The boss of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has denied a recent rumour that Sony is buying the studio.
16.02.2024 - 11:20 / ign.com / Phil Spencer / Johan Pilestedt
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has released another patch for the popular co-op shooter which takes aim at the various matchmaking issues that have plagued launch.
While Helldivers 2 is a critical and commercial success, selling over one million copies across PlayStation 5 and PC, and becoming Sony’s biggest ever launch on Steam, its release has been blighted by server problems that made matchmaking a serious issue. Arrowhead even promised to compensate players for lost rewards.
The developer has worked to combat these issues since launch, admitting it was not prepared for the over 360,000 concurrent players it had to deal with. And now patch 01.000.008 is here on PS5 and PC to help in the fight.
According to the Helldivers 2 Steam page, the main areas of focus for the patch are resolving crashes, improving matchmaking, optimising the game’s server, and to update the new Defend event, which has seen new planets open up in the fight against the Automatons.
Fixes
The following issues have been fixed for this version.
Known Issues
These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed.
It’s busy times in the world of Helldivers 2 following its impressive launch. This week, Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt said the developer will “never” add PvP to Helldivers 2 in order to reduce “toxic elements” from the community. Speaking of the community, one of the cool things about Helldivers 2 is that players have established an ‘unspoken’ co-op etiquette, which is useful for a game in which voice comms are rarely used when playing with randoms.
And overnight, Xbox boss Phil Spencer brought up Helldivers 2, which is Sony's first simultaneous PS5 and PC release, saying in an interview with Game File: "I will say, when I look at a game like Helldivers 2 — and it's a great game, kudos to the team shipping on PC and PlayStation — I'm not exactly sure who it helps in the industry by not being on Xbox. If you try to twist yourself to say, like, somehow that benefited somebody somewhere."
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The boss of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has denied a recent rumour that Sony is buying the studio.
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