Live information from the earth like weather and other data. If its raining in your city, then it will be raining in the game at this place too. Plus the game does not have all other data anyway, because entire earth is too big for your drive.
It’s not weather, it’s terrain and textures. It’s a high resolution stream of where you are flying over so you don’t need to keep the earth on your PC. The base install is supposed to be only ~30GB data, that’s not enough to see your house.
It’s dumb. I’d much rather have a 500GB install. They might as well just make the game a streaming service. It also ensures an early death for the game and no functionality without an internet connection.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Ok but why
mbtrhcs@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
because the earth is big and you don’t have a hard drive big enough to store it locally?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
No one does
mbtrhcs@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Yeah…? That’s my point
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Live information from the earth like weather and other data. If its raining in your city, then it will be raining in the game at this place too. Plus the game does not have all other data anyway, because entire earth is too big for your drive.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
It’s not weather, it’s terrain and textures. It’s a high resolution stream of where you are flying over so you don’t need to keep the earth on your PC. The base install is supposed to be only ~30GB data, that’s not enough to see your house.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
It’s dumb. I’d much rather have a 500GB install. They might as well just make the game a streaming service. It also ensures an early death for the game and no functionality without an internet connection.