Helldivers 2 continues to improve on its player figures. After easily topping God of War off the first spot when it comes to PlayStation launches on Steam, the cooperative sci-fi third-person shooter peaked at 155K concurrent users yesterday.
23.01.2024 - 12:01 / wccftech.com / Alessio Palumbo
Palworld just keeps going on an absolutely incredible ride toward the top. The 'Pokémon with guns' survival crafting game released last Friday by Japanese developer Pocketpair has now sold six million units in just four days. It has also surpassed 1.5 million concurrent Steam players, inching ever closer to the second spot on the all-time chart. Counter-Strike 2 managed 1.8 million nine months ago, around the time of its launch, but it's a free-to-play game. Moreover, at this rate, Palworld could very well blaze past it during the next weekend.
Of course, unlike Counter-Strike 2, Pocketpair's game is also available through other venues, including the Microsoft Store, Xbox, and Game Pass. That's how the game's overall concurrent peak has reached 1.7 million players, according to the studio.
On PC, owners of GeForce RTX graphics cards can activate NVIDIA DLSS 2 (Super Resolution) to improve their frame rate. There currently is no native support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution or Intel XeSS, so users without a GeForce RTX GPU would have to resort to Unreal Engine's TSR.
Luckily, modder PureDark has just released an AMD FSR3 mod (which actually offers the option to use DLSS or Intel XeSS in addition to AMD's frame generation technique). He also showed it running on the ASUS ROG Ally, with the frame rate being bumped from around 60 FPS to 90-100 FPS.
As usual with PureDark's mods, you'd have to subscribe to his Patreon to get access. The modder also clarified he hasn't added DLSS 3 yet because Palworld already runs at a high frame rate on GeForce RTX 40 graphics cards, which are the only ones capable of utilizing NVIDIA's frame generation method.
Going back to the game itself, Pocketpair has shared an update on some of the issues that players have encountered during their time in Palworld:
The development team is aware of serious bugs that are occurring, such as being unable to enter servers, unable to play multiplayer, and losing saved data, and are currently working on fixing them. We will share information about the fixes for these issues as soon as possible.
Please note that save data from singleplayer and co-op may be able to be restored. For information on how to restore from backup, please refer to this URL.
Helldivers 2 continues to improve on its player figures. After easily topping God of War off the first spot when it comes to PlayStation launches on Steam, the cooperative sci-fi third-person shooter peaked at 155K concurrent users yesterday.
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Palworld has passed another impressive milestone, with more than two million concurrent players on Steam recorded.
Here's your daily Palworld sales update: the open world survival crafting game with monster collection mechanics has now surpassed eight million units sold on Steam alone in less than a week from the early access launch. It also broke the two million concurrent players milestone on Valve's platform, a feat that was only ever managed by PUBG: Battlegrounds back when the Battle Royale game was at its height. There's still over a million difference between the two, but it would not be wise to discount Palworld at this point.
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The dream continues for independent Japanese developer Pocketpair as Palworld has now sold over seven million units in just five days since its early access launch. The open world survival crafting game with monster collection mechanics had sold one million in eight hours, two in twenty-four, three in forty, five million in three days, and six in four days. What's even more impressive is that, according to Geoff Keighley, these sales are for the Steam version alone. They do not account for sales on the Microsoft Store via PC/Xbox, nor do they account for Game Pass player numbers.
Palworld has sold at an alarming rate since its early access launch for PC and Xbox last week, and developer Pocketpair has been providing updates on each of its sales milestone. The open world survival game sold a million units within 8 hours, got to 2 million later that day, hit 3 million and then 4 million within three days, before getting to the 5 million mark yesterday.
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