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HELLDIVERS 2 Tech Blog #2 - Opt-in install size reduction beta (from 154Gb to 23Gb) (store.steampowered.com)
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*We have followed through on our plans and made small reductions in the PC installation size over the last few patches while still adding new content. While this was a good start, our short term fixes have not been enough to keep up with all of the new content in the latest patch. The longer term goal has always been to bring the PC installation size much closer in line with the console versions. We are happy to report that, thanks to our partners at Nixxes, we have reached that goal much sooner than expected._

By completely de-duplicating our data, we were able to reduce the PC installation size from ~154GB to ~23GB, for a total saving of ~131GB (~85%). We have completed several rounds of internal QA and are ready to roll this out to early adopters as a public technical beta. Our testing shows that for the small percentage of players still using mechanical hard disk drives, mission loading times have only increased by a few seconds in the worst cases. This is live NOW!*

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[-] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 66 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The fact that they were using 5-6x more space than required in the first place is pretty infuriating. How many other games are doing this shit? Explains why many games now are 100-200GB.

[-] infinitepcg@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

I found that surprising too. In the article, they explain that this was on purpose to improve loading times for people on slow HDDs.

[-] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 10 points 4 days ago

And they talk about how it's seconds different for hdd users with the tiny size lol

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

A lot of consoles ship with a 500GB spinning hard drive.

I think Sony published HD2 so we can almost exclusively blame consoles for the size requirements

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 days ago

You ever heard of the fit girl? She does this to every single game she touches and it is amazing to see.

[-] Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

Yes but then takes 17 straight hours to decompress a 30gb game during install.

[-] a_person@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago

I would rather have a 17h unzip than a 17h download, a 17h unzip means my computer is transferring data for the entire time rather than downloading the file for 30 minutes and unzipping it completely locally.

[-] Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It takes you 17 hours to download a 30gb game? Not going to lie, its a bit suspicious how long firgirl repacks take to unpack. In my opinion.

Even a 100gb game should take at max 2-3 hours of download time

Also unzipping locally has never taken me 17hours. Maybe like, an hour tops if your machine isn't the best.

I'm telling you its weird how her packs do that. You can get the same game on steamrip and it takes 30 mins to download and maybe 10-15 mins to unzip. So what the fuck is her installer doing then?

[-] kazerniel@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My Genshin install on PC would be ~115 GB (in practice it's more bc I have an extra voice pack), while the same game on mobile is allegedly ~30 GB ๐Ÿ˜’

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