Helldivers 2 slims down for the holidays.
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Supposedly, and I do mean supposedly because it's Arrowhead and they're Swedes so they lie like breathing, the enormously bloated install size was to support HDD users. As if anyone from Pennsylvania to Transylvania still uses those, but I digress.
In a previous big update earlier this year the bloat caused the new planet with underground maps to be effectively unplayable. Since that planet was about 80% of the content in the update the community was outraged.
Following THAT the company leadership once again allowed that Serbian dog-eater Alexus Kravchenko(if you ever played Hello Neighbor, he's the guy that ruined the sequel) to secretly nerf several popular weapons in a convoluted and shitty way that accidentally nerfed half the guns in the game.
And that's skipping over a tide of community drama involving a tranny community manager blacklisting several popular Youtubers, and the rest of the company being unable to do anything about it because Sweden is an HR police state and you can't criticize trannies even if they alienate huge chunks of your playerbase.
So Narrowhead needed a win. As a result they released this, which was as big of a W as they could manage with the least amount of effort.
Cheaper,bigger and longer lasting than SSDs. You might say get a bluray writer but they're all disappearing.
Sure, for storage. Not for gaming. I use an HDD to store books and pictures. I use an SSD for gaming.
You seem to be into the game... Is it worth picking up now, even with all these problems?
It depends on what you're after.
Despite all the bugs, the drama, the idiotic balance choices, and the performance issues it IS still a damn fun game. I play it fairly casually with my wife, and we don't try to sweat the highest two difficulty levels, usually staying at 8/10.
The "premium" currency they use for the item packs they sell for monetization is easy to get on your own just by playing the game. I've paid I think ten dollars total into it since I got it almost two years ago.
All in all, it's fun as hell to rain down orbital strikes on the enemy, and blast them to bits.