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Star Citizen Will Be around 100GB in Size, Major Patches May Come Close to 20GB in Size

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Star Citizen’s director of game operations, Jeremy Masker, revealed that Star Citizen’s client size will be around 100GB and that patches may weight over 20GB. Crazy numbers for such a highly anticipated game, right?

As Jeremy Masker wrote on the game’s official forums when a fan suggested that the game’s client size would be around 30-40GB:

“As I have already said, I would not count on this. The game compression and asset removal is unlikely to yield such high gains that we will be able to reduce our client size to 30-40gb. The size and number of assets that are left to deliver means that our client size is much more likely to be 100gb.”

Jeremy then said that while Cloud Imperium is optimizing game patching, some of them may be well over 20GB in size.

“Also, yes we are optimizing game patching for speed and to only deliver diffs, but this is unlikely to reduce actual patch size. Again, each patch has 100s of assets, each of these assets are at times 200mb, this leads to 2-6gb patches, and if we end up doing a file type re-factor and have to re-download 30-40% of the assets on the hard-drive, then the patch will be 14-20gb.”

It will be interesting to see whether the game’s servers will be able to support such a big game, especially when there will be high traffic for such large packages.

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  • Primey_

    Lmao I feel bad for those who are on data cap and want to play this game

    • John

      Feeling sorry for plebs? lol

      • Primey_

        How are they plebs? It’s not their fault that broadband providers can be real c*nts.

        • Joshua Dodson

          My sentiments as well, we are all at the mercy of the providers. Happy mine has no data cap.

  • oraoraikuze

    holy sheet, you need a separate 1TB disc for this game.

  • Nines

    This will be the best Downloading Simulator on the market in the next few years.

  • Casodi

    They really do want no one to play this game.

    • B_I_T

      their target is a limited market anyway 😛

    • PS2viciado

      Yes because in this market we dont have enough games tunned down to fit a larger audience. *Cough* Elite Dangerous *cough*

  • 7thGuest

    I’ll be able to play this… around the time when my grandchild’s fly over with their hoverboards to visit me in the nursing home.

  • Sikandar Ali

    WHHHHAAAAATTTT!!!!!!!!!

  • s_fnx

    HA-HA.

  • Foxiol

    Downloading 100GB response to this article.

    Download will resume in 3 days.

  • CervixCreampier

    My country’s internet standards prohibit me from enjoying this game.

    • Psionicinversion

      its ok there releasing a physicsal; copy so yuou can update it for minial baxndwidth

    • Psionicinversion

      next build = 2x 1GB SSD raid striping lol

  • Psionicinversion

    This is how you know its a next gen game. The new damage model actually reduces the asset size by 75% and its still 100GB tbh it would surprise me because this is a REAL NEXT GEN game none of this bs crapthere s also other space saving so instead of creating a shield for every ship it uses 1 shield that fits itself around the shape of the ship. Thats can fit around anything, ships, stations. the massive dreadnought, All saves on bandwidth.

  • PC-GAMING-FTW

    This is what happens when games are Built for low end all the way to Enthusiast hardware. Oh and the textures and detail are going to be TOP NOTCH! And why it’s only on PC

    • Psionicinversion

      I totally disagree…. no i dont lmao 😀 this is a game build for real next gen… you know the low end… this is what i love low end.. cant run .. GTFO upgrae or nothing 😀

      • PC-GAMING-FTW

        This game will still look great on a R7 260… But will look better on a R9 390X or 980 TI

        • Psionicinversion

          tbh i think it will really struggle on a 260 unless you start lowering resolution.
          #
          There was an arena commander patch that diopped me by 10-15fps on a 280x on dying star

          there upgrading the visuals which m,eans details go down that why im purachisimg 390 whe it comes out and shou;d eliver the power not only for SC but for witchr 3 nd beyond

          • PC-GAMING-FTW

            Witcher 3 is going to be the next Crysis… But will be interesting to see if a 390/390X or even future Nvidia GPU’s will struggle with Ultra at 1080p

          • Psionicinversion

            its the hairworks that supposed to kills it, ot so much ultra D:

          • PC-GAMING-FTW

            no Gameworks will have little to no real Effect on it. Since Project CD RED knows how to optimize for it. And it’s all based on DirectComput

            Heck even Far Cry 4 has little to no Performance hit from Hairworks

          • Psionicinversion

            well where SC is oncrne F7C used be 100MB but with the new damage model its 25MB but is 10x better looking 😛 so ithink iteration of everythin gets the file size down but tbh i think 60GB is th minimum

          • Psionicinversion

            we’ll see SC is supposed use gameowrks to or some stuff

          • PC-GAMING-FTW

            PhysX, Gameworks, TressFX.

          • Psionicinversion

            well tbh we dont know about any of that stuf untill nearer to release but i think there willb som nvidia gameowrks stuff though

          • PC-GAMING-FTW

            The game uses TressFX as well was a story on this site

          • Psionicinversion

            well it was weird they said tracefx instead of tressx and there 2 different technologies so who knows

          • Anon

            …

          • n_ice_drone

            Wait!

            How are they using both AMD and Nvidia technologies at the same time? Never saw a game that uses both TressFX and TXAA for example…what am I missing?

          • AMD = DX11.1 and so on to 11.3 a bridge to DX12.
            And why nV Titles has only DX11_0 ? cuz rest is on AMD Hardware 😉
            That’s true.
            BF4 dx11.1
            NFS Rivals dx11.1
            Alien Isolation dx11.1
            SC dx11.1 and so on…
            nV:
            Shadow of Mordor dx11_0
            Dying Light dx11_0
            FC4 dx11_0
            even AC:U dx11_0 lol and so on…

          • Jay

            I have a feeling SC will need DX12.

          • Psionicinversion

            and unless SC has bought a license gameworkd id goignto work absolutely dog sh*t

          • Psionicinversion

            That’s because far cry 4 had no hair works in it. I’m pretty sure I read an article which said there still waiting for hair works to be patched in

          • PC-GAMING-FTW

            ummm I own the game… it’s been using hairworks for a while now

          • juanme555

            Witcher 3 wont be the next Crysis at all, this will.
            Witcher 3 was dev’d for consoles and even downgraded for pc, f’ cd project.

          • n_ice_drone

            I hardly doubt that since TW3 is a multiplat. The next crysis should be Star Citizen all the way.

          • PC-GAMING-FTW

            yeah but did you remember Crysis 1 on 360 vs PC… eh eh… I am not gonna take anything from SC but Witcher 3 on Ultra is going to be insane.

        • uu I’m waiting for the ti so I can give my 980 g1

      • hobb

        they have said they are gonna upgrade the graphics not just add contents

        so the game will always be next gen

        but when u say next gen, what u mean? graphics or features Both?

        • Psionicinversion

          both… i dont really call graphics next gen because PC is always evolving its what you can do in the game using all the tech of today makes it next gen

          • hobb

            yeah 😀 me2

  • Psionicinversion

    100GB next gen is here, maybe not file size but cant expect everuyything

  • Mafioso

    This was somewhat to be expected, Anyway time to finally upgrade from my 128GB SSD to a larger 512GB SSD.

  • uber_national

    MY BODY IS READY

    • Ali Faraz

      Is your wallet ready?

  • Psionicinversion

    yes this id glorious fpor th e pc master race

  • Psionicinversion

    plaxstix statio 4
    dddddddddddd

  • Amir

    lol, 10 days of download for me :)) if it has an offline single player, otherwise no thank you

  • John

    100gb? That would take me about a week to download wtf?

  • Umair Khan

    Less than what I expected. Arena Commander alone is 32GB and console games like GTA5 take 65GB space. Won’t be surprised if final size of SC is 3x more than current estimated size. Want best looking game with huge scope? Yes, more disc space will be required. There is nothing you can do about it. Less space= low quality assets.

    • PS2viciado

      100GB is a rough estimate , the game is still a couple of years away.

  • unacomn

    Pff, that’s not even a 2 hour download. Must be made for internet illiterate nations, like the USA.

    • Anaron

      What does literacy have to do with Internet connection speeds? It’s ironic that you tried to paint the US in a negative light and ended up making yourself look stupid.

      • unacomn
        • Anaron

          Nearly 88M people have wired Internet subscriptions in the US. And nearly 234.5M have cellular subscriptions. The only country with more Internet subscriptions is China. The vast majority of gaming news sites, online gaming communities, and sites like Reddit are visited by a large portion of US users (relatively speaking, in comparison to users from other countries). Your comment (“Must be made for internet illiterate nations, like the USA.”) is false.

          • unacomn

            When you call 25Mb/s “broadband”, that’s as internet illiterate is it gets.
            2010 called, it wants its mid-tire internet connection back. Also, 2015 left a message, but you probably won’t get it.

            It’s Gigabyte.

            #burn #ActualCompetitionBetweenISPsRules #20+MBsDownloadSpeedOnSteam

          • Anaron

            When you spout nonsense like that, that’s as stupid as it gets.

            You seem to lack knowledge about Internet service in the US. ISPs there offer connections up to 1000Gbps. Verizon, for example, has plans with 50, 75, 150, 300, and 500 Mbps (download and upload). And Google offers speeds up to 1000Gbps.

            I’d ask you to stop making yourself look stupid and actually do some research but I can’t be bothered. And hashtags.. how embarrassing.

          • unacomn

            Oh, poor, poor USAir. Fret not. One day you too shall be liberated from the burden of paying more than 20 bucks a month for gigabit internet that has no data cap, because some countries actually have working capitalism.
            Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go stream something in 4K without it buffering.

          • Anaron

            Oh, the irony. I don’t live in the US. But go on, continue stroking your e-dong. I’m sure that’ll attract the ladies.

            “Baby, I can download 100GB in 10 minutes.”

          • unacomn

            Oh, it does. Men too. It’s an omnisexual magnet of awesomeness wrapped in a low latency, high bandwidth, low price package that’s available in countries that are often considered by the “civilized” world to be the backwater of humanity, but not in the richer, more developed countries.

          • Anaron

            How does it feel to be wrong?

          • unacomn

            I’ll defer that to you, you have so much experience compared to me.

          • Anaron

            Stop deflecting and answer the question. I’ve proven you wrong more than once. Again, how does it feel to be wrong?

          • unacomn

            Proven? You have proven nothing but your lack of knowledge about how crappy the internet in North America is, and how amazing the internet everywhere else can be.

          • Anaron

            Excuse me? You were the one that started with incorrect assumptions. How is a 150, 300, 500 or even 1000 Mbps connection bad? And just because I know about the kind of Internet connections Americans can get doesn’t mean I’m American myself. You speak as if every other country is better than the US. Europe isn’t that far ahead (with the exception of Scandinavia). In fact, only some Asian countries leave North America in the dust.

            I’ll let the facts speak for themselves:

            27: United States – 33.54 Mbps

            29: Israel – 30.23 Mbps

            31: United Kingdom – 30.19 Mbps

            32: Germany – 29.96 Mbps

            37: Ireland – 27.30 Mbps

            38: Austria – 27.15 Mbps

            39: Canada – 26.98 Mbps

            Source: OOKLA Net Index (average speedtest results)

            —-

            1: South Korea – 23.6 Mbps

            2: Japan – 14.6 Mbps

            3: Hong Kong – 13.3 Mbps

            4: Switzerland – 12.7 Mbps

            5: Netherlands – 12.4 Mbps

            6: Latvia – 12.0 Mbps

            7: Sweden – 11.6 Mbps

            8: Czech Republic – 11.2 Mbps

            9: Finland – 10.7 Mbps

            10: Ireland – 10.7 Mbps

            11: United States – 10.5 Mbps

            12: Denmark – 10.5 Mbps

            13: Norway – 10.1 Mbps

            14: Belgium – 10.0 Mbps

            15: United Kingdom – 9.9 Mbps

            16: Canada – 9.7 Mbps

            17: Romania – 9.5 Mbps

            18: Austria – 9.4 Mbps

            19: Taiwan – 8.9 Mbps

            20: Israel – 8.9 Mbps

            21: Russia – 8.6 Mbps

            22: Singapore – 8.4 Mbps

            23: Germany – 8.1 Mbps

            24: Hungary – 7.5 Mbps

            25: Poland – 7.5 Mbps

            Source: Akamai 2014 rankings (average)

            “[…] and how amazing the internet everywhere else can be.”

            Oh, yes. I can totally see that. The second-highest country on the Akamai list has an average speed that’s a whopping 4.1 Mbps faster than the US.

            Did you even know that the US is #1 on the planet in terms of Internet penetration? And how many other countries offer connections up to 1,000 Mbps?

          • unacomn

            Most of them. Since, well, you know, they don’t use copper any more as infrastructure, and don’t pretend DSL is broadband, because their internet companies actually compete to provide better services at prices that make sense. Like, if your mid level internet, 200mb/s cost more than a large pizza a month, you’re not in a country with developed internet.
            As for leaving in the dust, yeah, in 27th place it sure leaves a lot of places in the dust.
            But hey, sure, when you start counting up all the 52k connections around the world, it does eschew the results to make them seem less pitiful.

            But hey, I’m not the one complaining I won’t be able to download Star Citizen. Because I can, and still patch it to the end of time. Because speeds are high, bandwidth is plentiful and data has no cap.

            Peace out. Word!

          • Anaron

            The first list is user-submitted speedtest results. It isn’t as accurate as Akamai rankings but it shows higher-speed results. Regardless, the US still beats countries like the UK, Germany, Israel, Canada and Australia. These are “developed” countries. You made it seem like the US had one of the worst Internet connections in the world.

            A lot of places still use copper for DSL and cable internet connections but only for wiring inside a house. In Canada, we have fibre connections in the neighbourhood and condos that have fibre connections instead of copper. I’m actually waiting on a new modem to get speeds up to 250 Mbps (with unlimited bandwidth, of course).

            It seems as though you’re changing your argument to price now. First, it was available technology and now it’s “if your mid level internet, 200mb/s cost more than a large pizza a month, you’re not in a country with developed internet.” If you had started with that, then we wouldn’t have wasted time with back-and-forth arguing. I think pricing and lack of competition is a huge problem in North America. The technology is there to provide fast speeds but the companies are greedy. They’d rather gouge customers and provide slower speeds than offer fair and competitive pricing with amazing speeds. And in what world does 200 Mbps connections count as “mid level”? Only two countries on OOKLA’s list have average speedtest results that exceed 100 Mbps. The 3rd place country has ~85 Mbps. And below that, it’s 60 Mbps or less.

            As for downloading Star Citizen, I wasn’t aware that anyone was complaining. If anything, I want more companies to release large games so that it puts pressure on Internet service providers.

          • unacomn

            Internet illiterate nation:

            http://consumerist.com/2015/03/25/new-homeowner-has-to-sell-house-because-of-comcasts-incompetence-lack-of-competition/

            Bam. Zam. Pay the man, wait, no need to, because he has awesome internet and you have to sell your house.

          • Anaron

            So instead of making an attempt at countering my points, you link an article that doesn’t apply to me at all. Have you forgotten the fact that I don’t live in the US?

          • unacomn

            You think all this time I was talking about you?
            I was talking about the crappy internet in the US. You are not the centre of all conversations, you know.
            And that article proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that your assertions that the US offers 1000mb/s connections everywhere, or anything remotely similar to broadband, as being false.

          • Anaron

            Choose your words more wisely next time. I’m beginning to think you’re a troll. It’s hard to imagine that someone would go to such lengths to stroke their e-dong. The Internet in the US doesn’t affect you in any way and the only reason you’re comparing it to what you “supposedly” have is to feel superior.

            Perhaps you’re compensating for something. How is it with the ladies? I’m sure they’d marvel at the speed of your Internet connection. That’ll definitely make them moist. Actually, you’ll probably just be too afraid to approach them. Don’t worry, I hear women nowadays will overlook sad excuses of men with receding hairlines. Male pattern baldness isn’t the end of the world.

            Oh, and know that I won’t read your response. I’ll take comfort in getting the last word. Your stupidity has reached critical mass and it hurts.

          • unacomn

            It’s OK. I get it, you need to constantly deflect and make assumptions about other people’s sexuality when proven wrong. You feel that need to try and assert yourself over others in a dominant way, society has moulded you that way and made you an unwilling victim. But fret not, it’s OK to be who you are and you are loved for it.
            On the internet, we accept everyone.

            Even the people in the US that have 10Mb/s wired connections in 2015 and pay more than 5 bucks a month for it and are still enslaved by the archaic concept of data caps for broadband. We are all united in one common purpose. We are all connected.

            (Though some are connected at 200mb/s and are very smug about it. Oh, but don’t get me started on the 500mb/s snobs.)

  • Its Normal for tha content 😀
    Its OK to me 😉 I got 4TB RAID 0 + SSD as cache + RAM cache 😀
    So my Win and Games load fast and work like a charm.
    Primocache and it’s Done right.
    I dont need to install games on SSD, RAID + SSD cache is better solution

  • MB.Mephisto

    Torrent patches would be good

  • DFGHTENNIS

    What?

  • Joshua Dodson

    Gonna buy a 220GB SSD just for this game 🙂

  • aryman

    can you admire one game without sh’g on the other? f’ u, d’ a’…

    • juanme555

      No censure allowed, this is not ign.

  • Jay

    This is what I expected. Just the hangar and dogfighting module is 20GB. That’s 20GB for one room, without most of the ships, and without the rest of the galaxy.

    I’m thinking this will be a 100GB download*, once it’s decompressed I wonder how large it will be!

  • Anaron

    It’d take me about 9 hours to download 100GB with my current connection. My only concern is hard drive space. My current SSD only has 240GB capacity. Maybe I’ll upgrade to a 1TB SSD by the time Star Citizen is released.

  • The gfx will be so amazing! However, this makes me a bit sad that we live in times where games are hitting 60 (gta 5) and 100 gigs already.

    Untill last year, it was enough to have a 2/3/4 TB hard disk, and a 200-300 gigs SSD. Now that 300 gig SSD is a total trash, if you plan on gaming with it. The min now is 1 TB(thats super expensive), if you plan for the next 1-2 years at least. It might be enough if you never plan on getting any new games, but lets get real.. we all do.

    Also 2 TB hard disk is totally not enough anymore aswell. Soon i might need to grab 1 or 2 more of those. I’m already full of amazing and fun games that i do not wish to remove, because i still play every each of them.

  • Spectrumframer

    After reading this article i decided that, instead of buying this game at launch, i will wait.

    “Wait until a 75% discount offer on Steam?” No, wait until 1 TB SSD prices lower.