Faster load times will be a blessing. Going from River Raid to Ravensthorpe to River Raid takes so fucking long on a PS4 Pro.
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Assassin's Creed Valhalla patch 1.4.1 will significantly reduce the game size on your HDD; upwards of 40GB on Xbox platforms
- Thread starter arsene_P5
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It'd be nice if they could go back and do the same for Origins and Odyssey. Both of their file sizes are overly bloated as well.
TBH there is not so much difference between compression algorithms anyways. Unless they start to procedurally generate textures, there is revolutionary compression fix.
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No, you get 13GB savings on PS5 compared to the old PS5 size. The new sizes according to Ubisoft are those...
- PC ~77 GB
- PS4 ~75 GB
- PS5 ~77 GB
- X1 ~63 GB
- XS ~72 GB
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The update 1.4.1 is launching next week iirc.
I appreciate the insight. Do you know why not many developers are doing this? Is it just not a priority for them to trim the size after a few months or is it just a more time consuming tasks than we probably imagine? What do you reckon?
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By a significant amount too, wonder why???
Series consoles are 5GB Less than PS5
One consoles are 12GB! Less than PS4
Still haven't played it. Seems like waiting, as is the case with so many games these days, will pay off with a better much better experience than at launch. Series X owner here.
I know I'm not who you're asking but yes it can be a challenging thing to do. It can cause a lot of issues and would require a concerted effort with all technical disciplines still involved. It's hard to really say much more without having meaningful insight on the project, though.
My thought exactly! This game had the best soundtrack last year but you won't know it by playing the game. Absolutely horrible sound quality and mixing.
I got this game on black friday, it would be nice if they patched out the always online drm. It fucks with quick resume and being forced to have internet connectivity to even save my single player game isnt adding to the experience 😒
I don't understand this chart XD. I read it, reread it 5 times. Checked out the original post.... I still don't get it haha.
I've been playing this game for the last week or so. I was kinda petering out early (despite going all the way through odyssey, except the last bit of the DLC). But maybe I'll check it back out. (Or maybe I'll just play Halo..)
I've been playing this game for the last week or so. I was kinda petering out early (despite going all the way through odyssey, except the last bit of the DLC). But maybe I'll check it back out. (Or maybe I'll just play Halo..)
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Nice, that's welcome news. I still need to finish the game, so it's just been sitting on my HDD.
So if i own it digitally On PS4 already I would need to download 35 GB to let it reduce to 30GB. Seems like every time digital is mentioned. I thank God for physical media on PlayStation. If not no gaming on PlayStation for me just Switch.
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What does this have to do with physical media? If you own the game physical you'll need to download the full game with the new size, too. On PS4 you'll have to download 67GB regardless of physical or digital. After installing the game is 75GB in size. PS5 is a 40GB download and the installed file size 77GB.
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Haha, I just want to know what the three charts mean XD. Oh maybe I'm just confused why downloaded is different from installed size? Just compression at play? And then there's more compression... in storage?
Which chart is what the final size is now, after everything? And which one tells me how much is saved?
Important metric is that storage space usage after patch:
- PC ~77 GB
- PS4 ~75 GB
- PS5 ~77 GB
- X1 ~63 GB
- XS ~72 GB
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Yes, download sizes are more compressed than the installed sizes.
Downloads can be smaller, because devs don't need to worry about the consoles being able to decompress the data while the game is running. After all the first step is just to bring the data from A (servers) to B (PC, console, ...). Once the game is on the HDD/SSD those get bigger, because data can't be as compressed anymore, since devs need to take into account how fast data gets decompress. In general, the more you compress something, the more time it'll take to decompress and sometimes even quality is lost in the process.
This one.
Disc space saved after rebase:
- PC ~34 GB
- PS4 ~30 GB
- PS5 ~13 GB
- X1 ~30 GB
- XS ~44 GB
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Hope loading improves on base PS4. I'm playing it now and enjoying it but I thought the game froze up when it was loading from river raid because it took 5 minutes to load back into the main map. I even installed an SSD today (from sshd) when I first saw this thread.
Yeah maybe I read you post, doesn't the file size reduce on your hardrive after the update ? Anyway I am saying if I had gotten the game digitally initially that would have been almost 70GB download, which is already a lot. To now get some space on my hardrive, I would need to download half the game 35GB in what's meant to be an update. I realize these number may sound insignificant to you but that's a lot of GBs, I get it's tied to extra content but men that's a lot.
Do you have to download to play the game if you have the disc? Cause you have to understand downloading 67GB is not as easy as it sounds.
I usually play whatever is the disc for most of my games on PS4. Played RDR2 without any update ( update was 20GB). That's why I can't deal with digital and why I avoid many free to play games on PS4. Can delete and reinstall games from disc and that's why I strongly advocate for physical
What's wrong with it? It's in line with most of them. 77GB after the update.
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Yes the overall file size will be smaller. But for this update Ubisoft needs to replace every file, thus you need to download the full game (even if you use a disc) or rather the patch includes the full game.
If you never want to update the game, then you can install from disc iirc. But then you are stuck with 1.0.0 or if you already installed the game and don't want to update you are stuck with 1.4.0 .
If you want to play the latest version next week, the full game will be downloaded. Download sizes are in the OP and yes I understand it's hard for some to download so much GB, since some users have either slow internet or data caps.
This patch has no extra content I know off. It's just restructuring data of the base ACV game. For that everything needs to be replaced.
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Nothing? I misread. Thought it was smaller lol. But it's fine
Ahhh. Easy mistake to make because the file sizes for PS5 have been smaller.
Yeah I'm not gonna admit how small I thought the filesize was 😆
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40GB? Don't worry, many believe download sizes are install sizes. I changed the order in the OP quote, because of that. So people see first the numbers of the actual file size, so they can determine if they got space.
Thanks for the clarification OP. Really appreciate you took the time to make it clear
oh man I just reinstalled this the other day. I had to download like 120 GB for the game and both expansions.
I'm playing the PS4 version even though I'm on a PS5 because I started the game on PS4 and refuse to start a new trophy list.
I'm playing the PS4 version even though I'm on a PS5 because I started the game on PS4 and refuse to start a new trophy list.
You can transfer saves, though. I mean, the PS5 version is so much better if only for load times and 60fps, screw trophies. But up to you.