Middle-earth: Shadow of War 4K Download 98GB

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As showcased by this Tweet shown below, the new Shadow of War download for PC chimes in right at 98GB from Steam. You can opt-out of the 4K content should you wish to after the download starts however. Probably time to uninstall some of those older titles sitting around gathering dust on your high dollar SSD.


Okay, update: you CAN turn off the 4K content to get it down to 65GB, but weirdly Steam doesn't let you do it until AFTER you start the download. 97GB is the default download size.
 
I'm not sure if this is still the case but I remember there being an issue with the fact that having audio tracks for each separate language offered created excess bloat since people really only used 1 or 2 at most. I think only certain games like the Witcher series allows you to download them individually.
 
CptCabbit said:
I'm not sure if this is still the case but I remember there being an issue with the fact that having audio tracks for each separate language offered created excess bloat since people really only used 1 or 2 at most. I think only certain games like the Witcher series allows you to download them individually.
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No. There are games completely different from The Witcher that let you download audio tracks separately. Good guess I suppose but you guessed wrong.
 
Don't bother to preload this monster on Steam. It takes longer to unpack the encrypted preload - even on a super fast NVME drive - than just waiting until after unlock time and downloading it unencrypted.
 
There's going to have to be a breakthrough here somewhere because this is just getting ridiculous. Having to devote 20% of your average hard drive, not to mention ~30% of your monthly data cap, is going to be untenable. This is the first game that comes off the list for me due to the sheer size of it alone simply because waiting for a week to download the thing (and the internet basically being unavailable to anyone in the house during that time) just isn't going to happen.

Something needs to happen either in the storage/bandwidth space (bigger, cheaper SSDs + better, capless bandwidth) or in the audio/video space (a compression codec that is performance driven while not destroying the audio quality) because, at this rate, we'll be talking about the worlds first "SSD drive filling" 250GB game in 2 years.
 
I thought Microsoft beat them to the punch with Forza 7. Windows store had the Win10 version at 99GB.

Edit: Seems like the new norm now for 4K assets.
 
U-238 said:
There's going to have to be a breakthrough here somewhere because this is just getting ridiculous. Having to devote 20% of your average hard drive, not to mention ~30% of your monthly data cap, is going to be untenable. This is the first game that comes off the list for me due to the sheer size of it alone simply because waiting for a week to download the thing (and the internet basically being unavailable to anyone in the house during that time) just isn't going to happen.

Something needs to happen either in the storage/bandwidth space (bigger, cheaper SSDs + better, capless bandwidth) or in the audio/video space (a compression codec that is performance driven while not destroying the audio quality) because, at this rate, we'll be talking about the worlds first "SSD drive filling" 250GB game in 2 years.
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I'm fairly certain that ISP's suddenly all circling the wagons with data caps - even the most liberal ones like Cox cable which I've had capless for nearly 2 decades - is just anticipation of net neutrality collapsing and being able to charge huge ransoms to Netflix, Amazon, Google-Youtube, Steam/Valve, etc to exempt traffic from the caps. They're chomping at the bit to make this their new juggernaut revenue stream. And if big ransoms start getting charged for traffic exemption, guess who that cost will be passed on to.
 
I don't even have option to select 4k though don't really need them for 1440p.
 
Mine defaulted to the 65gb install. I don't even see a way to change it to the 4k install.

Also, it's almost 2018. If you don't have at least one 1TB drive in your system that's your bad, not the developers. You can buy a 3TB drive for less than $100. It's like blaming developers because their game doesn't run well on your busted 8-year-old video card
 
alxnet7227 said:
I thought Microsoft beat them to the punch with Forza 7. Windows store had the Win10 version at 99GB.
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Well, debatable. Because to 99.999% of PC gamers, the windows 10 store doesn't really exist.

"If a bear takes a 100GB download in the woods"..
 
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The bigger the install the more you need it to be on an nvme drive imo.

Ya you can big fat magnetic drive cheap.

For a high end 4k game your going to want it on a ssd or better an nvme.
 
Yeah, I have to agree with some of the others... you can get a 1TB HD for less than $50.00 now. Either you're in the extreme minority who can't afford an upgrade (and no judgement, most people have been in tough situations before) or you're choosing not to invest in something. Which is fine but you can't really complain about it. My big issue here (though I haven't personally run into it yet) is with data caps. Purchase 1-2 games in a month like this and you're at two-thirds of your data cap with some companies. There's no way this is sustainable when ISP's are pretending that data limits are a thing. This has to be addressed.
 
Setiri said:
Yeah, I have to agree with some of the others... you can get a 1TB HD for less than $50.00 now. Either you're in the extreme minority who can't afford an upgrade (and no judgement, most people have been in tough situations before) or you're choosing not to invest in something. Which is fine but you can't really complain about it. My big issue here (though I haven't personally run into it yet) is with data caps. Purchase 1-2 games in a month like this and you're at two-thirds of your data cap with some companies. There's no way this is sustainable when ISP's are pretending that data limits are a thing. This has to be addressed.
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I have a 2TB external, but I won't put mechanical drives in my computer anymore. SSDs only.
 
Would be nice if we could select the language pack to download and opt in to 4k textures before downloading. Not sure if 4k textures help or not if not running at a 4k resolution.
 
Still have 700GB left free on my 2TB SSD after install. Keep the 4 TB+ drives for movies, isos, music etc.
 
96GB..... dang. An SSD should be on the minimum specs

That's crazy. I hope that's with HDR and 10bit video in 3D with free steam cards to sell to make back the money I just spent on upgrades to afford to play the game :)
 
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this is getting out of hand.
 
JunXaos said:
It's filled with loot crates that's why it's so big.
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Already debunked by reviews as trivial, and non-essential to the game.

But the internet outrage wagon will keep rolling because a kid on youtube said its got LEWT CRAYTZ and YU CANT SEE THE ENDING WITHOUT UM, so its totally true.
 
DPI said:
Already debunked by reviews as trivial, and non-essential to the game.

But the internet outrage wagon will keep rolling because a kid on youtube said its got LEWT CRAYTZ and YU CANT SEE THE ENDING WITHOUT UM, so its totally true.
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Maybe. At this point there is enough conflicting information that we need to wait until more people have played to see how it goes. Lootboxes in a fucking single-player game is still retarded though.
 
We'll see how big it is when it's actually worth buying... In a year or two, once you can get all the DLC included, not have to worry about the BS casino economy, and pick up the GOTY edition for <$30.

The only games I seem to be buying this year, fresh and new, are off the Oculus Store.
 
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