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Arrowhead initially planned to make Helldivers 2 in 3 years—instead it took 7 years, 11 months, and 26 days (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] krdo@programming.dev 38 points 4 months ago

Likely a lot of time was spent iterating and experimenting with different ideas, testing out concepts, tweaking, etc. Haven't played the game but I do work as a software developer.

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Probably, especially if you consider that the first Helldivers game was a top-down shooter.

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