Yesterday, Nier: Automata obtained a brand new patch on Steam, including extra language assist to the title – it might probably now be performed with Korean, Simplified Chinese language, and Conventional Chinese language choices – however this new replace additionally, one way or the other, inflated the file measurement of the sport on PC from about 50GB to 366GB. D’oh! What’s worse is, the replace is just not non-compulsory.
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The reason for this, reportedly, is a bug that precipitated all of the DLC within the YoRHa Version of the sport to turn into the identical measurement as the bottom recreation – and the brand new obtain stacks all of them concurrently. “Solely SquareEnix can flip 40GB into 366GB with 8GB patch,” says one dissatisfied Steam reviewer.
If you do not have area for this huge new file in your PC (and I am unable to say I blame you, it is ridiculous), there’s a workaround, as confirmed by Sq. Enix in a tweet through its Japanese Twitter account.
“We’ve got confirmed a difficulty the place, following the newest replace to the Steam model of Nier: Automata, the set up course of signifies that extra space for storing is required than anticipated,” famous the writer. “We’re at the moment investigating the trigger and dealing on an answer. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. As a brief workaround, you’ll be able to obtain the bottom recreation by unchecking the DLC underneath Steam → Properties → DLC.”
It is fairly ironic, actually, that so many Steam reviewers are complaining about issues like “I simply must delete 90% of my pc to put in this” when a big a part of the sport is managing the software program/programmes put in in your android protagonists with a purpose to improve your skills and stats. There’s even an ending for uninstalling your OS in your mechanical predominant characters. I might be inclined to recommend that is some kind of meta psy-op from creator Yoko Taro, however… nah, that is simply fantasy, is not it? Is not it?
Talking of Taro, earlier this 12 months we discovered that “Nier Automata will proceed”, although we solely heard again in 2025 that a lot of the initiatives the developer was engaged on had been cancelled. Considered one of these might have been the Tencent-backed Nier cell recreation in 2024, which reportedly “struggled to discover a monetisation to offset its excessive prices.”