Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction
(store.steampowered.com)16 points by SergeAx 3 hours ago
16 points by SergeAx 3 hours ago
it seems wild the state of games and development today... imagine 131GB out of 154GB of data was not needed....
They duplicate files to reduce load times. Here's how Arrowhead Game Studios themselves tell it:
https://www.arrowheadgamestudios.com/2025/10/helldivers-2-te...
I was curious if they optimized the download. Did it download the 'optimized' ~150 GB and wasting a lot of time there or did it download the ~20 GB unique data and duplicated as part of the installation.
I still don't know but found instead an interesting reddit post were users found and analyzed this "waste of space" three month ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1mw3qcx/why_the...
PS: just found it. According to this Steam discussion it does not download the duplicate data and back then it only blew up to ~70 GB.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/553850/discussions/0/43725019...