Comment

Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'

<- View Parent

mriswith@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

You are both correct in a way.

In large scale online games you have issues ranging from obscure things causing memory leaks, to basic things getting overlooked. One of my favorite examples being GTA5 online.

They forgot to update a function from early testing, and it was in the game for about a decade before someone else debugged the launch process. And then realized that it was loading an entire file every time it checked a local item list against the online one. Changing “basically one line” ended up reducing initial load times by up to 70% depending on the cpu and storage media.

source

Sort:hotnew top

shoo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’s kind of a funny example because, on a quick skim, nothing he did was exceptionally clever or unusual (other than workarounds for not having source code). R* basically paid him 10k for some basic profiling that they never bothered to do.

source