Possibility of game size reduction? This game just keeps on growing and growing. Crazy.

[Axikor]

Hey developers. Is it possible to reduce overall game size of this game? It's becoming rediculous. 20 GB's right now. That's 14 GB short of battlefield 3 which uses a lot more than uber textures. I hope you will read this question and give us a reply. Thank you. I have asked this question before but did not get a reply. If this keeps up with your patches like that, this game will be over 30 GB and you are planning on releasing a second game. This is like next-gen technology. Watch dogs will be about 50 GB. Last of US close to 30 GB. So why is this game so gigantic? And don't tell me it's the programming and nonsense like that. Your one folder where all textures reside is the problem. So is it possible to reduce the game size?

[TnJ]

It gets less stable for me as they add more dlc. Something weird is going on :D

[Axikor]

Ursprungligen skrivet av TnJ:

It gets less stable for me as they add more dlc. Something weird is going on :D

Go to game folder called Terrains and look at at the folder where all the textures are. It's 16GB. Devs are crazy. It shows how unoptimized this game is if texures must be uncompresed. This game does not need this giant size and I kep asking and asking devs to give us a reply. So maybe now they will. At least say if its technically possible or not to reduce game size. I am sure it's possible. All crysis games do not take that much space. And we all know what crysis 1 needed to even play the game at stable 60 fps. A computer from 5 years from that point when the game was released. It's basically a meme now. Game so good no computer of that time could play it. BF3 is like 34 GB but different egnine, programming and textures but that game is very expensive to produce. A flagship software for the company. This right here is indie stuff right? Devs need to better optimize the game and reduce the file size of it. Getting crazy.

[DeeZaster]

Of all the issues that have been raised, this is seriously a concern for you? What your asking is never going to happen, your asking them to basically rewrite a massive chunk of their engine to satsify saving a few gb of space, if at all possible atm. Put the game on another hdd. If you have only a 128-256gb ssd your really making it hard on yourself to what you can keep on your hdd. I have a 128gb for Windows and mechanicals for gaming files, size isn't a certain what so ever, a working game is. I could list a lot of other games similar to game size of VS and the space VS is using is about average.

[Lacertae]

I was wondering about this as well. Since it really puzzled me for a game that is so short.

Speaking of short games, I would actually buy some DLC if they featured more areas and quests instead of another class to replay the exact same storyline in.

[Axikor]

Ursprungligen skrivet av DeeZaster:

Of all the issues that have been raised, this is seriously a concern for you? What your asking is never going to happen, your asking them to basically rewrite a massive chunk of their engine to satsify saving a few gb of space, if at all possible atm. Put the game on another hdd. If you have only a 128-256gb ssd your really making it hard on yourself to what you can keep on your hdd. I have a 128gb for Windows and mechanicals for gaming files, size isn't a certain what so ever, a working game is. I could list a lot of other games similar to game size of VS and the space VS is using is about average.

Yes, this is a legitimate concern. It tells me that devs did not optimize the game or did not compress textures. It is a big issue. I have plenty of space and that is not a problem. Problem is, when developers dump raw data on us without compressing. When that game was downloading it was compressed to 8GB. It then unzipped and added 10GB for a total of 18 GB. Now with patches it keeps on adding and adding extra space. I am going to delete this game. Play once and delete and never again. Developers dont give a flying ♥♥♥♥ I see. Even on highest settings textures are not that great. So yea i have a right to express of what I think of this game and its developers. One thing, a gigantic game like BF3 or Last of Us. And even Last of Us on bluray uses less than 30GB. So these developers dont know what the hell they are doing. Good luck redownloading 20 GB if you choose to replay it later. I sure will not play this game again and no more pathetic DLC for me. Nothing beneficial has been added to this game. And they are already working on game 2. They need to sit down and rethink the whole issue on why textures are so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ huge and fix all the bugs. This game is mascarading under heavy intensive processes such highest DX it uses, then shaders, FXAA or whatever it uses yet adds nothing of benefit so its poor coding basically.

[Lozzle]

No ♥♥♥♥...it really is up to 20gigs...that is discomforting.

[Elyse]

Hi guys,
We are not planning to reduce the game size. If you are worried about the updates, you shouldn't, most of the time the update only overwrites the existing version.

[✪ megapull]

The game uses 165 unique creatures, 35 maps, none of which are generated. This means "hand-crafted" maps that are optimized for 5 graphic levels, and within the game, there are almost no reused textures. This equals in the current size of the game.

[Axikor]

Thanks for the reply Neocore but you guys must realize that HD Space is becoming now more and more precious. With next gen games and their ports come to PC most games will be 20GB+ from the start. That means some games must be remvoed from somewhere. And yes adding more hard drives does solve the problem but most gamers here are still technically not that bright. They buy or assemble computers with 1-3 hard drives. Usually one ssd for OS and 1-2 for other stuff. And even those mechanical drives are less than 1 TB, I have 5 Samsung F3 1TB drives so storage for me is not a problem for now. As soon as I am able, I will make a new computer with even more drives and more storage all the way to 4TB per drive but with current prices for those drives not many people including me are willing to jump in and buy it. Still expensive. So you see, only few people will aim to have computers with lots of space.

No one can keep forever a certain product. Titanfall, Mass Effect 4, other more expensive games will take precedent over your game anytime including BF4 so people will have no choice but to uninstall your game at some point. And let's not forget how bad American internet is. People still have somewhere here in US dialup and pay 50 bucks for dialup. If I was a developer, I would try to reduce the game by a few gigabytes if people are asking and if its techically possible so more people will be able to buy and play it instead of just once like it was suggested by David Cage from Quantic Dream and the game Beyond:Two Souls. But that game was meant to be like that. This one does not and after playing it, people will simply remove it for other games. So replay value is very low.

[Old Dragon]

Ursprungligen skrivet av His Divine Shadow:

HD Space is becoming now more and more precious.

You're kidding, right? HD space was precious 20 years ago, sure. Unless you are loading everything on SSD, storage is cheap, cheap, cheap.

[jpr64]

Exactly my thoughts : 20 gb, was the size of my first HD, it was 25 years ago...

And it costed me almost the same price of a 3GB now (if not more)...

JPR out!

[Axikor]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Old Dragon:

Ursprungligen skrivet av His Divine Shadow:

HD Space is becoming now more and more precious.

You're kidding, right? HD space was precious 20 years ago, sure. Unless you are loading everything on SSD, storage is cheap, cheap, cheap.

Perhaps you misunderstood. Storage is cheap depending on what type of storage you get. As I stated above, I have 5 1Tb drives and right now only one drive is almost filled with games from steam and Origin. I still have about 150GB free. By precious I meant to say that with next gen, PC ports will be even bigger so you will have to uninstall something. Also, storage is depended on how may sata ports you have which are depended on the type of motherboard you got. Don't kid yourself into thinking storage is cheap. It is not cheap and very few are willing to spend 400 USD for a 4TB drive just so they can put all their games into one place. And then there are those who are unfortunate to be with AT&T and Comcast because they impose limits on how much per month you can download. You can download all you want but after 250GB you may be charged whatever amount they choose. I removed my family from AT&T because of their IPTV service to Time Warner which is still better than AT&T in my opinion. They kept on trying to charge my aunt and uncle beause they always went above the limit and were paying a lot for the service. I have no limits in WI but others do and so if we want to play other games, we need to remove something from somewhere right. And this is why storage is becoming more precious these days. Games are gettign bigger, for everything you must pay more and more.

[Lozzle]

You really should space out these walls of text.

[dangel666]

I really don't care - this game is epic and deserves a whole blinking HD :P

[Old Dragon]

This argument is silly. Please do not confuse storage with Internet download capabilties from your ISP. If you are telling the game developers that the download is too large, that is totally different from complaining that you don't have enough storage.

I'm not going to tell you what you can afford vs. what you can't, but the difference between a 10GB game and 20GB game is hardly even a rounding error on today's HDDs.