For Sea of Thieves, a new update is approaching that significantly reduces the game size on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox One X. However, you will need to reinstall. What is behind this?
Rare, the developers of Sea of Thieves, have announced a new update for February. However, this is not a normal content patch, but an update that notably affects the installation size.
This is how Sea of Thieves is changing: With the update, the installation size on Xbox One will be reduced to about one-third. On Xbox One X and PC, the installed games will be about half as large afterward.
- Xbox One: Installation size shrinks from 35GB to 10GB
- Xbox One X: Installation size shrinks from 47GB to 25GB
- PC: The installation shrinks from 47GB to 25GB
When is the update coming? This update for Sea of Thieves is scheduled for February 6th. The update will be larger than the usual updates for Sea of Thieves.
Update requires reinstallation: When you are prompted to install the update starting February 6th, the update will be downloaded, and a reinstallation will take place. This will lead to the installation sizes mentioned above.
What changes for Sea of Thieves as a result? As a result of this update, patches in the future may be a bit larger, writes Executive Producer Joe Neate in the blog post. However, this ensures that the overall installation size does not continue to rise sharply, as has been the case in the past.
Sea of Thieves can react faster: Rare mentions that the changes in installation size will affect future builds.
Thanks to the changes in game installation, we can generate and transfer builds more quickly. This is an important part of daily development at Rare. It leads to improvements in various areas of the development process. Including how quickly we can generate builds and release them for players.
For 2019, Sea of Thieves is still planning many changes:
