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[Bonfires Down]

Apparently the current size is about 90 GB so the new size should be 30 GB. The speculation is that duplicate map and skin data is being purged to allow for such a reduction. Will consoles get the same treatment? Should Infinity Ward learn a thing or two from Epic? Or has Epic just been lazy optimizing the size up til now?

 

[KingdomHeartsFan]

Wait this shit was 90GB lmao. Its one map and doesn't even look that good.

 

[LordOfChaos]

Duplicate map data, like redundancy for HDDs, and starting to assume SSDs?

Otherwise, the fuck was it doing that big, it's one map?

 

[wordslaughter]

Duplicate map data, like redundancy for HDDs, and starting to assume SSDs?

Otherwise, the fuck was it doing that big, it's one map?

Must be all the 8k textures everywhere.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

WTF? Did they have audio included from all 6,500 spoken languages in the world?

 

[Tesseract]

RELEASE UE5 YOU COWARDS

 

[Kenpachii]

Most of these games save all patches that the game has ever done on your drive so when shit crashes they can restore it with that data.

It's really annoying good they cut most of it.

 

[mickaus]

I hope they release something like this on consoles including the switch soon. I just play fortnite in casual bursts and having to install big updates every week or so just means I have to get rid of other games if I want to keep playing on and off.

 

[vkbest]

Days gone reduced space almost 30gb too

 

[PleaseDontBanMe]

Please Call of Duty take notes

 

[DonJuanSchlong]

RELEASE UE5 YOU COWARDS

They won't do that before ps5 launches. We all know why too.

 

[-Arcadia-]

Would love to definitively know what’s going on here. It’s not anywhere near that big on consoles. Anyway, a nice surprise for PC gamers.

 

[DonJuanSchlong]

Would love to definitively know what’s going on here. It’s not anywhere near that big on consoles. Anyway, a nice surprise for PC gamers.

Probably getting rid of duplicate data and maybe, just maybe testing out some of the features of UE5 and smart compression (precursor to direct storage??)

 

[RPS37]

Did someone at Epic invent middle-out compression?

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Did they remove tencent spyware package?

 

[-Arcadia-]

It would be amazing if you loaded it up, and matches just took place on the helicarrier.

Optimization achieved.

 

[CrysisFreak]

That's actually very impressive.

 

[fersnake]

hope this is real, not like cod. i remember they saying the same thing but never see that size reduction. this update is still having hdd's in mind right?

 

[cormack12]

wtf - so they've always been able to reduce size and only bothered now?

 

[rofif]

Why is this even thread worthy. Nobody cares about fortninte... especially just some patch

 

[vkbest]

Did someone at Epic invent middle-out compression?

Days gone was 60 GB before and now is around 37-38 from last update, use Unreal Engine too. So its probably because something Epic change in their engine. Probably the shitty update system this engine have where you have to download almost the full game.

 

[Woffls]

Why is this even thread worthy. Nobody cares about fortninte... especially just some patch

It's an interesting precedent, especially considering how much time people spend thinking about SSD storage these days.

 

[rofif]

It's an interesting precedent, especially considering how much time people spend thinking about SSD storage these days.

Days gone also had 30gb reducing patch

 

[Spukc]

Fuck you forknife for killing Unreal tournament

 

[Goncas2]

Maybe using a combination of compression and other optimizations? Maybe Oddle Texture?

 

[Woffls]

Days gone also had 30gb reducing patch

and that thread would have been equally relevant

 

[mcz117chief]

WTF? Did they have audio included from all 6,500 spoken languages in the world?

Nope, probably just one uncompressed, like Titanfall 1.

 

[deriks]

You download... negatively?!

That's some next gen shit there

 

[SurprisedPikachu]

Maybe it’s asset streaming not everyone uses the same skins and animations, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it streamed it in as needed. Unless the article, which I haven’t read, explains how it’s reducing the filesize so dramatically..

 

[Fbh]

Please Call of Duty take notes

LOL. Nah man, they are probably planning how to fill up those newly freed 60gb with COD updates.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Huh.. must be a UE4 thing if Days Gone got a similar patch.

Cool stuff, wonder what it is.

 

[The Scrivener]

The graphics get better with every patch (my kids play daily and it's noticeably better every time). But I can't wait to get 60 gigs back on my PC, although it's probably a lie, everything is nowadays.

 

[MiguelItUp]

They should tell the COD team about compression.

 

[AJUMP23]

File the right lawsuit and you can remove the app completely from a platform.