Reinstalling - Now a 103gb download?

[ebe-a51]

Greetings,

Reinstalling Sea of Thieves, curious about the Season 10 Safer Seas update... and the game is now a 103gb download?

Is this right or am i going crazy??

[Simeta]

Yes it's 103 gb

[Unpure]

I've asked the same question, and the reply was that 4K textures and uncompressed audio files was largely to blame, that and poor optimisation.

It's an issue, and I hope they provide an options to not have 4K textures, or fix in an other way.

[Simeta]

While some game devs could certainly improve things to reduce the overall size of the game. As technology improves this will also increase the game install sizes. So expect 100gb+ to be normal within a year or so.

[Unpure]

Originally posted by Simeta:

While some game devs could certainly improve things to reduce the overall size of the game. As technology improves this will also increase the game install sizes. So expect 100gb+ to be normal within a year or so.

Of course some complex games are going to become bigger with time as more fidelity and such become possible, it's just that SoT really doesn't warrant that size...
For comparison; Cyberpunk 2077, with a lot more models, textures, voice lines, traversal area, and more... is only about 60G.

SoT should really look into reducing the size of the game, and I hope people don't make excuses for them.

[Jackkel Dragon]

Every new cosmetic added is more disk space used. The primary progression system and game updates are cosmetics. It's only going to get bigger.

(In general, file size of a game is going to primarily be art assets and audio. These can either be compressed to make them smaller on the disk or uncompressed to make them load faster in-game. You can't really optimize both ways on a software level, at least not with how computers currently work. You can only decide where on the continuum you want to be.)

[ByeByeTango]

I already suggested that Tall Tales should be free DLCs, so that you don't have to download them all.
Imagine just the Monkey Island tales, with the big islands that only appear there, all the dialogs, etc. It must take a lot of space. Same for Pirate's Life ones.
The only ones that must be pretty "small" are the ones that take place in the same open world as the main game.

[blowup]

This game really could use an update just for optimization, any game being 100+ gb is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid to me

[Jackkel Dragon]

I already suggested that Tall Tales should be free DLCs, so that you don't have to download them all.

It could be interesting to have something like the Halo MCC, where you could download what you want to play... but then the reality is that you would then have to code in ways to lock players who have the Tall Tales installed from playing them when they are in a crew with people who don't have them installed. And with how much trouble I see people having just getting players into lobbies sometimes, I'm not sure we need more hurdles to people getting into the game. Imagine finally getting into a lobby after dealing with weird Microsoft account technical issues and failed invites, only to realize you have to exit and install something and start over.

The only ones that must be pretty "small" are the ones that take place in the same open world as the main game.

That's not necessarily true. It could be, but if those unique areas share models and textures with the base game regions, the actual heightmap and placement files might not be that big. Depends on how the developers save the terrain data.

Textures, models, and audio are the big things for filesize. So the biggest filesize magnet in a game like this is going to be the first two (from cosmetic-based progression), while Tall Tales provide a chunk of extra audio files to download.

[PabloCejas]

Sip, los de Rare prefieren aumentar el peso del juego en cosas que nadie pidió y que solo matan el juego, en vez de meter contenido real. -_-

[Zackmchack]

Originally posted by Simeta:

While some game devs could certainly improve things to reduce the overall size of the game.

Good developers can do this, bad developers who need a development environment cannot.

[Reggie]

Some have suggested games with huge installs are mostly trying to crowd the competition out. Can't play other games if a select few take up a large portion of storage space.

[Ryzilynt]

It's true - 103gb.

There is no conspiracy though , it's just a lot of game files. Everything they have added since it launched 6 years ago.

[Jezz]

and near weekly 10gig updates

[Dolomite83]

laugh in "forced to buy a dedicated SSD for Ark"