“It does not get a lot worse for a multiplayer launch”, Fraser Brown wrote on the discharge of Helldivers 2, mentioning points like “damaged matchmaking, frequent crashes, and a kernel-level anti-cheat system that everybody hates.” The builders at Arrowhead have been working to rectify the problems, and in response to an replace from CEO Johan Pilestedt, three hotfixes deployed throughout a current interval of server upkeep have handled at the least among the issues.
However not all. As Pilestedt explains, “our companies in addition to our accomplice companies have a fee limiter that denies connections past a quantity per minute to stop all the system from failing.” As PlayStation’s greatest PC launch, Helldivers 2 hit that restrict arduous, which was answerable for a number of issues. That restrict has now been doubled, from 10,000 logins per minute to twenty,000, and the entire server capability elevated from 250,000 concurrent gamers to 360,000—a capability that Pilestedt says was reached five-and-a-half minutes after the servers went again on-line. In the event you’re nonetheless having bother connecting, that is why, although at the least “the elevated capability ought to require much less retries to get in.”
One other huge drawback has been unlocks not being awarded correctly on the finish of a mission. “As for the reward challenge,” Pilestedt writes, “the repair was mitigated however not resolved. And with out extra server upkeep this may nonetheless not work as supposed. In the event you get the problem you may strive rebooting the sport to extend the possibilities of it being reset.” This drawback is outwardly additionally brought on by “excessive visitors on the servers resulting in rewards not being tracked appropriately by our servers.”
Pilestedt finishes by saying, “please as soon as once more settle for our honest apologies for the problems you are dealing with and relaxation assured, we’re doing our utmost to make it proper. So as to take action, proper now it’s essential that our crew will get some sleep and we will probably be again at this once more in a number of hours.” Possibly, moderately than hammering the servers with much more makes an attempt to attach, now can be a very good time to sit back out on Helldivers 2 for a bit of bit. Give it a day, and within the meantime, maybe check out one of many many wonderful demos currrently on supply.