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 Posted: Mon, 9th Jun 2014 22:52 Post subject: R.G. Mechanics "repacks" |
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There is a Russian group called R.G. Mechanics that releases "repacks" of games that are sometimes several gigabytes smaller. Are they downsampling the textures and audio and video or something? They must be, because there is no way that they are somehow compressing everything that much better than the original release groups.
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jun 2014 22:54 Post subject: |
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No idea, but I love their releases. Nicely put together with a very well thought out installer.
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jun 2014 22:55 Post subject: |
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It depends on what games you're talking about. Sometimes they extract archives and repack them using much higher levels of compression, sometimes they resample movies from 1080 to 720 ... and sometimes it's something as easy as ripping multilanguage support.
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Karmeck
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jun 2014 22:56 Post subject: |
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Usually they make the .bik files smaller. I experienced this with just cause 2.
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jun 2014 22:57 Post subject: |
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I've downloaded a few of their releases, Resident Evil 5 and 6, and Borderlands. I don't play any at high settings, so i cant say anything about that, but i can say that they all work perfectly, at least the ones ive gotten anyway. I admit i was surprised at how much space they're saving, their Borderlands release with all DLC is only a bit bigger than the standard games scene release.
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jun 2014 22:58 Post subject: |
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I haven't seen or realized anything bad about their repacks. What they do is mostly ripping out languages other than english and russian.
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| Posted: Tue, 10th Jun 2014 03:07 Post subject: |
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Just read the torrent info or nfo file.
As others before me said already - depends from the game. Some games can be make smaller with just high compression, others with removing additional languages. But "repacks" in 95% of cases does not have anything important cut or shrunken, like textures or videos. Those releases are called "rip"s and they have that word in their name.
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srx47
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prudislav
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| Posted: Tue, 10th Jun 2014 15:42 Post subject: |
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| mroussev wrote: | Just read the torrent info or nfo file.
As others before me said already - depends from the game. Some games can be make smaller with just high compression, others with removing additional languages. But "repacks" in 95% of cases does not have anything important cut or shrunken, like textures or videos. Those releases are called "rip"s and they have that word in their name. |
+ some times recoded biks
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bronson
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| Posted: Tue, 10th Jun 2014 22:58 Post subject: |
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Most of the russian repackers are doing lossless repacks these days, there are still exceptions from time to time of course. Often their repacks are the only copies with all dlcs and updates included, so it really saves a lot of time. The repacks shouldn't be confused with game rip releases from back in the day. If something is re-encoded or cut there should be a mention in the nfo or in the custom installer.
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| Posted: Tue, 10th Jun 2014 23:01 Post subject: |
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Yeah, I'm a huge fan of repacks - especially for larger, more DLC/patch heavy titles.
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