Patch preparing Season 9.5 will shrink Marvel Rivals install size (PC −40 GB, consoles −15 GB)

NetEase’s director creative Guangyun Chen explained Season 9.5 includes a major texture compression and repack: initial download size grows, but final installed footprint falls by ~40 GB on PC and ~15 GB on consoles.

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- Developer statement (Guangyun Chen) says textures are being recompressed to cut disk usage without visual fidelity loss.
- Target reductions: ~40 GB on PC (approx. 57% in one example) and ~15 GB on PlayStation/Xbox (approx. 20%).
- NetEase warned the one-time update download will be larger than usual because it contains the full recompressed resource set.
- Players will see reduced disk usage after the patch installs, benefiting storage-constrained users and potentially improving performance on PC.
- Short-term effect: larger-than-usual patch download required at release.
- The article frames this as part of a Season 9.5 release; no exact global release timestamp provided in the story.

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