HELLDIVERS™ 2 News

Welcome to 'Robot Vietnam' - Helldivers 2 players have lovingly renamed one of its most hectic planets

Helldivers 2 has no shortage of perilous planets or treacherous Terminds, but one planet has the community shook. Dubbed "Robot Vietnam", this mix of thick jungle and red lasers has folks fighting for their lives.

The planet in question is Malevelon Creek, a location currently located on the automaton front. With a dark blue fog, thick flora, and hordes of dangerous robotic enemies that can drop out of nowhere into the brush, it's proving to be a bloody battlefield for those attempting to liberate it.

Helldivers 2 is quite the monster, one with a lot of merit to it. Not only is it PlayStation's biggest Pc launch, one that's quick to fix performance problems and made by devs keen to stick to their guns (for istance, they've got no interest in adding PvP). It's also a game that feels player-friendly, as its creative director is firm in insisting that the game absolutely isn't pay-to-win.

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.

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.

🛠️ PATCH 01.000.007 (PC & PS5) ⚙️

🌍 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 patch fixes crashes, disconnects and matchmaking bugs as devs aim to "beef up our content plans"

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.