Destiny 2’s File Size Is About To Go Way Down

16 responses to “Destiny 2’s File Size Is About To Go Way Down”

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   camm

   September 25, 2020 at 10:56 pm

   Its Dead Content because they are removing half the game.

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   1. 

      blakeavon

      September 26, 2020 at 8:31 pm

      better than removing ALL the content making a Destiny 3. Immediately much better than what they did going into D2.

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      pokedad

      September 28, 2020 at 10:14 am

      The vast majority of what they’re removing is game that barely anyone plays. They’re taking it away and replacing it with new content. On top of that, they’re going to be bringing back refreshed versions of the stuff they’re vaulting and Destiny 1 content on a rotation every few months.

      The people complaining about Destiny essentially giving you new free shit to do and see all the time astounds me.

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   Kasterix

   September 26, 2020 at 4:49 am

   I can’t wait for when they decide to cycle through ‘dead’ zones at some point and you have to redownload the game again.

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3. 

   dazzler3622

   September 26, 2020 at 7:25 am

   “A lot of games big these days” is a good quote to stick on the 7TB of drives I have plugged into my 1TB Xbox!

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4. 

   zarosio

   September 26, 2020 at 10:48 am

   Its not surprising when they are literally removing the entire base game and first two dlcs content from the game (still annoyed at this seeing as I paid for them originally)

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      blakeavon

      September 26, 2020 at 8:32 pm

      You didnt buy the content, if this was a like a single player game, you paid for access to it. Its all in the T&C.

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5. 

   thearbiter117

   September 26, 2020 at 1:11 pm

   Yes this is how removing half of the game works.

   Extra sucks that us PC players are getting screwed for console weakness and then bungie laziness. Pretty sure it never even hit 100gb on PC (actually decided to check, yeah only 92gb).

   They literally keep admitting its because their engine sucks donkey **** and that they have no idea what they are doing, but then say the only choice was delete half the game. Just fix your goddamn engine and hire some competent devs.

   Literally everyone at bungie not in the sound/world design teams should be purged and replaced, then also executed for a lot of them preferably (if involved with crucible, or this removing half the game decision).

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      blakeavon

      September 26, 2020 at 8:35 pm

      yeah none of that sounds even remotely like reality, more like you and your collected beefs with Bungie. Other than slow menu times (even with a SSD) that game runs more than fine on consoles. On PC, even with a mid gaming rig) the game is lightening smooth.

      And the reasons you give for them removing the stuff is barely the reason why they are doing it.

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         thearbiter117

         September 27, 2020 at 2:50 am

         “And the reasons you give are hardly what BUNGIE SAY are the reasons”
         Fixed that for you. Your first probnlem is believing anything bungie says after their track record.
         For years they have said how their engine takes ages to do anything, said they’ll fix it and then not. Its finally come to a head with them instead deleting half the game to ease that issue a bit rather than hiring some competent people to fix it.

         If someone still defends bungie after everything they’ve done with destiny, its a straight up admission of mental retardation.
         One can like some of the content (I do), but they have made far too many errors and willful fuckups to be afforded any politeness or benefit of the doubt.

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         1. 

            djbear

            September 28, 2020 at 2:27 am

            So other than the loading times and your excessive salt,

            What is wrong with the engine?

            Specifics please

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            1. 

               Kasterix

               September 28, 2020 at 5:09 am

               I’d bet money there are limitations with the engine that are starting to rear their ugly head. Simply because there is no upside to deleting content when you can repurpose/retune said content for the purposes of say bounties, etc, as far as Destiny goes and just let those areas just be yet another different area for people to spend time in.

               Especially when it’d likely be pretty simple to retune basically anything before Beyond Light numbers wise. They absolutely have ways to automate sweeping changes for balance purposes, and could likely do so across all items, enemies, etc, in the game almost on a whim if they wanted to. It’s the sort of thing other developers have been doing for over a decade at this point.

               “We’re fine tuning and making it a more engaging overall experience for players!” or whatever excuses developers/publishers try to sell people on with things like this is pure window dressing.

               You simply do not tear chunks of content from your game, content that could still provide more entertainment to your customers, unless it is absolutely necessary.

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   thearbiter117

   September 27, 2020 at 2:50 am

   “And the reasons you give are hardly what BUNGIE SAY are the reasons”
   Fixed that for you. Your first probnlem is believing anything bungie says after their track record.
   For years they have said how their engine takes ages to do anything, said they’ll fix it and then not. Its finally come to a head with them instead deleting half the game to ease that issue a bit rather than hiring some competent people to fix it.

   If someone still defends bungie after everything they’ve done with destiny, its a straight up admission of mental retardation.
   One can like some of the content (I do), but they have made far too many errors and willful fuckups to be afforded any politeness or benefit of the doubt.

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7. 

   korolev

   September 27, 2020 at 8:57 pm

   Well, the file size might be going down because they are optimising their build and getting rid of useless files……. or……. it could be going way down because they are culling, sorry “vaulting” a huge amount of content and replacing it with…… less than they are vaulting.

   I am annoyed. I paid for those games. Yes, technically, I paid for “access” to those games. I was never told they would vault the original content and 2x pieces of DLC. Legally they can do it, I’m sure – I’m not arguing that they can’t do it. I’m saying they SHOULDN’T do it because this leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Should I buy Beyond Light? What if they vault THAT too one day?

   Other companies have run large MMOs (not that Destiny is, was or ever will be a proper MMO which I am thankful for) and games without having to “Vault” their content. I understand that Destiny uses a different engine…. but if they are having such troubles with the size of the game when the game world is manifestly NOT gigantic, then they need to seriously consider either expanding their team or changing engines for Destiny 3.

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   1. 

      darren

      September 28, 2020 at 8:56 am

      How does game size effect the engine? You enter a new area, your current area is dropped, the new one is loaded in. It shouldn’t matter how many times you do that?

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   pokedad

   September 28, 2020 at 10:20 am

   Bungie: We’re going to put a bunch of stuff hardly anyone plays on hiatus so we can retool it and bring it back in the future for events and stuff. Meanwhile we’re going to add new, better focused content that isn’t a shotgun blast of random shit spread across a dozen maps then bring back a bunch of retooled content from Destiny 1 and the stuff we’re vaulting on an event basis. This will keep you always with fresh content for no charge, help optimise our already insanely scalable engine and lower file size.

   Community: Fuck you! Some people paid for this 3 years ago knowing full well that it’s an MMO and is liable to change! How dare you change it! LIES AND DECEIT BUNGIE.

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