Helldivers 2 is off to a robust begin following its launch on PC and PlayStation 5, however the sport’s recognition can also be inflicting quite a lot of points that has Swedish developer Arrowhead Sport Studios in “disaster mode.”
The excellent news is a repair addressing essentially the most critical of the problems appears to be on its approach. Helldivers 2 sport director Mikael Eriksson mentioned in an announcement on X (previously Twitter) {that a} patch enhancing matchmaking and the “most frequent” crashing points on PC is being examined, and if profitable, will quickly be rolled out as a hotfix to PC gamers on Steam earlier than coming to PS5.
In a put up on the sport’s official Discord, Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt mentioned the studio is working onerous to handle matchmaking bugs, efficiency issues, crashes on PC, and different points which have resulted from the launch of the Sony revealed third-person co-op shooter.
“I simply wished to allow you to all know we’re working as onerous as we are able to on resolving these, the quantity of gamers uncovered some shenanigans within the system that went previous many, many, many hours of testing,” Pilestedt mentioned.
For the time being, Pilestedt really useful gamers group up with pals and keep away from utilizing the sport’s at the moment damaged fast play matchmaking, as becoming a member of pals is working as meant.
Helldivers 2 is at the moment sitting at a median consumer review score of “Mixed” on Steam, with many gamers citing the aforementioned issues as the rationale for his or her destructive evaluation. Regardless of these issues, the sport is as of writing the number-one-selling sport on Steam by income, and reached a concurrent participant peak of greater than 64,000 gamers on PC shortly after launch, in response to SteamDB.
In our latest Helldivers 2 preview, we mentioned the Starship Troopers-inspired shooter has the potential to be an important co-op sport and loved the chaotic enjoyable it supplied, however questioned its endurance given there are already a plethora of live-service shooters in the marketplace. Arrowhead confirmed forward of launch by way of a PlayStation Blog post that Helldivers 2 will obtain free post-launch content material updates that can see the universe of the sport “develop and alter” whereas providing new instruments, challenges, and threats for gamers to beat.