Helldivers 2 Update Sees Players Returning In Droves

Helldivers 2 participant numbers are trying fairly wholesome following the discharge of its newest replace, Coronary heart of Democracy, reaching peaks the sport hasn’t seen since its preliminary post-release rush. Regardless of a rocky first yr of launch, the upper participant numbers present Arrowhead’s efforts to show the sport round are working.

Helldivers 2’s artistic director Johan Pilestedt posted a screenshot to X exhibiting virtually 198,000 concurrent gamers on-line, calling it probably “the most important simultaneous return of gamers for Helldivers,” including that the “staff did a MEGA job on the replace!” He later added that there are “round 2.5 million Helldivers taking part in the sport each week,” and anticipated seeing extra gamers be part of following the newest replace.

Since then, Arrowhead Sport Studios has labored exhausting to enhance the sport and regain participant belief, with CEO Shams Jorjani acknowledging how the swing from “it is so over” to “we’re so again” had turn into a meme among the many sport’s fanbase. In lower than a yr, Helldivers 2 managed to get better from overview bombing to return to a “very constructive” overview score on Steam, and now that’s beginning to be mirrored within the sport’s participant numbers.

The most recent replace, Coronary heart of Democracy, brings the combat nearer to residence, as Illuminate ships lay siege to Tremendous Earth. Players have been tasked with killing 2.5 billion aliens to defend their homeworld, and that is simply the beginning of what Arrowhead has deliberate within the battle for Tremendous Earth.

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