Star Citizen Client Size Will Be Around 100GB, Patches Could Be 20GB - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 March 2015 / 4,367 Views
Developer Cloud Imperium is in the middle of developing Star Citizen. The game's operations director Jeremy Masker has stated on the official forums that the game client size will end up being around 100GB, while patches can be up to 20GB in size.
"The game compression and asset removal is unlikely to yield such high gains that we will be able to reduce our client size to 30-40gb," said Masker. "The size and number of assets that are left to deliver means that our client size is much more likely to be 100gb."
"Also, yes we are optimizing game patching for speed and to only deliver diffs, but this is unlikely to reduce actual patch size," he continued. "Again, each patch has 100s of assets, each of these assets are at times 200mb, this leads to 2-6gb patches, and if we end up doing a file type re-factor and have to re-download 30-40% of the assets on the hard-drive, then the patch will be 14-20gb."
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So what he's saying is this isn't out yet but rest assured the patches will be the size or close to that of a lot of full games, we wont bother to optimize and bug test the shit out of it so that any patch's are as small as possible ,why because we wont be the ones needing to download it.
Lol. What did people expect? The more complex and advanced games get the more data.
What am I getting myself into. LOL
That's BS lmao
