Helldivers 2 just got a massive storage diet after Nixxes helped Arrowhead slash the PC install from 154GB down to 23GB, saving players about 131 GB of precious drive space. The devs measured how many people still run the game on ancient spinning hard drives and found only 11 percent of the player base, which convinced them to push forward with the compressed version since load times barely increased by a couple of seconds at worst. Players can jump into the beta right away through Steam's properties menu by selecting the prod_slim branch.
The shooter has been printing money for Sony since launch, moving over five million copies within a month and performing well on Xbox consoles after expanding beyond PC and PlayStation 5. The team plans to kill off the bloated legacy version sometime next year if testing goes smoothly.
The shooter has been printing money for Sony since launch, moving over five million copies within a month and performing well on Xbox consoles after expanding beyond PC and PlayStation 5. The team plans to kill off the bloated legacy version sometime next year if testing goes smoothly.
