HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

If you've been yearning to take up arms against Super Earth as either an arachnid, a robot or a filthy (managed) democracy-hating human traitor, then I have bad news, roughneck. Helldivers 2 will "never" get a PvP mode, according to Arrowhead's CEO Johan Pilestedt. The reason? They want to avoid encouraging any toxic behaviour in the new shooter's multiplayer community.

Given that Helldivers 2 is a game with mandatory friendly fire in which you can kill team-mates by respawning right on top of them, I fear the Good Ship Camaraderie may already have sailed, but I'm very early on in my Helldiver career, and I'm... intrigued by how Arrowhead's efforts at community curation sit alongside/within the game's premise of playing a dirty space fascist locked in an endless xenophobic crusade.

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A lot of co-op games tend to at least experiment with offering some form of competitive multiplayer, a PvP mode, or even PvEvP if they don’t want to completely abandon their original vision.

But that’s not a group the developer of Helldivers 2, the hottest co-op game right now, is looking to join.

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🌍 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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