don't show anon ark survival evolved
Posted by 100TheCoolest17@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 51 comments
Posted by 100TheCoolest17@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 51 comments
Youxia7@reddit
fucking master chief collection
Rave-fiend@reddit
yeah, Ark sitting on 235.07GB lol
The game isn't worth that. Cool concept taming dinos and mystical creatures but the crafting survival time-sink just kills any enjoyment for me
Trigger_Fox@reddit
Also its weird to explain it but it just feels low quality.
ArkLumia@reddit
Nah its not weird. I love Ark. But Ark is garbage lol.
SeamusMcCullagh@reddit
That was how I felt about Biomutant. Really cool concept and I liked the art style and graphics, but the gameplay just felt like one of those bargain bin shovelware hack and slash games you'd find for $10 in the clearance bin at Walmart. I couldn't get more than a couple hours in, it just felt so bad to play.
rockytop24@reddit
I just want the next season of the show, love the lore.
HeavilyInvestedDonut@reddit
I’m pretty sure Ark is practically abandonware at this point, across the IP. I know ASA gets updates, but no word on Ark 2, ASE was sunset and then revived when they got backlash for ASA running like hot trash, haven’t heard any updates on the show, etc. I thought about buying ASA because I love Ark so much, then I saw that they are SELLING access to individual creatures. Microtransactioning PTW creatures in a PvPvE game is absurd and I’m not going to support it. Wildcard lost their way
underwaterknifefight@reddit
Sometimes the issue is games coming bundled with 4k cutscenes that eat up a shit ton of space. I game in 2k on an ultrawide monitor and have zero need for them.
Some games you can get away with finding and deleting the high res versions of the video files if there are alternative ones for lower res, or in other games (like Tekken 8) you can delete them outright if you don't plan on playing the story mode again.
theGaido@reddit
I sometimes can understand this.
What I don;t understand that "remastered" PS2 games from 2001 takes more than 50GB (hello Squer Enix)
Din_Plug@reddit
The magic of "high resolution textures"
Yeseylon@reddit
More polygons without actually updating the skeletons for the animation
HelpMeGetAGoodName@reddit
Bad allegory because tanks are awesome, and i wish i had one in my driveway.
Suspicious_Breeze@reddit
Anon, could your driveway fit Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus?
Coakis@reddit
You'd still need a better driveway, 6ins or deeper for heavy equipment, or it'll bust under the weight.
forchinski@reddit
I will bust if I have a tank in my parking space
Chappiechap@reddit
Woe. Porsche Tiger in your driveway.
Hect0r92@reddit
I raise you a Panther. He tries to move it 12 feet and it breaks the transmission
Scottish_Whiskey@reddit
12ft? Must’ve gotten a GOOD transmission
bittercripple6969@reddit
Nein, better transmission!
Substantial_Bet_1007@reddit
I know they should be shirnk their filesize but
In the meantime there is a tool called compact gui that compresses games to reduce their filesize
https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI
Compact gui
There is no performance effect, i did it on the finals game
It was 71 gb now its 48 gb and there is no performance issues and i know this because i play it on 50 fps i count and squeeze every single frame
YorkPorkWasTaken@reddit
Can you still install mods?
Substantial_Bet_1007@reddit
Afaik yes i havent tried it on singleplayers games
miggleb@reddit
Can anyone ELI5 why companies wouldn't just run their game through this before launch?
Substantial_Bet_1007@reddit
Usually its builds in years and years of update. For example arc raiders was 35 gb at launch now its 50
NoScrying@reddit
Can't remember where I read it, but it supposedly even improves performance for some games.
Trolltew@reddit
Might be true since smaller files load faster.
ClemWon@reddit
But you have to unpack them again…
Brokedownbad@reddit
Eh. Generally when loading files the bottleneck is the drive, while the CPU is handling compression. If your CPU is so old or so slow that it can't handle file decompression at a reasonable speed, it's time for an upgrade
ClemWon@reddit
If yours was the case you could just save the files on the cpu
Brokedownbad@reddit
what does this even mean
SpaceBug176@reddit
Imagine being a game studio and some random app does more to reduce your own game's file size than you ever did. Diabolical.
TheMorbidHobo@reddit
I agree, compressing was an art back in the day. But if you don't like it, don't support it. Just don't buy it, unironically. It's right on the store page how large the game is, so just don't buy it if it's above a threshold you don't like.
isimsizbiri123@reddit
what a great day to not play modern AAA games
delet_yourself@reddit
Helldivers 2 did it right, game was like 100 gb and they shrunk it down to 20-ish
CerifiedHuman0001@reddit
It was only that big to begin with due to a misunderstanding about how disk drives work. All that bloat was sometimes to do with extra texture copies to make HDDs load faster? I don’t remember all the details. Weird process the whole way through.
Chappiechap@reddit
It was to make HDD load times be more bearable.
I once played with someone who made us wait for like 5 minutes or so just ourely loading, so I don't think it ever worked if I'm honest.
BertTF2@reddit
They announced after making the changes that the file duplication only at best saved like 1 second on an HDD, so it was really for no reason. They just assumed it would matter and apparently never tested it until file size became a big community complaint (Arrowhead? Not testing something? Color me surprised)
tecedu@reddit
It used to for older hard drive tiers but HDDs are fast enough + cached enough to not respond matter?
Brokedownbad@reddit
It didn't. They did some testing internally and found it only improved loading into maps by a couple of seconds, even in worse-case scenarios
Zelcki@reddit
Bruh At that point their PC is dying probably
CerifiedHuman0001@reddit
Ehh, the best storage optimization can’t do squat for sub-par RAM or a dying disk motor. Could even be a CPU bottleneck if it has a small data cache.
HeavilyInvestedDonut@reddit
Ark hurts my heart because I love it so much, but what do you mean each DLC is 40+ gigs if not closer to 70?
NoCard1571@reddit
The main issue is that drive sizes have stagnated in the last 10 years or so, and in the same time period, 4K gaming has become standard. And in order for games to look crisp on these monitors, they need loads of massive textures. These textures are 4x16 times bigger than what was needed for 1080p gaming.
starberryslay@reddit
I don't even think this point deserves to be refuted because the person spouting it is either trolling or so dumb it's genuinely not worth the effort
NickArchery@reddit
game devs need to make texture packs for different resolutions, so you can download the extra detailed/storage heavy ones, if you need them.
riedstep@reddit
My wife downloaded ark last night lol. She said 200 gb. So crazy.
Pilfercate@reddit
Isn't the reason for the large file size to keep compatibility with old 'spinning rust' hard drives that don't have the speed to decompress the data into RAM on the fly? The solution would be installations based on hardware configuration rather than one size fits all.
The_Knife_Pie@reddit
I am once again shilly Digital Extremes and Warframe, a 45gb MMO released in 2013 and which has been receiving content updates and graphical improvements to this day. Remember, it’s a *choice* studios make to shove this bloat into our drives, they could fix their production pipelines if they actually wanted to.
NightIsMyName@reddit
Not me accidentally “clean up install” and locking me out from playing a new update for a lil longer 😂
10n3@reddit
use this, it compresses games with a windows algorithm
https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI
Shootemout@reddit
Esp now with all the hardware shortages to fucking ai the cost to get a high capacity nvme is thru the fucking roof