180 gb?

[PremiumG98]

surely this is a typo

[Nachtmahr]

The best one is: "Additional Notes: SSD required. Poor SSD"

[bl4ckfyr3]

180gigs is insane

[kassan.nk]

for 2025 this is a normal size. it is strange that there is no alternative to kraken compression for pc

[PremiumG98]

Originally posted by kassan.nk:

for 2025 this is a normal size. it is strange that there is no alternative to kraken compression for pc

its literally not

[turbogum]

The game apparently has full dub in 7 other languages on top of English, so you can bet that the download size is absolutely bloated by forcing you to download voice files for e.g. German or Spanish on top of English and Japanese.

It's 2025 and some developers / publishers are still incapable of setting up their games to use the most basic Steam functions, so that you can choose which language you want to download.

Quick Edit:
And ofc you'll most likely be able to delete all the unneeded language files AFTER having downloaded them, whereas you can bet that pirates will be able to selectively download whatever language files they want without having to waste time or disk space. Paying customers getting a worse service once again.

[arrogantic_deer]

Has to be one of the heaviest games of the year

[tuoppio]

this is bigger then war zone how the hell do you do that

[Trevor Reznik]

Sometimes gamss bake in all the shaders: see God of War Ragnarok at 175gb

[turbogum]

Originally posted by Trevor Reznik:

Sometimes gamss bake in all the shaders: see God of War Ragnarok at 175gb

You know that baked lighting used to be normal in games for the past 20+ years?

[Jedi]

welcome to new era of gaming bro

[Lovveen]

most likely 4k textures, but I really hope the devs would option that out for lesser game size

[CroweBrite]

Probably some stuff like graphics (not even that groundbreaking), audio and other parts that are not properly optimize to save space.

[X Pradiator]

180gb and ssd for ps3 level of graphics

[Beardman]

data compression is a forgotten technology

[Derik-For-Real]

Originally posted by turbogum:

The game apparently has full dub in 7 other languages on top of English, so you can bet that the download size is absolutely bloated by forcing you to download voice files for e.g. German or Spanish on top of English and Japanese.

It's 2025 and some developers / publishers are still incapable of setting up their games to use the most basic Steam functions, so that you can choose which language you want to download.

Quick Edit:
And ofc you'll most likely be able to delete all the unneeded language files AFTER having downloaded them, whereas you can bet that pirates will be able to selectively download whatever language files they want without having to waste time or disk space. Paying customers getting a worse service once again.

This assumption is not even true, its a complete lie, dub file size does not contribute significantly to game file size by any means. The main culprit for gigantic file size is the incompetence of devs relying on any form of recycling. This applies to God of War/ Ragnarok, Horizon Zero Dawn/ Forbidden West,Stalker 2, Ninja Gaiden 2 Black and many more.

These studios higher the most worthless devs that exist nd the most incompetent ones, essentially your production value sucks ass with million concerns that eventually impacts the end user in a negative way for a life time.

This scummy toxic trend must die along with its devs and leadership, enough is enough.