We’re nonetheless big followers of Helldivers 2’s model of large-scale third-person shooter motion. Nonetheless, its gigantic PC set up dimension after many content material updates made conserving it on our SSDs scarier than any killer bug or robotic. No extra nightmares, as due to Nixxes’ assist, Arrowhead has considerably lowered its dimension.
Although Arrowhead has talked prior to now about this PC-only situation and tried to downplay it, participant numbers have been taking successful in current instances with different massive shooters coming in scorching, so it appears it was lastly made a precedence in current weeks. Fortunately, the builders have discovered that getting its general file dimension down wasn’t as laborious as they thought at first.
“We’re glad to report that, due to our companions at Nixxes, we now have reached that objective a lot before anticipated. By fully de-duplicating our knowledge, we had been in a position to cut back the PC set up dimension from ~154GB to ~23GB, for a complete saving of ~131GB (~85%),” the most recent tech weblog explains. That’s good news, however what precisely occurred right here?
Lengthy story brief: Arrowhead’s “worst projections” of load instances on HDDs (sure, some avid gamers nonetheless use these) ought to installs not use duplicate knowledge didn’t come to cross. “We now know that, opposite to most video games, the vast majority of the loading time in HELLDIVERS 2 is because of level-generation relatively than asset loading,” which means the brand new, “slim” model of Helldivers 2 on PC shouldn’t trigger hassle for anybody.
Arrowhead and Nixxes (a PlayStation studio famend for its glorious work on PC ports of video games like Spider-Man) shall be taking issues gradual with the rollout of this huge downsize although. All gamers can now choose into the “slim” beta department on Steam, with the one distinction being in set up dimension (you’re conserving your development and enjoying on the identical servers).
As soon as the studios are certain there aren’t sudden points with this new strategy to the set up, it’ll turn into the one model Helldivers 2 gamers might want to obtain.
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