HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

You won't have to worry about Helldivers 2 server campers for long

Helldivers 2's server issues continue to rile up third-person shooter fans, as savvy players seemingly find ways to camp out for days, blocking others from grabbing a spot. Unsurprisingly, people aren't happy about it, and are asking for changes to be made to prevent it from happening - and thankfully, Arrowhead is listening.

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Wish Xbox had Helldivers 2? Amid the hype, Ex-Halo dev teases pitched game ideas that didn't make the cut

Amid all the Helldivers 2 hype, one former 343 Industries (Halo) developer has teased a few game pitches they saw for the legendary Xbox franchise back in the day. While none of them were greenlit as far as we know, there are some real bangers in there.

This dev in question is Kevin Schmitt, who now works as a senior designer on special projects at Epic Games. However, from 2012 - 2023, Schmitt was working inside 343 as a senior designer for the most part. It's in this window that the events of Schmitt's interesting tweet take place.

"We must have pitched 20-30 game ideas over the 12 years I was there that would have totally worked in the Halo universe. Many Single Player & Multi-Player ODST themed ones. Some galaxy-spanning, some more intimate…and one that was really dark. lol."

Helldivers 2 just can’t stop growing, and developer Arrowhead Game Studios continues to work diligently in the background to keep up. Part of that work goes to addressing the most common concerns, and it usually takes the form of patches.

The game received several of them already, with the most recent dropping on Saturday, just as Helldivers 2 doubled its all-time concurrent record on Steam - which lead to Arrowhead temporarily capping player totals.

Helldivers 2 продолжает покорять новые высоты. Кооперативный шутер от Arrowhead Game Studios и PlayStation Studios установил крупнейший запуск в Steam среди игр Sony и уже обошел по одновременному числу игроков на платформе два их последних крупных релизов от Microsoft - Halo: Infinite и Starfield.

Helldiver 2's player count continues to soar as its devs place a cap on concurrent players

Helldivers 2 is continuing to struggle under the weight of its own success, as developer Arrowhead has had to place a limit on how many players can play at once.

While it only released a little over a week ago, Helldivers 2 has quickly found a lot of success - so much so that the game has been seriously unable to handle just how many players are trying to play the game at once. The login issues were so severe that Arrowhead had to limit how many players could actually log in a minute, and now, as detailed in a message on the game's official Discord server, there's a new concurrent player count cap as a short term solution to improve server stability.

"Earlier tonight we had server related issues with a concurrent player spike," reads the message. "This lead to some mission payouts failing, some players being kicked to their ships, or being logged out. Our team is working around the clock to solve these issues. While we've been able to mitigate some of the causes, we are still struggling to keep up with the scaling that is needed to accommodate all our Helldivers.