Helldivers 2 News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

With Helldivers 2 turned out to be a far bigger success than anyone could have anticipated, Sony and Arrowhead Game Studios have been working on addressing the many technical and server-related issues the game has faced since release due to overcrowded servers, but it seems things on that front are beginning to come under control.

Fans of squad shooters will no doubt be happy to learn that Helldivers II is here to scratch your spacefaring, bug-killing itch. The sequel to the highly successful and popular first game has only been out for a short while but is already stirring up a serious player base, making it a bit intimidating for newbies to jump in.

Being that Helldivers II is a nail-biting squad shooter with a lot for players to learn, it’s possible that you’re finding yourself a bit intimidated by the game. This will especially be the case if you haven’t played the first game and are just starting with the second one. Luckily, we’re here to take you through the basics of the game, one entry at a time.

It’s hard to argue against Helldivers 2 being one of the biggest releases of the year so far, far surpassing expectations. In fact, it’s gotten to the point where they have to prevent players from staying in the game for too long, by way of a new idle timer. 

Arrowhead Games Studios has finally managed to increase the server capacity to 700,000 in the latest Helldivers 2 update, hopefully relieving a lot of the issues related to logging in during peak times. It has been a bittersweet few weeks for Arrowhead Game Studios as its latest game, Helldivers 2, has become massively popular with exploding player counts. While that is something every studio would like to see when they release a game, the rapid growth of Helldivers 2 has also been a double-edged sword for the small developer.

Arrowhead Game Studios has finally implemented an AFK kick function to Helldivers 2.

Helldivers 2 has increased its player cap even further, ahead of what's expected to be another busy weekend for the game's servers.

Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Johan Pilestedt has taken to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to announce that Helldivers 2 now has a higher server cap for concurrent players. While the studio still expects the game to hit that server cap, especially over the weekend, this hopefully means that more players will be able to play and wait times for logging into Helldivers 2 will be more bearable.

AHalo Infinite Forge group, known as the Forge Falcons, is working on a Helldivers 2-like game mode for Xbox's flagship franchise. Halo Infinite fans might recognize the group's name, which previously released the popular Inheritor Battle Royale mode.

As Helldivers 2 continues to be struggling with its own success, suffering wildly overloaded servers that make it sometimes tricky to even log in, a new patch today has added a feature to help alleviate the pressure. Having previously capped the number of players to 450,000, developers Arrowhead have now added an auto-kick to stop people hogging those precious slots while not playing. After 15 minutes, AFK players will now get booted. It's clearly not the big fix needed but hopefully fresh duct tape will help hold the co-op shooter together until more permanent solutions arrive.

Helldivers 2 has rolled out Patch 1.0.0.11, introducing a requested feature that automatically removes inactive players. The new Helldivers 2 patch also includes several crucial improvements and fixes to enhance the gameplay experience for players on PC and PlayStation 5.

Arrowhead has taken aim at those Helldivers 2 squatters who were clogging up servers by remaining in a game even when they weren't actively playing.

CEO of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios, Johan Pilestedt, has taken to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to reveal that the game was built using a now-obsolete game engine. The title was built using an old engine named Bitsquid—renamed to Stingray after its acquisition by Autodesk in 2014.

Since its release a couple of weeks ago, Helldivers 2 has shown no signs of slowing down, and even amidst widespread server and technical issues (which developer Arrowhead Game Studios is looking to address with imminent patches, the first of which has already released), the co-op shooter is continuing to attract players in numbers.

Arrowhead Game Studios has released a new patch for Helldivers 2, fixing crashes from replicating ragdoll momentum and destruction. It also resolved an issue blocking Quickplay matchmaking on PC (PS5 players may still be unable to use it) and tuned the difficulty of Civilian Extract missions.

Arrowhead Game Studios has released a new patch for Helldivers 2, reportedly in advance of a major server upgrade.

Last night I tried to host a Helldivers 2 co-op mission and the "ready up" button froze up. I spammed it in a panic while the randos in my voice channel fumed at the delay. Then I popped us out of the drop pods, attempted to quit the game in embarrassment, and the PC promptly crashed. Another blow for managed democracy!

In light of the recent problems faced by Helldivers 2, developer Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Johan Pilestedt has taken to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to tell potential players that they should wait until the game can support its player base to purchase Helldivers 2.

Helldivers 2 Steam reviews have dropped to the «Mixed» territory. This notable decline in the game's user ratings on Valve's storefront appears to primarily stem from its ongoing server issues that are still preventing many from getting into a Helldivers 2 match.

Arrowhead Game Studios releases update 1.000.10 for Helldivers 2, making additional improvements to game performance, log in related issues, as well as additional crash fixes. The latest patch arrives after a tumultuous weekend in which Arrowhead activated a double XP and Requisitions modifier in Helldivers 2 as a way to apologize for the server issues at launch. Unfortunately, the act caused an even bigger bottleneck as more and more players attempted to access the game, which ultimately compounded the problems even more.

Nose around Helldivers 2's Galactic War map and you might notice that there's a lot of empty space. Around half the celestial sphere is given over to the dominions of the Automatons and Terminids, leaving ample room for another enemy faction to be inserted via free update or paid DLC. What could that next faction be? Surely it can't be any worse than a horde of giant bugs or a legion of robots. Surely it can't be, say, a highly advanced elder species of teleporting illusionists equipped with lightning guns and cloaking devices. Oh dear.

Yesterday, we had reported that Helldivers 2 was suffering from success, with Arrowhead Game Studios forced to place a 450,000 player capacity. Today, we have a fuller picture of the situation.

Cult 90s sci-fi film Starship Troopers has had a bit of a renaissance of late, which has been attributed to the releases of Helldivers 2 on PlayStation and PC.

The head of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios is responding to calls for increased server capacity in the wake of the new game's launch. The sci-fi shooter just released, but it's already made a big impact on the gaming scene. Helldivers 2 is drawing players in droves and winning praise from fans and critics. Of course, this large influx of players is having an impact on the title's servers.

Arrowhead Game Studios, the studio behind incredibly-popular co-op shooter Helldivers 2, has revealed that it will be releasing updates for the PC and PS5 versions of the game that will fix some of the game’s “most serious problems”. As caught by IGN, the studio announced its plans on its official Discord channel.

Helldivers 2 has announced that it will release multiple updates and improvements over the next week that will aim to improve the game's most prevalent issues, with the first one releasing tomorrow, February 20. Helldivers 2 has become an instant hit, but it has its fair share of issues as well.

Helldivers 2 players are calling for an AFK auto-kick feature to be implemented after many users reveal they are exploiting a simple trick to avoid log-in queues. While the new Helldivers 2 has proved to be wildly popular, its massive appeal has come with its fair share of problems as well.

The popularity of Helldivers 2 appears to be drumming up interest in the film Starship Troopers, the '90s sci-fi film about soldiers taking on giant bugs in space. Arrowhead Game Studios' new shooter has quickly become a major hit since its launch earlier this month, drawing in fans and rasing the bar for co-op combat. Despite seeing server issues and bugs at release, Helldivers 2 has gamers queuing up to take on aliens and robots in intense combat across deadly worlds.

I’ve been completely hooked on Helldivers 2 since diving into its exceptional Starship Troopers-y bug-blastathon last week, and I’m far from alone - so many people are playing the co-op shooter that developers Arrowhead capped the game’s servers at 450,000 simultaneous players over the weekend to try and alleviate connection and login problems caused by its enormous popularity.

The recently-released PlayStation-published third-person shooter game Helldivers 2 is exploding in popularity on PC and PS5, and now a petition to bring it to Xbox is blowing up. Helldivers 2 was developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Sony Interactive earlier this month. Helldivers 2 reviews have been mostly positive, and the game has proven to be an incredible success for Sony.

Attempting to clear out bugs, one Helldivers 2 player has an accidental run in with a 500KG bomb after calling in an airstrike in the wrong location. Since it recently launched, Helldivers 2 has seen unprecedented success with a quickly rising playerbase. For a live service title, the news couldn't be better, though the success comes at a cost, as Arrowhead Game Studios has been overwhelmed with demand. While the studio continues to spin up new servers while also dealing with countless backend issues, it hasn't stopped many players from having a good time fighting back against automatons and bugs.

Helldivers 2 continues to see success in every benchmark you can find.

Arrowhead Game Studios has shared an important update for Helldivers 2.

Helldivers 2, the latest co-op shooter from Arrowhead Game Studios, is a smash hit. The game, which released February 8 on PS5 and PC, has surpassed popular titles like Grand Theft Auto 5, Destiny 2, Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in all-time peak concurrent players on Steam. Owing to its ballooning player count, however, the third-person shooter has faced persistent server issues, with developers working to issue fixes. Now, Arrowhead Games Studios has reportedly capped its concurrent players to around 450,000 to improve server stability.

PlayStation-published Helldivers 2 had a hugely successful weekend on Steam, despite some continuing server issues, with a fresh player peak of 409,367 users yesterday.

Arrowhead Game Studios has shared an important update for Helldivers 2.

Arrowhead Game Studios’ Helldivers 2 has achieved another incredible milestone. It peaked at 409,367 concurrent players on Steam, beating out the likes of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 5 (whichreached 364,548 concurrent players on the platform about nine years ago). This is after it recently surpassed player counts for Starfield and Destiny 2, with the developer having to raise the concurrent player cap due to overcrowded servers.

The enormous success of Helldivers 2 continues, with the game officially outperforming both Fortnite and Call of Duty on PSN in the USA. Compared to the original game, Helldivers 2 is proving to be a breakout hit, with player counts rising daily.

Developer Arrowhead Game Studios couldn’t have expected that Helldivers 2 would instantly explode in popularity the way it has, which means the co-op shooter is being played far more widely and consistently than the developer had prepared for. Since the game’s launch, that has resulted in quite a few in-game issues for players on both PS5 and PC, with the overcrowding of the servers causing everything from progression-related bugs to connectivity issues and more.

Just around 10 days since its release, Helldivers 2, the sequel to the 2015 indie hitHelldivers, developed by Arrowhead Games Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, has already achieved a remarkable feat by surpassing Destiny 2's all-time Steam concurrent player count. This rapid achievement underscores Helldivers 2's immediate impact and promising trajectory in the gaming community.

One day after Arrowhead Game Studios launched Helldivers 2 version 01.000.008, the Stockholm-based developers released a follow-up patch that PC and PS5 players should download as soon as possible. The latest Helldivers 2 update, version 01.000.009, brought more fixes and stability to the game and addressed some reported crashes.

Depending on where you are, it’s been half term this week. That means that your delightful children/siblings/distant cousins are at home and potentially getting in the way – I mean, spending quality time with you doing a variety of thoroughly lovely activities. Hopefully, that’s included some video games, though I’ve been playing Banishers which is not suitable for the small people in my house. I’ve also played some more Granblue Fantasy Relink, clocked up yet more hours on Monster Hunter Rise, and taken a look at a few other titles along the way.

Arrowhead are burning the midnight oils well into the weekend, it seems, as they fight persistent server issues and bugs with Helldivers 2 update 1.009. The patch is out now for both PS5 and PC, with a focus on stability and matchmaking.

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has revealed an XP multiplier is now live for a limited time in the popular third-person shooter as the team works on fixing a reward-related bug. A new patch for Helldivers 2 was also released with various bug fixes, server optimizations, and quality-of-life improvements, leading into the game's busiest weekend yet.

The latest Helldivers 2 update brings additional fixes and server optimizations to prevent game crashing while also making quality of life improvements to other sides of the game. New patches continue to arrive at a quick pace as Helldivers 2 has seen player numbers and success that Arrowhead likely wasn't expecting at launch.

Helldivers 2 director Johan Pilestedt is hoping the game's second weekend will go much smoother than its first.

Arrowhead Game Studios’ Helldivers 2 continues to experience great success, with its peak concurrent player count crossing 255,000 on Steam. While the developer has promised new enemies, objectives, story updates and biomes (with no PvP planned), many have wondered if there will be a roadmap for upcoming content.

The level of success that Helldivers 2 is enjoying has been as surprising for us to see as it has been for the people who made it, and given how popular the shooter has proven, it’s no surprise that developer Arrowhead Game Studios is pivoting to much more ambitious post-launch plans. An entirely new roadmap is in the works, with free new content like enemies, biomes, objectives, and story updates having been previously promised.

It didn’t take long after Helldivers 2 launched for it to become Sony’s biggest Steam launch of all time, and since then, it’s only continued to grow. Just recently, it hit another in a series of milestones when it breached 200,000 concurrent players on Steam. Now, the co-op shooter has one-upped itself again.

The Helldivers 2 Discord server was temporarily shut down as the moderators and game's community manager cleared out an enormous amount of spam messages. The spam came shortly after the Steam version of Helldivers 2 experienced an outage, resulting in an influx of users and messages in the game's official Discord server.

Helldivers 2 is kicking off one of its first live events. Developer Arrowhead Game Studios has released a new video announcement on the game’s X (formerly Twitter) account, telling players that Automatons are the new threat that must be dealt with.

Microsoft has announced that it’s bringing four of its first-party titles to rival platforms, and though it hasn’t yet been confirmed what those four games are (besides the fact that Starfield or Indiana Jones are not among them– well, for now, at least), it does very much look like the company is testing the waters for future plans of expanding its multiplatform presence.

Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt responds to a fan question regarding the potential addition of a PvP dedicated mode every coming to Helldivers 2 at some point in the future. It's been a wild week for Arrowhead and Helldivers 2, which experienced unprecedented success following the game's launch on PC and PS5. Quickly becoming Steam's top-selling game in the US and Sony's most concurrently played game on Steam, the crush of players had a negative impact on Helldivers 2's servers forcing the studio to enter crisis mode to fix backend issues and load.

Arrowhead Game Studios, the studio that developed the recently released Helldivers 2, is planning to expand the size of its team following the shooter's successful launch. The relatively small team of around 100 employees has been trying to address the many issues that have been plaguing its latest release.

Lately, there’s been a rather disturbing trend in the video game industry from the developers/publishers. They tend to make video games that “aren’t complete” or “aren’t polished” by the time they launch, and then dedicate tons of time to trying to “fix it” in post-launch updates or try to have plenty of post-launch content announced before they even know if the main game will be a success. This has backfired on many teams, and it’ll continue to do so when the quality isn’t there. However, in the case of Helldivers 2, despite a few bumps at launch, they’re doing well on PC and are actively trying to bring in more people to help create more content for players as a result.

Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Johan Pilestedt has gone on record that Helldivers 2 will never have PvP.

Helldivers 2 will «never» include a PvP mode in order to reduce toxic play.

If you've been yearning to take up arms against Super Earth as either an arachnid, a robot or a filthy (managed) democracy-hating human traitor, then I have bad news, roughneck. Helldivers 2 will "never" get a PvP mode, according to Arrowhead's CEO Johan Pilestedt. The reason? They want to avoid encouraging any toxic behaviour in the new shooter's multiplayer community.

By now, it’s no secret that Helldivers 2 is a success for Arrowhead Game Studios and Sony after just a week of launching on PC and PS5. It’s sold nearly a million copies and reached over 200,000 peak concurrent players on Steam. Such is the game’s success that even titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 can’t compare in terms of players (on Steam, at least).

Helldivers 2 has been successful enough for Arrowhead Game Studios that the developer is seemingly looking to expand its development team. Taking to social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Arrowhead CEO and Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt has said that the studio is going to start looking for more developers.

Helldivers 2 is a game plagued by bugs, both intentional and unintentional. The latest problem to be found in the amazing liberation-spreading game is with the Helldivers armor rating being completely broken. In a new video released on YouTube, the problems are highlighted.

Satirical sci-fi shooter sequel Helldivers 2 has got off to a flying start, and now its creator Arrowhead Game Studios has put out a call for fresh development talent so it can «accelerate and beef up» the game's content plans.

Helldivers 2 has released a new patch for PC and PS5 that addresses stability, stuttering, Defend Events, and more. Since the game's launch, Helldivers 2 users have struggled with a wide range of bugs.

Arrowhead has released another patch for Helldivers 2 and it's good news for those incredibly popular players among us — the game will no longer crash if you have too many friends.

Even Sony and developer Arrowhead Game Studios have been taken aback at the level of success Helldivers 2 has enjoyed, with the unexpectedly large number of players it’s attracting also bringing with it in-game issues with connectivity, servers, and more. Arrowhead has, of course, promised fixes for those issues, and the first of those have now been applied with a new patch.

Almost nine years since Arrowhead Game Studios released a new title, Helldivers 2 has become a resounding success for the studio just days after its release. With around a million copies sold and 360K concurrent users between PC and PlayStation platforms, gamers have been flocking to the sci-fi co-op shooter in droves, dethroning God of War as Sony’s biggest launch on Steam.

Helldivers 2 might be a co-op shooter mixed with comedy genius, but its launch has been blighted by bugs and crashes. Over the past week the devs have deployed server hotfixes and matchmaking tweaks, although one server and rewards patch had to be rolled back to fix "significant" performance issues. Still, they're doing their utmost as the game becomes PlayStation's biggest PC release to date. And the latest patch brings with it a slew of crash fixes, reductions to disconnects, further tweaks to matchmaking, and preps things for future server improvements.

Arrowhead Game Studios has released another patch for Helldivers 2, with update 1.006 now out on both PC and PS5. The patch aims to fix a few troublesome game crash bugs, while also laying the groundwork to resolve the persistent matchmaking and server issues that players have experienced since launch last week.

Arrowhead Games has released Helldivers 2 update 1.005 across both PC yesterday and PS5 today, aiming to squash some pesky bugs leading to server capacity and player progression issues. Unfortunately, this update has had to be rolled back on PC, as it introduced more performance problems!

After nearly reaching the milestone yesterday, Arrowhead Game Studios’ Helldivers 2 has officially crossed 200,000 peak concurrent players on Steam. It peaked at approximately 203,644 players about four hours ago per SteamDB.

Developer Arrowhead Game Studios has announced that the recent PC update for Helldivers 2is being rolled back due to performance issues. The sci-fi shooter just released last week and, so far, has already experienced its share of ups and downs. While hitting some significant positive milestones, Helldivers 2 has also had a somewhat rocky launch.

Whether playing as a team or going solo, it is always best to know your enemies and environment. The beauty of Helldivers 2 is that your builds can be more or less shared, so the real technique to get the best of the game is to have a variety. Here are a selection of the best builds.

Arrowhead Games has released Helldivers 2 update 1.005 across both PC yesterday and PS5 today, aiming to squash some pesky bugs leading to server capacity and player progression issues. Unfortunately, this update has had to be rolled back on PC, as it introduced more performance problems!

Helldivers 2 has ended up attracting a far larger playerbase than Sony or developer Arrowhead Game Studios were expecting (to the extent that its overcrowded servers are even causing several in-game issues), and its momentum hasn’t slowed down. Over the weekend, we reported that the co-op shooter had surpassed a concurrent user peak of 155,000 on Steam, and that number has only grown since then.

Developer Arrowhead has released a new patch for its PC version of Helldivers 2.

Much like a lone Super Earther descending from orbit, only to Nope The Heck back to their spaceship after glimpsing the insect hordes, Arrowhead have released and swiftly pulled a Helldivers 2 patch designed to address the new shooter's server capacity and progression issues. The bugs were too much to handle, I guess! Lord, this news post practically writes itself.

Though the game has only just launched, the Helldivers 2 player community is already at work devising a set of common tips, tricks and etiquette for playing the game with others. These rules help players who may be struggling in the heavily team-play-focused game, as well as guide them in making the most of the unique (and comedic) mechanics found in Helldivers 2.

Helldivers 2 has released a new patch that aims to improve various issues for PC users. Helldivers 2 players have struggled with stability issues since launch, and the new update will hopefully improve things for many users.

An eagle-eyed player has spotted a deep Mass Effect Easter egg in Helldivers 2, one that might put a smile on the face of anyone with fond memories of shopping in the Citadel. Earlier this month, Arrowhead Game Studios released the sequel to its 2015 top-down shooter Helldivers on PlayStation 5 and PC. Helldivers 2 shifts the camera to an over-the-shoulder third-person perspective, but it retains the same premise: as one of the titular Helldivers, the player must travel to alien worlds to defend the Super Earth government from various extraterrestrial threats.

The head of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has addressed the issue of microtransactions in the game amidst ongoing controversy regarding their use. The new sci-fi shooter just launched, but it's already got lots of gamers talking. Now, many are looking to the future of Helldivers 2 and how players will experience the title as they unlock more content.