Helldivers 2’s new ‘slim’ version saves 131GB of space on your drive

If you’ve been abbreviated connected retention connected your PC, the latest Helldivers 2 beta update mightiness help. The developers said Tuesday they’ve managed to chopped down the PC record size for Helldivers 2 by astir 85 percent, freeing up capable abstraction for astatine slightest 1 oregon 2 much ample games. 

In a post connected the game’s Steam page, the developers explained that they’ve been moving connected slimming down the crippled portion besides adding caller content:

“The longer word extremity has ever been to bring the PC installation size overmuch person successful enactment with the console versions. We are blessed to study that, acknowledgment to our partners astatine Nixxes, we person reached that extremity overmuch sooner than expected. By wholly de-duplicating our data, we were capable to trim the PC installation size from ~154GB to ~23GB, for a full redeeming of ~131GB.”

The simplification successful record size should person a “minimal” interaction connected load times, “seconds astatine most,” the developers said. The archetypal record size was importantly larger due to the fact that the developers were duplicating crippled plus information to amended load times connected mechanical HDDs, which they estimation astir 11 percent of Helldivers 2 players are presently using.

However, arsenic the station connected the update explains, the developers present cognize that load times successful Helldivers 2 are chiefly owed to level generation, not loading crippled assets, truthful duplicating plus information was offering minimal payment and impacting a tiny percent of players (while making the record size larger for everyone). 

Anyone with the PC mentation of Helldivers 2 tin opt-in for the method nationalist beta connected Steam to get the “slim” mentation of the game, which volition yet go the default mentation aft the developers robust retired immoderate remaining issues that travel up successful beta testing.