The update brought not only content, but also technical problems.
Recently, the authors of the cooperative shooter Helldivers 2 introduced a major update Into the Unjust. Soon, complaints about technical problems began to appear on the forum.
Players are concerned about bugs (crashes), as well as poor performance and sound glitches of weapons.
The list of complaints is not limited to this. Arau_ drew attention to the fact that after the Helldivers 2 update, some players began to take up more than 140 GB on the drive.
Tech enthusiast RaidingForPants conducted a study and found that the game began to actively duplicate game assets.
He wrote a script to assess the scale of the problem and came to the conclusion
"The total size of game assets is 133.97 GB (I have all additional language packs installed, so the size of your installed version may be slightly smaller). But the actual size of unique assets is only 30.39 GB.
That's right, you can reduce the size of the installation files by 100 GB if the game has only one copy of each of its assets. The most egregious case with the file size that I found was a 2K normal map for rocky environments, which was duplicated 128 times, which took a total of 2 GB of space."
