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Шутер Helldivers 2 от Sony превзошел пиковый онлайн бесплатного мультиплеера Halo: Infinite в Steam

Кооперативный шутер Helldivers 2 не сбавляет оборотов. Только на днях он превысил отметку в 250 тысяч одновременных игроков в Steam, как с наступлением выходных это число стало еще больше.

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.009

Helldivers, we have prepared a patch for today. This one continues the focus on stability and matchmaking. We are separately working on the server issues that we’re facing at the moment. We know this is the highest urgency for most players and we treat them very seriously. 


🔧 Fixes


The following issues have been fixed for this version:

[h2]STABILITY/CRASHES[/h2]

  • Fixed a crash during extraction cutscene relating to text to speech.
  • Fixed a crash happening during extraction in search and destroy missions after consecutive multiplayer missions.
  • Fixed a crash when getting disconnected during the joining cutscene.
  • Fixed a crash while shooting from the 'SMG-37 Defender' in ADS mode.
  • Fixed a crash that rarely occurs relating to surface data for footstep effects.
  • Fixed a rare crash relating to identical particle effects playing.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur in relation to accepting an invite.


[h2]MATCHMAKING[/h2]

  • Fixed an issue that caused us to send invalid data to multiplayer services.
  • Improved lobby sorting to increase chance of connectivity.


[h2]BALANCE & OTHER FIXES[/h2]

  • Defend event difficulty has been reduced.
  • Fix for Suicide, Impossible and Helldive missions being too easy.
  • Eradicate mission difficulty Increased.
  • Eradicate mission timer has been increased to 15 minutes. 
  • Updated Mission End screen to display Experience and Requisition multiplier.
  • Issue where multiple of the same stratagems could be brought to a mission has been resolved.


[h2]🧠 Known Issues[/h2]

Listed below are significant issues that are being worked on and were either introduced by this patch or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed.

Backend issues during high load are improved but still persist, issues include:
  • Login rate limiting when many are logging in at the same time.
  • Players can become disconnected during play.
  • Rewards and other progress may be delayed or not attributed.
  • Various UI issues may appear when the game interacts with servers.
  • Pick-up of certain objects in-game may cause characters to freeze in place for an extended period of time.
  • Other unknown behaviors may occur.


  • Japanese VO is missing from intro cutscene and Ship TV.
  • Armor values for light/medium/heavy armor do currently not function as intended.


Helldivers 2 players are getting stomped out by the new Automaton defense missions

As you may know, Helldivers 2 players are being thrust into a new frontier of robotic warfare, as new defense missions have been added to the game alongside a community-wide call to action. However, while these warriors for liberty had previously been scoring win after win on the galactic map, this recent hurdle is proving troublesome.

The reason why is simple. Rather than take out a certain number of robots, or destroy various buildings in the name of democracy, these new defense missions require players to evacuate 30 scientists from a human colony. This starts off easy enough, however soon waves upon waves of Automatons swarm the base, making the process a whole lot more difficult.

There's also somewhat of a learning curve. Unlike other missions, landing close to the objective is a good idea, as landing too far out can waste valuable evacuation time. Second, fresh recruits may not know where the scientists are located, or how to actually prompt them to leave their bunkers and rush to the escape shuttle. All this results in progress slowing, and more robots rushing you.

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Phil Spencer gets why Helldivers 2 isn’t on Xbox, but doesn’t see who benefits from it being PlayStation exclusive

Helldivers 2 is quickly becoming one of 2024’s biggest multiplayer games. Following a tremendous launch across PC and PS5, the PlayStation-funded game quickly became the company's biggest launch ever on PC.

With over 360,000 concurrent players across both platforms - a figure that’s been overtaken since, the popularity of the co-op shooter cannot be ignored. But if you’re on Xbox, it's hard not to feel left out.

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🛠️ PATCH 01.000.008 ⚙️

Hello Divers!
Fresh patch notes coming in

🌍 Overview
For this patch, our major areas of focus were
  • Resolving crashes.
  • Improving matchmaking functionality.
  • Optimizing our server
  • Defend event updates

🔧 Fixes
The following issues have been fixed for this version.
Matchmaking
  • Playfab optimization
  • Playfab environment optimized - All lobbies now have proper data to run more effective matchmaking
  • Filtering optimization
  • We are optimizing the filter system when players are searching for lobbies, so that it excludes already full lobbies.
  • Stability and crashes
  • We have fixed three of our top crashes in the game, including particle renderer crashes and ragdoll crashes.
  • Fixed an issue where the application prioritized integrated graphics over some GPU in laptops.
  • Defend Events and Major Orders.
  • For readability purposes, we added a visual progression indicator to major order defend events

🧠 Known Issues
These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed.

  • Players may still experience some instability while matchmaking.
  • Background music, Sound effects and JP audio does not play during the opening cutscene. Japanese VO is also missing from the Ship TV.