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Helldivers 2 boss says No Man's Sky's redemption arc inspired its own comeback

Despite feeling like it's been around forever, Helldivers 2 is still just over a year old. One of 2024's biggest and most surprising breakout hits, it continues to draw in huge crowds, deliver regular Warbonds, and throw some curveballs into its constantly evolving galactic battle. But despite its relative youth, the game has already gone through some turbulent patches that, at times, looked like they might sink the ship. Speaking in a new interview, the CEO of developer Arrowhead Games says that during its hellish summer, where community sentiment soured and its Steam rating dropped as low as 19%, it looked to No Man's Sky's famous redemption arc as motivation for its own comeback.


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Helldivers 2's latest patch is little, but a fix for mission drop-in crashes "on legacy hardware" looks like it could be good news for PC folks struggling to play on older gear

It might be April Fools' Day today, but Helldivers 2 has recieved an actual patch. It's just a little one, is patch 01.002.202, but there is one fix in it that's caught my eye, given what's been going on with the game on PC lately.

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PATCH 01.002.202

Release Captain Carlberg here with a small update for you this fine April Tuesday

Overview
  • Crash Fixes
  • Mission fix
  • Miscellaneous fixes

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
Crash Fixes, Hangs and Soft-locks:
  • Fixed game crashing on legacy hardware when player drops into a mission
  • Fixed crash after exiting the armory when switching from certain weapons
  • Fix an out-of-memory crash when large amount of particles are present
Weapons and Stratagems
  • Fixed shooting and reloading issues with laser weapons
Social & Multiplayer Fixes
  • Fixed an edge-case allowing some mismatching version to still connect to each other
Missions
  • Fixed issue on Illuminate Defend Evacuation Site missions where illuminate dropships stopped coming if too many were destroyed before they dropped off the enemies.
Miscellaneous Fixes
  • Fixed white boxes showing in seldom cases in the Super Store

Latest Helldivers 2 update is tanking PC performance, and players aren't happy

The latest Helldivers 2 PC patch has got PC players begging for performance optimizations on Reddit and the Steam Community forum. Even though performance isn't directly addressed in the latest patch, it seems that some players are reporting worsening conditions with little explanation.


These ongoing issues aren't targeting any specific piece of hardware, meaning even if you have one of the best graphics cards, you might experience a downturn in performance since the latest Helldivers 2 patch arrived late last week. In fact, despite upgrading my GPU since I last played, my performance has also taken a hit, which I detail below.


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A year on from Malevelon Creek's memed-to-death liberation, Helldivers 2 pulls the trigger on sending players back there to stop the bots achieving "greatest net desecration"

Helldivers 2's Galactic War has made its way back to the infamous Malevelon Creek just in time for the one year anniversary of the fierce fighting that led the planet - dubbed Robot Vietnam by players - getting its own memorial day canonized into the game's lore.

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