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It's in the system requirements but even games that list an SSD as required there still sometimes work fine on a hard disk.
You're right it was in fact in the requirements and there were articles in June talking about how it was the first game to require it. I missed it then, and when I looked up why the game was barely running I saw a bunch of rage articles about how "nobody was warned". My bad
To be fair, that's on them for not giving the option of allowing PC players to play with low res textures. The game uses 2048 for them, you can download a mod that uses them at either 256 or 512, for instance. Blocky and muddy, but that'd save fuckloads of space and load times.