‘Helldivers 2’ suffering from success as devs continue work to resolve server issues

nme.com:

Arrowhead is still working on a number of server issues caused by the continued popularity of Helldivers 2.Helldivers 2 was released earlier this month and quickly became Sony’s biggest ever launch on PC.

It went on to rack up over one million sales in a handful of days and continues to be one of the most popular games on Steam.However, last week Arrowhead was forced to apologise after players were unable to access Helldivers 2 servers and when they could, rewards and XP were not being received as they should be due to the number of people trying to play the game.Despite a number of rapid-fixes, those issues continued and on Friday (February 16), deputy game director Sagar Beroshi confirmed a weekend-long bonus to apologise. “The game will grant all players XP and Requisition at a 50 per cent multiplier on top of your base mission score,” he explained before thanking fans for their patience, support and the glorious cascade of memes.”Despite our best efforts to increase server capacity to accommodate all of you who want to dive for Freedom, we are experiencing capacity issues.

We are once more working without delay to improve the issue and we hope to have a fix in place as soon as possible. Thank you— HELLDIVERS™ 2 (@helldivers2) February 17, 2024The following day though, the official Helldivers social media account confirmed that “despite our best efforts to increase server capacity to accommodate all of you who want to dive for Freedom, we are experiencing capacity issues.

We are once more working without delay to improve the issue and we hope to have a fix in place as soon as possible,” they added.Over on Discord, Arrowhead revealed it had been forced to introduce a cap on the number of players it would be allowing to.