Download size?

[Overweight_Satan]

Anyone know?

[Cold_Reverie]

The first game required 17 GBs of space, and the Store page for this game says it will require 19 GBs. Is that what you meant?

[Tonton]

Originally posted by Cold_Steel_III:

The first game required 17 GBs of space, and the Store page for this game says it will require 19 GBs. Is that what you meant?

The space in the requirements is usually more to do with the install size, some games have smaller download sizes than the install one.

I don't think we know download size but since the install size seems to be similar to the first game, it should also be the case for the download size

[Cold_Reverie]

Originally posted by Tonton:

The space in the requirements is usually more to do with the install size, some games have smaller download sizes than the install one.

I don't think we know download size but since the install size seems to be similar to the first game, it should also be the case for the download size

Ah, okay. My bad then. Thank you for the correction. :)

[Tonton]

Just checked and the first game seems to have an 8.5GB download size, about half the install size, so maybe around 9.5GB for CS2 for a guesstimate

[Sugoi]

While it is nice that using .wavs for all the audio makes it easy to mod, it sure does bloat the install size. I wish they had used a codec with decent compression for CS1 & 2; it would easily cut storage usage by half.

[devSin]

Originally posted by Sugoi:

While it is nice that using .wavs for all the audio makes it easy to mod, it sure does bloat the install size. I wish they had used a codec with decent compression for CS1 & 2; it would easily cut storage usage by half.

Durante said the difference in CS2 for compression (he didn't specify format) was only about 3.5GB. Since it would require just about as much coding effort as any of the other big-ticket improvements, the decision was made to just go uncompressed again.

So not 0, but still not a tremendous amount of space (and it wouldn't help the download size).

[Sugoi]

Download size is only really a concern for people on metered connections, however wasted storage space adds up and is a real problem when you are dealing with more than a handful of games. Also, he was comparing it to the compression that was used in the vita and ps3 versions, which is significantly worse than you'd get with other codecs.

Edit: For funsies, I reencoded a few of Cold Steel's songs and voice lines with VBR and vorbis; file size reduction for all audio was around 92%. 3.53GB vocals and 2.44GB bgm become just shy of 500MB; a savings of 5.5GB. By Grabthar's hammer, what a savings!