HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

🌍 Overview

For this patch, our area of focus is

• Defend Events - updated content for major orders
  

🔧 Fixes

• Defend Events have been fixed and received an update
  

Helldivers 2 might be a co-op shooter mixed with comedy genius, but its launch has been blighted by bugs and crashes. Over the past week the devs have deployed server hotfixes and matchmaking tweaks, although one server and rewards patch had to be rolled back to fix "significant" performance issues. Still, they're doing their utmost as the game becomes PlayStation's biggest PC release to date. And the latest patch brings with it a slew of crash fixes, reductions to disconnects, further tweaks to matchmaking, and preps things for future server improvements.

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Helldivers 2 is going through the early launch pains live service games go through on the regular. After massive server and log-in issues, thanks to higher-than-expected player numbers, developer Arrowhead started reacting by releasing smaller fixes and making major upgrades to server infrastructure to accommodate this massive influx of players.

After it looked like things have stabilised, the developer released the game’s first patch (though only on PC). The patch was yet another attempt at streamlining the log-in process and ensuring the errors are descriptive enough to tell players what’s going on when the game fails to connect.

Unfortunately, it caused unexpected performance issues on PC, so it had to be pulled.

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Good day Helldivers!
Fresh patch notes coming your way to optimize your liberation efforts

For this patch, we have focused on the following areas:

• Improved general game stability
  
• Prepared build for upcoming server matchmaking improvements.
  
• Resolving connectivity and disconnect issues.
  

Fixes

• Fixed crash when application was closed shortly after start
  
• Game no longer crashes during extraction cutscene.
  
• User profile with too many friends no longer causes crash.
  
• Fixed crash when using text-to-speech during extraction cutscene
  
• Game no longer crashes when users disconnect during the joining cutscene.
  
• Operation Status in Mission Summary no longer causes crash.
  
• Fixed crashes caused by leftover visual effects from disconnected players.
  
• Game no longer crashes when using ADS.
  
• Repaired instability in game data packing that caused increased patch sizes.
  
• Improved backend connectivity, reduces likelihood of disconnecting in missions.
  
• Improved matchmaking experience and likelihood of success.
  

Happy diving people
-Max Carlberg

HELLDIVERS™ 2 has peaked at 203,644 concurrent players on 14 February 2024 within the release week.
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