Whereas co-op third-person shooter Helldivers 2 has gone down nicely with gamers and turn out to be Sony’s greatest ever PC sport launch, it has continued to wrestle with login points and rewards not monitoring, even forcing its developer to roll again a patch due to efficiency issues.
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Recreation Studios launched patch 01.000.005 for the sport on Steam yesterday, January 12. The replace was designed to deal with the principle points impacting gamers’ skill to log in, nevertheless it brought on efficiency issues, which in flip brought on Arrowhead to roll the patch again.
“We now have rolled again the patch due to some customers experiencing vital degradation in efficiency,” Arrowhead stated in a observe on the Helldivers Discord. “The mission reward repair is not going to be affected by this.”
Within the (*2*), Arrowhead promised to compensate gamers for misplaced rewards through an elevated reward occasion. A lot of Helldivers 2’s development is gained from mission rewards, which makes this a very unhealthy drawback for gamers attempting to develop their avatars extra highly effective.
In the meantime, at this time, February 13, Arrowhead rolled out a patch for the PS5 model that addresses server capability, login capability development, and mission rewards. It’s the identical because the PC patch, however Arrowhead stated it doesn’t anticipate efficiency issues on PS5. “We’re at the moment investigating that subject with the PC construct from yesterday,” the developer stated.
Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt had beforehand issued an apology to gamers and defined how the servers had struggled to address the onslaught of gamers following final week’s launch. In the meantime, Helldivers 2 gamers have already established an “unstated” co-op etiquette.
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