HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

Helldivers 2 is having a bit of a moment right now. After celebrating a record-breaking launch, developer Arrowhead Game Studios quickly realised it wasn’t ready for for the large influx of players, which has at one point surpassed 360,000 concurrent players across PC and PS5.

The developer acted quickly, deploying smaller fixes to address the most common concerns, and later expanding server capacity to lessen the log-in failure rate and allow more players to be online at any given time.

Now, Arrowhead dropped the game’s first patch.

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Hello Helldivers,
This morning, we gathered the best engineers Super Earth can muster to look at the main issues that are impacting your experience and to fix them.

These issues are caused mostly by having so many players in the game and server capacity creating unexpected behaviors.

Let me update you on what we did so far with the latest patch being deployed:

• Server Capacity and log in access:
  
• We have eased the authentication request overall.
  
• We have improved error message visibility and added a countdown timer to clearly show when a new attempt will be made.
  
• Progression and mission reward not being granted:
  
• We fixed the daily and difficulty progression error
  
• Based on the testing we have done we believe we have fixed future mission rewards but will continue to monitor this closely as it is our top priority
  
• To compensate for lost rewards, we are working on an increased reward event
  

Thanks for being awesome and supporting our devs and remember, as we say in my country….
Liberté, Fraternité, Égalité
- Alex Bolle

You can also read these patch notes on Zendesk.

Helldivers 2 has become the biggest PlayStation game released on PC yet, at least going by the number of simultaneous players on Steam, as it doubled the previous record of concurrent players set by God of War.

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The last few days have been pretty wild for Helldivers 2. The sequel took off immediately, quickly becoming Sony’s biggest launch on PC, surpassing God of War. Server issues couldn’t prevent the positive word of mouth from spreading, and the co-op shooter continued to grow in popularity.

But that has sadly exacerbated all of the connectivity, and server-related problems that those who jumped in early are very familiar with. The good news is that things have only gotten better.

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Helldivers 2 is yet another example of a predominantly co-op game being a victim of its own success. Since its launch, the servers have buckled under the weight of keen conscripts ready to exterminate some bugs. There's been frequent disconnects, matchmaking issues, and post-game rewards not showing up for some folks. But Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt has offered some comfort, saying that they've popped three hotfixes live to fix some of these issues.

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