Recently, a major update was released for Helldivers 2. Soon, players began to complain not only about the technical problems that arose, but also about another issue — the game's size.
Users noticed that in some cases it exceeded 140 GB. One tech enthusiast conducted an analysis and found out that this is due to the duplication of game assets — one item in the files can have more than a hundred copies, and their total weight can be several GB.
Head of Arrowhead Game Studios, Shams Jorjani, responded to complaints in the game's Discord channel — they are aware of the problem:
"We have prioritized this task [reducing the size of the game files]. However, I cannot say when it will be resolved."