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It is a trade-off. The game was developed on a discontinued engine, the game has had numerous problems with balance, performance and generally there were IMO fa
by WreckVenom 10mo ago
It is a trade-off. The game was developed on a discontinued engine, the game has had numerous problems with balance, performance and generally there were IMO far more important bugs. Super Helldive difficulty wasn't available because of performance issues.
I've racked up 700 hours in the game and the storage requirements I didn't care about.
- tehjoker 10mo agoOh wow, what is the story with the engine?
- y0ssar1an 10mo agosomehow they chose to build their very complicated live service game with the Autodesk Stingray engine which was discontinued in 2018! Helldivers 2 was released in 2024. https://www.autodesk.com/products/stingray/overview https://www.autodesk.com/products/stingray/overview
- tehjoker 10mo agoThat's really strange. Perhaps they had a set of engineers that knew it very well or had built an engine in it for another game. Still... strange.
- WreckVenom 10mo agoDevelopment of HellDivers 2 started in 2016. So they would have been 2 years into development with that engine. So they would have had to effectively start again in another engine.
- tehjoker 10mo agoWow, that is a very long development cycle. It really shows in the level of polish this game has.