Why is this game so big.

[Nebgama]

This game seems pretty large for what it is tbh. I have games that are way bigger in terms of content and are hardly pushing 20gb.

Does not surprise me being a funcom game. Can you please look at compressing your textures and models and removing bloat.

I myself and others will not even attempt the game due to its size. There is fk all in the game tbh and 150gb seems unreasonable.

[Vegetto71]

if you need mods just to make a game this good look good to you then that's just sad in 2021 dude, this game is good without mods, i have a copy of it on xbox and on steam, the other DLCs look just as good, i don't know what it is but apparently players and gamers today just doesn't have good taste in game content design, generally speaking the graphics should not matter, the story and mechanics should matter the most, good looking graphics should always be secondary but i guess that's just me and my old school gaming way of thinking. most of the time all i see from gamers and players today is whining and crying cause of this being done or that being done in a game the DEVs have a vision for, they don't base it on what their players think about it other then maybe game balance for it but graphics and story wise they design it how they want and see it becoming in the future, no one else has a right to dog devs who create games that we enjoy when they didn't have to make it they could of done something different then making such an awesome game as conan exiles, appreciate what you have and can have otherwise go play something else that fits you better, this game is a unique game within its genre and its not for everyone.

if you think you can do better with designing a game then get to it and let's see if its better or worse then what you say about conan, size of the game shouldn't even matter at all either, games designed on PC and generally smaller then their counterparts on console so if you can make a game smaller and still as good as this game then let's see it get done otherwise don't drop toxic negativity on any game.

[Testerle]

引用自 Nebgama：

dlc servers vs base/vanilla game servers this is how its always worked.

can you give some examples for this solution? none of the game I know of have such a system in place.

引用自 Nebgama：

And for the record if you have purchased the dlc then would it really matter? It is a catch 22 in itself because who tf cares really about dlc if they do not own the dlc.

you did not get it. it's not relevant if YOU own the dlc. it's relvant if you see someone which owns and use the dlc. what did you expect to happen when you walk around and "see" a base build out of dlc stuff? or a player wering dlc armor?

[Zoekoff]

引用自 Testerle：

you did not get it. it's not relevant if YOU own the dlc. it's relvant if you see someone which owns and use the dlc. what did you expect to happen when you walk around and "see" a base build out of dlc stuff? or a player wering dlc armor?

Now this one I have actually seen in other games. What they did is give the dlc armors a base out of the base game they inherit from, since most of the dlc armors where the exact same armor as some armor from the base game, just with a new model and textures. So if you did not own the new models and textures, you would just see them running around in the matching armor, weapons, or whatever from the base game.

[Ŀynnie]

I just wanna know why the newest DLC (People of the Dragon Whatever) is over 60gbs. That's like a whole new game for a 10 buck DLC for 200 new character models MAX. One DLC should not be nearly half the size of the game with the other 11dlc added as well. Like I have the SSD needed and the space, but it just baffles me how huge these game files are for one DLC.

[Zeel Ara]

引用自 Ŀynnie：

I just wanna know why the newest DLC (People of the Dragon Whatever) is over 60gbs. That's like a whole new game for a 10 buck DLC for 200 new character models MAX. One DLC should not be nearly half the size of the game with the other 11dlc added as well. Like I have the SSD needed and the space, but it just baffles me how huge these game files are for one DLC.

Because it overwrites a lot of the base game files to make the total installation size significantly smaller than it was before. And somehow people still find a way to complain about that.

[Multigun]

引用自 Ŀynnie：

I just wanna know why the newest DLC (People of the Dragon Whatever) is over 60gbs. That's like a whole new game for a 10 buck DLC for 200 new character models MAX. One DLC should not be nearly half the size of the game with the other 11dlc added as well. Like I have the SSD needed and the space, but it just baffles me how huge these game files are for one DLC.

For the 1 billionth time, it does not ADD 60 gigs. It's not 60 gigs in size. How many more times does this need to be explained?

[Still]

i uninstalled this game and had room for 5+ more triple A games not an exaggeration. i have multiple terabytes of space but i like having a lot of stuff installed and this one just is too big to be worth it

[BMN_Narrlequin]

引用自 tanjo：

i uninstalled this game and had room for 5+ more triple A games not an exaggeration. i have multiple terabytes of space but i like having a lot of stuff installed and this one just is too big to be worth it

That are some small AAA games you installed. Newer ones tend to be around Conan Exiles size(~104GB).

[Spindles]

The issue with install size and update size is Unreal Engine, not the game. If this was made with another engine it would be much much smaller (for instance RE Engine is very compact). Even mods made in the UE can goto stupid sizes, when it's just a a few custom armors or whatever. If you see the Unreal Engine Logo, it's going to be a big file size if the game has a lot of assets.

Additionally, game consumers tend to see more value in bigger file sizes so as stupid as it sounds they have little reason to make better compression or be less wasteful. People tend to complain if a game has a small install size these days because they don't understand how the technology works, and just compare it to others.

Game install size is seen the same way as prices on items in real life, if you offer someone a great deal they will ask what's wrong with it since they know it should be worth more. Unreal Engine and install size works the same way, people think they get more value with a bigger size game.

If someone paid $60 for the new CoD and it was 30GB when the last one was 50GB I guarantee you tens of thousands of players would complain they are getting less "game".

[Chill°bucket]

The real answer is that Funcom exists out of some hobby programmers which have no clue and gives the hot potato to the customers. Funcom will still exist as long as they can sell cosmetic DLC's which blow the code dramatically. Anything else is just bubble talk of hardcore fanbois. This is not a serious company with reputation. 6 or 7 hobby guys on the test server do the "tests" for the new updates and I don't want to know how many actually work on the code. Most employees wil be the ones who create new cosmetic stuff. And this is called Funcom. Yo have to get rif of the impression of a serious company with serious programmers which want to make serious games. Tehy hangle from cosmetic DLC to next cosmetic DLC to exist a bit longer.

[Chill°bucket]

引用自 Noxsa：

引用自 RAY°451°：

The real answer is that Funcom exists out of some hobby programmers which have no clue and gives the hot potato to the customers. Funcom will still exist as long as they can sell cosmetic DLC's which blow the code dramatically. Anything else is just bubble talk of hardcore fanbois.

actrually its not the code that gets bigger, its the textures & models but yea you are right for the rest.

ofc. As with the new textures everyone has to download half of the program again which blows cause of the textures to the sky, which exists mostly of textures. Well.. ofc.
This is no way a creditable company should act. This is just mad. Don't care for bugs.
Don't care for AI. Just make cosmetic DLCs which blow the code. And then people have to download the complete game again as an "update". And ever give the hot potato to the customers. I met Bethesda. I met Paradox. But this here is just crazy what this company does. Speechless. Absolutely NO-GO! This is just mad.

[SniperWolfMGS]

I would love to the list of these NCSoft games you are talking about.

[Barnes]

引用自 RAY°451°：

This is just mad. Don't care for bugs.
Don't care for AI. Just make cosmetic DLCs which blow the code. And then people have to download the complete game again as an "update". And ever give the hot potato to the customers. I met Bethesda. I met Paradox. But this here is just crazy what this company does. Speechless. Absolutely NO-GO! This is just mad.

This is just hysterics, and is completely inaccurate. Breathe slowly, and if necessary into a paper sack, RAY.

引用自 SniperWolfMGS：

I would love to the list of these NCSoft games you are talking about.

Me too.

[Oku]

It has to be big enough to contain Conan's massive man tiddies otherwise they'd leak out in to your computer.

[Multigun]

引用自 SniperWolfMGS：

I would love to the list of these NCSoft games you are talking about.

Certainly isn't Guild Wars 2. No Blizzard game either. It's weird that every online game on the planet, there's very little pushback of having to download data that "they don't own." But in Conan Exiles, "devs are lazy, blah blah blah."