Play without base game

[Solo-Tango]

This so called expansion is not connected to the base game. You cannot go from one to the other.

I should be able to play this without all the extra space needed for the base game.
I’m not going to waste ~80GB of space for a game I’m not going to play.

[Jimbo]

You do realize aside from the map it is the same game right? Without those assets you won’t have a player model, 99% of items, building sets, and it would be a chaotic mess of missing meshes and textures.

An expansion expands the game, not replaces it.

[Solo-Tango]

There are many many gigabytes of data that’s used in the base game that is NOT used in this “expansion”.

If you think it takes 104 GB of data to play Siptah, you’re clueless.

[TheLOLxd2]

Hey Solo-Tango,

The Isle of Siptah DLC requires the base game to function.

You can browse this thread for some explanation:

Why do I have to download 60 GB of Siptah when I do not own it?

Hey there, As some players have explained above, this patch does not include Siptah assets only, but many changes to the base files including new granite bakes for base game assets. It is true we could’ve sent an additional announcement informing about the size of this patch, but it has been out in Testlive for the good chunk of a week where its size was roughly the same as the final update. It was no particular secret. Future patches will affect both the Siptah map and the Exiled lands as th…

If you have any questions, you should post them in the above thread.

[Jimbo]

@Solo-Tango

If you think it takes 104 GB of data to play Siptah, you’re clueless

First of all that’s pretty rude.

Secondly, no u if you think they can just splice together a core without shared map assets and trim the files just if you don’t want the base map installed.