Helldivers 2 is continuous to battle underneath the burden of its personal success, as developer Arrowhead has needed to place a restrict on what number of gamers can play without delay.
Whereas it solely launched slightly over per week in the past, Helldivers 2 has rapidly discovered lots of success – a lot in order that the sport has been severely unable to deal with simply what number of gamers try to play the sport without delay. The login points had been so extreme that Arrowhead needed to restrict what number of gamers might truly log in a minute, and now, as detailed in a message on the sport’s official Discord server, there is a new concurrent participant depend cap as a brief time period answer to enhance server stability.
“Earlier tonight we had server associated points with a concurrent participant spike,” reads the message. “This result in some mission payouts failing, some gamers being kicked to their ships, or being logged out. Our staff is working across the clock to resolve these points. Whereas we have been in a position to mitigate among the causes, we’re nonetheless struggling to maintain up with the scaling that’s wanted to accommodate all our Helldivers.
“Subsequently we have needed to cap our concurrent gamers to round 450,000 to additional enhance server stability. We’ll proceed to work with our companions to get the ceiling raised. When you have development associated points, please restart the sport to ensure that issues to sync again up. Thanks to your continued persistence.”
Helldivers 2 truly hit its all-time concurrent participant depend peak on Steam yesterday, amassing 333,827 gamers without delay (through SteamDB). Keep in mind, that is simply Steam alone, and there are possible many extra gamers on PS5, so you’ll be able to’t actually blame Arrowhead for placing such a restrict in place.
In the event you’re at present one of many predominant gamers conquering the galaxy in Helldivers 2, and had been hoping that the sport may get PvP, do not depend on it, as Arrowhead has one easy, and legitimate, cause as to why it will by no means occur.