Sea of Thieves will reduce the install size of the game on February 6th - Xbox One: 35GB -> 10GB - Xbox One X: 47GB -> 25GB - PC: 47GB -> 27GB

Kaguya · Jan 17, 2019

ChewbieFR said:
What, do you imply that these updates are... Rare? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

lol.

But really, the easiest implementation of this is moving CG cutscenes and story mode into a separate optional download for mainly multiplayer games. Every time I think about replaying Tekken 7 I remember that it's a 50+ GB download and nope-the-fuck-out.

gordofredito · Jan 17, 2019

wow that is impressive.
I'd like a larger and more detailed description of how they managed to do this. It's seriously great

ghostcrew · Jan 17, 2019

To give slightly more detail, they discussed in a dev video that the size of the game had grown due to the frequent content updates. They've switched to a new updating method which means that the overall size of the game has shrunk at the expense of slightly larger update sizes.

I can't remember how large the download was at launch to be honest.

SuikerBrood · Jan 17, 2019

MonthOLDpickle said:
So it will actually reduce the space on its own with no need for the user to uninstall, neat!

It does require te reinstall tho.. :P

LiK · Jan 17, 2019

Amen. Save people's storage

SuikerBrood · Jan 17, 2019

ghostcrew said:
To give slightly more detail, they discussed in a dev video that the size of the game had grown due to the frequent content updates. They've switched to a new updating method which means that the overall size of the game has shrunk at the expense of slightly larger update sizes.

I can't remember how large the download was at launch to be honest.

The install size for Sea of Thieves is 18.73GB on Xbox consoles, and 19.60GB for PCs.

https://twinfinite.net/2018/03/what-is-the-install-size-for-sea-of-thieves/

sora87 · Jan 17, 2019

I hope more games do this. 100+ gb installs are just too much. I had to get rid of elder scrolls online because it just kept eating up more and more hard drive space with the constant updates.

MonthOLDpickle · Jan 17, 2019

SuikerBrood said:
It does require te reinstall tho.. :P

Yea but you don't have to do it yea self, as I can't figure out how to turn auto updates off >.> lol

Deleted member 44371 · Jan 17, 2019

Granjinha said:
I'm really curious to see where Sea of Thieves will go in 2019. The PVP update doesn't interest me, but the revamped quest system definitely does.

Same for me. i already despise and dislike the pvp update even though i never played it, however im so happy that they are actually giving us pve players sth to do with the new quest system.

Falchion · Jan 17, 2019

That's awesome from the team!

Sea of Thieves will reduce the install size of the game on February 6th - Xbox One: 35GB -> 10GB - Xbox One X: 47GB -> 25GB - PC: 47GB -> 27GB

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