DLC on Steam, but not on GOG. I think it would be easier to work on both platforms with an identical model.

I could not find a statement, that the 4K-videos will not be released on GOG. So in good faith, we could assume there are other reasons for the delay and the DLC will eventually be released on GOG. But there also is no statement confirming that it will be available on GOG, making a purchase on Steam more attractive for some potential buyers. Those who bought in on GOG may be understandibly unhappy about this situation, probably especially those who bought it during early access, when the option of 4K-videos in the future was not even announced.

So an official statement from Studio FOW regarding this matter would definetly help to set expectations right.

4K videos were in earlier versions of the game. In the GoG Galaxy\Games\Subverse\Subverse\Content\Movies folder before version 1.0 there were duplicate files ending with *Master_Opt.mp4 for UHD and *Master.mp4 for 4K files.
These files were initially in early access, but then the *Master.mp4 files were removed in the release version.
The checkbox in the settings means nothing if there are no original 4K video files.
It is strange that F.O.W. representatives ignore this topic, although this question was also asked in another discussion. At the same time, the developer representative Waahnubis regularly answers in other topics.