Thread 718826031

Is it fun without friends?

yeah

>>718826367
Cool how's the player community? easy to find good teammates?

How is this game 131 gigabytes?

>>718827729
>Analysts of the PC version’s file structure indicate that asset duplication is the initial reason behind its massive size. Many textures and 3D models are included several times in different files rather than being stored once and referenced, resulting in unnecessary storage usage. For instance, some specific character and environment textures are repeated dozens of times across files, with certain normal maps duplicated over 100 times. This redundancy significantly causes the PC version’s storage requirements compared to the more optimized PS5 version.

>>718826031 (OP)
yes, but it's a bit more repetitive, but still pretty fun

>>718827876
What the fuck

No. Play hell let loose

>>718826031 (OP)
it's not even fun with friends

>>718828626
It's what seemingly limitless storage and computing capacity has led to. Intern level software architechture.

>>718827876
this is absolutely disgraceful

>>718828669
for real? I though HLL was not fun without friends. Are randoms usually pretty chill?

>>718827876
It gets worse the more you learn about it;
>Almost every single asset (textures, models, normalmaps) is duplicated several times over
>Even a basic enemy can have resources that are copied over 40 times
>One of the worst examples is a simple rocky environment normalmap that gets duplicated 128 times for a total weight of 2GB
>Someone made a script to scan for duplicates in the game files, and once you get rid of all the copy-pasted files, the game only weighs ~30GB in terms of unique assets
>But because everything is copy-pasted a hundred times over, the actual install size totals to over 130 fucking gigabytes
>The game was about 80GB at launch, increasing by over 50% over the past couple months to where we are now

>>718830563
>the game only weighs ~30GB in terms of unique assets
Which is probably why it only takes about 35GB on console. This is purely a PC issue.

>>718826503
Visit the /vg/ lil /v/ro

>>718826031 (OP)
hell no

>>718826031 (OP)
yep i almost exclusively play with randoms and /hdg/

>>718826031 (OP)
it gets really boring when you have to farm supercredits to unlock anything.

>>718830815
oh yeah duh! lol I totally forgot about /vg/

>>718826031 (OP)
I only ever played it with randoms and it was honestly some of the most fun I had in years. Reminded me a lot of tf2 having to communicate with emotes and movement for the most part, really goofy dumb fun with strangers just having a good time in small encounters.

>>718832134
fuck yeah this is the exact experience I'm looking for

>>718827876
what is it with swedish coop games devs and duplicating files for no reason
same shit happened with vermintide 2, they had to remake all the maps from scratch to fix it

>>718826503
The game is pretty easy even solo, so a good teammate is the one doesn't every 5 seconds, which is easy to find

>>718826503
The quality of public lobbies varies. On the bug front you'll typically find dumb players more often, but usually you'll only find one idiot per lobby, and even then that's not so horrible so long as they're not shooting at you. Other times you'll find people who join a lobby, but then run off solo for 95% of the mission, which is a bit redundant when you can make private lobbies for that but still tolerable.
Generally it's fine, real gold is when you get in a lobby where everyone's using voice commands and pinging stuff well.
>>718831981
I'd suggest only going there for lobbies, 90% of the time it's just endless screeching. The actual lobbies themselves are fine though, it's just the threads that are filled with retards

>>718826503
Just make sure to host and kick anyone with a chinese name

>>718826031 (OP)
Sure. I recommend using voice chat. You can use the official discord to find people pretty quick, usually they'll have mics.