alt Hacker NewsThey duplicate files to reduce load times. Here's how Arrowhead Game Studios themselves tell it:
https://www.arrowheadgamestudios.com/2025/10/helldivers-2-te...
They duplicate files to reduce load times. Here's how Arrowhead Game Studios themselves tell it:
https://www.arrowheadgamestudios.com/2025/10/helldivers-2-te...
I don't think this is the real explanation. If they gave the filesystem a list of files to fetch in parallel (async file IO), the concept of "seek time" would become almost meaningless. This optimization will make fetching from both HDDs and SSDs faster. They would be going out of their way to make their product worse for no reason.