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In a recent post on the Helldivers 2 Discord, community manager Mitchcell Ayre confirmed that Arrowhead is soon going to greatly shrink the game’s size on PC. Currently, Helldivers 2 comes in at a whopping 154GB on Steam, making it a particularly enormous game. Arrowhead previously allowed users to opt-in to trying out a smaller version of Helldivers 2 a few months back, which was only a little over 20GB by comparison. Following extensive testing, this new, smaller version of the game will now become the norm for everyone on PC.
“[After] weeks of your input and stress testing including a great influx of new and returning players in the ‘Machinery of Oppression’ major update, we are confident that players are having a great experience playing Helldivers 2 on the smaller build,” said Ayre. “As a result we will be removing the ‘large’ build from Steam in line with our next patch – 17th March 2026.”
Will This Update Impact Console Versions of Helldivers 2?
If you’re wondering whether or not this upcoming Helldivers 2 update will also impact the versions on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, the answer would be no. This is primarily because these editions of the game are already much smaller in size and only take up around 30GB in total. As such, there’s no desperate need to scale down how much SSD space they take up on PlayStation and Xbox platforms since they’re already pretty small to begin with.
