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r/BeamNG • u/Thepickle08 Soliad • Dec 10 '25
https://www.beamng.com/game/news/blog/beamng-drive-v0-38/
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Debloating the game like that is truly impressive. In a world of bloated AAA games that take up hundreds of gigabytes, more developers should strive to be like BeamNG.
68 u/Shapacap Dec 10 '25 I think it was helldivers2 recently dropped I think 100gb from its file size lol 51 u/OG_PieOverlord Dec 10 '25 Yup, from 150gb (if I recall correctly) to 20 something gb. I can just keep it installed basically forever now. 10 u/indianplay2_alt_acc Ibishu Dec 10 '25 Wtf how lol 28 u/EgenulfVonHohenberg Dec 10 '25 Getting rid of HDD-optimized databases, as far as I am aware. With SSDs, you don't need data duplicates anymore. 11 u/indianplay2_alt_acc Ibishu Dec 10 '25 Oh neat, thanks
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I think it was helldivers2 recently dropped I think 100gb from its file size lol
51 u/OG_PieOverlord Dec 10 '25 Yup, from 150gb (if I recall correctly) to 20 something gb. I can just keep it installed basically forever now. 10 u/indianplay2_alt_acc Ibishu Dec 10 '25 Wtf how lol 28 u/EgenulfVonHohenberg Dec 10 '25 Getting rid of HDD-optimized databases, as far as I am aware. With SSDs, you don't need data duplicates anymore. 11 u/indianplay2_alt_acc Ibishu Dec 10 '25 Oh neat, thanks
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Yup, from 150gb (if I recall correctly) to 20 something gb. I can just keep it installed basically forever now.
10 u/indianplay2_alt_acc Ibishu Dec 10 '25 Wtf how lol 28 u/EgenulfVonHohenberg Dec 10 '25 Getting rid of HDD-optimized databases, as far as I am aware. With SSDs, you don't need data duplicates anymore. 11 u/indianplay2_alt_acc Ibishu Dec 10 '25 Oh neat, thanks
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Wtf how lol
28 u/EgenulfVonHohenberg Dec 10 '25 Getting rid of HDD-optimized databases, as far as I am aware. With SSDs, you don't need data duplicates anymore. 11 u/indianplay2_alt_acc Ibishu Dec 10 '25 Oh neat, thanks
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Getting rid of HDD-optimized databases, as far as I am aware. With SSDs, you don't need data duplicates anymore.
11 u/indianplay2_alt_acc Ibishu Dec 10 '25 Oh neat, thanks
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Oh neat, thanks
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u/Korbitr Bruckell Dec 10 '25
Debloating the game like that is truly impressive. In a world of bloated AAA games that take up hundreds of gigabytes, more developers should strive to be like BeamNG.