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Star Citizen client to be around 100GB

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I would say its a good thing because game will be detailed and massive :) This game must be the biggest game yet (thousands of miles large space environment).

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Wasn't everyone freaking out about Titan Fall being 50 GB?

Let's see how people react to Star Citizen being 100 GB...

But Titanfall was just LAZY ASS DEVS.

Seriously, Crysis 1, Warhead, 2, and 3 are all less than 10Gb each and all look way better.

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But Titanfall was just LAZY ASS DEVS.

Seriously, Crysis 1, Warhead, 2, and 3 are all less than 10Gb each and all look way better.

35GB of audio. Fucking audio. 

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10 dvds version?

Well, a regular DVD only holds 4.38GiB (4.7 Metric GB) of data, 10 of those wouldn't hold HALF of SC's size. It'd take 4x single-layer Blu-ray Discs (25GB/disc) 2x dual-layer BD's (50GB/disc), or even a quad-layer BD/BDXL (100-128GB/disc).
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So no one in australia is getting this game lmao.

They could just buy the physical copy.

This is exactly why we need Blu-Ray on PC because having to install 14 DVD's is ridiculous.

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No surprise.  It's got a few years of development still, and multiple games have passed the 50GB threshold right now (and more will this year).  That, and it might be the largest, most detailed game ever made, but that remains to be seen.

 

If it does pan out, I'm glad I invested in the 500GB SSD.

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Here's hoping it's easy to copy the install files to a second or third machine.

 

Also, I really hope they're going to be using bittorrent or something to push downloads. For cost, and so servers don't get completely slammed on patch-day.

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Here's hoping it's easy to copy the install files to a second or third machine.

 

Also, I really hope they're going to be using bittorrent or something to push downloads. For cost, and so servers don't get completely slammed on patch-day.

They're using google servers so they should be stable even under heavy load.

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I've heard that the cost of distributing a game on a disk is impractically high for an indie game company, but what if the game is this big? Does it become more efficient to stamp some dual layer BDs and send them around the world? I suspect not, but I'm not sure.

I take it this download will be at least partly peer-to-peer, so that the distributor's servers don't have to serve up 100GB per player.

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HOLY COW.

 

 

 

100GB?!
 

 

HOLY COW.

 

 

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Let me see.... 70GB/month for internet (10Mbps down/1mbps up), 60GB SSD, 1TB HDD with less than 80GB free, 100GB 2.5" drive filled with modded skyrim, 320GB 2.5" filled with steam and origin games. F***.

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gotta love this game even before it's released
Guess I need to purchase a 256gb Star Citizen SSD when it launches ;)  

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They could just buy the physical copy.

This is exactly why we need Blu-Ray on PC because having to install 14 DVD's is ridiculous.

Is it coming out as a physical copy aswell? also those patches are going to take awhile for most people.

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OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SHIIIIZZZZZZZ 

 

*looks at hdd still have space :D

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Is it coming out as a physical copy aswell? also those patches are going to take awhile for most people.

16G about 2 or 3 hours on a 15Mb/s connection.  Just leave it updating while at work.   I have a few friends  interested so we are going to see if we can download it once and then copy it to everyone elses pc.

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No, I've seen some BS in my days, but just no. SC does not actually need to be this enormous! Uncompressed audio, uncompressed textures, very heavy data structure/organization. I showed this to my HPC and Heterogeneous computing professor and he practically had an aneurysm laughing. What a joke... Pushing for awesome is one thing, but elegance is necessary. Lightweight design is necessary!

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Haha cool. First 100GB mark game. Was curious when one will pop :P

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So about 16H download at max speed for me (15Mbps). And more than 80% of my monthly bandwith... Yeah....

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Jimmity Christmas!

This seemS potentially unecessary for most gamers.

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