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HELLDIVERS 2 file-size on Steam gets massively reduced (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/steam@programming.dev

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One problem with a lot of modern games is just how big they're getting, but HELLDIVERS 2 is about to massively shrink thanks to work behind the scenes. In a news post on Steam the developers at Arrowhead Game Studios noted they pulled in Nixxes to help get it sorted.

They were making small changes across a few patches, but now the big stuff is here and you can try it out in a Steam Beta via the "prod_slim" branch. Right click the game, go to Properties -> Beta and select "prod_slim" from the drop-down box. The result should be a reduction in installation size from "~154GB to ~23GB". What an insane difference.

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[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you saying they copied the exe and everything?

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

They copied the entire folder, so all the executables, all the videos, all the audio, all the other assets, the whole freaking thing!

I looked it up and I was thinking of Fallout 3, but apparently it happened to Age of Empires 4 as well