Helldivers 2 creator director Johan Pilestedt is teasing developer Arrowhead Studio's "grand plans" for the hit democracy-'em-up, letting slip that we can expect heaps of quality-of-life improvements based on the community's feedback.
21.02.2024 - 17:40 / gamerant.com / Johan Pilestedt / Derek Nichols / Sony
Even with ongoing login and server capacity issues, Helldivers 2 continues to grow, this time passing a new concurrent player total and overtaking the immensely popular shooter, Counter Strike 2. The immediate success of Helldivers 2 has been both a blessing and a curse for Arrowhead Game Studios, who has struggled to adapt to the massive player numbers attempting to log in. While the studio and team are happy to see the game become a major success, becoming the most concurrently played Sony published game on Steam, the backend issues have continued to hold the experience back.
While Arrowhead continues to work on increasing server capacity behind the scenes, it has gotten to a point where studio members are suggesting fans stop buying the game. Recently, Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt responded to a fan wondering if they should buy the game, suggesting that Helldivers 2 is worth waiting for until the servers can support the current capacity. However, it seems most players can't wait to drop in as the concurrent numbers on Steam continue to rise, even bypassing a game that is consistently at the top of the charts.
According to the SteamDB charts, on February 20, Helldivers 2 hit another massive concurrent player milestone, coming in at a peak number of 457,649. As the player numbers continue to rise, potentially compounding an already rough server capacity issue, this latest achievement is significant in that the all-time peak number for Helldivers 2 was enough to unseat Counter-Strike 2 from the top spot at that time of the day, something which just typically doesn't happen. While recently updated to be a full-fledged sequel, the former CSGO is consistently near the top of the player charts, so to see another game bypass it entirely at any point in the day was surprising to many in the community.
As many made mention in the Reddit thread, the other element to this is that these numbers are only from the Steam side of the game, so there's no way of knowing specific player numbers over on the PlayStation Network. Clearly, the game is pulling in massive numbers, as Helldivers 2 has already passed many significant milestones, including overtaking Destiny 2's all-time concurrent peak on Steam as well as outperforming PSN stalwarts Fortnite and Call of Duty.
Unfortunately, some of the goodwill that the community has afforded Helldivers 2 during launch week appears to be slowly wearing off as many issues continue to persist. In fact, Helldivers 2's user rating on Steam has dropped to Mixed, as more and more players are leaving more negative based reviews and opinions related to the ongoing capacity and login problems. It's likely these opinions will change once Arrowhead can put an end to the current issues
Helldivers 2 creator director Johan Pilestedt is teasing developer Arrowhead Studio's "grand plans" for the hit democracy-'em-up, letting slip that we can expect heaps of quality-of-life improvements based on the community's feedback.
Helldivers 2 is an early 2024 smash hit, with critical and commercial acclaim following its explosive launch on PlayStation 5 and PC. But there are some aspects of the co-op shooter that can result in a frustrating experience, and one of them has to do with the behavior of your teammates.
is a game with plenty of strategic possibilities, but there's one key aspect of tactics that has been misrepresented from the start. Some areas where the game can be confusing have to do with bugs present at its launch, like the armor issue that has rendered heavy armor significantly less useful than intended. On the other end, however, some information can be deliberately withheld with the intention of making the game easier to get into rather than harder.
Man, y'all really like mechs. The long-awaited Helldivers 2 mechs hit the game earlier today following the liberation of planet Tien Kwan, and it seems the community's enthusiasm has outpaced developer expectations and server limitations once again.
Following its release on February 8, took the world by storm and achieved an unimaginable gaming feat. The sequel to the 2015 game delivered a cooperative experience like none other in the gaming space, encouraging an unprecedented amount of teamwork and collaboration. Although playing solo is an option in, it requires a very specific build and presents a much greater challenge than diving in with other players.
Arrowhead's CEO Johan Pilestedt has apologised for some spicy developer responses to players complaining about Helldivers 2's first major balancing patch, which made certain Helldivers 2 guns and equipment pieces significantly less powerful alongside other adjustments to the new shooter's armor system, maps and missions.
Though some of the weapons in may be considered trash, they may not be as bad as they seem at face value. As the game has increased its player base, the weapons available to Helldivers have been placed into a community hierarchy. Though some guns may be marginally better than others, every weapon has its strengths and is viable for any mission. This flexibility, which transfers to most aspects of, has helped propel the game to success along with its chaotically fun gameplay.
Further light has been shed on the mysteries of the Helldivers 2 universe, in which those titular heroic troopers spread Democracy to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, crushing both Bugs and Bots under polished jackboots. What insidious intelligence directs these loathsome foes of Freedom and Liberty, you ask? An Arrowhead Game Studios employee named Joel.
Helldivers 2 continues to be a colossal success, as shown by the player count and potential sales numbers, and we’ll be taking a look at how many people are playing to make sense of the game’s meteoric rise.
Two indie games on Steam were disguised as Helldivers 2 earlier today, to scam players into buying them.
As players fight tooth and nail to reclaim planets overrun by Terminids and Automatons, developer Arrowhead reveals that the intergalactic war is managed by only a single person. While the core loop involves running around alien planets and gunning down various enemies, there's a much larger scale meta-game at play that sees the community fighting to take control of several endangered planets. Given that opposing factions seemingly respond to player-led pushes, many assumed it was simply an automatic difficulty setting to make the experience more challenging.
The team behind Helldivers 2, presumably fully aware that Steam Deck and PC players would go digging into the game's files, have left a funny little detail in there.