Here, this has helped fix almost all issues with stuttering (fps dips) and audio dropping. It glitches here and there but def makes it playable

particles_cast_shadows = false
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I thought Helldivers was for woke radical leftists after the whole Charlie Kirk debacle

And here I thought that Helldivers would have a thick enough crust of ironic humour to be immune to the problem faced by WH40K of people missing the point entirely and going "wowzers epic manly war!".

Guess it was obvious, given that the original inspiration by Robert A. Heinlein was also completely unironic...

Only if you're among those that understands that HD2 is a parody of a fascist ultranationalist state, and not a "supersoldier" fighting for Super Earth (turns out, a LOT of ppl don't understand that nuance, which is bloody terrifying).

Yes, I'm on of those that believes the comments on the back of the case was satirical propaganda that was too well done haha

I had seen clips of him finishing his speech to the HD2 theme, but this is wild

The irony is palpable

Wait, dont ya mean Cyberpunk??

Like I said in another comment I play on a laptop. I have an SSD but if I did have an HDD upgrading would be very difficult considering how compact everything is. On my old last laptop I had a 500 gig SSD and 1tb HDD reserving my HDD for big games.

So for people like me with little hardware knowledge and on a laptop upgrade is more a matter of not price but can’t.

Personally I don’t care about load times, as I grab my phone or open a browser tab. But taking up over fifth of my old SSDs space is just too much. I do have a single tb drive in my laptop rn but even then, personally I don’t mind load times but do greatly care about storage space.

Yes hello dumb ass here. I play on a laptop (and soon a desktop thanks to my steam deck) and in terms of cleaning I use some compressed air. But when i need a deep clean every so often instead of just unscrewing the bottom I take it to Best Buy for them to clean it

Idk about the majority of users but me personally I don’t want to open it up for something as simple as a cleaning. And im a pretty avid pc gamer yet know very little about hardware from what’s good to how to maintain it. Yeah I probably know more than someone who isn’t into PCs but in terms of specifics yeah no idea what I’m doing

Honestly I would rate that as the baseline for PC gamers. Most of them are not enthusiastists, have never built a computer, or even opened the side of their cases.

When something doesn't work, they get someone else to fix it. They wouldn't even know where to start. Its just device that enables a hobby for them.

What is the cost of a 4TB sata ssd? About 300€, a 4TB HDD is about half of that. A 1 or even 2TB gets filled up extremely quickly with massive game install sizes nowadays.

That would be the difference between video card tiers if people are building their own computers. Completely understandable that people still get HDDs.

With that level of idiocy, their pc would have bricked a long time ago.

This is exactly what I was thinking. I have three storage devices, 2 SSD’s and a large HDD, I recently moved HD2 off an SSD to the HDD after seeing how large it was and wanting more asset stream heavy games on my games SSD.

I know I could delete games to make room but it takes a full day to download bigger games on good ol’ Australian internet so I try to keep any I think friends might be interested in playing installed.

I can't even imagine playing this game on a HDD.

In the post they note that match load times are based on the slowest player, so there's a decent chance you've already been in a match that would be the equivalent of playing on a HDD

It's incredibly naive to think users know what a hard drive or SSD even is, let alone which one they have in thier computers.

And even if they did know, they would still install the wrong one and complain that that was somehow the devs fault.

Label it the SSD version then.

"I installed the so called better version, and now my game takes 15 minutes to load!!!!"

Why not give PC players access to the xbox version so that people using SSDs can choose to use the smaller file?

I used to, and honestly, for HD2 specifically it didn't make that much of a difference.

I'm also skeptical of the data duplication technique having any significant effect, unless both AH and Steam can guarantee the OS isn't going to fragment the files in the first place.

I'm sure there are people who are running it with what they can afford or is available in their location, and that may limit something with a 150GB installation to a HDD. It is big enough to encourage installing it on a HDD for older hardware!

(From the blog post) Even the Steam user surveys are unable to give us data on mechanical HDD use in the overall gamer population

It sounds like a limitation of Steam prevents them from determining the storage medium. If they wanted to detect the hardware, it would have to be at runtime.

I can't even imagine playing this game on a HDD.

I can’t imagine almost any modern game at this point, SATA SSDs are so cheap now and the load time gains alone are worth the upgrade.

I’m getting flashbacks of Halo Infinite where everything at launch was and still is limited to keep compatibility with the then eight-year-old 2013 Xbox One.

Personally, I’m for the more aggressive option of dropping support for HDD users. Use HDDs for storage, move games onto an SSD. You can get a 128 GB SATA SSD for under $20.

It seems like it should be possible to tell if the game is being installed to a HDD or SSD and then do the appropriate installation for that hardware. Or have a choice when installing to do a HDD or SSD install.

I know it means having two PC versions and that means more complexity, but they already have at least three versions between PC, Playstation, and xbox so what is one more?

I can't even imagine playing this game on a HDD.

I'd be far more likely to install it on an SSD if it was 50gb instead of 150gb.

If the game wasn’t that big, then you wouldn’t need a hard drive.

I wonder how many here have their games on a hard drive today?

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