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One problem with a lot of modern games is just how big they're getting, but HELLDIVERS 2 is about to massively shrink thanks to work behind the scenes. In a news post on Steam the developers at Arrowhead Game Studios noted they pulled in Nixxes to help get it sorted.

They were making small changes across a few patches, but now the big stuff is here and you can try it out in a Steam Beta via the "prod_slim" branch. Right click the game, go to Properties -> Beta and select "prod_slim" from the drop-down box. The result should be a reduction in installation size from "~154GB to ~23GB". What an insane difference.

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[-] Thorry@feddit.org 5 points 5 months ago

Waste all that bandwidth and storage space, for a few seconds shorter loading times on HDD. So dumb...

Reminds me of that game that was just copy pasted for each of the languages they had, because they couldn't be bothered.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Really final version v3.jpg

Are you saying they copied the exe and everything?

[-] Thorry@feddit.org 4 points 5 months ago

They copied the entire folder, so all the executables, all the videos, all the audio, all the other assets, the whole freaking thing!

I looked it up and I was thinking of Fallout 3, but apparently it happened to Age of Empires 4 as well

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