HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

Hits like Helldivers 2 are live service exceptions, CliffyB explains

Cliff Bleszinski has been around the block. Cutting his teeth on Jazz Jackrabbit and Unreal, he would then go on to spearhead the initial Gears of War trilogy. Since then, he's attemped multiple live-service games on his own: LawBreakers and Radical Heights. While neither of these worked out, Bleszinski has weighed in on the recent success of games like Helldivers 2 and Palworld, and how despite their success, it's still incredibly difficult to succeed in the live service market.

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Good news, angry players, Helldivers 2's farmers don't look to actually be actively aiding enemy factions

Ok, it looks like someone from Arrowhead has finally stepped up to give the Helldivers 2 community an unequivocal answer as to whether people abandoning operations because they’re only interested in farming is actually resulting in losses for Super Earth, hopefully helping end an era of confusion and heresay.

If you’re out of the loop, now that the game’s servers are faring pretty well, a large sect of the game’s community looks to have turned its attention to the issue of some players farming certain missions over and over again in order to reap certain rewards. As we covered yesterday, there’s a lot of confusion around whether this approach could be actively hindering the efforts of other players to take over planets and accomplish the game’s main goals.

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Helldivers 2 dev loves DLSS, but will always prioritize "more content"

If you are hoping to see Helldivers 2 DLSS support make its way to the game anytime soon, you will need to adjust your expectations following comments made by its developer. However, your hopes of adding upscaling to your arsenal against the Automatons and Terminids are not entirely quashed.