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They did some updates not long ago on PC that reduced the size arround that also.
It's kind of public knowledge by now: any GAAS title is going to require a ridiculous amount of gigs. Better brace yourselves, because I fully expect it to get worse as the generation goes on.
Is this the Microsoft game everyone is talking about? Skyrum? I like having a little tipple on a plane so this may be right up my ally.
You cant preload this. You can preload the 200mb file. But most downloading you will do ingame. And that is gonna be arround 97gb
Wait, does that mean I can't install it remotely? I'm out of town and I wanted this to download by the time I get back through the Gamepass app.
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Feel bad for anyone with a Series S that plays more than one game at a time with sizes like these.
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believe how the content is handled and the complexity of it. That it kinda needs it own client.
I'll have to delete Gears 5, haven't played it in a bit so no big deal.
Must. Resist. Joke.
I don't think this can be contributed to a game being GaaS. I expect next gen games to be fine in size and Flight Simulator to be a exception, since it's contains the whole world. At least a less detailed version. After all the detailed parts get streamed in on the fly iirc.
This game took like 170~ GB when it first came out on PC.
They've significantly reduced that somehow, via patching, to ~80 GB.
It's interesting that it's going to take more now, on the Xbox. Perhaps over time they'll shrink that version, too.
They've significantly reduced that somehow, via patching, to ~80 GB.
It's interesting that it's going to take more now, on the Xbox. Perhaps over time they'll shrink that version, too.
ALL of it ??
Oh shit. With my internet connection i'll be flying through wastelands at 20mph.
Sigh. No, not all of it. It's not 100GB of ship models and code.
But yes, internet required.
This can't be compared to any GAAS game, the others use repeated geometry and textures incessantly because not trying to represent *the planet*.
Exactly how much data is needed to fully model the third planet in our solar system?
there isn't much correlation between GAAS and game file sizes.
Even if it is necessary the way the PC version handles it is pretty annoying.
The Microsoft Store download is only the client. When you open the client you need to leave it open for hours to download whatever it is (around 170GB when it launched IIRC) before you start playing.
Can fully understand the need for streaming in assets from the cloud during gameplay but the way the PC version installs/updates is pretty clunky for PC let alone a console where you can only have one app/game really open at once.
I wonder how the Xbox build is going to handle the cache, if at all? Flight Sim on PC has the option to have a certain amount of space allocated to a general cache, that stores recent map information to speed up loading, on top of the initial install. There's a second cache too for extremely high quality map data, where you can select regions and download the absolute maximum satellite detail and, in supported cities, photogrammetry data to ensure the area looks the best it possibly can.
Both can be manually adjusted, and the latter is an entirely manual download process. It should be possible on console, just a matter if they'll bother supporting it.
EDIT: To those wondering why you can't just download the "full game"; it's not possible. FS2020 requires satellite data from Bing Maps the volume of global data available would be impossible to store without a server farm.
Both can be manually adjusted, and the latter is an entirely manual download process. It should be possible on console, just a matter if they'll bother supporting it.
EDIT: To those wondering why you can't just download the "full game"; it's not possible. FS2020 requires satellite data from Bing Maps the volume of global data available would be impossible to store without a server farm.
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I think thats why it has its own client ingame for all that? And we dont see the full game download from the store.
Exactly. I wonder if they even have something in place to make sure the console doesn't just go in standby. A full download of the base assets right on the store would have been preferable.
Internet required is not a problem. Besides, anything you're playing on Gamepass requires you to be online at all times, no ?
I haven't been keeping up, but now that I think of it the whole world is probably *a lot* more than 100GB of data, so you'll always be streaming.
100GB is just the space reserved for cached data I guess?
Not sure how my 15mbit is going to keep up.