Bethesda releasing 58GB HD texture pack for Fallout 4

[Inkz]

6 hours ago, MMKing said:

 Also, is Fallout 4 still a thing? Sure, if you accept it's just a shoot and loot game, it's a decent casual experience. Hardly worth a second look at over a year after it's release though.

Yes it is still a thing. It still had DLC being released even until last year, and mods open up even more potential. There is plenty to do, and how many other large open world, first person games do you find like it? I have a couple of hundred of hours on it and it is not that uncommon for people to do so. Maybe it is not your thing, but it definitely has players who still love it.

[TheUzu]

34 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Well he started it.

 

To be fair companies are never going to take into account people with slow internet connections or data caps, otherwise Sony and Microsoft wouldn't allow the insane amount of downloads required in the consoles.

 

I don't know about where ever you live but in the UK 90-92% of the population can get 24mbps+ internet for like £22 a month.

 

I used to have 3mbps back in like 2011 so I know how terrible internet feels, but the majority have decent speeds now so they're going to assume most people have that.

 

Personally I have a 140/40 connection so they can make their patches as large as they want.

[themctipers]

meanwhile i cant even run fallout at medium settings 1080p.

[Praesi]

My modded Fallout tops this screenshot. My guess is it will be badly optimezed 4K Textures, nothing more.

[mmaatt747]

4 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

Yeah so he pays for it, then we find better ISP and faster internet with no data cap. Even a decent internet connection is going to take a while to download 58GB file.

S Stephenson is correct though.  It truly is ONLY going to get worse.  As drives continuously get cheaper and higher capacities and newer displays get higher resolutions, bigger downloads are just going to be the result.  

 

Even if you don't have the option to get faster speeds or if you don't want to pay more to have the privilege to not have to wait longer before you can hit the "Play" button, bigger downloads are just a fact.

[NumLock21]

6 minutes ago, mmaatt747 said:

S Stephenson is correct though.  It truly is ONLY going to get worse.  As drives continuously get cheaper and higher capacities and newer displays get higher resolutions, bigger downloads are just going to be the result.  

 

Even if you don't have the option to get faster speeds or if you don't want to pay more to have the privilege to not have to wait longer before you can hit the "Play" button, bigger downloads are just a fact.

Or you can just go to your local game shop and buy it on Disc, much faster than downloading.

[mmaatt747]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

Or you can just go to your local game shop and buy it on Disc, much faster than downloading.

True! It would be cool if you could by DLC's and patches on disc.

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, mmaatt747 said:

True! It would be cool if you could by DLC's and patches on disc.

They can charge a bit for the disc cause disc still cost money or the disc is free, and  just charge a shipping fee. Some don't have high speed and getting it on disc is the better option. I remember one of the linux distro did just that.

[mmaatt747]

Yeah I would imagine there would be plenty of people that would prefer that route, even if it's a small charge for the disc/packaging like you said.

[samiscool51]

ok lets see how much space i have left

(checks storage reqirments)

(checks disk space)

(mouth opens)

f**k....

[shermantanker]

2 hours ago, samiscool51 said:

ok lets see how much space i have left

(checks storage reqirments)

(checks disk space)

(mouth opens)

f**k....

I know the feeling

[callum92]

I think I can just about manage to find space for it.

[H0R53]

It's nice having 4 hard drives that can each hold this texture pack because I don't keep everything I download...except I don't have a GTX1080 or even a Core iX processor...Bethesda, stop making shitty things nobody cares about and remaster Arena already.

[Inkz]

Do high res textures even use more CPU power? It seems like most of the work would be GPU related.

[Juanitology]

On 1/31/2017 at 0:14 PM, shermantanker said:

I think 4k, the games crappy textures are still 14gb on their own. 4k @ 60gb in comparison seems reasonable, it's still a ridicules amount though.

Ah I figured since there was an 8K texture pack for skyrim and the modder who did it was hired by bethesda this might be a bit of his handy work but I guess not. When you think about it 60GB for textures is not THAT much considering they're 4K and the size of the game world. I think Bioshock Infinite shipped with 4K textures as well and was like 40GB+ and that was with a much smaller world.

[Juanitology]

3 hours ago, callum92 said:

I think I can just about manage to find space for it.

I know this is off topic but having multiple drives filled like that you're asking for trouble. I'd recommend you get a NAS (even if it's a really cheap 2 bay one) and get some proper data protection or get a cloud backup because one of those drives WILL fail and you'll lose all your shit on it. 

[-BirdiE-]

I really don't get the 6-core requirement.... If the game is poorly optimized, shouldn't clock speed matter much more than cores? No way it's efficiently using more than one core...

 

And I think it's pretty obvious that if the game was well optimized, you wouldn't need an extreme Intel CPU to play it..

[Morgan Everett]

17 minutes ago, -BirdiE- said:

I really don't get the 6-core requirement.... If the game is poorly optimized, shouldn't clock speed matter much more than cores? No way it's efficiently using more than one core...

 

And I think it's pretty obvious that if the game was well optimized, you wouldn't need an extreme Intel CPU to play it..

I believe Fallout 4 is quite well multi-threaded. But I've no idea why a texture pack would demand such a CPU.

[ARikozuM]

46 minutes ago, -BirdiE- said:

I really don't get the 6-core requirement.... If the game is poorly optimized, shouldn't clock speed matter much more than cores? No way it's efficiently using more than one core...

 

And I think it's pretty obvious that if the game was well optimized, you wouldn't need an extreme Intel CPU to play it..

Single-threaded doesn't just mean it uses one thread (logical core). It means that any tasks have to be done in sequence. For example, Minecraft is single-threaded and will use two cores for the workload.

[Juniho]

I expect bug but i'm, gonna get it anyways

[You_are_a_cunt]

WHAT THE ACTUAL

 

I hope that's a typo or textures for 4k, else that is utterly ridiculous. THE GAME ITSELF ISN'T THAT BIG!

[Prysin]

I love Bethesda trying to improve the game... they make a 58GB patch and all it does is take the game from "Poato" to "Potato+" image quality... yet a shitload of mods will do a better job whilst taking less space.

 

 

Bethesda just cannot do ANYTHING right, not even retexture their own fucking intellectual property

[AlTech]

1 minute ago, Prysin said:

I love Bethesda trying to improve the game... they make a 58GB patch and all it does is take the game from "Poato" to "Potato+" image quality... yet a shitload of mods will do a better job whilst taking less space.

 

 

Bethesda just cannot do ANYTHING right, not even retexture their own fucking intellectual property

Well at least they didn't make a "Fallout 4 Special Edition"

[Prysin]

6 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Well at least they didn't make a "Fallout 4 Special Edition"

yet

[Morgan Everett]

29 minutes ago, Prysin said:

I love Bethesda trying to improve the game... they make a 58GB patch and all it does is take the game from "Poato" to "Potato+" image quality... yet a shitload of mods will do a better job whilst taking less space.

 

 

Bethesda just cannot do ANYTHING right, not even retexture their own fucking intellectual property

I thought Fallout 4 always looked pretty nice.