40+ gb patch for a new map? Isn't that a bit too much? lol
title says it all. 🤔
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@hayhor we're twins 😃🙌 it's not available on xbox either!
If xbox has a similar dl, 46 Gb is going to take me over a day to dl....
@OldTreeCreeper Don't you xbox guys download the whole thing every time?
@hayhor I don't honestly know.
@hayhorWe don’t. We download more than PS ppl tho. Apex itself is 70gb for a while and last time it was roughly 60gb for new update (map update + character).
So bad luck @OldTreeCreeper, it’s gonna cost you at least a day and a half. Whatever size ps gets, put at least 33% more for xbox, whatever the game, but usually around 50% tho 😈@Cro_Pittt I don’t find 40 big actually. Not because I download that size in mere minutes 😈 (flexing if you’ve ever seen it) but because files are getting bigger and throughout the gaming industry it’s nowadays a fact that compression techniques are not as applied as they were in the hayday.
Indie devs use compression heavily cause they want their files to be as small as possible cause they know players like that whereas bigger devs just leave lots of files ‘open’ and even don’t remove unused files.
Read an article about it some years ago right before Gears 5 dropped and they spoke with some industry insiders on the problem and how games were already surpassing 100gb even tho they needn’t be
@Koochi-QI think we might do. When I was having those glitching bugs a couple of months ago I completely erased and reset my XBox and downloaded Apex from scratch. The size of the download was exactly the same size as the last time it updated (it updated twice in a week if I remember).
- @EdwardDLuffy Nahhh, you’re xbox was on crack 😈. My files never need to download the full size for any game including apex.
Apex started out as a 20 or 30gb game. It got larger and turned into a 40 base game. Now it’s at 70 and due to this update, it’ll likely be at least a 75-80 one. I have never, even for a new map update, downloaded the same amount of data. It’s usually around 70/80% if new stuff comes along.
Xbox has stated why but I didn’t want to know the reason why they did it this was but it basically downloads all new files while leaving untouched ones alone. This makes sense cause lots change with a big update so much to update.
But I do remember you’re 80’s-US-pandemic-stricken thing and recalled being amazed that you had to do it while I didn’t 😜
And 2 hours of copying. 🤡
@hayhorI Do, with every big update, I uninstall APEX, & then Install the game.
Its always been the best solution for me, because I know its a fresh slate, it gives me peace of mind, & then I know any game issues are on, EA/RESPAWN's servers side of things.
