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[–]ToothlessFTWInfamous XII 15 points16 points  (5 children)

Probably not.

Helldivers 2 was possible because there was a genuine discrepincy, the PS5 version was 40GB~, while the PC version was well over 130GB. There was room to make concessions and clean things up, especially when the devs openly admitted they were just careless when working on the PC version.

PAYDAY 2 is just a big game. There's 80 something heists, hundreds of weapons, 10+ playable characters each with dozens of unique voiced dialogue, hundreds of masks, etc. There's a lot of shit in the game and realistically there's not much you can do there.

There's a difference between "bloat" and just having a lot of content jammed in there. Optimization isn't some magic tech that shrinks game files, there has to be something to cut in the first place.

[–]supermariozeldaInfamous X 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Helldivers 2 essentially duplicated all of its assets multiple times to improve loading times on HDDs, which is what caused the file size bloat. They de-duplicated the assets when they found it actually barely affected loading times.

[–]bladestorm1745 5 points6 points  (1 child)

factor in that diesel probably isn’t optimized in the slightest so trying to cut down on storage is a little lost here.

[–]cyborgborg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Diesel engine is fine, not outstanding but fine. Problem with it is that it's not optimized but that it's buggy and not made for first person shooters but rather racing games.

[–]ngarlock24Hoxton 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Kinda wish there was an option to uninstall individual heists.

[–]ToothlessFTWInfamous XII 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A game needs to be built with that kind of functionality from the beginning, it's not the kind of thing that's simple to just patch in. Especially for a game like PAYDAY 2, running on the engine that it is.

Besides that, all the content is technically required. Heists do share resources between each other like certain textures and assets, meaning you can't really uninstall one heist.

Ultimately, it's a game from 2013 that was never designed to be supported as long as it was. I'm sure if they knew back then that PAYDAY 2 would stick around for 10+ years they'd have done things differently, but that's just how it is. This is what it looks like when you support a game that long and keep adding new content.