How do developers do this? Does it just mean the first few levels have been downloaded? What about open world style games? How do they know which bits you will/won’t interact with and what happens if you get to a part that isn’t yet downloaded?
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The overwhelming majority of that data consists of high resolution textures. Even without those you can still play the game using the smaller, low res textures. Some huge games will, basically, allow you to play at low graphics settings while higher quality graphics are still getting downloaded.
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