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We are happy to report that, thanks to our partners at Nixxes, we have reached that goal much sooner than expected. By completely de-duplicating our data, we were able to reduce the PC installation size from ~154GB to ~23GB, for a total saving of ~131GB (~85%).

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[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

it's kinda wild, they duplicated the data several times to supposedly help loading times on mechanical hdd's. I guess to keep data sequential and minimize seeks?

And yet, I guess it was technically true:

Our testing shows that for the small percentage of players still using mechanical hard disk drives, mission loading times have only increased by a few seconds in the worst cases.

I don't know how long the loading times in the game are, as I don't play this. But surely +/- few seconds is negligible vs 130 GB duplicated data.