alt Hacker NewsThe large file sizes are not because of bloat per-se...
It's a technique which supposedly helped at one point in time to reduce loading times, helldiver's being the most note-able example of removing this "optimization".
However, this is by design - specifically as an optimization. Can't really be calling that boat in the parents context of inefficient resource usage
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abustamam • today at 4:53 PM
Interesting, today I learned!
thanksgiving • today at 5:40 AM
We aren't talking about the initial downloads though. We are talking about updates. I am like 80% sure you should be able to send what changed without sending the whole game as if you were downloading it for the first time.
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SkiFire13 • today at 8:38 AM
Do you have some resource for people outside this field to understand what it's about?
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This was the the reason in Helldivers, other games have different reasons - like uncompressed audio (which IIRC was the reason for the CoD-install-size drama a couple of years back) - the underlying reason is always the same though, the dev team not caring about asset size (or more likely: they would like to take care of it but are drowned in higher priority tasks).