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'

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 20 hours ago

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'

Y|yukichigai · 19 hours ago

I do get it. I’m not a game dev but I am a dev, and it’s always surprising how many “simple” changes require rewriting a bunch of core code, while how many “complex” changes are just a few line edits. Code be weird like that.