Helldivers 2 is set for a massive install size reduction, with a new public beta cutting it from 154GB to 23GB - and without losing HDD support in the process.
I can understand some duplication but they removed nearly 6 times the amount of data the actual game needs. It’s insane that this was published like that…
There is a reason that, back in the day, there were a LOT of ways to compress game installs so that you could burn it to a CD-R and so forth. And this was incredibly prevalent on consoles up until the current generation when SSDs became default… except that a lot of games were still being developed for previous gen and older hardware PCs.
When Blizzard made a big deal about how WoW now requires an SSD? It was for stuff like this.
I can understand some duplication but they removed nearly 6 times the amount of data the actual game needs. It’s insane that this was published like that…
And it is not at all uncommon.
There is a reason that, back in the day, there were a LOT of ways to compress game installs so that you could burn it to a CD-R and so forth. And this was incredibly prevalent on consoles up until the current generation when SSDs became default… except that a lot of games were still being developed for previous gen and older hardware PCs.
When Blizzard made a big deal about how WoW now requires an SSD? It was for stuff like this.