The Blood of Dawnwalker launches worldwide today, but console players can exploit a regional release quirk to start playing several hours early at no extra cost. By manually setting a console's region to New Zealand, which follows the same launch schedule but reaches midnight before most other regions, players can trigger the game's early availability window.

The trick is easier to carry out on Xbox than on PlayStation, and it applies only to consoles, since the PC release runs on a separate schedule. On PlayStation, the process is more cumbersome and would require repurchasing the game on a second account, meaning anyone who already owns it on their main account gains little from bothering with the workaround; most players are advised simply to wait for the standard launch time.