Comment on Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now

• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And it is not at all uncommon.

  There is a reason that, back in the day, there were a LOT of ways to compress game installs so that you could burn it to a CD-R and so forth. And this was incredibly prevalent on consoles up until the current generation when SSDs became default… except that a lot of games were still being developed for previous gen and older hardware PCs.

  When Blizzard made a big deal about how WoW now requires an SSD? It was for stuff like this.

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