Because Infinity Ward are incompetent.
It's the same engine they've always used. And it's not just them. It's basically every developer.
Most of the big CoD youtubers agree with you. They freely admit they're only playing it for the views and if they didn't have to, they wouldn't. It's better on the old maps they've introduced, but that's not saying much. Most of the maps that shipped with the game are comically bad.
They already addressed that on the Cerny presentation.
Xbox 360 let you install games to the hard drive. Average game size then was 7gb. But they used compression back then.
Really ? I've never been able to do this but have been successful with all the other games apart from bl4 and mw it's just won't update through rest mode for me.
Well no wonder people don't like the game then. I'm always skeptical of "new engines" so called. Look at what Beth did with Gamebryo. They re-wrote the renderer and called it a new engine. A (real) new engine is like what CDPR made for Witcher 2.
Because they know consoles come with 1TB standard and most core gamers have another external drive with another 2TB.
I am not going to pretend I have done a deep dive into the new engine but from what I have read and seen there was a serious amount of work put in to rebuild it from the ground up from every aspect. Similar to ID Tech, I am sure somethings were moved over, but for the most part is was rebuilt due to a lot of low level code on many things simply being very inefficient with the new tech they wanted to push on the visual forefront. This was with next gen in mind.
So it's a regression in game design then. That doesn't surprise me given how much regression there seems to be in this industry these days.
Oh, I'm sure we'll see 100gb minimum for games. This 1tb SSD buisness will quickly turn into the biggest bottleneck everyone had to deal with.
New engine usually means a different feel to the gameplay. If they were able to keep it the same, good on them. The games always felt good.
Yeah it'll be like that for the first two years and then you'll get a nice update like the PS4 did and boom!The PS5 will be extremely fast at installing games. And the PS4 is like that because of some reasons that I don't remember...
The whole point of high quality compression is to be able to use high quality assets with a small foot print. Devs settled on 50gb because that's what BD allows. But these file sizes for updates are ridiculous because there is no limit and the burden is placed on the user with a complete disregard for things like ISP data caps and, you know, wasting the player's time. The latter seems to go hand in hand with the aforementioned regression in game design, in my opinion.
I'm deleting the game. I've had it. Yet another large update, 21.61 GB, bringing to total to over 200 GB in file size. The update only takes me around 12-15 minutes to download, but the overall size of the game takes a long time to copy over. I don't know what these guys are doing. This is hugely inefficient. Is anyone else bothered by this?
Modern Warfare & Warzone Patch Notes - May 18th
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Yeah, I get it. I thought about it after I posted it and thought about the things I've had to delete
From what I remember... According to Cerny, the ps4 problem is that as the game updates, the need to rewrite stuff increases and they did not expected that some games would be updated so many times (really dumb from them), so every time the game updates, slower it is.
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