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Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by lowdownfool@kbin.social to c/gaming@kbin.social

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Larian has finally confirmed that preloading won't be available, apparently because of a limitation with Steam.

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[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (16 children)

What in the fuck. Can devs please start compressing this shit better? I know this is more of a me problem, but this is like half my SSD just for this game alone. Ridiculous.

[–] that_one_guy@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sure that what can be compressed is compressed in these game files. What we really need is more intelligent assets. When downloading, the platform should take your localization settings and only download the assets required for that locale. I bet this would heavily reduce the size of many of these games.

[–] QHC@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think that localization would help much. Most, probably all, assets that are taking up so much storage space are not going to include language directly.

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