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Ark: Survival Evolved has entered the chat... No seriously it's like 400-500GB depending on DLCs and mods.
gpt
Someone explained it somewhere I don't remember where, that if a new dlc map uses the same Rock or tree for example from a vanilla map, they copy pasted the files entirely for the dlc instead of just addressing the same model for use in the code. that's why it's 400 gigs, it's all the same files copy pasted