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.
Ok but why
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 years ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 years ago
- Weather data does not need 180mbps
- You can’t disable this?
SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 2 years 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 2 years 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.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 2 years ago
How are you going to fit two petabytes of data into a 500 gigabyte install?
SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
I don’t think requiring online functionality is the death knell of a game in the year 2024. Personally, I’m excited. Their servers were so damn slow to download on initial install and I hated MSFS2020 taking up a quarter of my game drive.
mbtrhcs@feddit.org 2 years ago
because the earth is big and you don’t have a hard drive big enough to store it locally?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 years ago
No one does
mbtrhcs@feddit.org 2 years ago
Yeah…? That’s my point
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 years ago
I don’t get it.