Helldivers 2 Patch 01.000.008 Takes Aim at Crashes, Matchmaking, and the Servers

In accordance with (*2*), the essential areas of focus for the patch are resolving crashes, bettering matchmaking, optimising the recreation’s server, and to replace the new Defend occasion, which has seen new planets open up in the struggle towards the Automatons.

Helldivers 2 Replace 01.000.008 Patch Notes

Fixes

The next points have been mounted for this model.

• Matchmaking
• Playfab optimization
• Playfab surroundings optimized – All lobbies now have correct knowledge to run more practical matchmaking
• Filtering optimization
• We’re optimizing the filter system when gamers are trying to find lobbies, in order that it excludes already full lobbies.
• Stability and crashes
• We have now mounted three of our high crashes in the recreation, together with particle renderer crashes and ragdoll crashes.
• Fastened a problem the place the utility prioritized built-in graphics over some GPU in laptops.
• Defend Occasions and Main Orders.
• For readability functions, we added a visible development indicator to main order defend occasions

Identified Points

These are points that had been both launched by this patch and are being labored on, or are from a earlier model and haven’t but been mounted.

• Gamers should still expertise some instability whereas matchmaking.
• Background music, Sound results and JP audio doesn’t play throughout the opening cutscene. Japanese VO can also be lacking from the Ship TV.

It’s busy occasions in the world of Helldivers 2 following its spectacular launch. This week, Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt mentioned the developer will “by no means” add PvP to Helldivers 2 so as to cut back “poisonous components” from the group. Talking of the group, one among the cool issues about Helldivers 2 is that gamers have established an ‘unstated’ co-op etiquette, which is beneficial for a recreation through which voice comms are not often used when taking part in with randoms.

And in a single day, Xbox boss Phil Spencer introduced up Helldivers 2, which is Sony’s first simultaneous PS5 and PC launch, saying in an interview with Sport File: “I’ll say, after I look at a recreation like Helldivers 2 — and it is a fantastic recreation, kudos to the group delivery on PC and PlayStation — I am not precisely positive who it helps in the trade by not being on Xbox. In case you attempt to twist your self to say, like, someway that benefited any individual someplace.”

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