ark survival evolved being 203gb :/
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I remember once Fortnite did something similar and shaved the install size from 75 GB down to 30 GB or so. And now it’s mega bloated again…
Activision, Ubisoft, and Rockstar devs, please take note. Oh, and you too, ID Software. I don’t like Doom Eternal being 89 GB.
Quadrexium@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Maestro@fedia.io 14 hours ago
I can tell you why too. They fucked up the map structure at the beginning. They made the world the top level and all the dino and plant assets are under that. Not a problem in the beginning when it's just one map. But they added a second, and a third etc. and all maps needed to contain a copy of those assets. Worse, they let players transport stuff from one map to another. So if you only have the base game, your friend can come visit and use the pokeball to spawn in a couple of dragons or other DLC creature. You need to be able to see that so you need to have those assets too, even in just the base game. So, now every map needs to have a copy of all possible dinos from all DLCs. 11 maps. 11 copies of all assets. Bye bye drive space.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
With the DLCs it’s half a terabyte.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Nothing good to expect from Ark.
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 1 day ago
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!
This just reminds me of the absolute horror that was Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019). The entire thing, with Warzone (that you couldn’t uninstall, btw) was 250 fucking GB. Like, what the actual fuck?
Maestro@fedia.io 1 day ago
Don't forget Wildcard. Ark Survival is an absurd 200+ Gb monstrosity. And there is sooooo much duplicate data.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The infuriating part is they did eventually do some deduplication to reduce the install size - but only for the terrible UE5 remake that runs like crap and forces existing players to rebuy all the DLC (it’s like $150 for everything).