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Re:Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB by WreckVenom on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @10:55AM (#46135960)
It is a trade-off. The game was developed on a discontinued engine, the game has had numerous problems with balance, performance and generally there were IMO far more important bugs. Super Helldive difficulty wasn't available because of performance issues.

I've racked up 700 hours in the game and the storage requirements I didn't care about.

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Re:Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB by tehjoker on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @03:08PM (#46139377)
Oh wow, what is the story with the engine?
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Re:Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB by y0ssar1an on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @03:23PM (#46139586)
somehow they chose to build their very complicated live service game with the Autodesk Stingray engine which was discontinued in 2018! Helldivers 2 was released in 2024.

https://www.autodesk.com/products/stingray/overview

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Re:Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB by tehjoker on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @04:23PM (#46140338)
That's really strange. Perhaps they had a set of engineers that knew it very well or had built an engine in it for another game. Still... strange.
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Re:Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB by WreckVenom on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @04:26PM (#46140379)
Development of HellDivers 2 started in 2016. So they would have been 2 years into development with that engine. So they would have had to effectively start again in another engine.
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Re:Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB by tehjoker on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @08:03PM (#46142539)
Wow, that is a very long development cycle. It really shows in the level of polish this game has.
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