Large Amount of Star Citizen Art Assets Leaked

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 25, 2015 @11:47AM from the pre-pre-release dept.

jones_supa writes: A huge batch of work-in-progress assets for Star Citizen have leaked to the public. An unknown person, likely connected with Cloud Imperium Games in some way, provided a link to the 48 gigabytes of content. The link has now been taken down, but as we know, it's hard to remove material from Internet after once put there. Being a CryEngine game, it has been suggested that it might be possible to view some of the assets using CryEngine development tools. Leaks are always quite the conundrum with the opportunities they present to curious fans and competitor companies, but can also be very depressing for the developers and publisher of the game.

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Re:48GB?! by Skidborg · 2015-05-25 12:14 · Score: 4, Informative

Art assets are always many times larger than what goes into the actual game. Ultra-resolution textures, different versions of models, placeholders, etc. Most of which are trimmed or discarded long before release.

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GTA V by Neo-Rio-101 · 2015-05-25 12:16 · Score: 4, Informative

Grand Theft Auto V was a 60GB download.
Should come as no suprise really as these latest-gen AAA games are massive, MASSIVE downloads.

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