Video game storage requirements have been getting larger and larger over the past few years as more advanced visuals and features require more hard drive space. Titanfall turned some heads with its storage demands on PC, but Star Citizen is taking it to a whole new level.
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The upcoming space flight game, crowd-funded to the tune of more than $75 million and counting, will apparently require arond 100 GB of storage. Fans were asking about the ability to compress the game's client on the official forums, when developer JMasker.CIG explained that it was unlikely and gave a ballpark figure for the amount of space needed:
"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.
"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."
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That's, well, a lot of hard drive space. Storage is cheap compared to what it used to be, and most machines come with a good amount, but that can still eat away at your free space quickly. Start clearing your files now!
The most recent update from the game is a video showing off the damage model, which you can see below. A brief demo shows off the effects of gun fire on a spacecraft, with the damage and scorching adding up with each shot. In the second part of the video, a ship is straight up blown to pieces in chunks. Enjoy!
