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Comment by y0ssar1an

24 days ago

somehow 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

Development 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.

  • Wow, that is a very long development cycle. It really shows in the level of polish this game has.

That'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.